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Microbicides immobilized in water soluble thermoplastic resins and aqueous dispersions of microbicides prepared therefrom

  • US 5,229,124 A
  • Filed: 09/20/1991
  • Issued: 07/20/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A solid, melt-blended solution consisting essentially of a microbicide dissolved in a carrier resin that is a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and (alkyleneoxy) acrylate and is soluble in water to at least about 1 gm. per 100 ml. of water at 25°

  • C., said solid solution being useful as a melt-processable additive to a primary rigid, non-plasticized, water-insoluble thermoplastic resin composition to impart biocidal activity thereto, said solid solution containing said microbicide at a level that is at least about 20 times higher than the normal end-use microbicide concentration in a primary rigid, non-plasticized, water-insoluble thermoplastic resin composition, said water-soluble thermoplastic carrier resin enabling said microbicide to impart improved antimicrobial activity to a rigid, non-plasticized, water-insoluble primary thermoplastic resin composition relative to the ability of water-insoluble thermoplastic carrier resins, at similar levels in a rigid, non-plasticized water-insoluble primary thermoplastic resin composition, to enable said microbicide to impart antimicrobial activity to a rigid, non-plasticized, water-insoluble primary thermoplastic resin composition.

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