The present invention relates to a visibility improving film for a display panel and a display device including the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a visibility improving film for a display panel capable of exhibiting excellent physical and optical properties particularly while improving the visibility of a laser pointer, by including fine metal particles dispersed in the photocurable resin layer, and to a display device including the same.

Ligand-capped scattering nanoparticles, curable ink compositions containing the ligand-capped scattering nanoparticles, and methods of forming films from the ink compositions are provided. Also provided are cured films formed by curing the ink compositions and photonic devices incorporating the films. The ligands bound to the inorganic scattering nanoparticles include a head group and a tail group. The head group includes a polyamine chain and binds the ligands to the nanoparticle surface. The tail group includes a polyalkylene oxide chain.

An object of the invention is to provide a novel laminate and a novel image display device which have both of a gas barrier function and a polarizer function and have a reduced thickness as compared to those in the related art. A laminate of the invention has a laminate which has a substrate, an inorganic layer, and an organic layer, and the organic layer contains an organic dichroic pigment.

Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of pivaloyl substituents and a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in films, such as +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.

The present invention relates to an optical film that comprises a block copolymer that comprises a vinyl polymer block containing styrene or a derivative thereof, and a poly-dimethylsiloxane block, a retardation film using the same, a method of manufacturing them, and a liquid crystal display comprising the films.

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.

A methacrylic resin composition containing 10 to 99 parts by mass of a methacrylic resin (A) containing 80% by mass or more of a methyl methacrylate unit, and 90 to 1 part by mass of a block copolymer (B) containing 10 to 60% by mass of a methacrylic acid ester polymer block (b1) and 90 to 40% by mass of an acrylic acid ester polymer block (b2), where the total of the methacrylic resin (A) and the block copolymer (B) is 100 parts by mass, where a weight-average molecular weight Mw.sub.(A) of the methacrylic resin (A), a maximum weight-average molecular weight Mw.sub.(b1) of the methacrylic acid ester polymer block (b1) and a maximum weight-average molecular weight Mw.sub.(b2) of the acrylic acid ester polymer block (b2) satisfy (1): 0.5≦Mw.sub.(A)/Mw.sub.(b1)≦2.5 and (2): 40000≦Mw.sub.(b2)≦120000.

The present invention relates to a radical-curable adhesive composition including a (A) radical-polymerizable compound having at least one hydrophilic functional group in the molecule; a (B) phosphate-based compound having three (meth)acrylic groups in the molecule; and a (C) radical initiator, and a polarizing plate and an optical member including the radical-curable adhesive composition.

A display device includes a flexible display unit, an electronic component disposed on one surface thereof, and a coating layer that is elastically deformable to cover the electronic component, the coating layer has a fixed region fixed to one of the one surface of the flexible display unit and an end surface of an end portion, and a coating region configured to cover the electronic component is disposed inside the fixed region to be deformed to absorb distortion upon bending of the flexible display unit.

A multilayer optical retardation compensation film having at least one positive C-plate and at least one negative C-plate is used in an LCD device. The multilayer film may have a substantially flat wavelength dispersion curve, or the multilayer film combined with other layers in the LCD device may have a substantially flat wavelength dispersion curve. Polymer films for the positive C-plate may be identified according to their absorbance maxima at certain wavelength ranges.