Hydrogenated styrene polymer, process for producing the same, and molded object obtained therefrom
申请人:——
公开号:US20040054094A1
公开(公告)日:2004-03-18
The present invention relates to a hydrogenated styrene polymer that has excellent transparency, can be used suitably for an optical application such as an optical disk substrate, has stability and transparency in a hot and humid environment, and has excellent heat resistance; and a process for producing same; etc. The hydrogenated styrene polymer of the present invention has a hydrogenated polymerized styrene unit content of at least 70 wt %, a content of fine particulate foreign matter having a particle size of 0.2 &mgr;m or more and less than 0.5 &mgr;m of at most 1×10
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per g of the hydrogenated styrene polymer, and a phosphorus atom content of at most 0.01 parts by weight in 100 parts by weight of the hydrogenated styrene polymer. Furthermore, the process for producing a hydrogenated styrene polymer of the present invention includes steps of filtering, with a filter having a pore size of 0.3 &mgr;m or less, a hydrogenated styrene polymer having a hydrogenated polymerized styrene unit content of at least 70 wt %, at a temperature at which the solution viscosity thereof is at most 10 Pa·sec (100 poise) at a shear rate of 1 (1/s), and then removing a solvent from the filtrate thus obtained.
本发明涉及一种氢化苯乙烯聚合物,具有优异的透明度,可适用于光学应用,如光盘基板,具有在高温高湿环境下的稳定性和透明度,以及优异的耐热性;以及其制备方法等。本发明的氢化苯乙烯聚合物具有至少70重量%的氢化聚合苯乙烯单元含量,在0.2微米或更大但小于0.5微米的粒径的细微颗粒杂质含量在每克氢化苯乙烯聚合物中最多为1×106,并且在100重量份的氢化苯乙烯聚合物中最多含有0.01重量份的磷原子。此外,本发明的氢化苯乙烯聚合物的制备方法包括以下步骤:在其溶液粘度在1(1/s)的剪切速率下不大于10 Pa·sec(100泊),使用孔径不大于0.3微米的过滤器过滤氢化苯乙烯聚合物,然后从所得的滤液中除去溶剂。