Patent ID: 8772422

Claim:
A polymer composite composition comprising: (a) at least one silicone ionomer with 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 T 3 =R 18 SiO 3/2 Q=SiO 4/2 where R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 5 , R 6 , R 8 , R 9 , R 10 , R 11 , R 13 , R 15 , R 16 are aliphatic, aromatic or fluoro containing monovalent hydrocarbon radicals containing from 1 to about 60 carbon atoms; where R 4 , R 12 , R 17 are monovalent radical bearing ion-pairs and have 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 sulfonate —SO 3 − , sulfate —OSO 3 − , carboxylate —COO − , phosphonate —PO 3 2− and phosphate —OPO 3 2- group, where M is hydrogen or a cation independently selected from alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, transition metals, rare earth metals, metals, metal complexes, quaternary ammonium and phosphonium groups, organic cations, alkyl cations, cationic hydrocarbons and cationic polymers; or, zwitterions having the formula (III): —R′—NR″ 2 + —R′″—I (III) where R′ is a divalent hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms, where R″ is monovalent hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms and where R′″ is divalent hydrocarbon radical containing from 2 to about 20 carbon atoms; where I is as defined above and, where R 7 , R 14 and R 18 are each independently monovalent radicals selected from —OR 20 , hydrogen, unsaturated monovalent radicals, monovalent epoxy group-containing radicals, monovalent sulfur atom-containing radicals, monovalent organosilane groups and monovalent hydroxyl group containing radicals, and a monovalent hydrocarbon containing one or more of a halogen moiety, a carboxylate moiety, an imine moiety, an isocyanate moiety, an amide moiety, a nitrile moiety, or a tertiary amine moiety containing other than alkyl groups moiety, where R 20 is hydrogen or a monovalent hydrocarbon radical containing from 2 to about 60 carbon atoms, where superscripts x and y are independently from 1 to 6 and x is a product of n and y, where the subscript a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j are zero or positive subject to the following limitations: 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, b+e+h is greater than zero and d+e+f is at least 1, and, (b) one or more monomer(s), polymer(s), prepolymer(s) or combinations thereof, wherein said silicone ionomer is capable of non-covalent crosslinking through the formation of ionic aggregates and of forming a network interpenetrated with the monomer(s), polymer(s), prepolymer(s) and/or their combinations.