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Preparation and Properties of UV Curable Hard Coating Materials on PET

자외선 경화형 고경도 PET 필름의 제조 및 특성

  • Kim, Hyunjoon (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyonggi University)
  • 김현준 (경기대학교 화학공학과)
  • Received : 2014.02.19
  • Accepted : 2014.03.20
  • Published : 2014.03.31
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Abstract

UV curable transparent hard coating materials have been developed to improve the mechanical and optical properties of PET substrate. The coating materials were synthesized using various urethane acrylate oligomers, monomers, photo initiators, and leveling agents. The materials were coated on PET substrates and UV cured. The hard coated PET films were shown to have the good scratch resistance and transparency. When the urethane acrylate oligomer with more functional groups was introduced into the coating solution, the mechanical and optical properties were improved. However the higher concentration of 9-functional oligomer resulted in the decrease of workability. The addition of trimethylolpropane ethoxylate$(EO/OH)_9$ triacrylate(TMPETA) to coating solution improved the workability and properties. As a result, the UV cured film from the formulation of urethane acrylate oligomer with 9-functional groups, TMPETA as a monomer, IRACURE 754 as a photo initiator and BYK-340 as a leveling agent showed the best mechanical and optical properties in this study.

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