Patent ID: 8835583

Claim:
A composition comprising an actinic radiation curable or thermally curable polyorganosiloxane ionomer having the general formula: M 1 a M 2 b M 3 c D 1 d D 2 e D 3 f T 1 g T 2 h T 3 i Q j (I) wherein: M 1 =R 1 R 2 R 3 SiO 1/2 M 2 =R 4 R 5 R 6 SiO 1/2 M 3 =R 7 R 8 R 9 SiO 1/2 D 1 =R 10 R 11 SiO 2/2 D 2 =R 12 R 13 SiO 2/2 D 3 =R 14 R 15 SiO 2/2 T 1 =R 16 SiO 3/2 T 2 =R 17 SiO 3/2 Q=SiO 4/2 wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 5 , R 6 , R 8 , R 9 , R 11 , R 13 , R 15 are aliphatic, aromatic or fluoro monovalent hydrocarbon having from 1 to 60 carbon atoms, wherein R 3 , R 10 , R 16 are independently selected from —CH 2 CH(R′)(C n H 2 n)—O—(C 2 H 4 O) o —(C 3 H 6 O) p —(C 4 H 8 O) q —R′, wherein subscript n is zero or positive and has a value in the range of 0 to 6, subscripts o, p and q are zero or positive and independently selected from a value in the range of 0 to 100, subject to the limitation that the sum of o+p+q is greater than or equal to 1, R′ is hydrogen or an aliphatic, aromatic or fluoro hydrocarbon having from 1 to 60 carbon atoms, wherein R 4 , R 12 , R 17 are selected from (i) or (ii): (i) monovalent radical-bearing ion-pairs, substantially free of free radical polymerizable moieties, and having the formula (II) A-I x− M n y+ (II); where A is a spacing group selected from a divalent hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy group, where I is an ionic group selected from the group consisting of sulfonate —SO 3 − , sulfate —OSO 3 − , carboxylate —COO − , phosphonate —PO 3 2− and phosphate —OPO 3 2− groups, where M is hydrogen or a cation independently selected from alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, transition metals, metals, metal complexes, quaternary ammonium groups, phosphonium groups, hydrocarbon cations, alkyl cations, organic cations, and cationic polymers, (ii) zwitterions having the formula (III): —R′—NR″ 2 + —R′″—I (III) where R′ is a divalent hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to about 60 carbon atoms, R″ is a monovalent hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to about 60 carbon atoms, and where R′″ is divalent hydrocarbon radical containing from 2 to about 20 carbon atoms, and, I is an ionic group selected from the group consisting of sulfonate —SO 3 − , sulfate —OSO 3 − , carboxylate —COO − , phosphonate —PO 3 2− and phosphate —OPO 3 2− groups; and wherein R 7 , R 14 , R 18 are independently selected from the group consisting of unsaturated monovalent radicals and epoxy group containing radicals and are substantially free from ionic moieties; and where subscript n and superscript y are independently from 1 to 6 and x is the product of n times y, where the subscript a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j are zero or positive subject to the following provisos: the sum a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 6000, d+e+f is at least l, a+d+g is greater than zero, b+e+h is greater than zero, c+f+i is greater than zero and a+b+c is greater than zero.