The polymerizable composition for an optical material contains an aromatic iso(thio)cyanate compound, a non-aromatic iso(thio)cyanate compound having an unsaturated aliphatic ring, and a polythiol compound.

The invention provides a UV-curable resin for forming a chemical-mechanical polishing pad comprising: (a) one or more acrylate blocked isocyanates; (b) one or more acrylate monomers; and (c) a photoinitiator. The invention also provides a method of forming a chemical-mechanical polishing pad using the UV-curable resin.

A resin composition, the resin composition including a prepolymer (209) and optionally one or more diluent(s) (FIG. 3A), the prepolymer (209) including repeating units having at least one carbonate linkage and at least one unsaturated side-chain, the at least one optional diluent(s) comprising at least one unsaturated side-chain, with either or both of the prepolymer (209) and the at least one optional diluent(s) including at least one O=C-N linkage, preferably a urethane linkage.

The present disclosure provides a photopolymerizable composition. The photopolymerizable composition includes at least one urethane component, at least one monofunctional reactive diluent, an initiator, and optionally an inhibitor. The present disclosure also provides an article including the reaction product of the photopolymerizable composition. Further, the present disclosure provides a method of making an article. The method includes (i) providing a photopolymerizable composition and (ii) selectively curing the photopolymerizable composition to form an article. The method optionally also includes (iii) curing unpolymerized urethane component and/or reactive diluent remaining after step (ii). Further, methods are provided, including receiving, by a manufacturing device having one or more processors, a digital object comprising data specifying an article; and generating, with the manufacturing device by an additive manufacturing process, the article based on the digital object. A system is also provided, including a display that displays a 3D model of an article; and one or more processors that, in response to the 3D model selected by a user, cause a 3D printer to create a physical object of an article.

The invention relates to thermosetting powder coating compositions as these are disclosed herein. The compositions comprise A) unsaturated resin(s) comprising ethylenic unsaturations selected from the group consisting of polyester resins, polyurethanes, epoxy resins, polyamides, polyesteramides, polycarbonates, polyureas and mixtures thereof; and B) curing agent(s) selected from the group consisting of certain vinyl urethanes, vinyl functionalized urethane resins and mixtures thereof; and C) thermal radical initiator(s) selected from the group consisting of organic peroxides, azo compounds, and mixtures thereof; and D) co-initiator(s) selected from the group consisting of certain onium compounds, sulpho-compounds, and mixtures thereof; and E) inhibitor(s) selected from the group consisting of phenolic compounds, stable radicals, catechols, phenothiazines, hydroquinones, benzoquinones and mixtures thereof. The invention further relates to a process for making said thermosetting powder coating compositions and processes for coating an article with said thermosetting powder coating compositions. The invention further relates to cured thermosetting powder coating compositions obtained by curing of the thermosetting powder coating compositions of the invention. The invention further relates to an article having coated thereon said thermosetting powder coating composition as well as to an article having coated and cured thereon said thermosetting powder coating composition. The invention further relates to the use of said thermosetting powder coating compositions, to the use of an article having coated thereon said thermosetting powder coating compositions and to the use of an article having coated and cured thereon said thermosetting powder coating compositions. The invention further relates to various uses of either the thermosetting powder coating compositions of the invention, or the cured thermosetting powder coating compositions of the invention or of articles having coated thereon the thermosetting powder coating composition of the invention, or of articles having coated and cured thereon the thermosetting powder coating composition of the invention. The invention further relates to a method for substantially lowering the T.sub.chalk-free as the latter is defined herein.

The present invention provides a coating film having a structure represented by the following general formula (1) (in the formula, R.sup.11 is a residue formed by removing one isocyanate group from a polyisocyanate, and R.sup.12 is an alkyl group or an alkoxy group having 2 to 12 carbon atoms, R.sup.13 is a residue formed by removing one hydroxyl group from a polyol), wherein a König hardness of the coating film is 20 or more, in an SS curve measurement of a tensile test, the coating film has an elastic deformation region and a plastic deformation region, and in the SS curve measurement, a stress at an inflection point stress between the elastic deformation region and the plastic deformation region is 5 MPa or more.

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The present invention provides an isocyanate composition including an isocyanate compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a compound represented by formula (1) (in the formula, R.sup.1 represents an a-valent organic group, R.sup.2 represents a monovalent organic group, a represents an integer of 1 or 2), and/or a compound having a UV absorption in a spectral region of a decamer or higher isocyanate measured by gel permeation chromatography; and an isocyanate composition including an isocyanate compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, or a compound having at least one unsaturated bond other than an unsaturated bond constituting an aromatic ring or an inert compound such as a hydrocarbon compound or the like and having a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond other than an unsaturated bond constituting an aromatic ring; or the like
R.sup.1—(COO—R.sup.2).sub.a  (1).

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.

An alternative polyurethane composition is provided comprising a reaction product of an azidated polyol and a poly(alkynyl carbamate) allophanate prepolymer, wherein the poly(alkynyl carbamate) allophanate prepolymer comprises a reaction product of a first alkynol and a poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer, in the presence of a metallo-organic compound of the formula: M(acac).sub.n, wherein, M=a metal, acac=an acetylacetonate residue, and n=2 or 3, wherein the poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer comprises a reaction product of a polyisocyanate and a stoichiometric equivalent of a second alkynol, and wherein the polyisocyanate comprises isocyanate groups and uretdione groups. The inventive alternative polyurethane compositions may be used to provide solventborne or waterborne coatings, adhesives, sealants, films, elastomers, castings, foams, and composites.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of detecting, sensors (e.g., chromogenic sensor), kits, compositions, and the like that related to or use tunable macroporous polymer. In an aspect, tunable macroporous materials as described herein can be used to determine the presence of a certain type(s) and quantity of liquid in a liquid mixture.