A multi-component composition for additive manufacturing, and related methods, are generally described.

This invention outlines a method for synthesizing a blended resin system in a one pot reaction that may utilize, for example, bio-based anhydrosugars such as isosorbide as a principle component to produce isosorbide dimethacrylate and other monomeric materials for thermosetting applications. This invention establishes a one-pot procedure for reacting a hydroxy group containing compound with methacrylic anhydride in the first step and using the by-product methacrylic acid to react with glycidyl ethers to form additional methacrylate compounds in the second step. This methodology can be formulated to produce a wide array of resin systems that have controlled ratios of hydroxy group containing compound/cross-linker/reactive diluent. Additionally, the novel resin systems may be partially to fully bio-based, promoting global sustainability and reducing costs, and when free radically polymerized have properties that meet or exceed their petroleum derived counterparts.

The present invention is directed to a two-component (2K) curable composition comprising: a first component comprising, based on the weight of the component: from 80 to 100 wt. % of a) i) at least one partially (meth)acrylated epoxy resin; and, from 0 to 20 wt. % of a) ii) at least one epoxy resin distinct from said resin a) i); and, a second component comprising b) at least one polyamine having at least two amine hydrogens reactive toward epoxide groups, wherein said curable composition is characterized by a ratio of the amine hydrogen equivalent of said at least one polyamine (b) to the total equivalents of epoxy groups and acrylate groups of said first component (a) of from 0.5:1 to 1.05:1.

A method for improving corrosion resistance of vinyl ester resin is provided, which belongs to the technical field of polymer materials. The method includes adding vinyl ester resin into a MXene nanosheet solution and evaporating the solvent; then adding cobalt isooctoate promoter and butanone peroxide initiator in sequence, standing for curing after defoaming, and then heating.

This invention outlines a method for synthesizing a blended resin system in a one pot reaction that may utilize, for example, bio-based anhydrosugars such as isosorbide as a principle component to produce isosorbide dimethacrylate and other monomeric materials for thermosetting applications. This invention establishes a one-pot procedure for reacting a hydroxy group containing compound with methacrylic anhydride in the first step and using the by-product methacrylic acid to react with glycidyl ethers to form additional methacrylate compounds in the second step. This methodology can be formulated to produce a wide array of resin systems that have controlled ratios of hydroxy group containing compound/cross-linker/reactive diluent. Additionally, the novel resin systems may be partially to fully bio-based, promoting global sustainability and reducing costs, and when free radically polymerized have properties that meet or exceed their petroleum derived counterparts.

Compositions and methods for forming epoxy resin systems are provided. In one embodiment, a composition is provided for an epoxy resin system including a liquid epoxy resin component including a liquid epoxy resin and an acrylate monomer, a curing agent component including a compound having an imidazole group and, optionally, a co-curing agent for the compound having an imidazole group comprising a phenolic monomer compound, a branched chain carboxylic acid, and combinations thereof, and a non-aromatic polyol compound. The composition may be used to form composites, such as used in commercial wind turbine blade manufacturing.

The thermosetting resin composition according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a component (A) which is a novolac vinyl ester resin having a hydroxyl group and an ethylenically unsaturated group in the molecule, a component (B) which is an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a component (D) which is a polyisocyanate compound, wherein the component (A) has a hydroxyl value of 30-150 mgKOH/g, and the mole number of the hydroxyl group with respect to the mole number of the ethylenically unsaturated group per gram of the component (A) ((the amount of the hydroxyl group [mol/g])/(the amount of the ethylenically unsaturated group [mol/g])) is 0.1-0.8.

The invention provides highly functional epoxy resins that may be used themselves in coating formulations and applications but which may be further functionalized via ring-opening reactions of the epoxy groups yielding derivative resins with other useful functionalities. The highly functional epoxy resins are synthesized from the epoxidation of vegetable or seed oil esters of polyols having 4 or more hydroxyl groups/molecule. In one embodiment, the polyol is sucrose and the vegetable or seed oil is selected from corn oil, castor oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, linseed oil, tall oil fatty acid, tung oil, vernonia oil, and mixtures thereof. Methods of making of the epoxy resin and each of its derivative resins are disclosed as are coating compositions and coated objects using each of the resins.

The present invention discloses modified epoxy acrylates and the solder resist containing the epoxy modified acrylates, belonging to the synthetic resin field. In this invention, modified epoxy acrylates are prepared by introducing long fatty hydrocarbon chain as the branched chain into the carboxylated epoxy acrylates. The as-prepared solder resist containing this modified epoxy acrylates maintains the excellent property of photosensitive solder resist such as good adhesion, hardness, solvent resistance and weather resistance which facilities sensitivity and alkaline development during exposure simultaneously. This has led to good water resistance, electrical insulation of the cured products. Furthermore, the cured product also shows good flexibility which improves its application in photosensitive imaging ink materials.

An elastomer is provided, which is a product of reacting C.sub.4-12 lactam, poly(C.sub.2-4 alkylene glycol), C.sub.4-12 diacid, and multi-ester aliphatic monomer. The C.sub.4-12 lactam and the poly(C.sub.2-4 alkylene glycol) have a weight ratio of 20:80 to 80:20. The total weight of the C.sub.4-12 lactam and the poly(C.sub.2-4 alkylene glycol) and the weight of the C.sub.4-12 diacid have a ratio of 100:0.5 to 100:10. The total weight of the C.sub.4-12 lactam and the poly(C.sub.2-4 alkylene glycol) and the weight of the multi-ester aliphatic monomer have a ratio of 100:0.01 to 100:5.