Expand your design options in your formulation toolbox

Specialty methacrylate monomers and oligomers are used to improve the functionality and performance of end products. Be it a hard or soft, hydrophobic or hydrophilic, or extreme environmental resistance, the specialty methacrylates offer functionality, viscosity reduction and flexibility to solve specific application and performance challenges.
To respond to the growing demand in structural adhesives, 3D printing, consumer electronics and composites or engineered plastics, allnex is committed to develop and innovate with a focus on performance and sustainability attributes.

Methacrylates, highlighted products:

EBECRYL® TMPTMA: Trimethylolpropane Tri-methacrylate, CAS N°: 3290-92-4, is a tri-functional monomer that displays high reactivity and hardness while being low viscous and hydrophobic. TMPTMA is also excellent in outdoor weatherability
 

• High hardness

• Low viscous and hydrophobic

• Excellent in outdoor weatherability

EBECRYL® PEG200DMA: Polyethylene Glycol 200 Di-methacrylate, CAS N°: 25852-47-5, is a di-functional monomer that is aliphatic, hydrophilic and flexible. The low viscous PEGDMA acts as co-monomer to improve mechanical properties and chemical resistance.
 

• Aliphatic

• Hydrophilic

• Very flexible

Different properties – a multitude of uses:

The versatility of the methacrylate backbone chemistry opens up a variety of chemical and physical properties that add performance in different application fields. The flexible and low viscous EBECRYL® PEG200DMA is the material of choice for anaerobic adhesives or liquid cure in place gaskets. While the high crosslink dense EBECRYL® TMPTMA is suitable as hardener in PVC plastisols or as crosslinker in rubber vulcanization or MMA based composite marble.

In addition, our EBECRYL® TMPTMA (or trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate) and EBECRYL® PEG200DMA (or triethyleneglycol dimethacrylate) are preferred diluting monomers for radical curing systems such as peroxide cured formulations. Next to UV/EB curing where typically the acrylate analogues are preferred, TMPTMA and PEGDMA are excelling in peroxide based crosslinking. 

Why use MFMAs in a nutshell?

In radical curing, such as peroxide curing, methacrylates are a preferred technology. In general, methacrylates are thermally resistant, harder, less toxic and more abrasion resistant. Multi-functional methacrylates are low viscous, stable molecules with potentially very high or low Tg (backbone design dependent).