Radiation curable coating
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorsGeorge B. Due, John P. Guarino
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AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorsGeorge B. Due, John P. Guarino
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A radiation curable coating composition for various substrates containing an adduct of acrylic acid and an epoxy resin (which may be modified with an anhydride, such as maleic anhydride), and a reactive acrylate monomer vehicle. The coating composition can be pigmented and can also contain additives commonly used in coatings, such as wetting agents and flow control agents. The coating composition does not require the usual hydrocarbon vehicles that give rise to air pollution problems. Surface gloss of a UV cured film obtained from a pigmented coating composition can be increased by using a photosensitizer combination of 2-chlorothioxanthone and a phenyl ketone, such as benzophenone. Adhesion of a cured coating is improved by replacing the tertiary amine co-sensitizer, at least in part, with dimethylaminoethyl acrylate.
A radiation curable coating composition that comprises, by weight of said composition, 10-75% of a diacrylate of a diglycidyl ether of a bisphenol, or of a diacrylate of a diglycidyl ether of a bisphenol further esterfied with 0.1-1 mole, per mole of said diacrylate, of a dicarboxylic acid anhydride to form an esterified product having an acid number of 10-40, and 25-90% of an ester of acrylic acid.
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