Claims
- 1. A random copolymer which in its water-equibrated state has a thermoreversible transition between 1.degree. and 95.degree. C. and which comprises the copolymerization product of:
- (a) 20 to 85% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide;
- (b) 15 to 80% by weight of an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or alkaromatic hydrocarbyl acrylate with 1 to 18 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl moiety, or an alkoxy- or poly(alkoxy)ethyl acrylate with 2 to 5 carbon atoms in the alkoxy moiety, or mixtures thereof,
- (c) 0 to 5% by weight of a polyolefinic crosslinking monomer, and
- (d) 0 to 20% by weight of one or more monoolefinic monomers other than the acrylates of component (b),
- with the proviso, that if component (c) is greater than zero, component (d) is zero and component (a) is 20 to 55% by weight and the equilibrium water content of the crosslinked polymer is 12 to 55% by weight of the swollen gel, and with the further proviso that if component (b) is methyl, ethyl, propyl or butyl acrylate, the polymer is uncrosslinked (c=zero).
- 2. A copolymer according to claim 1 wherein component (d) is 0% to 10% by weight.
- 3. A coplymer according to claim 2 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 40 to 85% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide and
- (b) 15 to 60% by weight of an alkyl or cycloalkyl acrylate with 1 to 12 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl moiety, or mixtures thereof, with the proviso, that if component (d) is zero and component (b) is methyl, ethyl, propyl or butyl acrylate, the polymer is uncrosslinked (c is zero).
- 4. A copolymers according to claim 3, wherein component (c) is zero.
- 5. A copolymer according to claim 2 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 40 to 85% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide and
- (b) 15 to 60% by weight of an alkyl or cycloalkyl acrylate with 1 to 12 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl moiety, or mixtures thereof, with the proviso, that the product of the average number of carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl moiety of the alkyl or cycloalkyl acrylate and the mol fraction of said acrylate in the polymer is 0.3 to 1.5, and wherein (c) and (d) are zero.
- 6. A copolymer according to claim 5, wherein the alkyl acrylate is methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl or tert-butyl acrylate.
- 7. A copolymer according to claim 2 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 25 to 85% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide,
- (b) 15 to 75% by weight of an aryl, alkaryl, alkyl or cycloalkyl acrylate or mixture thereof which contains an average of 5 to 12 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl moiety,
- (c) 0 to 0.5% by weight of a polyolefinic crosslinking monomer and wherein component (d) is zero.
- 8. A copolymer according to claim 7, which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 25 to 60% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide,
- (b) 40 to 75% by weight of an aryl, alkaryl, alkyl or cycloalkyl acrylate or mixture thereof, which contains an average of 5 to 12 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl moiety, and wherein components (c) and (d) are zero.
- 9. A copolymer according to claim 2 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 25-70% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide, and
- (b) 30-70% by weight of butoxyethyl, propoxyethyl, ethoxyethyl or ethoxy-ethoxyethyl acrylate or mixtures thereof.
- 10. A copolymer according to claim 9 wherein component (c) is zero.
- 11. A copolymer according to claim 6 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 40-70% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide, and
- (b) 30-60% by weight of methyl acrylate.
- 12. A copolymer according to claim 6 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 45-75% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide, and
- (b) 25-55% by weight of ethyl acrylate.
- 13. A copolymer according to claim 6 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 50-80% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide, and
- (b) 20-50% by weight of propyl or isopropyl acrylate.
- 14. A copolymer according to claim 6 which comprises the copolymerization product of
- (a) 65-85% by weight of N,N-dimethylacrylamide, and
- (b) 15-35% by weight of butyl, isobutyl or tert-butyl acrylate.
- 15. A copolymer according to claim 5, wherein component (b) is a cycloalkyl acrylate with 6 to 12 carbon atoms in the cycloalkyl moiety.
- 16. A copolymers according to claim 2 which is the copolymerization product of
- (a) 30 to 70% by weight of N,N-dimethacrylamide,
- (b) 30 to 70% by weight of phenyl or benzyl acrylate and
- (c) 0-0.5% by weight of a polyolefinic crosslinking monomer.
- 17. A copolymer according to claim 16, wherein component (c) is zero.
- 18. A copolymer according to claim 2 which is prepared in the presence of 0.5 to 10 mol %, based on the total olefinic monomers polymerized, of a chain transfer agent.
- 19. A copolymer according to claim 2 wherein component (c) is 0% by weight.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation-in-part application of application Ser. No. 343,979, filed on Apr. 26,1989, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part application of application Ser. No. 200,212, filed May 31, 1988, now abandoned, which is in turn a continuation-in-part application of application Ser. No. 105,070, filed on Oct. 5, 1987, now abandoned.
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