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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2005
Karl Allen Bromm, Forest Grove, PA (US);
Xun Tang, Dresher, PA (US);
Barry Weinstein, Dresher, PA (US);
Karl Allen Bromm, Forest Grove, PA (US);
Xun Tang, Dresher, PA (US);
Barry Weinstein, Dresher, PA (US);
Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A curable composition including a compound, containing as polymerized units, carboxylic acid groups, anhydride groups, or salts thereof, and a styrene, α-methyl styrene, butyl (meth)acrylate, methyl methacrylate, ethyl (meth)acrylate, mono-alkyl (meth)acrylamide, or di-alkyl (meth)acrylamide ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a solubility in water of less than 2 g/100 g water at 25° C.; wherein the compound is either admixed with or copolymerized with a hydroxyl group-containing compound; the curable composition contains from about 3 to about 25 weight percent, based on the total weight of polymerized monomers in the curable composition, of the ethylenically unsaturated monomer; the ratio of the number of equivalents of the carboxylic acid groups, anhydride groups, or salts thereof to the number of equivalents of the hydroxyl groups is from about 1/0.01 to about ⅓, is provided. Also provided is a method for treating a substrate with the curable composition, articles prepared by the method of the invention.