A battery case including a container configured to accommodate an electrode assembly, wherein the container includes a bottom wall and a plurality of side walls, the bottom wall and the plurality of side walls are integrated to have an open side opposed to the bottom wall and to provide a space for accommodating the electrode assembly, wherein at least one of the bottom wall or the plurality of side walls includes a liquid crystal aromatic polymer, at least a portion of the liquid crystal aromatic polymer includes an aliphatic organic group at one terminal end, and the battery case has a WVTR at a thickness of about 1 mm at about 38 C. and a relative humidity of about 100% of less than about 0.07 g/m.sup.2/day and an impact strength of greater than or equal to about 20 KJ/m.sup.2, a battery including the battery case, and a battery module.

The present invention is related to the filed of optically variable security elements comprising a region based on a single cured ink comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal polymer, said region having at least two, preferably at least three, patterns exhibiting, at at least one viewing angle, a different CIE (1976) color index parameter and/or a different position of the selective reflection band for protecting security documents against counterfeiting and/or illegal reproduction. In particular, the present invention relates to processes for manufacturing said features, when the processes comprises the steps of a) applying on a substrate by a rotogravure process with the use of a gravure cylinder having at least two, preferably at least three, different engravings a single cholesteric liquid crystal precursor composition, b) heating the applied composition to bring said composition to a cholesteric liquid crystal state, and c) curing the composition so as to form the region based on a single cured ink comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal polymer.

A liquid crystalline polyester resin composition for use in camera modules includes 20 to 45 parts by weight of spherical silica particles (B) having an average particle diameter of 15 m or more and less than 30 m in 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystalline polyester resin (A). A polyamide resin composition with which a camera module exhibiting excellent low dust forming property, toughness and impact strength can be obtained.

The invention provides a method for enhancing adhesion strength to an adhesive without any loss of mechanical strength of a resin molded article. In particular, the invention provides a method for enhancing adhesion strength of a resin molded article made of a resin composition including a liquid crystal polymer resin and an inorganic filling agent, to an adhesive, in which an amorphous resin is further compounded into the resin composition, and an amount of compounding of the liquid crystal polymer resin, an amount of compounding of the amorphous resin, and an amount of compounding of the inorganic filling agent are respectively regulated to 50-99 parts by mass, 1-50 parts by mass, and 0.1-120 parts by mass, based on 100 parts by mass in total of the liquid crystal polymer resin and the amorphous resin.

A camera module containing a molded part (e.g., generally planar base, lens barrel mounted on the base, etc.) that is formed form a polymer composition is provided. The polymer composition includes a liquid crystalline polymer and inorganic particles that have a hardness value of about 2.5 or more based on the Mohs hardness scale.

The present application relates to a circularly polarizing plate and a use thereof. The present application can provide a circularly polarizing plate, which can be applied to a display device such as an organic light emitting display device to minimize blocking of light in the visible light region affecting image quality while blocking harmful ultraviolet rays appropriately and also has excellent durability. In addition, the present application can provide a circularly polarizing plate having excellent compensation characteristics at a viewing angle while ensuring process simplification and cost competitiveness.

A method of making a shape-programmable liquid crystal elastomer. The method includes preparing an alignment cell having a surface programmed with a plurality of domains. A cavity of the alignment cell is filled with a monomer solution. The monomers of the monomer solution are configured to align to the surface of the alignment cell. The aligned monomers are polymerized by Michael Addition. The polymerized monomers are then cross-linked to form a cross-linked liquid crystal elastomer. The cross-linking traps monomer alignment into a plurality of voxels with each voxel having a director orientation.

A circularly polarized light separating film including a resin layer containing a polymer of a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, wherein the polymerizable liquid crystal compound contains a main-chain mesogen and a side-chain mesogen bonded to the main-chain mesogen in a molecule of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, and the polymer has cholesteric regularity.

Disclosed is a substrate which has thereon a marking or layer comprising a salt-free cured chiral liquid crystal precursor composition which comprises one or more nematic compounds A and one or more chiral dopant compounds B which are capable of giving rise to a cholesteric state of the chiral liquid crystal precursor composition and are of formula (I) as set forth herein. A modifying resin made from one or more polymerizable monomers comprising an average of at least one ether functionality per polymerizable group is disposed between the substrate and the marking or layer and in contact with the marking or layer in one or more areas thereof. The modifying resin changes the position of a selective reflection band exhibited by the cured chiral liquid crystal precursor composition on the substrate in the one or more areas.

The present invention relates to a composition for liquid crystal polymer synthesis having excellent insulation properties, heat resistance, and processability, a liquid crystal polymer for electrical/electronic products, a polymer resin composition, and a molded product using the same.