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.

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.

Provided is a photo-curable composition capable of creating a three-dimensional object excellent in both of: stiffness and strength; and toughness. Specifically, provided is a photo-curable composition including: a blocked isocyanate represented by the general formula (1); a chain extender; and a photo-radical generator: ##STR00001##
wherein, in the general formula (1), A.sub.1 to A.sub.4 each independently represent a structure represented by the following general formula (2), and B represents a structure represented by the following general formula (3) ##STR00002##

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. ##STR00001##

A method for producing a polyurethane according to the present invention including: a first step wherein an epoxy carboxylate compound (X) is obtained by reacting (a) an epoxy compound that includes a halogen atom content of 10 ppm by mass or less, while having only two epoxy groups and no hydroxyl group in each molecule, (b) an unsaturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid that has an ethylenic unsaturated group in each molecule, while having no aromatic ring, and (c) an aromatic monocarboxylic acid that has no ethylenic unsaturated group in each molecule; and a second step wherein the epoxy carboxylate compound (X) obtained in the first step is reacted with a diisocyanate compound (Y).

According to one aspect of an inventive concept, an ink includes a nonradiation-curable pre-polymer having at least two nonradiation-curable components per molecule of the nonradiation-curable pre-polymer, a radiation-curable component, a polymer having at least one reactive hydrogen component, and a photoinitiator. A concentration of the nonradiation-curable pre-polymer having at least two nonradiation-curable components is in a range of greater than 0 weight % to less than 99 weight % of a total weight of the ink.

Described herein is a printing set comprising a curable transparent pre-treatment composition and a fixer composition. The curable transparent pre-treatment composition comprises a curable polyurethane, wherein the curable polyurethane comprises a copolymer of a polyisocyanate; a polyol comprising at least one reactive group selected from an acrylate group, a methacrylate group, an acrylamide group, a methacrylamide group, a styrene, an allyl group and a combination thereof; and a chain-terminating compound comprising a monoalcohol or a monoamine. The fixer composition comprises a salt of a cation and an anion. Also described herein is a method of printing on a textile and a printed textile substrate.

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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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.

Disclosed are UV curable adhesive compositions and methods to adhere polycarbonate substrates containing UV absorbers to glass for use in ophthalmic lenses.