Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a photo-alignable polymer which has excellent coating properties, is capable of suppressing film thickness unevenness, and has excellent upper layer coating properties and good liquid crystal alignment properties after being formed as a layer; a binder composition; a binder layer; an optical laminate; a method for producing an optical laminate; and an image display device. The photo-alignable polymer of an embodiment of the present invention is a photo-alignable polymer having a repeating unit A including a cleavage group capable of decomposing by an action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base to generate a polar group, in which the repeating unit A has the cleavage group in a side chain, has a fluorine atom or a silicon atom on a side closer to a terminal than the cleavage group in the side chain, and the photo-alignable polymer satisfies Condition 1 or Condition 2 shown below. Condition 1: The photo-alignable polymer further has a repeating unit B including a photo-alignable group, in addition to the repeating unit A. Condition 2: The repeating unit A includes a photo-alignable group on a side closer to the main chain than the cleavage group in the side chain.
Abstract:
A composition for preparing an optical functional layer capable of forming an optical film having an excellent surface condition and excellent lamination properties with another layer, includes a liquid crystal compound and a copolymer, and the copolymer includes a constitutional unit corresponding to a fluoroaliphatic group-containing monomer represented by Formula I, and a constitutional unit corresponding to a monomer represented by Formula II. In Formulae I and II, R1, R10, and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms in which at least one carbon atom has a fluorine atom as a substituent, and L represents a divalent linking group constituted by at least one selected from the group consisting of —O—, —(C═O)O—, —O(C═O)—, a divalent chain group, and a divalent aliphatic cyclic group.
Abstract:
An aspect of the present invention relates to method of manufacturing a hard coat film, wherein the hard coat film comprises a plastic substrate and a hard coat layer, the method comprises forming the hard coat layer by subjecting a photopolymerizable hard coating composition to photopolymerization processing, and the photopolymerizable hard coating composition comprises a radical polymerizable compound having two or more radical polymerizable groups selected from the group consisting of acryloyloxy groups, acryloyl groups, methacryloyloxy groups, and methacryloyl groups per molecule, a cationic polymerizable compound, a radical photopolymerization initiator, and a cationic photopolymerization initiator.
Abstract:
To provide a cellulose acylate film having low moisture permeability and low haze, a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display device using the same. A cellulose acylate film comprising at least a cellulose acylate, and a compound represented by the formula (1) below: in the formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or substituent, R2 represents a substituent represented by the formula (2) below; n1 represents an integer of 0 to 4, when n1 is 2 or larger, the plurality of (R1)s may be same with or different from each other; n2 represents an integer of 1 to 5, when n2 is 2 or larger, the plurality of (R2)s may be same with or different from each other.
Abstract:
A cellulose acetate resin composition having a cellulose acetate ether compound and a stabilizer; the cellulose acetate ether compound comprising a specific atomic group, the specific atomic group being introduced into a cellulose acetate through an ether group derived from a hydroxyl group, the specific atomic group being introduced with a substitution degree of 0.01 or more; the cellulose acetate comprising residual hydroxyl group in a substitution degree of 0.3 to 1.0, the stabilizer being at least one selected from the group consisting of a phosphite compound, a hindered phenol compound, a hindered amine compound, and a sulfur compound.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a functional film including a copolymer that contains a repeating unit represented by Formula (I) and a repeating unit represented by Formula (II) shown in the description, or a crosslinked reaction product derived from the copolymer; a polarizing plate having this functional film; and a display device.
Abstract:
A copolymer includes a repeating unit represented by Formula (I); and a repeating unit represented by Formula (II), in Formula (I), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and having at least one fluorine atom as a substituent, or a group including —Si(Ra3)(Ra4)O—; L represents a divalent linking group as defined herein; and Ra3 and Ra4 each independently represent an alkyl group as defined herein, in Formula (II), R10 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group; R11 and R12 may be linked to each other; and X1 represents a divalent linking group.
Abstract:
A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR2—, in which R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar group
Abstract:
A hardcoat film includes a substrate; a hardcoat layer; and an anti-scratch layer, where the hardcoat layer includes a cured product of polyorganosilsesquioxane, the polyorganosilsesquioxane has a siloxane constitutional unit containing a (meth)acryloyl group and a siloxane constitutional unit containing an epoxy group and is represented by the General Formula (1), a film thickness of the anti-scratch layer is 0.05 to 5 μm, and the anti-scratch layer includes a cured product of a compound having two or more (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule, where Ra represents a group containing a (meth)acryloyl group; Rb represents a group containing an epoxy group; Rc represents a monovalent substituent; p, q, and r represent a proportion of Ra, Rb, and Rc in the General Formula (1) respectively; p+q+r is 100; p and q are greater than 0; r is equal to or greater than 0; p/q is 0.01 to 99.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal compound; a photo-alignment compound; and a polymer obtained by polymerizing a monomer having two or more radically polymerizable double bonds and one or more hydroxyl groups.