Provided are a low temperature curing composition, a cured film obtained by curing the composition, and an electronic device comprising the cured film, wherein the composition comprises:

(A) an epoxy group-containing siloxane compound represented by Chemical Formula 1:

(R.sup.1R.sup.2R.sup.3SiO.sub.1/2).sub.M(R.sup.4R.sup.5SiO.sub.2/2).sub.D1(R.sup.6SiO.sub.3/2).sub.T1(R.sup.7R.sup.8SiO.sub.2/2).sub.D2(R.sup.9SiO.sub.3/2).sub.T2 [Chemical Formula 1]

(In Chemical Formula 1, each of R.sup.1 to R.sup.9 is an organic group independently selected from a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group of C1 to C6, a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon group of C6 to C20, a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group of C6 to C20, and an epoxy-substituted monovalent organic group, at least one of R1 to R6 is an epoxy-substituted monovalent organic group, 0M<1, 0D1<1, 0<T1, 0D2<1, 0T2<1, and M+D1+T1+D2+T2=1, wherein each of the structural units represented by M, D1, T1, D2, and T2 can include one or more types of different structural units); and

(B) a cationic thermal initiator for a ring-opening reaction of epoxide, the initiator being a salt of a sulfonium-based cation and a borate-based anion, wherein the compound represented by chemical formula 1 is a combination of a siloxane 1,000 and a siloxane compound of which a number average molecular weight is in a range of 1,000-10,000.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a silicone-modified epoxy resin which produces a cured product having excellent low gas permeability and strength; a composition of the resin; and an epoxy resin cured product obtainable by curing the composition. Disclosed is an epoxy resin represented by the following Formula (1): ##STR00001## wherein R.sup.1 independently represents a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 independently represents a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; R.sup.3 independently represents a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms or a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms; R.sup.4 represents an oxygen atom or a divalent hydrocarbon group having an aliphatic cyclic structure; R.sup.5 represents silicone chain having a norbornane epoxy structure at either end; and X represents an organic group having a norbornane epoxy group.

The present invention provides a hard coating film in which a first hard coating layer and a second hard coating layer are laminated on one side of a substrate film, wherein, AB<0 when the curl values of the first hard coating layer and the second hard coating layer are A and B, respectively. The hard coating film according to the present invention can minimize the occurrence of curling while having excellent bending resistance and scratch resistance.

A piezoelectric composite for use in an ultrasonic transducer and a method of forming the same is provided. The composite has a piezoelectric ceramic component and a hydrophobic polymer component arranged to form a 1-3, 2-2, or 3-3 composite type. In one embodiment, the hydrophobic polymer is selected to polymerize at a moderate temperature.

The present invention relates to an alkoxysilylated epoxy compound, a composite of which exhibits good heat resistance properties, low CTE and high glass transition temperature and not requiring a coupling agent, a composition including the same, a cured product formed of the composition, a use of the cured product, and a method of preparing the epoxy compound having alkoxysilyl group. An epoxy compound having an epoxy group and an alkoxysilyl group, a composition including the epoxy compound, a curing agent, a filler and/or a reaction catalyst, a cured product of the composition, and a use of the composition including an electronic part are provided. In a composite and/or cured product, the epoxy composition forms chemical bonds and exhibits improved heat resistance properties, decreased CTE, and increased glass transition temperature or Tg less. The cured product exhibits good flame retardant property by the introduction of the alkoxysilyl group.

Disclosed are an epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group, a composite of which exhibits good heat resistant properties and/or a cured product of which exhibits good flame retardant properties, a method of preparing the same, a composition comprising the same, and a cured product and a use of the composition. An alkoxysilylated epoxy compound comprising at least one of Chemical Formula S1 substituent and at least two epoxy groups in a core, a method of preparing the epoxy compound by an allylation, a claisen rearrangement, an epoxidation and an alkoxysilylation, an epoxy composition comprising the epoxy compound, and a cured product and a use of the composition are provided. The composite of the disclosed exhibits improved chemical bonding, good heat resistant properties, a low CTE, a high glass transition temperature or Tg-less. The cured product of the composition exhibits good flame retardant properties.

The present invention relates to a resin composition containing components (A), (B), and (C), component (A) being a silicone resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000-500,000 and having constituent units represented by compositional formula (1), ##STR00001##
component (B) being an epoxy resin curing agent, and component (C) being a filler. The present invention is capable of providing a resin film and a resin composition whereby wafers can be molded (wafer molding) in batch fashion, the resin composition having good molding properties with respect to large-diameter thin-film wafers in particular while at the same time imparting low warpage after molding and good wafer-protective ability, the resin composition also facilitating the molding step and being suitable for use in wafer-level packaging.

The present invention provides a polyorganosiloxane compound having a low viscosity, a process for the manufacture of such polyorganosiloxane compounds, polyorganosiloxane compositions comprising said polyorganosiloxane compound and another polyorganosiloxane compound which is different from the polyorganosiloxane compound, aqueous emulsions comprising the polyorganosiloxane compound, and a method of surface treatment using the polyorganosiloxane compound.

An epoxy resin component(s) for a recyclable epoxy resin system is disclosed. The recyclable epoxy resin system comprises an epoxy resin component having a structural Formula I or an epoxy resin component having a structural Formula II and a curing agent. A process(es) for preparing the epoxy resin component having the structural Formula I and the epoxy resin system having the structural Formula II is also disclosed.

A multi-part curable composition includes an A part including a polyoxyalkylene polymer (A) having a reactive silicon group, a (meth)acrylic ester polymer (B) having a reactive silicon group, an epoxy resin curing agent (D) having a tertiary amine moiety, an alicyclic structure-containing amine (E1), and a B part including an epoxy resin (C). Each of the reactive silicon groups of the polymer (A) and polymer (B) are represented by SiR.sup.5.sub.cX.sub.3-c. R.sup.5 is a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, X is a hydroxy group or a hydrolyzable group, and c is 0 or 1. A multi-part curable composition includes an A part including the polymer (A), polymer (B), and an epoxy resin curing agent (D) having a tertiary amine moiety, and a B part including an epoxy resin (C), where either or both of the A and B parts include an amino alcohol compound (E2).