The present invention refers to a photo-curable composition comprising at least one polythiol having at least two thiol groups, at least one polyisocyanate having at least two isocyanate groups, at least one (poly-)ene compound having at least one —C═C group, and at least one photolatent base catalyst. Furthermore, the present invention pertains to a method of photo-curing the photo-curable composition according to the present invention as well as to a method of three dimensional printing an object with the photo-curable composition according to the present invention. Moreover, the present invention refers to a cross-linked polymer or a three-dimensional object obtained by the methods according to the present invention, and use of the polymer or the object as an antireflective coating, encapsulant for LEDs, microlense for CMOS image sensors, as optical material, as biomedical functional coating, packaging and textile, stents, scaffolds, dental applications, and as reversible adhesive for debond on demand applications.

A composition suitable for 3-D printing comprises, in one embodiment, a photopolymer including one or more thiol monomer, one or more alkene monomer, and a polymerization initiator. In another embodiment, the thiol monomer is selected from the group consisting of: glycol di(3-mercaptopropionate) [GDMP]; trimethylolpropane tris(3-mercaptopropionate) [TMPMP]; pentaerythritol tetrakis(3-mercaptopropionate) [PETMP] and 3,6-dioxa-1,8-octanedithiol [DODT]. In yet another embodiment, the alkene monomer comprises: an allyl-functional urethane/urea monomer synthesized from: an isocyanate moiety and a hydroxyl or amine functional allyl moiety. In still another embodiment, the hydroxyl or amine functional allyl moiety comprises 2-allyloxyethanol, allyl alcohol, and allylamine. In still yet another embodiment, the isocyanate moiety is selected from the group consisting of: isophorone diisocyanate (IDI), hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI), trimethylhexamethylene diisocyanate (TMHDI), 1,3-bis(isocyanatomethyl)cyclohexane, and dicyclohexylmethane 4,4′-Diisocyanate (HMDI).

A front curve design method for preparing a resin lens with a high refractive index. The method includes within a myopia power range of −1.00 to −15.00, designing the maximum design front curve to be −4.00 D from −1.00 to −3.50; designing the maximum design front curve to be −3.00 D from −3.75 to −5.50; designing the maximum design front curve to be −2.00 D from −5.75 to −8.75; and designing the maximum design front curve to be −1.50 D from −9.00 to −15.00. The method of the present invention is mainly suitable for resin lenses with a refractive index of 1.60, 1.67 or 1.74.

To provide a bonding technique that is capable of bonding a metal and a resin with a sufficient bonding strength. A bonded article including a functional group-carrying metal surface and a functional group-carrying resin surface, which are bonded directly to each other, the functional group-carrying metal surface having one or more kind of a functional group selected from the group consisting of an amino group, an epoxy group, a mercapto group, a styryl group, a (meth)acryloyl group, an isocyanato group, and an alkenyl group, on a surface of a metal, the functional group-carrying resin surface having one or more kind of a functional group selected from the group consisting of an amino group, an epoxy group, a mercapto group, a styryl group, a (meth)acryloyl group, an isocyanato group, and an alkenyl group, on a surface of a resin.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of making polymeric optical layers for optical layering applications. In an aspect, a waveguide device for a head mounted display is provided. The waveguide device may include a waveguide die having a first refractive index range and a polymeric optical layer. The polymeric optical layer may include a second refractive index range that is different from the first refractive index range and a thiol-containing polymer. For example, the thiol-containing polymer may include thiourethane. In some embodiments, the thiol-containing polymer may be formed from a monomer mixture including a thiol-containing compound and an isocyanate. For example, the thiol-containing compound may include 4-mercaptomethyl-3,6-dithia-1,8-octanedithiol (MDTODT) and/or the isocyanate may include m-xylylene diisocyanate (XDI). In some embodiments, the monomer mixture may include a second thiol-containing compound, such as, for example, 1,3-benzene dithiol (1,3-BDT).

A polymerizable composition for an optical material includes a compound represented by General Formula (1) and a polymerization reactive compound. ##STR00001##

The present invention relates to covalent adaptable networks (CANs) having exchangeable crosslinks which are able to undergo repeated covalent bond reshuffling through photo-activation at ambient temperatures. The invention provides covalent adaptable network forming compositions as well as methods of forming, remolding and recycling the CANs of the invention.

A polymerizable composition for optical material including two or more different monomers for optical material and a polymerization catalyst, in which the content of the polymerization catalyst relative to the total amount of the monomers for optical material is from 0.1150 to 0.2000 parts by mass, the viscosity of the polymerizable composition for optical material is from 10 mPa.Math.s to 1000 mPa.Math.s as measured with a B-type viscometer at 20° C. and 60 rpm, and at least one of the two or more different monomers for optical material is an episulfide compound.

One embodiment according to the present disclosure relates to a spectacle lens comprising a compound represented by formula (1):

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A transaction card processing and activation system comprising the identification of a unique identifier corresponding to an aggregate of transaction cards of affiliated or non-affiliated card issuers and the activation of each transaction card corresponding to the unique identifier of the aggregate irrespective of the number, types, or card issuers of the transaction cards. Additionally, the present invention allows a point of sale entity to initiate the activation of each of the multiple, disparate transaction cards in the aggregate by merely processing the unique identifier associated with the aggregate.