Polybutenes plasticize polypropylene, polystyrene, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resins, ester gums, and polyterpene.
Polybutene can improve the melt flow in crystal polystyrene, better than mineral oil while maintaining higher strength and heat deflection temperature. Addition of Polybutene can improve the environmental stress crack resistance (ESCR) of high impact polystyrene (HIPS) to fats and oils.
The izod impact strength of acrylonitrile-butadiene-sytrene (ABS) resins can be increased by polyisobutytene, while maintaining heat deflection temperature and increasing melt flow rate.
The impact strength of ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM)/polypropylene compounds can be increased by polybutene addition. |