The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polyester resin or polyester carbonate resin, which has high refractive index, while achieving an excellent balance between heat resistance and low birefringence. A polyester resin or a polyester carbonate resin, which contains repeating units represented by the following formulae (1) and (2), and wherein the ratio of the repeating unit represented by formula (1) to the repeating unit represented by formula (2) is 15:85 to 85:15. (In formula (1), each of rings Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 represents a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon group having 9-20 carbon atoms; each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 independently represents a hydrocarbon group which may contain an aromatic group having 1-12 carbon atoms; each of R.sup.3-R.sup.6 and R.sup.9-R.sup.16 represents a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic or aromatic substituents; each of j, k, r and s independently represent an integer of 0 or more; and each of m, n, p and q independently represents 1 or 2) (In formula (2), each of R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 independently represent a hydrocarbon group which may contain an aromatic group having 1-12 carbon atoms; each of R.sup.9-R.sup.16 and R.sup.19-R.sup.26 represents a hydrogen atoms or an aliphatic or aromatic substituents; and each of r, s, t and u independently represents an integer of 0 or more.)

The present specification relates to a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, a photoresist fluorescent resin composition including the same, and a color conversion film manufactured using the same, a backlight unit and a display apparatus.

A liquid photosensitive ink composition capable of forming a cured product with a high refractive index and applicable to an inkjet method even though the photosensitive ink composition does not include the solvent, or include small amount of the solvent, a cured product of the photosensitive ink composition, a display panel having a film consisting of the cured product, and a method for producing the cured product using the above photosensitive ink composition. In a photosensitive ink composition including a photopolymerizable compound, metal compound particles, and a photopolymerization initiator, a sulfide compound having specific structure and a (meth)acrylate compound having specific structure as the photopolymerizable compound, and at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium oxide particles, barium titanate particles, cerium oxide particles, and zinc sulfide particles, as the metal compound particles are used.

A light control film comprises a light input surface and a light output surface; alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions disposed between the light input surface and the light output surface; and TIR cladding layers. The TIR cladding layer having a refractive index, n.sub.TIR. The transmissive regions alternate between high refractive index transmissive regions having a refractive index, n.sub.2, and low refractive index transmissive regions having a refractive index, n.sub.1. The absorptive regions comprise a core having a refractive index, n.sub.core, adjacent an AR cladding layer; wherein n.sub.1<n.sub.2 and n.sub.TIR<n.sub.2. The TIR cladding layers are adjacent the high refractive index transmissive regions. The cores have an aspect ratio of at least 20. The high refractive index transmissive regions have a wall angle of 6 degrees or less.

A light control film comprises a light input surface and a light output surface; alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions disposed between the light input surface and the light output surface; and TIR cladding layers. The TIR cladding layer having a refractive index, n.sub.TIR. The transmissive regions alternate between high refractive index transmissive regions having a refractive index, n.sub.2, and low refractive index transmissive regions having a refractive index, n.sub.1. The absorptive regions comprise a core having a refractive index, n.sub.core, adjacent an AR cladding layer; wherein n.sub.1<n.sub.2 and n.sub.TIR<n.sub.2. The TIR cladding layers are adjacent the high refractive index transmissive regions. The cores have an aspect ratio of at least 20. The high refractive index transmissive regions have a wall angle of 6 degrees or less.

Provided is a compound represented by General Formula (1)

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in General Formula (1), Ar.sub.1 and Ar.sub.2 independently represent a group selected from the following Formulae,

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A material, article, system and method include a probe composition that includes a hydrophobic portion, a hydrophilic portion, an analyte-binding portion and a fluorophore portion. The analyte-binding portion is configured to bind to an analyte in an aqueous solution. The fluorophore portion is configured to change an optical property of fluorescent light emitted in response to incident excitation light when the probe composition changes between a first state in which the analyte is not bound to the analyte-binding portion and a second state in which the analyte binds to the analyte-binding portion. A material includes the probe composition and a silicone hydrogel substrate having a hydrogel network that allows flow of aqueous solution through the solution and a silicone network that occupies interstices of the hydrogel network. A contact lens having the material enables remote detection of glucose concentration in tear fluid of a subject.

Optical films and stacks include at least one optically diffusive layer. The optically diffusive layer can include a plurality of nanoparticles and a polymeric material bonding the nanoparticles to each other to form a plurality of nanoparticle aggregates defining a plurality of voids therebetween. For substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 650 nm and an infrared wavelength range from about 930 nm to about 970 nm: in the visible wavelength range, the optical film or optically diffusive layer has an average specular transmittance Vs; and in the infrared wavelength range, the optical film or optically diffusive layer has an average total transmittance It and an average specular transmittance Is, Is/It≥0.6, Is/Vs≥2.5.

Optical films and stacks include at least one optically diffusive layer. The optically diffusive layer can include a plurality of nanoparticles and a polymeric material bonding the nanoparticles to each other to form a plurality of nanoparticle aggregates defining a plurality of voids therebetween. For substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 650 nm and an infrared wavelength range from about 930 nm to about 970 nm: in the visible wavelength range, the optical film or optically diffusive layer has an average specular transmittance Vs; and in the infrared wavelength range, the optical film or optically diffusive layer has an average total transmittance It and an average specular transmittance Is, Is/It≥0.6, Is/Vs≥2.5.

A polymerizable composition for an optical material according to the present invention includes a photochromic composition (A), and a polymerizable composition (B) including a bi- or higher functional iso(thio)cyanate compound and a bi- or higher functional active hydrogen compound, in which the photochromic composition (A) is a composition including at least three types of photochromic compounds (i) to (iii), the photochromic compound (i) has a structure including a chromophore a and a monovalent or a divalent organic group including one or more types of a polysiloxane chain or a polyoxyalkylene chain, the photochromic compound (ii) has the chromophore a (which is not the photochromic compound (i)), and the photochromic compound (iii) has a chromophore b different from the chromophore a.