Provided is a liquid crystal composition and a use thereof. The liquid crystal composition has a reverse-wavelength dispersion property and excellent high-temperature durability, and the liquid crystal composition can be applied to a retardation layer, a circularly polarizing plate, or a display device, for example, an organic light emitting display device.

A method for preparing a liquid crystal polymer film, comprising: (1) spinning a liquid crystal polymer into fibers, and maintaining the fibers for 0.1 hour to 36 hours at a temperature of 200° C. to 400° C. under a vacuum degree less than 500 Pa for later use; (2) weaving the fibers prepared in step (1) into cloth for later use; and (3) pressing the cloth prepared in step (2) into a film at a temperature of 200° C. to 400° C., and then stretching the film to obtain the liquid crystal polymer film. The liquid crystal polymer film prepared by the preparation method is good in mechanical property, and has a tensile strength that can exceed 170 MPa. The prepared liquid crystal polymer film is applied to a FPC, which makes the FPC have a dielectric constant less than 3, and a small dielectric loss tangent angle.

Provided are a cured product of a curable composition including a compound represented by General Formula (1), in which a birefringence Δn at a wavelength of 587 nm is 0.00≤Δn≤0.01; an optical member; a lens; a compound represented by General Formula (1); a curable resin composition containing the compound; a cured product; a diffractive optical element; and a multilayer diffractive optical element.

Pol.sup.1-Sp.sup.a-L.sup.1-Ar-L.sup.2-Sp.sup.b-Pol.sup.2  Genera Formula (1) Ar represents an aromatic ring group represented by a specific formula, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 represent —O—, Sp.sup.a and Sp.sup.b represent a linking group having the shortest atom number of 11 or more and linking Pol and L, Pol.sup.1 and Pol.sup.2 represent a polymerizable group, and in Sp.sup.a and Sp.sup.b, a linking portion to L.sup.1 or L.sup.2 is —CH.sub.2— and a linking portion to Pol.sup.1 or Pol.sup.2 is a carbon atom.

A method of manufacturing a modified liquid crystal polymer includes: providing a liquid crystal polymer having a first melting point; heating the liquid crystal polymer to a first temperature and maintaining at the first temperature for a first time period, in which the first temperature is lower than or equal to the first melting point; and cooling the liquid crystal polymer to a second temperature to form a first modified liquid crystal polymer, the second temperature being lower than the first temperature, the first modified liquid crystal polymer having a second melting point, in which the second melting point is higher than the first melting point.

Self-aligned liquid crystal materials and structures are disclosed. The structures can exhibit piezoelectric and flexoelectric properties.

The present invention relates to a novel polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymer composition with a significantly increased crystallization rate, and preferably, to a polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) polymer composition. According to the present invention, there is provided a polymer composition including a liquid crystal polymer (LCP), an inorganic nucleating agent, a reinforcing agent, and a filler in polyaryletherketone (PAEK). Therefore, the present invention provides an effect of improving a crystallization rate of the polymer composition and improving molding processability, thereby improving productivity, shape, dimensional stability, or the like of products.

Provided are a liquid crystal composition that is capable of forming a light absorption anisotropic film having a low reflectance, and a light absorption anisotropic film, a laminate, and an image display device, each of which is obtained using the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a side-chain type high-molecular-weight liquid crystalline compound and a dichroic substance, in which the side-chain type high-molecular-weight liquid crystalline compound is a copolymer having a repeating unit M including a mesogenic group and a repeating unit F including a fluorine atom.

A polymer composition comprising from about 50 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of a polymer matrix, from about 10 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of inorganic filler particles, and from about 0.1 wt. % to about 10 wt. % of an impact modifier is provided. The polymer matrix includes a liquid crystalline polymer containing one or more repeating units derived from a hydroxycarboxylic acid, wherein the hydroxycarboxylic acid repeating units constitute about 50 mol. % or more of the polymer, and further wherein the liquid crystalline polymer containing repeating units derived from naphthenic hydroxycarboxylic and/or dicarboxylic acids in an amount of about 10 mol. % or more of the polymer. The polymer composition exhibits a tensile elongation of about 4.5% or more and a Charpy notched impact strength of about 100/m.sup.2 or more.

A polymer film is provided, the polymer film comprises a liquid crystal polymer, comprising a soluble liquid crystal polymer and an insoluble liquid crystal polymer; and a polyimide polymer; wherein the polymer film has a thermal expansion coefficient between 0 and 60 ppm/t of 50° C. to 200° C., a water absorption rate less than 0.5%, a dielectric loss tangent of D.sub.f less than 0.005 at a frequency of 10 GHz, and a storage elastic modulus greater than 0.1 GPa at 310° C. A method for manufacturing the polymer film, the method for manufacturing the polymer film comprises steps: providing a liquid crystal polymer powder; providing a liquid crystal polymer glue; providing a polyamic acid glue; mixing the liquid crystal polymer powder, the liquid crystal polymer glue and the polyamic acid glue into a mixed solution, the mixed solution is made into a gel film.

A polymer film is provided, the polymer film comprises a liquid crystal polymer, comprising a soluble liquid crystal polymer and an insoluble liquid crystal polymer; and a polyimide polymer, accounting for 5 wt % or more of the polymer film. A method for manufacturing the polymer film is also provided, the method for manufacturing the polymer film comprises steps: providing a liquid crystal polymer powder, a particle size of the liquid crystal polymer powder is 0.1 um to 20 um; providing a liquid crystal polymer glue, a solid content of which is greater than 3 wt %; providing a polyamic acid glue; mixing the liquid crystal polymer powder, the liquid crystal polymer glue and the polyamic acid glue into a mixed solution, the mixed solution is made into a gel film, and the gel film is baked at a temperature of 300° C. to form a polymer film.