MICROSTRUCTURE-BEARING COMPOSITE PLASTIC ARTICLES AND METHOD OF MAKING

摘要

A microstructure-bearing composite plastic article can be superior, both in microstructure and in physical properties, when it is a composite of a tough, flexible substrate, at a surface of which is microstructure formed of a cured oligomeric resin having hard segments and soft segments, which cured resin is substantially confined to the microstructure portion of the composite. Such a composite plastic article can be made by depositing an uncured oligomeric resin composition (16) onto a master negative molding surface in an amount barely sufficient to fill the cavities (14) of the master (10), filling the cavities by moving a bead of the compositions between a substrate (22) and the master, and curing the deposited composition by ultraviolet radiation while keeping the temperature during curing to not more than 50 DEG C above the typical use temperature of the finished composit plastic article.