Provided is a film for a capacitor that can improve dielectric strength retention at high temperatures and can also improve metal vapor deposition properties and formability. The film for a capacitor contains a hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene ring-opened polymer that is crystalline and has a heat shrinkage ratio of not less than 0.01% and not more than 1.0% when heated at 200 C. for 10 minutes, a plane orientation factor of 0.01 or more, a density of 1.0310.sup.6 g/m.sup.3 or more, and a thickness of 15.0 m or less.

The disclosure provides a film composition, wherein the film composition includes an oligomer and a crosslinking agent. The oligomer can have a structure represented by Formula (I) ##STR00001##
wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently hydrogen, C.sub.1-20 alkyl group, C.sub.2-20 alkenyl group, C.sub.6-12 aryl group, C.sub.6-12 alkylaryl group, C.sub.5-12 cycloalkyl group, C.sub.6-20 cycloalkylalkyl group, alkoxycarbonyl group, or alkylcarbonyloxy group; R.sup.1 is not hydrogen when R.sup.2 is hydrogen; a is 0 or 1; 100n1; 100m1; and when n is not 0, the ratio of n to m is from 3:1 to 1:4. The weight ratio of the oligomer and the crosslinking agent can be from 9:1 to 3:7. The oligomer has a number average molecular weight (Mn) from 1,000 to 8,000.

The present invention is generally related to various types of compositions that comprise a polyindane resin. In particular, the polyindane resins may be utilized in various polymer-based and elastomer-based formulations in order to enhance several properties and characteristics of those formulations. More specifically, adhesive formulations are provided that comprise at least one polyindane resin, which may be used to replace or enhance the functionality of existing hydrocarbon resins typically used in adhesive formulations. Compositions comprising at least one thermoplastic elastomer and at least one polyindane resin are also provided.

Provided is a method for producing a concave-convex structure, the method including a preparation step of preparing a laminate including a base material layer, a photocurable resin layer containing a fluorine-containing cyclic olefin polymer (A), a photocurable compound (B) and a photocuring initiator (C), and a protective film layer in this order; a peeling step of peeling the protective film layer of the laminate; a pressing step of pressing a mold against the photocurable resin layer exposed in the peeling step; and a light irradiation step of irradiating the photocurable resin layer with light, in which a concave-convex structure having an inverted concave-convex pattern of the mold is produced.

Elastic Parylene films produced via chemical vapor deposition polymerization (CVDP) on a substrate are disclosed.

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes

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where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 include at least one of a hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, and/or an alkyl group, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 include at least one of hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, and/or a ketone, and 1n2000.

Provided is a resin material for forming an underlayer film which is used to form a resist underlayer film used in a multi-layer resist process, the resin material including a cyclic olefin polymer (I), in which a temperature at an intersection between a storage modulus (G) curve and a loss modulus (G) curve in a solid viscoelasticity of the resin material for forming an underlayer film which is as measured under conditions of a measurement temperature range of 30 C. to 300 C., a heating rate of 3 C./min, and a frequency of 1 Hz in a nitrogen atmosphere in a shear mode using a rheometer is higher than or equal to 40 C. and lower than or equal to 200.

The present invention provides:

a copolymer (A) which is a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing one or plural cycloolefin monomers and one or plural acyclic olefin monomers, or a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing two or more cycloolefin monomers, wherein the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the copolymer is 100 C. or higher, the refractive index of the copolymer is 1.545 or higher, and the Abbe's number of the copolymer is 50 or larger, and at least one of the cycloolefin monomers is a deltacyclene.

A liquid cyclopentene ring-opened copolymer includes a monomer unit derived from cyclopentene and a monomer unit derived from a norbornene compound, the monomer unit derived from cyclopentene being present in an amount of 60 to 95 wt %, the liquid cyclopentene ring-opened copolymer having a hydroxyl group-terminated copolymer chain and having a melt viscosity at 25 C. of less than 500 Pa.Math.s, which is measured using a B-type viscometer.

The present invention provides: a copolymer (A) which is a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing one or plural cycloolefin monomers and one or plural acyclic olefin monomers, or by copolymerizing two or more cycloolefin monomers, wherein a glass transition temperature (Tg) is 100 C. or higher, a refractive index is 1.545 or higher, and an Abbe's number is 50 or larger; a polymer (B) selected from: a ring-opening homopolymer obtained by ring-opening polymerization of only a monomer represented by formula (I), a ring-opening copolymer obtained by ring-opening copolymerization of the monomer represented by formula (I) and a monomer capable of ring-opening copolymerization with the monomer represented by formula (I), a hydrogenated product of the ring-opening homopolymer and a hydrogenated product of the ring-opening copolymer; a forming material containing the copolymer (A) or the polymer (B); and a resin formed article obtained by forming the forming material. ##STR00001##