Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents and a plurality of alkyl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in optical films, such as optical films having certain Nz values, A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.

Provided is a circularly polarizing plate that is excellent in antireflection characteristic, and that can be produced at low cost. The circularly polarizing plate of the present invention includes in the stated order: a polarizer; a retardation layer (20a) configured to function as a /4 plate; and a colored layer, wherein an angle formed by an absorption axis of the polarizer and a slow axis of the retardation layer (20a) is from 35 to 55, wherein the colored layer has an absorption peak in a wavelength band in a range of from 580 nm to 610 nm, and wherein the colored layer contains a compound X represented by the general formula (I) or the general formula (II).

The present disclosure relates to a polarizing plate including: a polarizer, and a first hard coating layer having a thickness of 10 um or less and an anti-reflection film which are positioned so as to face each other around the polarizer, wherein the anti-reflection film includes a light-transmitting substrate and a second hard coating layer, and wherein a ratio (a/b) of a transmittance (a) at a wavelength of 400 nm of the second hard coating layer to the transmittance (b) at a wavelength of 500 nm of the second hard coating layer is 0.95 or less, or 0.85 to 0.95.

The invention provides an electrically conductive and optically transparent copper-reduced graphene oxide core-shell nanowires film and its specific application for light transmission controlling devices.

A flexible electronic assembly includes an electronic component, a flexible substrate and a supporting layer. The flexible substrate includes a first surface coupled to the electronic component and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The supporting layer is coupled to the second surface, and the supporting layer includes a plurality of protrusions. In a plan view of the flexible electronic assembly, one of the plurality of protrusions includes at least a rounded corner.

A layered structure including a transparent substrate; a photoluminescent layer disposed on the transparent substrate and a pattern of a quantum dot polymer composite; and a capping layer disposed on the photoluminescent layer and including an inorganic material, a method of producing the same, a liquid crystal display including the same. The quantum dot polymer composite includes a polymer matrix; and a plurality of quantum dots in the polymer matrix, the pattern of the quantum dot polymer composite includes at least one repeating section and the repeating section includes a first section configured to emit light of a first peak wavelength, the inorganic material is disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the repeating section, and the inorganic material includes a metal oxide, a metal nitride, a metal oxynitride, a metal sulfide, or a combination thereof.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a retardation layer with excellent thermal stability and suppresses a decrease in contrast ratio caused by scattering even when the retardation layer has been formed by polymerizing reactive monomers. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates. At least one of the substrates includes a retardation layer that contains a polymer of at least one type of monomer. The at least one type of monomer includes a photo-alignment monomer represented by a certain formula.

A display assembly includes a display component and a flexible stratum. The flexible stratum includes a first side coupled to the display component and a second side opposite to the first side. The second side includes protruding portions separate apart from each other, and one of the protruding portions includes a side section, a top section, and a tapering section extending from the side section to the top section and having a curved surface.

One embodiment provides a hard coat laminated film, comprising, in order from a surface layer side, a first hard coat, a second hard coat, and a transparent resin film layer, where the first hard coat is formed of a coating material including: (A) 100 parts by mass of a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate; (B) 0.01 to 7 parts by mass of a water repellent; (C) 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of a silane coupling agent; and (D) 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of resin microparticles having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 10 m, and containing no inorganic particles, and where the second hard coat is formed of a coating material containing inorganic particles. Another embodiment provides a hard coat laminated film having, in order from a surface layer side, a first hard coat, a second hard coat, and a resin film layer. The first hard coat includes a coating material that does not include inorganic particles. The second hard coat includes a coating material including inorganic particles. The adhesive film fulfills the conditions: (i) a total light transmission rate of at least 85%; (ii) a pencil hardness for the first hard coat surface of at least 5H; and (iii) a Y value for an XYZ color system of 1.5%-4.2%.

There are provided a phase difference control component, which can realize a liquid crystal display device having a wide angle of visibility, has excellent phase difference symmetry and can realize optical compensation, and a process for producing the same. The phase difference control component comprises a base material; and a phase difference control layer formed of a fixed liquid crystal material provided on the base material through an aligning film and is characterized in that the angle of liquid crystal molecules, present at the interface of the aligning film and the phase difference control layer, to the base material being substantially 0 (zero) degree.