Loctite Corporation

Margaret A Rakas

Anthony Francis Jacobine

John Gregory Woods

David M Glaser

Steven Thomas Nakos

Philip L Kropp

Donna M Sutkaitis

Louis M Alberino

A curable thiol-ene composition specially adapted for use as a primary coating on optical fibers comprises a polythiol and a compound having a plurality of norbornene groups thereon, are characterized in that one of either the compound having the plurality of norbornene groups or the polythiol has a backbone of a poly(tetramethylene oxide), or is an oligomer thereof, and the poly(tetramethylene oxide) has a molecular weight of between 250 and 5,000. The formulations are relatively low viscosity liquids at practical application temperatures and cure substantially completely with very low irradiation fluence. The formulations cure in ambient air. There is no need to exclude oxygen or to control humidity. The formulations of the invention can be cured using low intensity UV lamps which do not generate significant amounts of heat. The cured products have excellent low temperature flexibility, good humidity and water absorbtion resistance and good thermal oxidative stability. The formulations may be applied to optical fibers using conventional techniques and cured with UV-vis or EB irradiation.

Optical fiber primary coatings and fibers coated therewith

A polymer dispersed liquid crystal composite prepared from: (1) at least one multifunctional electron-rich alkene that does not undergo appreciable homopolymerization and is selected from the group consisting of (a) vinyl ethers and vinyl sulfides; (b) keteneacetals, ketenethioacetals and methylene oxathiolanes, wherein the carbon of the carbon-carbon double bond not bearing the electron donating group has bonded to it H or a combination of H and a C1 to C.sub.6 alkyl, preferably a methyl group; (c) ortho or para vinyl phenyl ethers or thioethers (also known as styryloxy or styrylthio ether monomers); or (d) bicylic alkenes which have, as a result of their stereoelectronic configuration, unequal .pi.-electron density above and below the plane of the carbon-carbon double bond axis; (2) a multifunctional thiol; (3) a photoinitiator; and (4) liquid crystal material.

Polymer dispersed liquid crystals in radiation curable electron-rich

An improved stereolithography method for building a three-dimensional article including the steps of patternwise curing successive layers of a bath of curable liquid resin formulation until the article has been completely built up, removing the article from the liquid resin bath and then post-curing the article, wherein the liquid resin is a 'thiol/nene' formulation including:

Stereolithography method

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Margaret A Rakas