The present disclosure relates to a hologram recording medium having one surface with a higher surface energy than a polymer resin layer containing at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of triacetyl cellulose, alicyclic olefin polymer and polyethylene terephthalate, a hologram recording medium wherein the surface energy of any one surface is 50 mN/m or more, and an optical element comprising the hologram medium.

A holographic recording medium composition comprising component (e): a compound having an isocyanate group or an isocyanate-reactive functional group and further having a nitroxyl radical group, wherein component (e) contains component (e-1) below: component (e-1): a compound having a heterobicyclic ring structure or a heterotricyclic ring structure, the heterobicyclic ring structure or the heterotricyclic ring structure being obtained by replacing a carbon atom in a bicyclic ring structure or a tricyclic ring structure by the nitroxyl radical group.

A holographic recording medium composition contains an isocyanate group-containing compound (component (a-1)), an isocyanate-reactive functional group-containing compound (component (b-1)), a polymerizable monomer (component (c-1)), a photopolymerization initiator (component (d-1)), and a stable nitroxyl radical group-containing compound (component (e-1)). A ratio of the total weight of a propylene glycol unit and a tetramethylene glycol unit that are contained in the component (b-1) to the total weight of the component (a-1) and the component (b-1) is 30% or less.

Provided is a photopolymer composition for hologram recording comprising: a polymer matrix or a precursor thereof; a dye including a compound of the following Chemical Formula 1; a photoreactive monomer; and a photoinitiator,

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The present disclosure relates to a photopolymer composition, and more particularly, to a compound having a novel structure, a photopolymer composition including the compound as a dye, a hologram recording medium produced from the photopolymer composition, an optical element including the hologram recording medium, and a holographic recording method using the photopolymer composition.

The invention relates to a process for producing a layer construction with adhesive-free bonding, to a layer structure comprising an exposed photopolymer layer B and a substrate layer C of (co)polycarbonate, to a sealed optical medium comprising the layer structure, and to an optical display and a security document comprising the sealed optical medium.

The present disclosure relates in one aspect to methods of preparing non-homogeneous polymer materials wherein light is used to control structure and/or composition. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods for creating gradient index optical elements including holographic elements.

The present disclosure is to provide a photopolymer composition including a polymer matrix or a precursor thereof including a reaction product of a reactive isocyanate compound having a hydrogen bonding functional group capable of forming multiple hydrogen bonds and at least one isocyanate group, and a polyol having at least two hydroxyl groups; a photoreactive monomer; and a photoinitiator, a hologram recording medium produced from the photopolymer composition, an optical element including the photopolymer composition and a holographic recording method using the photopolymer composition.

A photocurable resin composition according to the present invention contains an anionic-group-containing photosensitive resin comprising a photosensitive urethane resin, a photopolymerization initiator and a thermal curing agent, wherein the photosensitive urethane resin is produced by reacting a raw material mixture containing (A) a polyol having at least an ester bond and also having an unsaturated bond at least in the main chain thereof, (B) a compound having at least one active-hydrogen-containing group and at least one anionic group in the molecule thereof, (C) a polyisocyanate and (D) a compound having at least one active-hydrogen-containing group and an unsaturated bond group in the molecule thereof, and the photosensitive urethane resin has an ester bond and an unsaturated bond in the main chain in the same molecule, wherein at least one of a side chain and a terminal has an anionic group and a side chain has an unsaturated bond group.

A composition includes a compound represented by Formula (1) and a pigment. In Formula (1), R.sup.1 represents an (m+n)-valent linking group, P.sup.1 represents a polymer chain which has a polyester repeating unit in a main chain, and of which a weight-average molecular weight is 1000 or more, P.sup.2 represents a polymer chain which is different from P.sup.1 and has a repeating unit derived from a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bonding group in a main chain, m represents a number of 1 to 9, n represents a number of 1 to 9, and m+n satisfies 4 to 18.

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