| abstract |
A curable silsesquioxane polymer, a composition including such polymer, an article having a layer disposed thereon that includes the curable polymer and/or the cured polymer, and a method of forming a cured coating, wherein the curable silsesquioxane polymer includes a three-dimensional branched network having the formula: (I), or (II) wherein: the oxygen atom at the * is bonded to another Si atom within the three-dimensional branched network; R is an organic group comprising an ethylenically unsaturated group; R2 is an organic group that is not an ethylenically unsaturated group, and n or n+m is an integer of greater than 3; and the -OH groups are present in an amount of at least 15 wt-% of the polymer. |