Provided herein are methods of making (meth)acrylate blocked polyurethanes with zirconium catalysts, dual cure resins containing (meth)acrylate blocked polyurethanes and zirconium catalysts, methods of using the same in additive manufacturing, and products made therefrom.

The present invention provides a multi-phase structured UV-curable powder coating resin and a preparation method thereof, comprising (1) obtaining an emulsion of a liquid UV resin by heating the liquid UV resin and an emulsifier, dispersing, and adding deionized water for emulsification; (2) melting and dispersing a solid UV resin, a phase change agent, an emulsifier, and deionized water; adding the emulsion of the liquid UV resin with stirring to thoroughly mix; temperature is lowered during the stirring to obtain a suspension; (3) press filtering the suspension of the UV-curable powder coating resin to obtain a filter cake; (4) drying and classifying the filter cake to obtain the multi-phase structured UV-curable powder coating resin. The multi-phase structured UV-curable powder coating resin is prepared from the aforementioned method. The present disclosure has the properties of both the liquid and solid UV resin and can be sprayed as a powder coating.

Functionalized compounds including residues of one or more 1,1-disubstituted alkene compounds. Preferably the functionalized compound includes the residue of two or more 1,1-disubstituted alkene compounds, which are spaced apart. The functionalized compound may be produced by a transesterification reaction. The functionalized compounds may be employed in a polymerizable composition and may be used to prepare new polymers, (for example by reacting the alkene group).

The present invention provides a hard coating film comprising: a substrate; a first hard coating layer formed on one surface of the substrate; and a second hard coating layer formed on the other surface of the substrate, wherein the first hard coating layer includes a cross-linked polymer of an oligomer having an elongation of 50 to 350%, the second hard coating layer includes a cross-linked polymer of an oligomer having an elongation of 0.1 to 50%, and the crosslinking density of the first hard coating layer is smaller than the crosslinking density of the second hard coating layer, and a flexible display having the hard coating film. The hard coating film according to the present invention has excellent impact resistance and curling properties and also has excellent bending resistance.

A urethane oligomer according to a) or b) has: a) at least two backbone residues R issued from a polyisocyanate without the NCO groups, linked between them with a diol residue R.sub.B (diol without the two OH groups) by two urethane bonds and each backbone residues R carrying (or linked to) at least two urethane segments each containing at least one terminal allyl group, b) at least one backbone residue R issued from a polyisocyanate without the NCO groups, the backbone residue R carrying (or linked to) at least two urethane segments each linked to R by one urethane bond with at least one urethane segment (arm) containing at least one terminal allyl group, and at least one urethane segment (arm) containing at least one terminal (meth)acrylate group. A curable composition containing the urethane oligomer reduces oxygen inhibition in coatings, adhesives, sealants or in resin matrix with good surface properties.

The present invention provides an active energy ray-curable composition exhibiting high curability and having excellent offset printability when used for a printing ink, an active energy ray-curable printing ink having both excellent curability and offset printability, and a printed matter using the same. An active energy ray-curable composition includes a urethane (meth)acrylate resin (A) and a polymerization initiator (B), wherein the urethane (meth)acrylate resin (A) is produced by using an aromatic polyisocyanate (a), a hydroxyl group-containing mono(meth)acrylate (b), and a polyol (c) as essential reaction raw materials so that the ratio [(b′)/(a′)] of the number of moles (b′) of hydroxyl groups contained in the hydroxyl group-containing mono(meth)acrylate (b) to the number of moles (a′) of isocyanate groups contained in the aromatic polyisocyanate (a) is within a range of 0.99 to 0.40, and the urethane (meth)acrylate resin (A) has a (meth)acryloyl group concentration within a range of 1.5 to 4.0 mmol/g.

The present invention provides a hard coating composition comprising: a rubber-based impact modifier having a core-shell structure including a rubber core and at least one shell, a dendrimer compound having a (meth)acrylate terminal group, a polyfunctional urethane (meth)acrylate having a cyclohexyl group, a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate having an ethylene glycol group, a photoinitiator and a solvent; a hard coating film formed using the same, and an image display device having the hard coating film. The hard coating film according to the present invention not only has high impact resistance and excellent hardness, flexibility and bending resistance, but also is excellent in the adhesion, curl and crack properties.

The invention relates to a UV curable hard-coat for a polymer film, the hard-coat comprising an aliphatic urethane acrylate oligomer, a hexa-functional aliphatic urethane acrylate oligomer a photo-initiator and an organic solvent. The UV curable hard-coat further may comprise a flow modifier. A second aspect of the invention relates to a method for providing a hard-coated polymer film provided with the UV curable hard-coat of any one of the preceding claims. The polymer film is for example polycarbonate film. A further aspect of the invention relates to a hard-coated polymer film provided with the UV curable hard-coat of the invention. An aspect of the invention relates to use of the hard-coated polymer film provided with the UV curable hard-coat according to the invention in the manufacturing of a formed article or object such as a thermo-formed article or object and/or of a moulded article or object such as an injection-moulded article or object, preferably an article or object which comprises the hard-coated polymer film provided with the UV curable hard-coat which is first formed and then back-moulded such as back injection moulded. The invention also relates to an article or an object comprising a polycarbonate film containing a UV curable hard-coat according to the invention, wherein the article or object is manufactured using back injection-moulding or in-mould electronics.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a terminal-modified polybutadiene or terminal-modified hydrogenated polybutadiene that does not become colored or white and turbid, without using an organotin compound. The production method of the present invention includes reacting an acrylate or methacrylate represented by formula (I), a diisocyanate compound represented by formula (II), and a polybutadiene or hydrogenated polybutadiene having a hydroxyl group at a polymer terminal, represented by formula (III), in the presence of at least one selected from an organoaluminum compound and an organozinc compound (with the proviso that zinc naphthenate is excluded). ##STR00001##

The present technology provides a curable resin composition that contains a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group, a coated amine formed by using a filler to coat solid amine having a melting point of 50° C. or higher, an isocyanate group-containing compound having an isocyanate group bonded to an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and having a hydrolyzable silyl group or (meth)acryloyl group, and a tertiary amine compound.