Single phase water based energy curable compositions and method of preparing coatings and printing inks

US11028278B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sun Chemical Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jean Do Turgis · Vertou, FR
• Richard Jones · Loveland, US
• Kai-Uwe Gaudl · Wantage, US
• Mikhail Laksin · Scotch Plains, US
• Subhankar Chatterjee · Hampton, US
• Neil Young · Los Angeles, US
• Volker Linzer · Niedernhausen, DE
• John M. Rooney · Berkeley Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 25, 2019
• Grant date: Jun 8, 2021
• Expiry date: Jul 25, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C09D11/107
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention discloses an energy curable, single phase, aqueous composition comprising water, an ethylenically unsaturated oligomer, and an ethylenically unsaturated resin containing neutralized acidic or basic functional groups. Advantageously, in certain embodiments, the compositions contain greater than 25 wt. % water at less than 60 wt. % resin in the total composition.