creator Shahidi, Nima creator Arastoopour, Hamid creator Teymour, Fouad Modified scrap rubber particles, a method for forming the modified rubber particles and compositions including the modified rubber particles. The rubber particles are impregnated with at least one polymerizable monomer and polymerized to impregnate the rubber particles with a polymer. The impregnated polymer provides the modified rubber particles with improved properties which increase the potential uses for recycled scrap rubber. The modified rubber particles are useful in surface coatings, such as latex paint or powder coatings and can be used as a soil substitute. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-22T16:29:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7816446.pdf: 183103 bytes, checksum: a6618e0c419769b29b4b69519963721a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-22T16:29:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7816446.pdf: 183103 bytes, checksum: a6618e0c419769b29b4b69519963721a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-19 Illinois Institute of Technology 2012-03-20 2010-10-19 7,816,446 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2680 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access