Abstract: Lubricous coatings, methods for making and using lubricous coatings, and medical device that include lubricious coatings. An example lubricous coating may include a hydrophilic polymer, a flow modifier, an acrylic monomer, a photoinitiator, and a solvent. The coating can be used to coat a medical device along an inner surface, an outer surface, or an intermediate surface.

Abstract: Lubricous coatings, methods for making an using lubricous coatings, and medical device that include lubricious coatings. An example lubricous coating may include includes a hydrophilic polymer, a flow modifier, an acrylic monomer, a photoinitiator, and a solvent. The coating can be used to coat a medical device along an inner surface, an outer surface, or an intermediate surface.

Abstract: An oligomer is provided having tetraacrylate functionality as well as carboxylic acid functionality. The oligomer is useful as a photopolymerizable binder in photoresists for forming printed circuitry. Particular advantages of the oligomer are found in solder mask-forming compositions which must withstand the conditions of nickel/gold plating.

Abstract: The invention provides an oligomer having tetraacrylate functionality which provides enhanced flexibility to photoimageable compositions which function as photoresists. The enhanced flexibility is particularly advantageous in epoxy-containing, solder mask-forming photoimageable composition, as this flexibility provides improved performance in nickel/gold plating.

Abstract: A photoimageable composition includes a polymeric binder which is soluble in aqueous solution; a cross-linking agent for the polymeric binder; a polymerizable acrylic substance; a chemical, photosensitive, free radical-generating initiating system; and a liquid epoxy resin composition and an epoxy cure catalyst. In one method of using the photoimageable composition of the present invention, the composition is applied as a film to a substrate, heated to make the film non-tacky but still aqueous-soluble, exposed to actinic radiation, developed in aqueous solutions to wash away non-exposed portions of the film and heat-cured to harden the film.