| 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: 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; and R2 is an organic group that is not an ethylenically unsaturated group; R 3 is a non-hydrolyzable group; and n or n+m is an integer of greater than 3. |