The sealing material composition of the disclosure includes an unsaturated carbonyl compound having at least two unsaturated carbonyl groups and a curing agent that is thermally reactive with the unsaturated carbonyl compound and contains a compound having at least two of one or more kinds of functional groups selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan group, a hydroxyl group, and a secondary amine group.

The present invention relates to a liquid crystal device, a method of manufacturing the liquid crystal device, and the use of the liquid crystal device. The liquid crystal device according to the present invention has excellent light shielding rate variability characteristics. Such a liquid crystal device can be applied to various optical modulation devices such as a smart window, a window protection film, a flexible display device, an active retarder for displaying a 3D image, or a viewing angle adjustment film.

The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.

The present invention is directed to a flexible controlled release film for delivering a medicinal or cosmetic agent, e.g., through the skin of a subject, which delivery system comprises (a) a microembossed flexible film including microcells; (b) a liquid composition filled in the microcells wherein said liquid composition comprises the medicinal or cosmetic agent; and (c) a flexible sealing layer to enclose the liquid composition within the microcells.

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

A polymer-dispersed liquid crystal composition, a preparation method of a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal film, and a display panel are provided. The polymer-dispersed liquid crystal composition includes a prepolymer and a liquid crystal molecule, wherein the prepolymer is a fluorine-containing polyimide precursor chemically bonded to a polyaniline, including a polycondensation unit formed from a fluorine-containing dianhydride monomer and a fluorine-containing diamine monomer. In the present application, the conductive polyaniline is chemically bonded to the fluorine-containing polyimide precursor to increase the conductivity of the polyimide precursor. Further, a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal film having a driving voltage lower than 30 V and excellent insulating property and radiation resistance is obtained.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display layer including an upper substrate layer, a lower substrate layer, and a transparent electrode disposed inside the upper substrate layer and the lower substrate layer, respectively. An alignment film is attached to each of the transparent electrodes, and a liquid crystal medium composition is distributed between the alignment films. At least two polymerizable monomers are mixed in the liquid crystal medium composition, each of the polymerizable monomers includes at least two ring structures or fused ring structures, and two reactive functional groups are directly or indirectly connected to the ring structures. The present invention further provides a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal medium composition.

Fibers are clad with a responsive liquid crystal material and a polymer. The clad fibers may be useful for advanced textiles and wearable sensors.

A liquid crystal capsule includes: a shell; and a liquid crystal molecule in the shell, wherein a critical surface tension of the shell is smaller than a critical surface tension of the liquid crystal molecule. Further, the liquid crystal molecule includes a nematic liquid crystal and the shell includes polytetramethyldisiloxane. The liquid crystal capsule also includes an additive in the shell and the additive has a critical surface tension smaller than that of the liquid crystal molecule.

The present invention provides a solar reflective-absorptive device, comprising: an IR reflective transparent conductive film; a flexible transparent conductive film; a layer of liquid crystal dispersion in polymer matrix or polymer dispersion in liquid crystal domains allocated between said flexible IR reflective transparent conductive film and said flexible transparent conductive film. The liquid crystal dispersion is in polymer matrix or polymer dispersion domains, and comprises metalorganic dye compositions with absorption in the visible and/or IR regions of solar spectrum. The aforesaid liquid crystal dispersion consists of nematic mixtures and/or cholesteric mixtures comprising of chiral mesogenic or none-mesogenic chiral materials in nematic for IR absorption and/or broadband cholesteric materials for dynamic (electrically tunable) IR and visible absorption. The switching capability of the device will be carried out through reorientation of the liquid crystal dispersion sandwiched between said at least one transparent IR-reflective flexible conductive support and said transparent flexible conductive support.