Disclosed is a method of preparing polymer film-metal composites and uses of such composites. The metal can be in the form of a nanoparticle or a film. The methods comprise depositing on a surface, a composition comprising: a cationic metal precursor; a polymer film precursor that comprises a plurality of photopolymerizable groups; and a photoreducer-photoinitiator; then irradiating the composition under conditions to simultaneously reduce the cationic metal and polymerize the photopolymerizable groups to obtain the composite on the surface.

Disclosed is a method of preparing polymer film-metal composites and uses of such composites. The metal can be in the form of a nanoparticle or a film. The methods comprise depositing on a surface, a composition comprising: a cationic metal precursor; a polymer film precursor that comprises a plurality of photopolymerizable groups; and a photoreducer-photoinitiator; then irradiating the composition under conditions to simultaneously reduce the cationic metal and polymerize the photopolymerizable groups to obtain the composite on the surface.

The present invention aims to provide a polyvinyl acetal resin composition that is excellent in thermal stability and moldable by an extrusion method and can exhibit a high storage modulus even under high temperature, an adhesive sheet prepared from the polyvinyl acetal resin composition, an interlayer filling material for a touch panel prepared from the polyvinyl acetal resin composition, and a laminate produced using the interlayer filling material for a touch panel. The present invention relates to a polyvinyl acetal resin composition containing: a polyvinyl acetal; a photoradical polymerization initiator; and a monomer or oligomer having a radical polymerizable double bond.

The present invention aims to provide a polyvinyl acetal resin composition that is excellent in thermal stability and moldable by an extrusion method and can exhibit a high storage modulus even under high temperature, an adhesive sheet prepared from the polyvinyl acetal resin composition, an interlayer filling material for a touch panel prepared from the polyvinyl acetal resin composition, and a laminate produced using the interlayer filling material for a touch panel. The present invention relates to a polyvinyl acetal resin composition containing: a polyvinyl acetal; a photoradical polymerization initiator; and a monomer or oligomer having a radical polymerizable double bond.

A composite film may include a first transparent substrate and a first anti-reflective coating overlying a first surface of the first transparent substrate. The first anti-reflective coating may include a first UV curable acrylate binder, a photo initiator component, and silica nanoparticles dispersed within the first anti-reflective coating. The first anti-reflective coating may further include a ratio AC1.sub.SiO2/AC1.sub.B of at least about 0.01 and not greater than about 1.3. The composite film may further have a VLT of at least about 93.0% and a haze value of not greater than about 3%.

A composite film may include a first transparent substrate and a first anti-reflective coating overlying a first surface of the first transparent substrate. The first anti-reflective coating may include a first UV curable acrylate binder, a photo initiator component, and silica nanoparticles dispersed within the first anti-reflective coating. The first anti-reflective coating may further include a ratio AC1.sub.SiO2/AC1.sub.B of at least about 0.01 and not greater than about 1.3. The composite film may further have a VLT of at least about 93.0% and a haze value of not greater than about 3%.

A hard coating composition includes a silica-silsesquioxane-based resin, a photoinitiator, and a diluting monomer. The diluting monomer includes at least one of a 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate monomer, a tetrahydrofurfuryl acrylic acid monomer, an isobornyl acrylate monomer, a cyclic trimethylolpropane formal acrylate monomer, and an acryloylmorpholine monomer.

Provided are a curable composition that provides a cured film excellent in antifogging properties, an antifogging coating agent containing the composition, and a cured film formed from a cured product of the composition. A curable composition according to an embodiment of the invention contains a (meth)acrylate compound (A), and a surfactant (B), wherein the component (A) contains a (meth)acrylate compound (A1) having an HLB value of 15.2 or more, and the content of the component (B) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the component (A) is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less.

Disclosed is a modified biopolymer having the formula A-XY wherein: (a) A is a starting material selected from the group consisting of a polysaccharide, a protein and a cellulose; (b) X is a first moiety bearing a functionality co-reactive with A; (c) Y is a second moiety covalently bound to X, capable of undergoing free radical polymerization and bearing at least two ethylenically unsaturated functional groups; (d) the starting material A and the first moiety X are linked covalently through linkages selected from the group consisting of an ester, an amide, a urethane, a urea, a sulfonate ester, a phosphate ester and an ether; and (e) a degree of substitution of the starting material A with the first moiety X is less than 0.5 but more than 0.1. Compositions including the modified biopolymer and methods for making them are also disclosed.

Disclosed is a modified biopolymer having the formula A-XY wherein: (a) A is a starting material selected from the group consisting of a polysaccharide, a protein and a cellulose; (b) X is a first moiety bearing a functionality co-reactive with A; (c) Y is a second moiety covalently bound to X, capable of undergoing free radical polymerization and bearing at least two ethylenically unsaturated functional groups; (d) the starting material A and the first moiety X are linked covalently through linkages selected from the group consisting of an ester, an amide, a urethane, a urea, a sulfonate ester, a phosphate ester and an ether; and (e) a degree of substitution of the starting material A with the first moiety X is less than 0.5 but more than 0.1. Compositions including the modified biopolymer and methods for making them are also disclosed.