Abstract: A polymerizable composition which may be used as an adhesive mass in a method for preparing an adhesive tape or as molding mass in a method for preparing molded articles is provided. The polymerizable composition contains: A) a thermal cationic initiator, or B) a combination of a cationic photoinitiator and a thermal free-radical initiator for inducing the polymerization of the cationically polymerizable monomers in such an amount that the heat energy released during polymerization is sufficient for cleaving the thermal initiator. The adhesive mass is curable via a local impulse a) of thermal energy orb) of thermal energy and/or radiation energy through frontal polymerization; or the molding mass is initially prepared by mixing all components and then molded into the desired shape, whereafter its frontal polymerization is induced by a local impulse a) of thermal energy and/or b) of radiation energy in order to prepare a cured molded article.

Abstract: Provided herein are curable compositions for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing crosslinked polymers using said curable compositions, crosslinked polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the crosslinked polymers.

Abstract: In a method for lithography-based generative production of three-dimensional components, in which material that can be solidified under the effect of electromagnetic radiation is arranged in a vat, a build platform is positioned at a distance from the vat bottom, material located between the build platform and the vat bottom is irradiated at selected locations with the aid of an irradiating unit, the electromagnetic radiation is introduced into the material from below through a vat bottom that is transmissive to the radiation, at least in a certain region, and successively focused on focal points within the material, whereby a volume element of the material that is respectively located at the focal point is solidified. The solidification takes place by means of multiphoton absorption and the volume of the focal point is varied at least once during the method, and so the component is built up from solidified volume elements of different volumes.

Abstract: Provided herein are photopolymerizable monomers, optionally for use as reactive diluents in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing polymers using said photopolymerizable monomers, the polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the polymers.

Abstract: A free radical polymerization initiator system having at least one monoacylphosphine oxide of formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3 independently of one another are each H, or a linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl radical or OR6, R4 is a linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl radical, C1-C10 alkoxy radical, cyclohexyl radical or a phenyl, methylphenyl or mesityl radical, R5 is a linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl radical, R6 is a linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl radical, and n is 0, 1, 2 or 3, and at least one phenolic inhibitor, wherein the molar ratio of inhibitor to photoinitiator is in a range from 0.002 to 0.9. The initiator system is particularly suitable for the photopolymerization of radically polymerizable compositions containing urethane group-containing monomers and for the production of dental moldings with low discoloration.

Abstract: Provided herein are photopolymerizable monomers, optionally for use as reactive diluents in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing polymers using said photopolymerizable monomers, the polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the polymers.

Abstract: Provided herein are curable compositions for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing crosslinked polymers using said curable compositions, crosslinked polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the crosslinked polymers.

Abstract: The use of a photopolymerizable composition containing a phenol formaldehyde resin, a curing agent, and a photoinitiator in a generative manufacturing method for producing three-dimensional objects by irradiating it layer by layer to cure the composition is described. The use involves the following steps: a) the composition is heated to a reaction temperature of at least 70° C. before and during curing; b) the composition contains: b1) a novolak as said phenol formaldehyde resin, b2) a formaldehyde derivative stable at the reaction temperature as said curing agent, and b3) a photoacid generator as said photoinitiator; and c) curing of the composition is conducted at normal pressure; with the proviso that the curing agent is not an amine-containing formaldehyde derivative.

Abstract: Provided herein are curable compositions for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing crosslinked polymers using said curable compositions, crosslinked polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the crosslinked polymers.

Abstract: A thermoplastic poly(urethane-urea) polyadduct (I) with sterically hindered urea groups used in an electrospinning method for producing vascular prostheses: I, M, C1 and C2 represent bivalent radicals linked via a urethane or urea moiety; I and C2 represent a bivalent, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic, alicyclic or aromatic radical with 1-20 carbon atoms derived from (I): a diisocyanate; or (C2): from a diol, diamine or amino alcohol; M represents a bivalent radical of an aliphatic polyether, polyester or polycarbonate derived from a macrodiol having Mn?500; C1 represents a bivalent, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or alicyclic radical with 1-30 carbon atoms derived from a diamine or amino alcohol with ?1 sterically hindered secondary amino group through removal of one N-linked hydrogen atom of the diamine or one N-linked and the O-linked hydrogen atoms of the amino alcohol.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a range of printed materials comprising discrete layers or segment with distinct compositions, and which can collectively lend to high levels of strength, toughness, and break resistance, and these printed materials may contain thin, ductile layers interspersed between thicker, harder layers, thus in printing such materials, the present disclosure further provides a range of compositions and methods, including low viscosity, air stable, and rapidly solutions amenable to thin layer inkjet printing.

Abstract: Dental material which comprises at least one compound of formula I, in which R1 is a linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic C1-C30 hydrocarbon radical or an aromatic C6-C30 hydrocarbon radical, wherein the aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon radical can be substituted or unsubstituted and wherein aliphatic hydrocarbon radicals can be interrupted by one or more urethane groups, ester groups, oxygen atoms and/or sulfur atoms; X, Y, Z independently of each other in each case are —COOR2, —CON(R3R4)—, an aromatic C6-C10 hydrocarbon radical or CN, wherein R2, R3, R4 in each case independently of each other is hydrogen, a linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic C1-C30 hydrocarbon radical or an aromatic C6-C30 hydrocarbon radical, wherein the aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon radical can be substituted or unsubstituted and wherein aliphatic hydrocarbon radicals can be interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms, and m is 2 or 3.

Abstract: A thermoplastic poly(urethane-urea) polyadduct with sterically hindered urea groups of the following Formula (I): —[I-M-(I—C1)a—(I-M)b-(I—C2)c]n-??(I) I, M, C1 and C2 each representing bivalent residues linked to each other via a urethane or urea moiety. In the residues I, C1 and C2, when more than four carbon atoms are present, optionally at least one of them is substituted by a heteroatom selected from oxygen and nitrogen. Optionally at least one of the residues I, M, C1 and C2 includes one or more ester moieties. a, b and c each independently represent an integer from 0 to 10, and n is a number ?3 representing the number of blocks in the polyadduct. Within each separate block a+c?1, and in all blocks together at least one a?1 and at least one c?1.

Abstract: Provided herein are curable compositions for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing crosslinked polymers using said curable compositions, crosslinked polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the crosslinked polymers.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are photoinitiators or photosensitizers in a photopolymerizable composition: R1 represents a monovalent, linear, branched or cyclic, aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, optionally substituted with substituent(s) selected from —Cl, —Br, —OH, ?O, —NH—CO—OR2, —NH—CO—R2 or free-radically or ionically polymerizable groups. Each R2 is independently —H or C1-6 alkyl; n is ?1. If n=1, Z and Y are absent and X represents —OR3; if n is >1, Z represents —OR4—, Y represents —OR5— and X represents —H or —OH. R3 represents —H or R1; and R4 and R5 each independently represent a bivalent hydrocarbon group. The polymerizable moieties as optional substituents of R1 are polymerizable double or triple bonds, lactam, lactone and epoxide moieties, which are subjectable to ring-opening polymerization; and two of R1 to R5 may be linked to one another to form a ring or a dimer.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition which may be used as an adhesive mass in a method for preparing an adhesive tape or as molding mass in a method for preparing molded articles is provided. The polymerizable composition contains: A) a thermal cationic initiator, or B) a combination of a cationic photoinitiator and a thermal free-radical initiator for inducing the polymerization of the cationically polymerizable monomers in such an amount that the heat energy released during polymerization is sufficient for cleaving the thermal initiator. The adhesive mass is curable via a local impulse a) of thermal energy orb) of thermal energy and/or radiation energy through frontal polymerization; or the molding mass is initially prepared by mixing all components and then molded into the desired shape, whereafter its frontal polymerization is induced by a local impulse a) of thermal energy and/or b) of radiation energy in order to prepare a cured molded article.

Abstract: Provided herein are curable compositions for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing crosslinked polymers using said curable compositions, crosslinked polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the crosslinked polymers.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are photoinitiators or photosensitizers in a photopolymerizable composition: R1 represents a monovalent, linear, branched or cyclic, aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, optionally substituted with substituent(s) selected from —Cl, —Br, —OH, ?O, —NH—CO— OR2, —NH—CO—R2 or free-radically or ionically polymerizable groups. Each R2 is independently —H or C1-6 alkyl; n is ?1. If n=1, Z and Y are absent and X represents —OR3; if n is >1, Z represents —OR4—, Y represents —ORs— and X represents —H or —OH. R3 represents —H or R1; and R4 and R5 each independently represent a bivalent hydrocarbon group. The polymerizable moieties as optional substituents of R1 are polymerizable double or triple bonds, lactam, lactone and epoxide moieties, which are subjectable to ring-opening polymerization; and two of R1 to R5 may be linked to one another to form a ring or a dimer.

Abstract: A light-curable composition is provided which may be used as a photopolymerizable material in an additive manufacturing process. The additive manufacturing process involves heating the light-curable composition which has a viscosity at 20° C. of at least 20 Pa·s. The light-curable composition includes a photopolymerizable matrix material, at least one thermoplastic polymer dissolved therein, and at least one photoinitiator. Polycaprolactone or a derivative thereof is used as the dissolved thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are photoinitiators or photosensitizers in a photopolymerizable composition: R1 represents a monovalent, linear, branched or cyclic, aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, optionally substituted with substituent(s) selected from —Cl, —Br, —OH, ?O, —NH—CO—OR2, —NH—CO—R2 or free-radically or ionically polymerizable groups. Each R2 is independently —H or C1-6 alkyl; n is ?1. If n=1, Z and Y are absent and X represents —OR3; if n is >1, Z represents —OR4—, Y represents —OR5— and X represents —H or —OH. R3 represents —H or R1; and R4 and R5 each independently represent a bivalent hydrocarbon group. The polymerizable moieties as optional substituents of R1 are polymerizable double or triple bonds, lactam, lactone and epoxide moieties, which are subjectable to ring-opening polymerization; and two of R1 to R5 may be linked to one another to form a ring or a dimer.