Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid water-swellable coating compound, which is substantially devoid of volatile non-reactives. The water-swellable coating compound can be applied, to an article and cross-linked in place on the article to create a water-swellable, super absorbent polymer coating. The super absorbent polymer coating of the present invention is a flexible water-absorbent coating and comprises a cross-linked polymer prepared by polymerizing a reactive mixture, which comprises: substantially between thirty-five weight percent (35%) and ninety-nine and nine-tenths weight percent (99.9%) of one or more amine neutralized monomer; substantially between one tenth of one weight percent (0.1%) and fifteen weight percent (15%) cross-linking monomer; substantially between zero weight percent (0%) and fifty weight percent (50%) water soluble, substantially monofunctional oligomer; and substantially between one-half of one weight percent (0.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved optical fiber tight buffermaterial. The improved material is a ultraviolet (UV) light curable polymer matrix, which is applied to optical fibers and is substantially instantaneously cured, in-place at ambient temperatures. The use of the disclosed UV-light curable tight buffermaterial allows for greatly increased optical fiber buffering operations and provides an improved end product, which does not exhibit any significant optical signal loss after an optical fiber is coated according to the invention.