Provided is a polarizer-forming composition from which a polarizer with a high degree of alignment and excellent heat resistance can be formed, a polarizer, and an image display device. The polarizer-forming composition includes a liquid crystal compound, and a dichroic material, in which the liquid crystal compound is a polymer liquid crystal compound, and a content of a component having a number average molecular weight of 1000 or less which is contained in the polymer liquid crystal compound is in a range of 0.10% to 5.0% by mass.

The present invention is to provide a laminated glass having excellent impact resistance and a projection image display system. The laminated glass of the present invention includes a first glass plate, an alignment film containing a vinyl alcohol resin, a retardation layer formed of a composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a compound represented by Formula (1), a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a second glass plate in this order.

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A liquid crystal composition with which a light absorption anisotropic film having a high alignment degree can be formed. The light absorption anisotropic film is used with the liquid crystal composition, a laminate, and an image display device. The liquid crystal composition contains a linear polymer liquid crystalline compound having a repeating unit; a low-molecular-weight liquid crystalline compound having a maximum absorption wavelength of 390 nm or less in a solution; and a dichroic substance.

A light absorption anisotropic film, an optical film, and a liquid crystal display device, with less defects and a high alignment degree even when the concentration of a dichroic substance is increased. The light absorption anisotropic film is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound, a dichroic substance represented by Formula (C-1), a dichroic substance represented by Formula (C-2), in which a total content of the dichroic substances represented by Formula (C-1) and Formula (C-2) is 4.5% by mass or greater with respect to a total mass of a solid content of the liquid crystal composition, and the liquid crystal compound is vertically aligned. When R.sup.a1 and R.sup.a2 represent the same group, —N(R.sup.b11)(R.sup.b12) and —N(R.sup.b21)(R.sup.b22) are groups different from each other. When R.sup.a1 and R.sup.a2 represent different groups, —N(R.sup.b11)(R.sup.b12) and —N(R.sup.b21)(R.sup.b22) may be groups that are the same as or different from each other.

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An object of the present invention is to provide a binder composition in which air unevenness is suppressed and which has excellent upper layer coating properties after being formed as a layer, a compound, a binder layer, an optical laminate, an optical laminate manufacturing method, and an image display device. The binder composition of the present invention is a binder composition containing a binder and a compound having a group represented by Formula (B1) or (B2).

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In Formulae (B1) and (B2), Z represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having a fluorine atom or an organosiloxane group.

Provided is a polarizer having a high degree of alignment and an image display device including the polarizer. The polarizer is formed of a polarizer-forming composition containing a polymer liquid crystal compound and a dichroic material, in which the polymer liquid crystal compound is a thermotropic liquid crystal and a crystalline polymer, and the polymer liquid crystal compound and the dichroic material are horizontally aligned.

An ionic liquid crystal elastomer composition includes a liquid crystal elastomer; and an ionic liquid.

The invention relates to a polymerizable LC material comprising one or more reactive mesogenic compounds, one or more chiral compounds and one or more compounds of formula I,

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wherein the individual radicals have one of the meaning as given in the claims. Furthermore, the present invention relates also to a method for its preparation, a polymer film with improved thermal and UV stability obtainable from a corresponding polymerizable LC material, to a method of preparation of such polymer film, and to the use of such polymer film and said polymerizable LC material in optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.

Provided are a decorative material including a pressure sensitive adhesive layer and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer in contact with the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, in which, in the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, a content of a compound having a molecular weight of 10,000 or less per unit volume of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is less than 44 mg/cm.sup.3; and applications thereof.

Provided is a polarizer having a high degree of alignment and an image display device including the polarizer. The polarizer is formed of a polarizer-forming composition containing a polymer liquid crystal compound and a dichroic material, in which the polymer liquid crystal compound is a thermotropic liquid crystal and a crystalline polymer, and the polymer liquid crystal compound and the dichroic material are horizontally aligned.