UV-CURING ACRYLIC RESIN COMPOSITIONS FOR THERMOFORMABLE HARDCOAT APPLICATIONS

The present invention provides ultraviolet (UV) curing acrylic compositions for use in making thermoformable hard coats for curved optical displays comprising: (a) one or more multifunctional (meth)acrylate diluents chosen from (a1) an aliphatic trifunctional (meth)acrylate monomer; (a2) an aliphatic tetrafunctional (meth)acrylate monomer; or (a3) an aliphatic pentafunctional (meth)acrylate monomer; (b) from 3 to 30 wt. %, based on the total weight of monomer solids, of one or more one (meth)acrylate monomer containing an isocyanurate group; (c) from 5 to 40 wt. %, based on the total weight ofmonomer solids, of one or more aliphatic urethane (meth)acrylate functional oligomer having from 6 to 12 (meth)acrylate groups; (d) from 2 to 10 wt. %, based on total monomer solids, of one or more UV radical initiators; and (e) one or more organic solvents for the monomer composition. The composition has a viscosity measured by Anton Parr ASVM 3001 digital viscometer at 50 wt. % solids of from 10 to 200 centipoise (cPs)