A film-forming composition that contains a tricarbonyl-benzene hyperbranched-polymer cross-linker and a triazine-containing hyperbranch, as shown for example in the formula, can form a thin film that excels in terms of hardness and heat tolerance and exhibits a reduced decrease in index of refraction despite the addition of the cross-linker. ##STR00001##

Polymer blend comprising 95 to 100% of a component A) and 0 to 5% of additives, where A) is consisting of polymers A1 ) to A4): A1 ) 50 to 75% of a star shaped block copolymer A1 which comprises at least 2 terminal vinylaromatic hard blocks S and diene soft blocks B, where the proportion of the hard blocks S is from 65 to 90%, and Mn of block S is 35000 to 200000; A2) 5 to 15% of block copolymer A2 which comprises 2 terminal vinylaromatic hard blocks S1 and S2 and random copolymer blocks (B/S) consisting of 20 to 60% vinylaromatic monomers, and 80 to 40% dienes where the proportion of blocks S1 and S2 is 40 to 60%; and Mn of blocks S1 is 35000 to 200000, and Mn of blocks S2 is 5000 to 30000 and the molar S1/S2 ratio is 1:0.5 to 1:10; A3) 3 to 10% of an block copolymer A3 built up from vinylaromatic hard blocks S and from random soft blocks B/S consisting of 60 to 30% vinylaromatic monomers and 40 to 70% dienes, where the diene content is less than 50% and the proportion of the soft phase is at least 60%; and A4) 10 to 35% polystyrene A4; whereby the ratio of A1 ) to A2) to A3) is from 7 : [1.2 to 1.9] : [0.5 to 12], have particular mechanical properties.

The invention provides active energy ray curable compositions which exhibit good curability with active energy rays and which have a low viscosity to attain excellent application properties when applied as materials such as adhesives or coatings onto substrates and can give highly flexible cured products upon irradiation with active energy rays. An active energy ray curable composition includes a (meth)acrylic triblock copolymer (A) including a (meth)acrylic polymer block(s) (aA) having an active energy ray curable group containing a partial structure represented by the following general formula (1), and a (meth)acrylic polymer block(s) (bA) having no active energy ray curable groups, and a (meth)acrylic diblock copolymer (B) including a (meth)acrylic polymer block (aB) having an active energy ray curable group containing a partial structure represented by the following general formula (1), and a (meth)acrylic polymer block (bB) having no active energy ray curable groups, the composition having a ratio of Mn (bB)/Mn (bA) in the range of 0.2 to 2.0 wherein Mn (bB) is the number average molecular weight of the (meth)acrylic polymer block (bB) present in the (meth)acrylic diblock copolymer (B), and Mn (bA) is the number average molecular weight of the (meth)acrylic polymer block (bA) present in the (meth)acrylic triblock copolymer (A).

##STR00001## (In the formula, R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.)

A resin composition suitable for an optical compensation film, an optical compensation film using the same, which is excellent in the retardation characteristics and wavelength dispersion characteristics, and a production method of an optical compensation film. A resin composition containing, as resin components, from 30 to 99 wt % of a cellulose-based resin represented by the following formula (1) and from 1 to 70 wt % of a cinnamic acid ester copolymer:

##STR00001## where each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently represents hydrogen or a substituent having a carbon number of 1 to 12.

An ionic conductive, stretchable, and flexible transparent material includes silk fibroin, a nanomaterial, and an electrolyte. The material can be recycled. A flexible surface capacitive touch panel and a flexible motion sensor can both be based on the ionic conductive, stretchable, and flexible transparent material. The ionic conductive, stretchable, and flexible transparent material shows many desirable properties, such as a good crystallinity, transparency, mechanical strength, recyclability, optical transparency, and electrical sensitivity. The material shows chemical and thermal stability, in addition to excellent dimensional stability.

The present invention provides a conductive polymer composite including: (A) a π-conjugated polymer, and (B) a dopant polymer which contains a repeating unit “a” shown by the following general formula (1) and has a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 500,000. There can be provided a conductive polymer composite that has excellent filterability and film-formability by spin coating, and also can form a conductive film having high transparency and flatness when the film is formed therefrom.

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A block copolymer composition with a good balance of physical properties suitable for various types of packaging such as food product containers, beverage containers, industrial containers and blister packs, having excellent transparency, gloss, strength, rigidity and formability, having excellent anti-blocking properties and anti-sticking properties, and excelling in the aforementioned properties even when used in mixture with vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon-type polymers is offered. A block copolymer composition of a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a conjugated diene, wherein a block copolymer component (I) having a molecular weight peak in the range of molecular weight 150,000 to 300,000 and comprising tapered blocks has a conjugated diene content of 10 to 20 mass %; a block copolymer component (II) having a molecular weight peak in the range of molecular weight 50,000 to 140,000 and comprising tapered blocks has a conjugated diene content of 30 to 50 mass %; and a ratio (I)/(II) between molecular weight peak areas occupied by block copolymer component (I) and block copolymer component (II) in the block copolymer composition is 20/80 to 80/20.

Disclosed are ethylene polymer compositions containing a homogeneously-branched first ethylene polymer component and 15-35 wt. % of a homogeneously-branched second ethylene polymer component of higher density than the first ethylene polymer component. The ethylene polymer composition can be characterized by a density from 0.912 to 0.925 g/cm.sup.3, a ratio of Mw/Mn from 2 to 5, a melt index less than 2 g/10 min, and a CY-a parameter at 190° C. from 0.35 to 0.7. These polymer compositions have the excellent dart impact strength and optical properties of a metallocene-catalyzed LLDPE, but with improved machine direction tear resistance, and can be used in blown film and other end-use applications. Further, methods for improving film Elmendorf tear strength also are described.

The present invention relates to a polyamide resin in which an average particle size of individual crystals measured by a small-angle X-ray scattering apparatus is 8.0 nm or less, and a UV-cut slope (dT/dλ) measured for a specimen having a thickness of 45 μm or more and 55 μm or less according to ASTM E424 is 0.25 or more in the range of 10% to 80% transmittance, and a polymer film and resin laminate using the same. In addition, the present invention relates to a polyamide resin with characteristic profile in which a small-angle X-ray scattering function obtained by irradiating the polyamide resin with X-rays having an energy of 10 KeV to 20 KeV using a small-angle X-ray scattering apparatus satisfies Equation 1 and Equation 2, and a polymer film and resin laminate using the same.

Transparent polymeric hardcoats with antimicrobial efficacy are described along with compositions for preparing the hardcoats. The transparent polymeric hardcoats at appropriate thicknesses can provide optical properties of high optical transmission, low haze and high clarity, and are suitable for use in electronic displays designed for commercial applications intended for high consumer use. Touch screens having the transparent polymeric hardcoats are also described.