Randall J Saunders

US Patent:

56039859, Feb 18, 1997

Filed:

Nov 29, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/564753

Inventors:

Michael S. Kent - Albuquerque NM
Randall Saunders - Albuquerque NM

International Classification:

B05D 510

US Classification:

4272071

Abstract:

Coupling agents based on functionalized block copolymers for bonding thermoset polymers to solid materials. These are polymers which possess at least two types of functional groups, one which is able to attach to and react with solid surfaces, and another which can react with a thermoset resin, which are incorporated as pendant groups in monomers distributed in blocks (typically two) along the backbone of the chain. The block copolymers in this invention are synthesized by living ring-opening metathesis polymerization.