Urea-urethane-acrylate radiation curable coating compositions and methods of making same

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Urea-linked urethane-modified acrylate-capped resins provide radiation curable coating compositions of exceptional durability and flexibility and which are essentially free of volatile solvents. These resins, typically produced by controlled addition of water to an isocyanato-terminated urethane- or thiocarbamate-containing prepolymer moiety to form an intermediate which is reacted with a hydroxyl-containing acrylic monomer that furnishes ethylenic unsaturation crosslinking sites to the resin, are further characterized by the resin composition substantially comprising molecules wherein the urea group has directly adjacent radicals derived from the prepolymer moiety.