EP0356210B1 - Méthode pour augmenter la mouillabilité des tissus - Google Patents

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EP0356210B1
EP0356210B1 EP89308519A EP89308519A EP0356210B1 EP 0356210 B1 EP0356210 B1 EP 0356210B1 EP 89308519 A EP89308519 A EP 89308519A EP 89308519 A EP89308519 A EP 89308519A EP 0356210 B1 EP0356210 B1 EP 0356210B1
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06M—TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS
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    • D06M15/643—Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds containing silicon in the main chain
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
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    • C11D3/373—Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds containing silicones
    • C11D3/3742—Nitrogen containing silicones
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
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    • C11D3/001—Softening compositions
    • C11D3/0015—Softening compositions liquid
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
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  • a fabric softener is a dilute solution or dispersion of a quaternary ammonium derivative used to treat fabrics in the final rinse of a laundering process in order to make the fabrics feel softer.
  • fabric softeners are known to also provide fluffiness control. Because of the affinity of quaternary ammonium compounds for negatively charged surfaces, their single largest market has been as fabric softeners.
  • Commercial fabric softeners generally include about a four to eight percent dispersion of quaternary ammonium compound which is added to the rinse cycle of the washing process. The quaternary ammonium compound can also be applied to a nonwoven sheet or a polyurethane foam which is added with wet clothes in a dryer.
  • Such sheets contain a fatty acid ester which allows the quaternary ammonium compound to transfer from the sheet to the clothes in the dryer during the drying cycle.
  • a fatty acid ester which allows the quaternary ammonium compound to transfer from the sheet to the clothes in the dryer during the drying cycle.
  • Modern washing machines work automatically and the operator places the laundry in the machine, pours in the detergent and sets the controls.
  • One set of controls determines whether the machine employs hot, warm, or cold water. Water enters the machine through hoses connected to the hot and cold water pipes. The operator also sets controls in order to select the length of washing and rinsing time and the amount of water that enters the machine.
  • the machine is powered by an electric motor and includes a filter that removes lint and automatic dispensers for bleach and fabric softeners.
  • a wash cycle typically includes four stages. In the wash cycle, after water fills the wash tub, an agitator reverses direction alternately and moves the laundry through the water and detergent and forces water through the items of laundry.
  • the washer is then emptied of all of the wash liquor in the spin cycle and the clothes are spun to remove excess water.
  • clean water is added along with the fabric softener and the clothes are again agitated.
  • the washer is emptied of rinse liquor and the clothes are spun in a final spin cycle during which time excess water is removed and pumped out of the machine through a drain hose.
  • the clothing is then ready to be removed from the machine and dried in a dryer or hung on a clothesline until dry.
  • Silicone polymers can be classified as being linear, branched or crosslinked. This classification is commonly accepted and is used in the silicone industry. Branched or crosslinked silicone polymers are prepared by the incorporation of an alkyl trisiloxy unit into the siloxane polymer chain. Crosslinking results when two alkyl trisiloxy units are connected by a segment of the polymer chain during the polymerization process. The number of polymer branches which react with another polymer (or a different alkyl trisiloxy unit on the same polymer) to form crosslinks is a function of the amount of alkyl trisiloxy units present and the reaction conditions.
  • alkyl trisoloxy units will lead to branching and crosslinking when polydiorganosiloxane is prepared via addition polymerization. Because of the random nature of this polymerization, however, alkyl trisiloxy groups will not be incorporated into all of the polymer chains; some linear polymers will normally be present in such systems. Incorporation of a methyl trisiloxy unit into a polydimethylsiloxane results in a branched and crosslinked siloxane and not a linear siloxane.
  • Linear polydimethylsiloxanes are liquids which exhibit viscous flow, even at high molecular weights.
  • Branched or crosslinked polydimethylsiloxanes of comparable molecular weight are elastomers.
  • the properties of the silicone polymer in a water-based emulsion is conveniently determined by "breaking" the emulsion by adding large amounts of salt or alcohol, or evaporating the water and examining the residue. Since the two classes of siloxane polymers have such significant differences in physical properties, it would not be obvious to substitute a branched and crosslinked siloxane for a linear siloxane in fabric softener applications.
  • a branched and crosslinked silicone emulsion is employed in contrast to the linear material of the prior art. More importantly, it has been found that the use of an emulsion of nonlinear silicone provides certain advantages neither taught nor previously appreciated. For example, softener treated fabrics in accordance with the present invention possess enhanced rewettability or improved water absorbency, in addition to softness. Thus, while there has been previously observed a series of benefits resulting from the incorporation in the softener formulation of a linear silicone material, the rewettability property of the present invention was not one of the benefits discovered, nor the feature of branching or crosslinking in general.
  • This invention relates to a method of enhancing the rewettability of fabrics treated in a laundering operation by contacting the fabrics with a mixture including a rinse cycle fabric softening conditioning composition capable of producing on the fabrics a hydrophobic surface and a hydrophobic cationic emulsion of a silicone polymer as defined in the claims.
  • the invention also relates to a method of enhancing the rewettability or water absorbency of fabrics treated in a laundering operation by contacting the fabrics with a hydrophobic cationic emulsion of a silicone polymer, the silicone polymer including highly branched and crosslinked polydimethylsiloxane fluids.
  • the invention further relates to a fabric softening composition for enhancing the rewettability of fabrics treated in a laundering operation which is a mixture including a rinse cycle conditioning composition capable of producing on the fabrics a hydrophobic surface and a hydrophobic cationic emulsion of a branched and crosslinked silicone polymer.
  • the rinse cycle conditioning composition includes a cationic compound selected from the group consisting of quaternary ammonium salts and organic based compounds having C12 to C18 hydrocarbon chain molecules of amines, esters, acids or amine oxides.
  • the branched and crosslinked silicone polymer is a highly branched and crosslinked polydimethylsiloxane and the branched and crosslinked silicone polymer includes less than about forty percent of linear silicone polymer as determined by extraction with toluene.
  • the cationic compound of the rinse cycle conditioning composition preferably constitutes from about four percent to about eight percent by weight of the rinse cycle conditioning composition and the mixture contains from about one-half of one percent to about six percent by weight of the silicone polymer emulsion.
  • the emulsion of the silicone polymer contains about thirty-five percent by weight of active ingredient, and the cationic compound of the rinse cycle conditioning composition is dihydrogenated-tallow dimethyl ammonium chloride in a specific embodiment.
  • the emulsion of the silicone polymer is preferably aqueous.
  • the object of the present invention to not only treat fabrics such as towels, for example, in order to make them feel softer and fluffier, but in addition, to enhance the rewettability of the towel so that the towel will be capable of absorbing more water at the conclusion of the treating and drying cycles normally encountered in their routine daily usage.
  • Ammonium compounds in which all of the hydrogen atoms have been substituted by alkyl groups are called quaternary ammonium salts. These compounds may be represented in a general sense by the formula:
  • the nitrogen atom includes four covalently bonded substituents that provide a cationic charge.
  • the R groups can be any organic substituent that provides for a carbon and nitrogen bond with similar and dissimilar R groups.
  • the counterion X is typically halogen.
  • Use of quaternary ammonium compounds is based on the lipophilic portion of the molecule which bears a positive charge. Since most surfaces are negatively charged, solutions of these cationic surface active agents are readily adsorbed to the negatively charged surface.
  • the hydrophobic softening agent can include quaternary ammonium salts and specifically any of the cationic compounds described in British Patent No. 1,549,180, such as quaternary mono-ammonium compounds having either two C12-C20 alkyl chains or one C18-C24 alkyl chain; quaternary imidazolinium textile softeners; polyammonium compounds; fabric softening polyamine salts; fully substituted polyquaternary compounds; and polyalkylene imine salts.
  • quaternary ammonium salts and specifically any of the cationic compounds described in British Patent No. 1,549,180, such as quaternary mono-ammonium compounds having either two C12-C20 alkyl chains or one C18-C24 alkyl chain; quaternary imidazolinium textile softeners; polyammonium compounds; fabric softening polyamine salts; fully substituted polyquaternary compounds; and polyalkylene imine salts.
  • Particular quaternary ammonium compounds suitable for use herein may include, for example, trimethyltallowammonium chloride, trimethylsoyaammonium chloride, trimethylcocoammonium chloride, dimethyldicocoammonium chloride, dimethyldi(hydrogenated tallow)ammonium chloride, trimethyldodecylammonium chloride, trimethyloctadecylammonium chloride, trimethylhexadecylammonium chloride, dimethylalkylbenzylammonium chloride, 1:1 mixture of trimethyltallowammonium chloride and dimethyldicocoammonium chloride, N,N,N′,N′,N′-pentamethyl-N-tallow-1,3-propanediammonium dichloride, methylbis(2-hydroxyethyl)cocoammonium chloride, methylpolyoxyethylene cocoammonium chloride, methylbis(2-hydroxyethyl)oleylammonium chloride, methyl
  • the silicone compositions of the present invention that enhance the rewettability of fabrics treated in a laundry operation are primarily highly branched and crosslinked polydimethylsiloxanes and substituted derivatives, such as organofunctional silicones.
  • the resulting enhanced rewettability is independent of the siloxane molecular weight.
  • the silicone polymer is substituted with organofunctional groups, the resulting polymer must be hydrophobic to improve rewettability.
  • the hydrophobic silicones are delivered to the fabric as an emulsion.
  • the silicone emulsions can be used alone or formulated into a fabric conditioning composition, such as a rinse cycle fabric softener.
  • the quaternary ammonium salt based type of rinse cycle fabric softeners are preferred.
  • the silicone compositions will improve water absorbancy when used in combination with any organic based fabric conditioning composition that produces a hydrophobic surface, such as organic conditioning compositions comprised of long hydrocarbon C12-C18 chain molecules of amines, esters, acids, amine oxides and derivatives thereof.
  • the polydimethylsiloxanes used herein are high molecular weight branched and crosslinked polymers having a molecular weight of at least 100,000 and a viscosity above 50,000 centistokes.
  • the viscosity of such a polydimethylsiloxane is highly dependent on the degree of branching and crosslinking present in the polymer.
  • the ratio of alkyl trisiloxy units to dimethyl siloxy units exceeds about 1:100, the polymer can no longer be considered a fluid with a measurable viscosity; it is an elastomer.
  • the siloxane polymers of the present invention are terminated by a hydroxyl group.
  • Endblocking species such as trimethyl siloxy units are not included in the compositions of the present invention because this would prevent the polymer from reaching the desired molecular weight.
  • the polymers can be prepared by various techniques such as the hydrolysis and subsequent condensation of dimethyldihalosilanes, or by the cracking and subsequent condensation of dimethylcyclosiloxanes.
  • the polymer can be based on a branched and cross linked silicone made by the addition of branching units of methyl trimethoxysilane to polydimethylsiloxane by conventional techniques, in a preferred mode.
  • Towels were prepared for treatment by removing the mill textile conditioners applied at the mill during manufacture of the towels. The process was conducted at a commercial laundromat. Bundles of 86:14 cotton polyester terry towels were washed three times with a 9.8% phosphorous containing Tide® detergent followed by three washes with a 0.5% phosphorus containing Tide®. Tide® is an anionic detergent and a trademark of the Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. The towels were subjected to a final wash and rinse cycle from which detergent was omitted, in order to remove any residual detergent. The treatments were conducted in a Whirlpool Imperial Seventy washing machine. The Cycle Setting was Heavy/14 minutes. The Cloth to Liquor Ratio was 1:23.
  • the Wash Temperature was Warm (32°C.).
  • the Rinse Temperature was Cold (11°C.).
  • the Detergent Concentration was 0.14% detergent by weight of wash liquor.
  • the Dryer was a Whirlpool model with a Dryer Setting of Permanent Press-High Drying, at a time of 55 minutes.
  • the test used to measure softness was a panel test in which ten people were asked to rank several towels in order of softness, one being a control towel which had not been treated with a softening agent.
  • the towels were treated by the method described above. Following treatment, the towels were placed in a constant temperature and humidity room over night and tested the following day. Ten people were asked to evaluate the towels by feeling the towels and choosing the harshest towel, the softest towel and placing the remaining towels in order of increasing softness. The towels were assigned a numerical ranking with the highest value corresponding to the softest towel. Since the softness of a towel increases with repeated handling, a new surface of each towel was exposed for each panel member and each towel was replaced after evaluation by three people. The resulting rankings were averaged to provide a single integer for each treatment.
  • the rewettability or water absorbency of the treated towels was determined by the wicking method in which strips of fabric are suspended in a solution of water soluble dye and the height of migration of the dye solution is measured over a specified time. The greater height of migration of the dye solution up the fabric is indicative of better rewet properties.
  • the height to which the dye solution had risen was measured after the strip had been immersed for four minutes and the variability of the test method was +/- 6.9 mm.
  • Fabric softener formulations containing varying amounts of an emulsion of highly branched and crosslinked silicone polymer were evaluated for softening and rewettability.
  • terry towels of 86:14 cotton/polyester were treated with detergent and softeners were added in the rinse cycle at a softener/fabric weight ratio of 1:30.
  • Each of the formulations employed included five percent dihydrogenated tallow dimethylammonium chloride(DTDMAC), the active ingredient of a quaternary ammonium salt commercial fabric softener dispersion, manufactured by Sherex Chemical Company, Dublin, Ohio, as ADOGEN® 442, a trademark of that company; together with varying amounts of the composition of the present invention in amounts of one, two, four and six percent concentrations, respectively.
  • DTDMAC dihydrogenated tallow dimethylammonium chloride
  • DTDMAC without the composition of the present invention was employed for comparative purposes.
  • the five percent DTDMAC quaternary ammonium salt softener was prepared by melting dihydrogenated tallow dimethylammonium chloride and adding the molten material to hot water under agitation. The softener was stirred until cool. Sodium chloride was included in order to lower the viscosity and ethanol was added in order to assist in solubilizing the softener.
  • the composition of the present invention included therein was a thirty-five percent aqueous hydrophobic cationic emulsion of a highly branched and crosslinked polydimethylsiloxane fluid including less than about forty percent of linear silicone polymer.
  • Example I was repeated except that the softener DTDMAC was replaced by a commercial grade rinse cycle fabric softening product.
  • the product was an aqueous dispersion of fabric softening agents including about five percent DTDMAC as the active softening agent.
  • the branched and crosslinked composition of the present invention employed in Example I was again used in this example. The results are set forth in Table III.
  • Example II was repeated again using the commercial grade rinse cycle fabric softening product of Example II which was an aqueous dispersion of fabric softening agents including five percent DTDMAC as the active softening agent.
  • a series of emulsions of silicone compositions having varying amounts of linear siloxane content were added to the commercial softener at a level of two percent by weight.
  • the silicone emulsions contained mixtures of linear and nonlinear siloxanes with the percentage of linear polymers ranging from about twelve percent to about thirty-five percent indicating a branched and crosslinked siloxane content ranging from about sixty-five percent to as high as eighty-eight percent.
  • branched and crosslinked silicone polymers employed herein and methods for their preparation are described in more or less detail in U.S. Patent No. 2,891,920, issued June 23, 1959.
  • These materials can be any organosiloxane of the formula: in which R is selected from the group consisting of monovalent hydrocarbon radicals, halogenated monovalent hydrocarbon radicals and hydrogen atoms; and in which n is an integer having an average value of from one to less than three.
  • R is selected from the group consisting of monovalent hydrocarbon radicals, halogenated monovalent hydrocarbon radicals and hydrogen atoms
  • n is an integer having an average value of from one to less than three.
  • Example IV is specific to methyl trimethoxysilane
  • branching may also be obtained with materials such as (CH3O)3Si(CH2)3NHCH2CH2NH2 and (CH3O)3Si(CH2)3N ⁇ (CH3)2(CH2)17CH3Cl ⁇ .

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  1. Procédé pour améliorer la remouillabilité de linge traité dans une opération de blanchissage, comprenant la mise en contact du linge avec un mélange incluant une composition assouplissant le linge au cycle de rinçage capable de produire une surface hydrophobe sur le linge, et une émulsion cationique hydrophobe d'un polymère de silicone hautement ramifié et réticulé, le polymère étant un organosiloxane à extrémités hydroxyles de la formule :
    Figure imgb0041
     où R est choisi dans le groupe constitué des radicaux hydrocarbonés monovalents, des radicaux hydrocarbonés monovalents halogénés et des atomes d'hydrogène ; et dans laquelle n est un nombre entier ayant une valeur moyenne de un à moins de trois, le polymère de silicone ramifié et réticulé incluant moins de 40 % de polymère de silicone linéaire tel que déterminé par extraction avec du toluène.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la composition assouplissant le linge inclut un composé cationique choisi dans le groupe constitué des sels d'ammonium quaternaire et des composés à base de matière organique ayant des molécules d'amines, d'esters, d'acides ou d'oxydes d'amine à chaîne hydrocarbonée en C₁₂ à C₁₈.
  3. Procédé pour améliorer la remouillabilité de linge traité dans une opération de blanchissage, comprenant la mise en contact du linge avec une émulsion cationique hydrophobe d'un polymère de silicone hautement ramifié et réticulé, le polymère étant un organosiloxane à extrémités hydroxyles de la formule :
    Figure imgb0042
     où R est choisi dans le groupe constitué des radicaux hydrocarbonés monovalents, des radicaux hydrocarbonés monovalents halogénés et des atomes d'hydrogène ; et dans laquelle n est un nombre entier ayant une valeur moyenne de un à moins de trois, le polymère de silicone ramifié et réticulé étant essentiellement un polydiméthylsiloxane, le polymère de silicone ramifié et réticulé incluant en outre moins de 40 % de polymère de silicone linéaire tel que déterminé par extraction avec du toluène.
  4. Composition assouplissant le linge ayant des propriétés de remouillage pour augmenter la remouillabilité de linge traité dans une opération de blanchissage, comprenant un mélange incluant une composition assouplissante au cycle de rinçage capable de produire une surface hydrophobe sur le linge, et une émulsion cationique hydrophobe d'un polymère de silicone hautement ramifié et réticulé, le polymère étant un organosiloxane à extrémités hydroxyles de la formule :
    Figure imgb0043
     où R est choisi dans le groupe constitué des radicaux hydrocarbonés monovalents, des radicaux hydrocarbonés monovalents halogénés et des atomes d'hydrogène ; et dans laquelle n est un nombre entier ayant une valeur moyenne de un à moins de trois, le polymère de silicone ramifié et réticulé incluant en outre moins de 40 % de polymère de silicone linéaire tel que déterminé par extraction avec du toluène.
  5. Composition selon la revendication 4, dans laquelle la composition assouplissante au cycle de rinçage inclut un composé cationique choisi dans le groupe constitué des sels d'ammonium quaternaire et des composés à base de matière organique ayant des molécules d'amines, d'esters, d'acides ou d'oxydes d'amine à chaîne hydrocarbonée en C₁₂ à C₁₈.
  6. Procédé pour améliorer la remouillabilité de linge traité dans une opération de blanchissage, comprenant la mise en contact du linge avec un mélange incluant une composition assouplissant le linge au cycle de rinçage capable de produire une surface hydrophobe sur le linge, et une émulsion cationique hydrophobe d'un polymère de silicone hautement ramifié et réticulé ayant la formule générale :
    Figure imgb0044
     où
       Me est un radical méthyle ;
       x et z sont 3 à 100 000 ;
       y est 1 à 10 000 ;
       R est (CH₂)nZ ;
       R'' est de l'hydrogène ou
    Figure imgb0045
        n est 1 à 10 ;
       Z est
    Figure imgb0046
     où X et Y sont choisis indépendamment, -H ; radical alkyle en C₁ à C₃₀ ; radical aryle en C₆ ; radical cycloalkyle en C₅ à C₆ ; -C₁ à C₆-NH₂ ; -CO-R' ; avec la condition que l'azote peut être quaternisé de façon à représenter
    Figure imgb0047
     où W peut être choisi parmi X et Y ; ou Z est
    Figure imgb0048
     où P et M sont -COOH ; -CO-NR'₂ ; ou un radical alkyle en C₁ à C₂ ; où R' = radical alkyle en C₁ à C₄,
    le polymère de silicone incluant moins de 40 % de polymère de silicone linéaire tel que déterminé par extraction avec du toluène.
  7. Procédé pour améliorer la remouillabilité de linge traité dans une opération de blanchissage, comprenant la mise en contact du linge avec une émulsion cationique hydrophobe d'un polymère de silicone, le polymère de silicone étant un polydiméthylsiloxane hautement ramifié et réticulé ayant la formule générale :
    Figure imgb0049
     où
       Me est un radical méthyle ;
       x et z sont 3 à 100 000 ;
       y est 1 à 10 000 ;
       R est (CH₂)nZ ;
       R'' est de l'hydrogène ou
    Figure imgb0050
        n est 1 à 10 ;
       Z est
    Figure imgb0051
     où X et Y sont choisis indépendamment, -H ; radical alkyle en C₁ à C₃₀ ; radical aryle en C₆ ; radical cycloalkyle en C₅ à C₆ ; -C₁ à C₆-NH₂ ; -CO-R' ; avec la condition que l'azote peut être quaternisé de façon à représenter
    Figure imgb0052
     où W peut être choisi parmi X et Y ; ou Z est
    Figure imgb0053
     où P et M sont -COOH ; -CO-NR'₂ ; ou un radical alkyle en C₁ à C₂ ; où R' = radical alkyle en C₁ à C₄,
    le polymère de silicone incluant moins de 40 % de polymère de silicone linéaire tel que déterminé par extraction avec du toluène.
  8. Composition assouplissant le linge ayant des propriétés de remouillage pour augmenter la remouillabilité de linge traité dans une opération de blanchissage, comprenant un mélange incluant une composition assouplissante au cycle de rinçage capable de produire une surface hydrophobe sur le linge, et une émulsion cationique hydrophobe d'un polymère de silicone hautement ramifié et réticulé ayant la formule générale :
    Figure imgb0054
     où
       Me est un radical méthyle ;
       x et z sont 3 à 100 000 ;
       y est 1 à 10 000 ;
       R est (CH₂)nZ ;
       R'' est de l'hydrogène ou
    Figure imgb0055
        n est 1 à 10 ;
       Z est
    Figure imgb0056
     où X et Y sont choisis indépendamment, -H ; radical alkyle en C₁ à C₃₀ ; radical aryle en C₆ ; radical cycloalkyle en C₅ à C₆ ; -C₁ à C₆-NH₂ ; -CO-R' ; avec la condition que l'azote peut être quaternisé de façon à représenter
    Figure imgb0057
     où W peut être choisi parmi X et Y ; ou Z est
    Figure imgb0058
     où P et M sont -COOH ; -CO-NR'₂ ; ou un radical alkyle en C₁ à C₂ : où R' = radical alkyle en C₁ à C₄,
    le polymère de silicone incluant moins de 40 % de polymère de silicone linéaire tel que déterminé par extraction avec du toluène.
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