Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

3m Innovative Properties Company

Daniel E Mickus

Larry R Krepski

Steven M Heilmann

Sharon Mary Simpson

Kim Marie Vogel

Wayne K Larson

Raffaella Biavasco

Howell K Smith, Ii

Cristina Soncini

Lori S Harring

Mark B Mizen

Kevin Michael Lewandowski

Stephen A Johnson

Scott R Culler

Mark D Purgett

Gaddam N Babu

Don H Kincaid

Christopher John Rueb

Susan K Rowen

Mark T Gibson

A dry-strippable coating composition can be incorporated into a composite article and comprises a dried water-borne polyurethane dispersion including a release additive comprising a releasing co-solvent or other selected release material. When water is removed from the polyurethane dispersion of the composite article and when the article comprises a thermoformable substrate, the article can be thermoformed to provide a shaped article. Dry-stripping the coating composition from the substrate provides a thermoformed substrate and a thermoformed protective layer. The dry-strippable coatings provide temporary protection for the surface of various products and components during manufacture, assembly, shipping, installation, painting, and refinishing operations.

Dry-peelable temporary protective coatings

A photoactive compound that is the reaction product of an alkenyl azlactone compound and a nucleophilic aromatic ketone is described. Mer units derived from this compound can be used, for example, to crosslink via a hydrogen abstracting mechanism acrylic polymers in which they are incorporated.

Chromophoric photocrosslinking compound

An abrasive article is provided that includes a tie coat which improves adhesion between an abrasive layer and a backing in the abrasive article. The tie coat is preferably formed from a tie coat precursor comprising a sulfopoly(ester-urethane) component comprising in its backbone at least one non-terminal arylene or alkylene group comprising a pendant sulfonic acid group or salt thereof having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a trivalent aliphatic or aromatic group and M is a cation, said aliphatic or aromatic group being bonded directly to ester groups and wherein the polymer is terminated by at least one hydrolyzable silyl group. Preferably, the abrasive article is a structured abrasive article. Also provided is a method for making an abrasive article.

Abrasive article with tie coat and method

A method of decreasing the water uptake in a sulfopoly(ester-urethane) by preparing said sulfopoly(ester-urethane) from a chain extended sulfopolyester polyol which itself has been prepared in a two-step method, said sulfopoly(ester-urethane) comprising in its backbone at least one non-terminal arylene or alkylene group comprising a pendant sulfonic acid group or salt thereof, said sulfonic acid group or salt thereof having the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a trivalent aliphatic or aromatic group and M is a cation, said sulfonic acid group or salt thereof being bonded directly through said aliphatic or aromatic group to ester groups, the polymer of said sulfo(polyester-urethane) being terminated by at least one hydrolyzable silyl group, said two-step method for preparing said chain extended sulfopolyester polyol comprising the steps of:

Method for reducing water uptake in silyl terminated

A pavement marking composition comprises a sulfopoly(ester-urethane) polymer which comprises in its backbone at least one non-terminal arylene or alkylene group comprising a pendant sulfonic acid group or salt thereof, the polymer of said pavement marking composition being terminated by at least one hydrolyzable silyl group. A method of making the composition is disclosed. The pavement marking composition can further comprise at least one of pigments, optical elements, fillers, or other adjuvants. Particularly desirable adjuvants include optical elements, particularly retroreflective elements, skid-resistant particles, and pigments.

Silyl terminated sulfopoly(ester-urethane pavement marking compositions

A photothermographic element comprising a support bearing at least one heat-developable, photosensitive, image-forming photothermographic emulsion layer comprising:

Chromogenic leuco redox-dye-releasing compounds for photothermographic

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Mahtomedi, MN, United States of America

Daniel E Mickus