LASER-INDUCED 3-DIMENSIONAL PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION USING VISIBLE INITIATORS AND UV CROSS-LINKING BY PHOTOSENSITIVE COMONOMERS

In this paper, we report dye-sensitized laser-induced homo- and copolymerization of oxime acrylates with polyfunctional acrylates followed by UV cross-linking of the residual acyloxyimino pendant groups. The primary objectives were to study the photopolymerizability of various oxime acrylates with and without conventional acrylates with visible initiators using an argon ion laser and to investigate the photocross-linking of pendant groups of the resulting homo- and copolymers.