The present invention relates to a liquid crystal aligning agent composition for forming a liquid crystal alignment film exhibiting excellent alignment and electrical characteristics and simultaneously having excellent film strength, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display device using the same.

The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment agent composition including a copolymer for liquid crystal alignment agent containing two types of repeating units classified according to the types of diamine-derived functional groups, and a crosslinker compound in which the protecting group having a specific structure was introduced, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display device using the same.

A method of manufacturing a bump structure includes forming a passivation layer over a substrate. A metal pad structure is formed over the substrate, wherein the passivation layer surrounds the metal pad structure. A polyimide layer including a polyimide is formed over the passivation layer and the metal pad structure. A metal bump is formed over the metal pad structure and the polyimide layer. The polyimide is a reaction product of a dianhydride and a diamine, wherein at least one of the dianhydride and the diamine comprises one selected from the group consisting of a cycloalkane, a fused ring, a bicycloalkane, a tricycloalkane, a bicycloalkene, a tricycloalkene, a spiroalkane, and a heterocyclic ring.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an ortho (o)-hydroxy-functionalized diamine, a method of making an o-hydroxy-functionalized diamine, an o-hydroxy-functionalized diamine-based polyimide, a method of making an o-hydroxy-functionalized diamine imide, methods of gas separation, and the like.

A polyimide precursor composition that exhibits excellent tensile strength and breaking elongation, and that provides a film containing an alicyclic polyimide resin; a method for producing a polyimide film using the polyimide precursor composition; and a permanent film that contains an alicyclic polyimide resin and that exhibits excellent tensile strength and breaking elongation. The polyimide precursor composition is a mixture of a resin precursor component which is a polyamic acid including an alicyclic backbone having a predetermined structure, a monomer component that includes an aromatic diamine compound having a predetermined structure or an alicyclic tetracarboxylic acid di-anhydride having a predetermined structure; an imidazole compound having a predetermined structure; and a solvent.

The present disclosure relates to a polyimide precursor composition comprising an antic acid ester oligomer of formula (I):

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The present invention relates to a crosslinking agent compound in which a terminal crosslinkable functional group is capped with a silane-based protecting group, a photosensitive composition including the same, and a photosensitive material using the same.

A polymer-dispersed liquid crystal composition, a preparation method of a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal film and a display panel are provided. The polymer-dispersed liquid crystal composition includes a polymer monomer and a liquid crystal molecule, wherein the polymer monomer is a fluorine-containing polyimide monomer chemically bonded to polyaniline, including a polycondensation unit including a fluorine-containing dianhydride monomer and a fluorine-containing diamine monomer. In the present application, conductive polyaniline is chemically bonded to the fluorine-containing polyimide monomer to increase the conductivity of the polyimide monomer. Further, a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal film having a driving voltage lower than 30 V and having excellent insulating property and radiation resistance is obtained.

The present disclosure provides a diamine compound, which includes a structure represented by formula (I). Formula (I) is defined as in the specification. The present disclosure further provides an amide bond-containing polymer, a polyimide, a polybenzoxazine, a thermosetting resin and a copolymerized thermosetting resin prepared by the diamine compound including the structure represented by formula (I).

A method, composition, and article of manufacture. The method can include depositing a layer, which includes a set of particles and a set of microcapsules encapsulating polymerizing agents. The method can also include fusing particles in selected areas of the layer with a laser, and rupturing at least a portion of microcapsules using at least one energy source selected from the laser, an ultraviolet (UV) radiation source, and a heat source. The composition can include a set of particles and a set of microcapsules, each containing a polymerizing agent encapsulated by a degradable shell. The article of manufacture can include fused layers that include fused particles and pores sealed in reactions with polymerizing agents released from degradable microcapsules.