Patent ID: 8048949

Claim:
A composition curable to form a composite resin comprising a resin binder and a filler material, wherein the resin binder comprises a mixture of: a cross-linking polymer compound, at least one fatty acid monomer selected from the group consisting of: wherein each of R, R 2 and R 4 contain 2-30 carbon atoms and are selected from the group consisting of a saturated alkyl residue, an unsaturated alkyl residue; an acetylenic alkyl residue, a hydroxy alkyl residue, a carboxylic acid alkyl residue, a divinyl ether alkyl residue, a sulfur-containing alkyl residue, an amide alkyl residue, a methoxy alkyl residue, a keto alkyl residue, a halogenated alkyl residue, a branched methoxy alkyl residue, a branched hydroxy alkyl residue, an epoxy alkyl residue, a fatty acyl-CoA alkyl residue, a cyclopropane alkyl residue, a cyclopentenyl alkyl residue, a cyclohexyl alkyl residue, a furanoid alkyl residue, a phenylalkanoic alkyl residue, and a lipoic alkyl residue; R 1 is a fatty acid segment having a backbone length of 1-25 carbon atoms selected from the group consisting of a saturated alkylene segment, an unsaturated alkylene segment; an acetylenic alkylene segment, a hydroxy alkylene segment, a divinyl ether alkylene segment, a sulfur-containing alkylene segment, an amide alkylene segment, a methoxy alkylene segment, a keto alkylene segment, a halogenated alkylene segment, a branched methoxy alkylene segment, a branched hydroxyl alkylene segment, an epoxy alkylene segment, a fatty acyl-CoA alkylene segment, a cyclopropane alkylene segment, a cyclopentenyl alkylene segment, a cyclohexyl alkylene segment, a furanoid alkylene segment, a phenylalkanoic alkyl segment, and a lipoic alkylene segment; R 3 is selected from the group consisting of H and an alkyl residue having 1-10 carbon atoms; and R 5 is an unsaturated cyclic alkyl residue having 10-50 carbon atoms optionally substituted with a group selected from R 1 and R 4 ; and optionally a volatile monomer, wherein the curable composition contains not more than 15% by weight of the volatile monomer, based on the total weight of the curable composition.