Provided is a light absorption anisotropic film capable of preparing an image display device having excellent display performance and excellent durability, and a laminate and an image display device formed of the light absorption anisotropic film. The light absorption anisotropic film is used for an image display device, which is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which in a signal derived from the dichroic substance detected by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, a relationship between a maximum intensity Imax of the light absorption anisotropic film in a thickness direction and an intensity Isur1 in a surface of the light absorption anisotropic film on a viewing side of the image display device satisfies Expression (I-1) 2.0?Imax/Isur1.

A method of preparing a liquid crystal capsule and the use of the liquid crystal capsule. The liquid crystal capsule has advantages in that transmittance and stability are improved and the degree of scattering is uniform.

Provided is a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by formula (1). ##STR00001## An aspect can be exemplified, in which, in formula (1), W.sup.1 is hydrogen or a substituent, A.sup.1 is 1,4-phenylene, 1,4-cyclohexylene or naphthalene-2,6-diyl, Z.sup.1 and Y.sup.1 are a connecting group, m and n each are an integer from 0 to 7, in which an expression: 3m+n8 holds, Q.sup.1 is a spacer, and PG is a polymerizable group.

The present invention relates to compositions for nanoencapsulation which comprise the mesogenic medium as set forth in claim 1, one or more polymerizable compounds and one or more surfactants, to nanocapsules containing the mesogenic medium and to their use in electro-optical devices.

A liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound capable of expressing birefringence with reverse wavelength distribution and a surfactant containing a fluorine atom, a 1-octanol/water partition coefficient of the surfactant being less than 5.0.

The present invention provides a compound having an excellent amount of change in HTP and an excellent HTP saturation rate during exposure, and a liquid crystal composition including the compound. The compound of the present invention is a compound represented by General Formula (A).
(Y).sub.n-G-(X).sub.m (A) G represents a group represented by General Formula (B-1) or a group represented by General Formula (B-2), * represents a bonding position, and X and Y represent a predetermined group. ##STR00001##

The present invention provides a compound having an excellent rate of change in HTP due to exposure. The present invention further provides a composition formed of the compound, a cured product, an optically anisotropic body, and a reflective film. The compound of the present invention is a compound represented by General Formula (1). ##STR00001##

An object of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal composition with which two characteristics of smoothness of a surface of an anisotropic optical body and orientation properties of liquid crystals can be simultaneously improved, when preparing an anisotropic optical body to be obtained by photopolymerization of the polymerizable liquid crystal composition. Specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing specific polymerizable compounds and a fluorine-based surfactant. In addition, an anisotropic optical body, a retardation film, an antireflective film, and a liquid crystal display element prepared using the polymerizable liquid crystal composition of the present invention are also provided.

An optical film including a layer of a cured product obtained by curing a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a fluorine atom-containing surfactant, wherein the layer has a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a surface fluorine atom amount measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy on the first surface is less than 25% by mole, and a ratio by mole of the surface fluorine atom amount measured by the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy on the second surface relative to the surface fluorine atom amount measured by the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy on the first surface is 0.5 or less.

Provided is a liquid crystal material applied to a multi-response-mode smart window and an application thereof. The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal material and an application thereof. The problem of high drive voltage of the liquid crystal smart window based on dynamic scattering mode in the prior arts can be solved. The liquid crystal material applied to the multi-response-mode smart window is formed by mixing a dichroic dye, an ionic dopant and a liquid crystal. It is applied to preparing an electrohydrodynamics liquid crystal dimming device which is capable of switching among transparent state, light-absorbing state and scattering state under a drive voltage of 5V to 50V and a drive frequency of 1 Hz to 5 kHz.