119 results about "Polymeric liquid" patented technology

A method of forming a three-dimensional object is carried out by: (a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; (b) filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, (c) irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member and also advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form a three-dimensional solidified polymer object from the polymerizable liquid. The irradiating is carried out with both: (i) an excitation light at a first wavelength that polymerizes the polymerizable liquid, and (ii) a depletion light at a second wavelength, different from the first wavelength, that inhibits the polymerization of the polymerizable liquid. At least one of the excitation and depletion lights is temporally and/or spatially modulated to form the three-dimensional object.

A method of forming a three-dimensional object of polyurethane, polyurea, or copolymer thereof is carried out by: (a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; (b) filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, the polymerizable liquid including at least one of: (i) a blocked or reactive blocked prepolymer, (ii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyanate, or (iii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyanate chain extender; (c) irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member to form a solid blocked polymer scaffold and advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having the same shape as, or a shape to be imparted to, the three-dimensional object, with the intermediate containing the chain extender; and then (d) heating or microwave irradiating the three-dimensional intermediate sufficiently to form from the three-dimensional intermediate the three-dimensional object of polyurethane, polyurea, or copolymer thereof.

A film suitable for use as a light-modulating unit of a suspended particle device (SPD) light valve. The film comprises a siloxane matrix polymer which has a refractive index>1.4630 and has droplets of a liquid light valve suspension distributed within the matrix. The liquid light valve suspension preferably comprises a polyalkyl (meth)acrylate and/or fluorinated (meth)acrylate suspending polymer and optionally may comprise one or more non-polymeric liquids.

A method of forming a three-dimensional object, which method includes a cleaning or washing step, is carried out by: (a) providing a carrier and a fill level, and optionally an optically transparent member having a build surface defining the fill level, the carrier and the fill level having a build region therebetween; (b) filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, the polymerizable liquid comprising a mixture of (i) a light polymerizable liquid first component, and (ii) a second solidifiable component that is different from the first component; (c) irradiating the build region with light, to form a solid polymer scaffold from the first component and also advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having the same shape as, or a shape to be imparted to, the three-dimensional object and containing the second solidifiable component carried in the scaffold in unsolidified and/or uncured form; (d) washing the three-dimensional intermediate; and (e) concurrently with or subsequent to the irradiating step, and/or the washing step, solidifying and/or curing the second solidifiable component in the three-dimensional intermediate to form the three-dimensional object.

An offset plate sensitive to UV or visible light, prepared simply and imaged digitally therewith in a CTP method, and also processed in a simple manner. The plate is provided as a photopolymer plate with increased sensitivity, and is used in a simple imaging-on-press system, using the surface of a lithographic printing cylinder itself as a plate substrate. The method of preparing the printing plate begins by applying a photosensitive liquid coating to the substrate, digitally imaging the coated substrate, using an actinic light source to polymerize portions of the liquid coating in accordance with the imaging, and washing the liquid.

A first electro-optic display comprises first and second substrates, and an adhesive layer and a layer of electro-optic material disposed between the first and second substrates, the adhesive layer comprising a mixture of a polymeric adhesive material and a hydroxyl containing polymer having a number average molecular weight not greater than about 5000. A second electro-optic display is similar to the first but has an adhesive layer comprising a thermally-activated cross-linking agent to reduce void growth when the display is subjected to temperature changes. A third electro-optic display, intended for writing with a stylus or similar instrument, is produced by forming a layer of an electro-optic material on an electrode; depositing a substantially solvent-free polymerizable liquid material over the electro-optic material; and polymerizing the polymerizable liquid material.

Methods and apparatus for additive manufacturing of three-dimensional objects from polymerizable liquids are described. The methods and apparatus are implemented in the form of a bottom up additive manufacturing apparatus, and in preferred embodiments are implemented in the form of Continuous Liquid Interface Production (or “CLIP”) methods and apparatus. Rotation of at least one of the carrier and the build plate is preferably included, for example to facilitate the filling of the build region with the polymerizable liquid.

A method of forming a three-dimensional object is carried out by: providing a carrier and a pool of immiscible liquid, the pool having a liquid build surface, the carrier and the liquid build surface defining a build region therebetween; filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, wherein the immiscible liquid is immiscible with the polymerizable liquid (in some embodiments wherein the immiscible liquid has a density greater than the polymerizable liquid); irradiating the build region through at least a portion of the pool of immiscible liquid to form a solid polymer from the polymerizable liquid and advancing the carrier away from the liquid build surface to form the three-dimensional object comprised of the solid polymer from the polymerizable liquid. Optionally, but in some embodiments preferably, the method is carried out while also continuously maintaining a gradient of polymerization zone between the liquid build surface and the solid polymer and in contact with each thereof, the gradient of polymerization zone comprising the polymerizable liquid in partially cured form.

A first electro-optic display comprises first and second substrates, and an adhesive layer and a layer of electro-optic material disposed between the first and second substrates, the adhesive layer comprising a mixture of a polymeric adhesive material and a hydroxyl containing polymer having a number average molecular weight not greater than about 5000. A second electro-optic display is similar to the first but has an adhesive layer comprising a thermally-activated cross-linking agent to reduce void growth when the display is subjected to temperature changes. A third electro-optic display, intended for writing with a stylus or similar instrument, is produced by forming a layer of an electro-optic material on an electrode; depositing a substantially solvent-free polymerizable liquid material over the electro-optic material; and polymerizing the polymerizable liquid material.

A composite of an organic monomer compound and an organic or inorganic salt, wherein the organic monomer compound comprises an ion-complexing moiety, a mesogen moiety that expresses a liquid crystalline phase and a polymerizable moiety in its molecular structure, is polymerized at the polymerizable moiety of the organic monomer compound, thereby forming an anisotropic ion-conductive polymeric liquid crystalline composite as a novel material having high ion conductivity characteristic of polymeric electrolytes, anisotropy due to orientation of a liquid crystal, and self-supporting properties characteristic of polymeric compounds.

A method of making a three-dimensional object is carried out by: (a) providing an apparatus comprising a radiation source, a carrier on which the three dimensional object is made, and a movable belt positioned therebetween, the belt having a first surface and an opposite second surface, with the belt comprised of an optically transparent material, and with the belt permeable to a polymerization inhibitor; (b) applying a polymerizable liquid to the first surface of the belt, and contacting the second surface of the belt to the polymerization inhibitor, (c) contacting a portion of the belt first surface having the polymerizable liquid thereon to the carrier or the three dimensional object so that the belt adheres thereto with the polymerizable liquid positioned therebetween; (d) irradiating the polymerizable liquid with actinic radiation through the belt from the radiation source to polymerize the polymerizable liquid positioned therebetween; then (e) optionally separating the belt from the carrier or the three dimensional object; and then (f) repeating steps (b) through (e) until the three dimensional object is completed. Apparatus for carrying out the method is also described.

A method of forming a three-dimensional object, is carried out by: providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, intermittently irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member to form a solid polymer from the polymerizable liquid, and continuously or intermittently advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form the three-dimensional object from the solid polymer. In some embodiments, the filling, irradiating, and/or advancing steps are carried out while also concurrently: (i) continuously maintaining a dead zone of polymerizable liquid in contact with the build surface, and (ii) continuously maintaining a gradient of polymerization zone between the dead zone and the solid polymer and in contact with each thereof, the gradient of polymerization zone comprising the polymerizable liquid in partially cured form.

The present invention relates to a flame-retardant cable comprising a transmission element, a flammable element, and a flame-retardant coating layer surrounding said flammable element, and made of a material based on a polymer obtained from a polymerizable liquid composition containing at least a precursor for said polymer including functional groups selected from acrylates, methacrylates, epoxies, vinyl ethers, allyl ethers, and oxetanes, wherein said material includes at least one phosphorous group.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a gel electrolyte for a lithium-sulfur battery. The method comprises the following steps: 1, preparing an electrolyte lithium salt and an organic solvent into a basic electrolyte; 2, adding a mixed liquid of a polymeric monomer, a cross-linking agent and a solvent into the basic electrolyte to prepare a cross-linking polymeric liquid; 3, adding an initiator into the cross-linking polymeric liquid, performing initiated polymerization at a temperature of 15-45 DEG C for 2-6 hours to finish a preparation process of the gel electrolyte for the lithium-sulfur battery, and injecting the gel electrolyte into the lithium-sulfur battery which is being assembled. According to the preparation method, the gel electrolyte formed after initiated polymerization is put into the lithium-sulfur battery in an assembling process, and the battery has a relatively high capacity retention ratio no matter the battery is under a high temperature condition or a low temperature condition, so that high and low temperature adaptability of the lithium-sulfur battery is improved effectively; a manufacturing process of the battery is improved; and the manufacturing cost of the battery is lowered. The preparation method is suitable for large-scale commercial production of the lithium-sulfur battery.

The present invention is directed toward an injectable, single- or multiple-component polymeric liquid precursor of an in situ-forming, non-absorbable, flexible, and resilient hydrogel or semi-solid that can be used in non-surgical, minimally invasive treatment of herniated disc.