A coloring composition includes a metal azo pigment, a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bonding group, and a solvent, the metal azo pigment includes at least one kind of an anion selected from an azo compound represented by Formula (I) or an azo compound having a tautomeric structure of the azo compound represented by Formula (I), two or more kinds of metal ions, and a melamine compound, and in Formula (I), R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represent OH or NR.sup.5R.sup.6, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently represent ═O or ═NR.sup.7, and R.sup.5 to R.sup.7 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group. ##STR00001##

An object of the present invention is to provide a light-absorbing anisotropic film having an excellent degree of alignment of a dichroic azo coloring agent; an optical laminate including the same; and an image display device using the same. The light-absorbing anisotropic film according to an embodiment of the present invention is a light-absorbing anisotropic film which is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a dichroic azo coloring agent compound, a liquid crystalline compound, and a compound represented by Formula (1) and has a front transmittance of 60% or less, and in which a content mass ratio of the dichroic azo coloring agent compound to the liquid crystalline compound is 5% to 35% by mass. ##STR00001##

An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition with which a cured film having excellent color separation, pattern shape accuracy, and transmittance can be manufactured. Another object of the present invention is to provide a cured film formed of the curable composition, a color filter, a solid-state imaging element, and an image display device. The curable composition of the present invention contains, a coloring material, a resin, a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and silica particles, in which a content of the coloring material is 30 to 80 mass % with respect to a total solid content of the curable composition, and a content of the silica particles is 5 to 30 mass % with respect to the total solid content of the curable composition.

There are provided a composition having excellent adhesiveness and wettability, an adhesive film, a laminate, a method for producing a cured product pattern, and a method for manufacturing a circuit substrate. A composition for forming an adhesive film for imprinting, includes a compound 1 or a compound group 2; and a solvent, in which the compound 1 and the like is a compound decomposable into two or more compounds in a case where a polarity conversion group is treated, and at least one compound has a molecular weight of 30 to 400, and at least one compound has a molecular weight of 1,000 or more, the compound 1: a compound is a resin having a polymerizable group and a polarity conversion group, in which the resin has the polarity conversion group in at least a main chain or a side chain, the polarity conversion group is bonded to the main chain of the resin via a linking group in a case where the polarity conversion group is provided in the side chain, and the number of atoms constituting a chain of the linking group is 8 or more; and the compound group 2: a compound that has a polymerizable group and does not have a polarity conversion group, and a compound that does not have a polymerizable group and has a polarity conversion group.

An aspect according to the present invention provides an acrylic resin including a first structural unit represented by formula (1) and a second structural unit represented by formula (2):

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[in the formula (1), R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group having 12-30 carbon atoms]

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[in the formula (2), R.sup.3 and R.sup.5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R.sup.4 represents a divalent organic group].

A hydrophilic polymer comprising pendent groups of the formula I: Wherein: W is independently selected from —OH, —COOH, —SO.sub.3H, —OPO.sub.3H, —O—(C.sub.1-4alkyl), —O—(C.sub.1-4alkyl)OH, —O—(C.sub.1-4alkyl)R.sup.2, —O—(C.sub.2H.sub.5O).sub.qR.sup.1—(C═O)—O—C.sub.1-4alkyl and —O—(C═O)C.sub.1-4alkyl; or a group —BZ; wherein —OH, COOH, O—PO.sub.3H and SO.sub.3H maybe in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt; wherein: B is a bond, or a straight branched alkanediyl, oxyalkylene, alkylene oxaalkylene, or alkylene (oligooxalkylene) group, optionally containing one or more fluorine substituents; and Z is an ammonium, phosphonium, or sulphonium phosphate or phosphonate ester zwitterionic group; X is either a bond or a linking group having 1 to 8 carbons and optionally 1 to 4 heteroatoms selected from O, N and S; G is a coupling group through which the group of the formula I is coupled to the polymer and is selected from ether, ester, amide, carbonate, carbamate, 1,3 dioxolone, and 1,3 dioxane; R.sup.1 is H or C.sub.1-4 alkyl; R.sup.2 is —COOH, —SO.sub.3H, or —OPO.sub.3H.sub.2 q is an integer from to 4; n is an integer from 1 to 4; p is an integer from 1 to 3; and n+p is from 2 to 5; and wherein —COOH, —OPO.sub.3H.sub.2 and —SO.sub.3H as well as phenolic —OH maybe in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt.

A hydrophilic polymer comprising pendent groups of the formula I: Wherein: W is independently selected from —OH, —COOH, —SO.sub.3H, —OPO.sub.3H, —O—(C.sub.1-4alkyl), —O—(C.sub.1-4alkyl)OH, —O—(C.sub.1-4alkyl)R.sup.2, —O—(C.sub.2H.sub.5O).sub.qR.sup.1—(C═O)—O—C.sub.1-4alkyl and —O—(C═O)C.sub.1-4alkyl; or a group —BZ; wherein —OH, COOH, O—PO.sub.3H and SO.sub.3H maybe in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt; wherein: B is a bond, or a straight branched alkanediyl, oxyalkylene, alkylene oxaalkylene, or alkylene (oligooxalkylene) group, optionally containing one or more fluorine substituents; and Z is an ammonium, phosphonium, or sulphonium phosphate or phosphonate ester zwitterionic group; X is either a bond or a linking group having 1 to 8 carbons and optionally 1 to 4 heteroatoms selected from O, N and S; G is a coupling group through which the group of the formula I is coupled to the polymer and is selected from ether, ester, amide, carbonate, carbamate, 1,3 dioxolone, and 1,3 dioxane; R.sup.1 is H or C.sub.1-4 alkyl; R.sup.2 is —COOH, —SO.sub.3H, or —OPO.sub.3H.sub.2 q is an integer from to 4; n is an integer from 1 to 4; p is an integer from 1 to 3; and n+p is from 2 to 5; and wherein —COOH, —OPO.sub.3H.sub.2 and —SO.sub.3H as well as phenolic —OH maybe in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt.

An actinic energy ray-curable composition contains a low-refractive-index material capable of dissolving in a general-purpose solvent and that can impart excellent scratch resistance to a surface of its cured coating film, and a cured film and an antireflection film thereof. An actinic energy ray-curable composition contains a poly(perfluoroalkylene ether) chain-containing actinic energy ray-curable polyfunctional compound (I) and an actinic energy ray-curable compound (II) that is a copolymer of polymerizable unsaturated monomers, the actinic energy ray-curable compound (II) having a side chain containing a fluorinated alkyl group (x) having 1 to 6 carbon atoms to which a fluorine atom is attached and a side chain containing an actinic energy ray-curable group (y), the actinic energy ray-curable compound (II) having a silicone chain (z) with a molecular weight of 2,000 or more at one end of the copolymer, and a cured film and an antireflection film obtained by curing the composition.

An actinic energy ray-curable composition contains a low-refractive-index material capable of dissolving in a general-purpose solvent and that can impart excellent scratch resistance to a surface of its cured coating film, and a cured film and an antireflection film thereof. An actinic energy ray-curable composition contains a poly(perfluoroalkylene ether) chain-containing actinic energy ray-curable polyfunctional compound (I) and an actinic energy ray-curable compound (II) that is a copolymer of polymerizable unsaturated monomers, the actinic energy ray-curable compound (II) having a side chain containing a fluorinated alkyl group (x) having 1 to 6 carbon atoms to which a fluorine atom is attached and a side chain containing an actinic energy ray-curable group (y), the actinic energy ray-curable compound (II) having a silicone chain (z) with a molecular weight of 2,000 or more at one end of the copolymer, and a cured film and an antireflection film obtained by curing the composition.

A comb polymer can be used for reducing a Noack evaporation loss of a lubricant composition, especially of an engine oil composition. Application of the comb polymer to the lubricant composition can bring about the desired reduction. The comb polymer can include specified amounts of macromonomer and alkyl acrylates. Resulting lubricant compositions can include the comb polymer.