Patent ID: 6894116

Claim:
A composition comprising: a polymer having the formula wherein R 1 and R 2 , independently, is a linear or branched alkyl having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms, or a substituted C 1 to about C 6 alkyl having one or more substituents, or aryl, or a substituted aryl having from 1 to 6 substituents on the aryl ring; wherein said one or more substituents, independently, represent an alkyl having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms, or an aryl, or a halogen which can be the same different, or a cyano, or an ether having a total of from 2 to about 20 carbon atoms, or a nitro; or wherein R 1 and R 2 are part of a ring having from about 5 to about 12 total carbon atoms; wherein said (polymer), independently, is derived from a conjugated diene monomer containing from 4 to about 12 carbon atoms, or is derived from a vinyl monomer having the formula wherein R 3 is selected from hydrogen, halogen, C 1 to C 4 alkyl, or substituted C 1 -C 4 alkyl wherein the substituents, independently, comprise one or more hydroxy, alkoxy, arloxy(OR 5 ), carboxy, acyloxy, aryloxy(O 2 CR 5 ), alkoxy-carbonyl(CO 2 R 5 ), or aryloxy-carbonyl; wherein R 4 is selected from hydrogen, R 5 , CO 2 H, CO 2 R 5 , COR 5 , CN CONH 2 , CONHR 5 , O 2 CR 5 , OR 5 , or halogen; wherein R 5 is selected from C 1 -C 18 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 18 alkyl, C 2 -C 18 alkenyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, aralkyl, or alkaryl, wherein the substituents independently are selected from one or more epoxy, hydroxy, alkoxy, acyl, acyloxy, carboxy (and salts), sulfonic acid (and salts), alkoxy- or aryloxy-carbonyl, dicyanato, cyano, silyl, halo and dialkylamino; or wherein said (polymer), independently, is derived from maleic anhydride, N-vinyl pyrrolidone, N-alkylmaleimide, N-arylmaleimide, dialkyl fumarate a cyclo- polymerizable monomer; styrene, α-methyl styrene, C 1 -C 12 alkyl styrene with substituent groups both either on the chain or on the ring, N,N-alkylacrylamide, or combinations thereof; wherein said EPOXY is derived from glycidyl ethers of novolac resins; glycidyl ethers of mononuclear di- and trihydric phenols; glycidyl ethers of bisphenols; glycidyl ethers of polynuelear phenols; epoxy resin from diphenolic acid; glycidyl ethers of aliphatic polyols; glycidyl esters; glycidyl epoxies containing nitrogen; glycidyl derivatives of cyanuric acid; glycidyl amines; thioglycidyl resins; silicon-glycidyl resins; fluorine glycidyl resins; epoxy resins where are synthesized from monoepoxies other than epihalohydrins including epoxy resins from unsaturated monoepoxies; epoxy resins from monoepoxy alcohols; epoxy resins from monoepoxies by ester interchange; epoxy resins from glycidaldehyde; polyglycidyl compounds containing unsaturation; epoxy resins which are synthesized from olefins and chloroacetyls; or epoxy-resin adducts of the above, or combinations thereof.