Abstract:
A three-dimensional object is flocked by applying an adhesive to it, supporting it on a first side while applying fibers to the second side, and then curing the adhesive on most of the second side by directing a low energy electron beam at it that does not penetrate and cure the adhesive on the first side. The object is then supported on the second, cured, side while fibers are applied to the uncured first side, and then the electron beam is applied to cure the first side also.
Abstract:
Hard, mar resistant and abrasion resistant coatings of low gloss are prepared by exposing a coating composition containing an oxygen inhibitable, radiation curable, organic material and an ultraviolet light absorbing pigment to radiation in three stages. In the first stage, the coating composition is exposed to ionizing radiation in an atmosphere containing a cure inhibiting amount of oxygen. In the second stage, it is exposed to ultraviolet light in an atmosphere free of a cure inhibiting amount of oxygen. In the third stage, the coating composition is exposed to ionizing radiation.
Abstract:
A continuous protective coating is formed on a fiber optic by coating said fiber optic in a bath of a liquid radiation curable composition at a temperature up to 90.degree. C and thereafter exposing the coated conductor to ultraviolet or high energy ionizing radiation to cure the coating.
Abstract:
Coating compositions are cured by initially treating them for a brief period with ionizing or non-ionizing radiation whereby they are partially cured and then completing the cure by a thermal treatment. This two-step process decreases the amount of volatiles escaping into the atmosphere and it also permits the use of compounds not useful in the past and allows significant improvement in film properties such as adhesion to metal. The initial radiation cure can be with electron beam, ultraviolet mercury lamp, plasma arc or other radiation means; the thermal cure is carried out by any heat means.
Abstract:
A process for curing a normally air-inhibited, thermosetting resinous reaction product comprising exposing a film or coat of the resin while overlying a substrate to high-energy radiation to cure at least a depthwise segment of the film that is contiguous to the substrate to provide a nontacky, mar-resistant undersurface to the film, then inverting the film on a substrate, and again exposing the inverted film to high energy radiation or to heat. Electron emission, microwaves, ultraviolet light, and the like may be used as the high-energy radiation. As a modification, the resin film or coat may be stretched prior to completing the second exposure. As a further modification, the resin film may be laminated to a substrate during the second exposure, preferably with an adhesive curable by exposure to such high energy radiation.
Abstract:
A SUBSTRATE IS COATED WITH A FILM-FORMING COMPOSITION COMPRISING UNIQUE TETRAVINYL COMPOUND AND THE COATING IS CONVERTED TO A TENACIOUSLY ADHERING, SOLVENT-RESISTANT, WEAR-AND-WEATHER-RESISTANT COATING BY EXPOSING THE COATED SUBSTRATE TO IONIZING RADIATION, PREFERABLY IN THE FORM OF AN ELECTRON BEAM. THIS TETRAVINYL COMPOUND IS FORMED BY FIRST REACTING A DIEPOXIDE WITH ACRYLIC ACID AND/ OR METHACRYLIC ACID AND SUBSEQUENTLY REACTING THE RESULTANT ESTER CONDENSATION PRODUCT WITH A VINYL UNSATURATED ACYL HALIDE.
Abstract:
A PROCESS OF COATING A POROUS OR NONPOROUS SUBSTRATE WITH A LIQUID POLYMERIZABLE FILM AND SUBJECTING THE COATED SUBSTRATE TO IONIZING RADIATION SUFFICIENT TO IMPART TO THE COATING COMPOSITION A DOSE OF FROM 1 TO 10 MEGARADS IN ONE SECOND OR LESS. THE COATING COMPOSITIONS, CAPABLE OF SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE POLYMERIZATION IN LESS THAN ONE SECOND, CONTAIN UNDILUTED VINYL ESTER RESINS HAVING TERMINAL VINYL ESTER GROUPS, OR THE ABOVE DISSOLVED IN VINYL MONOMERS. THE VINYL ESTER RESINS ARE MADE BY REACTING:
(1) A POLYFUNCTIONAL MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS HAVING FROM 4 TO 15 CARBON ATOMS, (B) POLYEPOXIDES HAVING TERMINAL, REACTIVE GLYCIDYL GROUPS, (C) POLYFUNCTIONAL ISOCYANATES HAVING TERMINAL, REACTIVE ISOCYANATE GROUPS, OR (D) DICARBOXYLIC ACID ESTERS OF POLYEPOXIDES, POLYAMINES, POLYISOCYANATES, WITH (2) 2-HYDROXYALKYL ACRYLATES OR METHACRYLATES.
PARTICULARLY USEFUL ARE COATING COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING RESINS HAVING TERMINAL ACRYLATE GROUPS AND AN ACRYLATE MONOMER, THE POLYFUNCTIONAL ACRYLATE HAVING MORE THAN ONE 2-OXYALKYLACRYLATE END GROUP PER MOLECULE WITH THE END GROUPS BEING JOINED BY A HYDROPHOBIC MOLECULE SUCH AS A DICARBOXYLIC ACID, POLYFUNCTIONAL ISOYANATE OR POLYEPOXIDE.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods and systems for making structures using an electrospray system while under vacuum. In particular, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods and systems for ultra-fast growth of high aspect ratio nano/meso/micro-structures with three dimensional topological complexity and control of phase and composition of the structure formed.