Abstract: A nanoimprint resist includes a hyperbranched polyurethane oligomer, a perfluoropolyether, a methylmethacrylate, a diluent solvent, and a photo initiator. The hyperbranched polyurethane oligomer can be polymerized by a copolymerization of trimellitic anhydride, ethylene mercaptan, and epoxy acrylic acid. The hyperbranched polyurethane oligomer can also be polymerized by a ring-opening copolymerization epoxy acrylic acid and ethylene glycol.

Abstract: Silicone coatings and moldings are produced from a photocrosslinkable silicone mixture which contains (A) a polyorganosiloxane containing at least two carbon-carbon multiple bonds, (B) an organosilicon compound containing at least two SiH functions, and (C) a cyclopentadienyl-platinum complex catalyst be activatable by light of 200 to 500 nm, wherein the mixture is heated to 40° C. to 250° C., and then irradiated with light of 200 to 500 nm wavelength.

Abstract: The present invention provides polyurethane systems which cure by radiation and thermal action with crosslinking, and use thereof for the production of holographic media. The polyurethane compositions of the invention comprise A) polyisocyanates, B) isocyanate-reactive block copolymers, C) compounds having groups which react on exposure to actinic radiation with ethylenically unsaturated compounds with polymerization, D) optionally free radical stabilizers and E) photoinitiators.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition of adhering together first and second materials. The composition features a multi-functional reactive compound that includes a backbone group and first and second functional groups; a cross-linker, and a catalyst. The first functional group is responsive to a first actinic energy to form cross-linked molecules and to adhere a subset of the cross-linked molecules to the first material. The second functional group is responsive to a second actinic energy, differing from the first actinic energy to adhere to the second material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet ink composition, which comprises (A) a polybutadiene; (B) a radical polymerizable compound having a (meth)acryloyl group; (C) a radical polymerization initiator; and (D) a colorant. The ink composition is highly sensitive to activated radiant rays and can accordingly be cured in a high sensitivity when irradiated with the same, can maintain its flexibility even after the cure thereof and can accordingly be used suitably in the ink-jet recording method and a method for the preparation of a lithographic printing plate, to thus form printed matters and a lithographic printing plate having high printing durability.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cationic curable composition which has low viscosity, can be rapidly photo-cured even in the air, has good adhesion to a substrate such as glass or resin, and is excellent in glass cleaner resistance and water resistance; an ink jet ink, a gravure ink and a hard coating material which comprise the composition; and cured products thereof. A cationic curable composition comprising: (A) 1 to 100 parts by weight of a phenol derivative having 3 or more aromatic rings per molecule, wherein the aromatic ring has a structure in which some or all of hydrogen atoms of phenolic hydroxyl groups of the aromatic ring are substituted by polymerizable functional groups; (B) 1 to 500 parts by weight of a cationic polymerizable compound; and (C) 0.05 to 20 parts by weight of a photo- and/or thermo-cationic initiator is provided.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to compositions and systems for forming biomaterials containing a transient colorant for visualizing tissue or surgical materials coated with such biomaterials, to methods of using such compositions as bioadhesives, for tissue augmentation, in the prevention of surgical adhesions, for coating surfaces of synthetic implants, as drug delivery matrices, for ophthalmic applications, and in other applications.

Abstract: A game ball having a cover formed from a crosslinkable thermoplastic polyurethane is disclosed. By selective exposure to radiation, the thermoplastic polyurethane cover is crosslinked and its hardness is increased. Typically, increases in hardness values of at least 2 units on the Shore D scale are realized upon exposure to 3.5 Mrads of gamma radiation.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition comprising; a dendrimer having at least two polymerizable groups within a molecule; a radical initiator; and an alkali-soluble polymer, and an image recording material comprising a support and a recording layer comprising a polymerizable composition containing a dendrimer having at least two polymerizable groups within a molecule, a radical initiator and an alkali-soluble polymer.

Abstract: A free radical-curable epoxy composition comprises epoxy resin and a copolymerizable material including a monomer having amide, acrylamide, or hydroxyl functionality, and is advantageously devoid of any cationic catalyst ingredient.

Abstract: A method of preserving two or more separately packaged agents for forming a silicone composition which can be cured by mixing the separately packaged agents, which method can reduce the number of air bubbles contained in a cured product of the silicone composition and prevent a reduction in the strength of the cured product. The method of preserving the composition is characterized by keeping each packaged agent of the curable silicone composition under reduced pressure.

Abstract: New imido(meth) acrylates of general formula (1), wherein R1, R2 and R3 may be the same or different and each represents H or CH3; R4 to R7 may be the same or different and each represents H or CmH2m+1 (in which m is 1 to 6); and n represents 1 to 4, and radiation-curable compositions prepared from them, easily cured by the irradiation with radiations, particularly ultraviolet rays, to form cured compositions excellent in weather resistance, abrasion resistance and adhesion to a base, and free from the problem of odor.

Abstract: These compositions comprise at least one compound (A) and at least one compound (B) containing electron enriched or depleted olefinic double bonds, respectively.

Abstract: A photo curable resin composition, which comprises (A) an acid-modified, vinyl group-containing epoxy resin, (B) an elastormer, (C) a photopolymerization initiator, (D) a diluent and (E) a curing agent, can gives a high performance cured film having distinguished heat resistance, humidity-heat resistance, adhesibility, mechanical characteristics and electrical characteristics, and a photosensitive element, which comprises a support and a layer of the photo curable resin composition laid on the support, has distinguished heat resistance, humidity-heat resistance, adhesibility, mechanical characteristics and electrical characteristics.

Abstract: A biocompatible material which is the product of graft-copolymerization of a water-soluble vinyl and/or an acrylate monomer with a sorption complex of polysilicic acid and collagen that has been rid of pigments, glycoproteins and proteoglycans, or a product obtained by virtue of chemical destruction, with the aid of hydrofluoric acid, of the afore-mentioned product of graft-copolymerization, containing up to 25 mass percent of polysilicic acid (in terms of SiO.sub.2), up to 12 mass percent of protein, and maximum 1 10.sup.-6 mole/g of an anion of hydrofluoric and hydrofluoric acids, methods of making the same and products produced thereby.

Abstract: This invention relates to radio-derivatized polymers and a method of producing them by contacting non-polymerizable conjugands with radiolysable polymers in the presence of irradiation. The resulting radio-derivatized polymers can be further linked with ligands of organic or inorganic nature to immobilize such ligands.

Abstract: Toughenable polymer compositions cross-linkable thermally or by the effect of U.V. radiation are composed of:1) A polyphenylene ether (PPE) deriving from the (co)polymerization of one or more substituted phenols by oxidative coupling;2) At least one mono-unsaturated monomer compound able to (co)polymerize in the presence of radical initiators;3) Optionally, at least one polyunsaturated monomer compound able to (co)polymerize in the presence of radical initiators;4) At least one radical polymerization initiator;5) Possibly at least one (co)polymer with elastomeric characteristics;6) Usual additives, stabilizers, accelerators and flame retardant agents.Finished articles essentially composed of an intimately copenetrated polymer blend are obtained by thermal treatment or U.V. radiation of these compositions contained in suitable moulds either along or in combination with other reinforcement materials.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for the preparation of ceramic materials or articles by the pyrolysis of preceramic polysilanes wherein the preceramic polysilanes are rendered infusible prior to pyrolysis by exposure to ultraviolet irradiation in the presence of a reactive gas selected from the group consisting of ethylene, 1,3-butadiene, 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene, 1,4-pentadiene, silane, chlorosilane, dichlorosilane, boron trichloride, oxygen and water mixture, acetylene, and tetravinylsilane. This method is especially suited for the preparation of ceramic fibers. The ceramic fiber's surface properties can be modified by the practice of this invention; for example, a ceramic fiber with a carbon rich surface layer can be obtained when 1,3-butadiene is used as the reactive gas.

Abstract: In a photosensitive recording material suitable for producing plates or resist patterns, the photopolymerizable recording layer contains as polymeric binder a film-forming copolymer which has a multiphase morphology, one phase having a glass transistion temperature below room temperature and a further phase having a glass transition temperature above room temperature and this copolymer having been obtained by free radical copolymerization of one or more macromers with one or more further olefinically unsaturated copolymerizable organic compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive polymer composition comprising the following components A, B and C:A: 100 parts by weight of ethylenically unsaturated compounds,B: 3 to 40 parts by weight of a polyamide or 3 to 32 parts by weight of a polyesteramide soluble in the ethylenically unsaturated compounds andC: 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a photopolymerization initiator, and a solid photosensitive printing plate material comprising the above-mentioned photosensitive polymer composition and a support, which solid photosensitive printing plate material can be easily prepared from a substantially solvent-free starting material and usable for the production of a printing plate, flexible printing plate and flexographic printing plate developable with water and/or an alcohol.

Abstract: A method for cross-linking organopolysilane polymers. The method includes the steps of mixing an organopolysilane with a cross-linking agent to make a reaction mixture. The cross-linking agent includes molecules having at least two carbon-carbon double bonds and a ratio of such bonds to the molecular weight of the molecule of at least 1:150. Radical formation is then induced in the organopolysilane of the reaction mixture to cause formation of a reaction product including cross-linked organopolysilane polymers.