Abstract: Disclosed is an article that includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a re-workable adhesive composition, the first substrate being bonded to the second substrate through the adhesive composition. The adhesive composition is derived from a moisture curable polyurethane hot melt adhesive composition that includes a polyurethane prepolymer that includes the reaction product of a first crystalline polyester polyol having a number average molecular weight of from at least 5500 grams per mole (g/mol) to about 20,000 g/mol and a melting point of at least 40° C., and a polyisocyanate. The re-workable adhesive composition is cleanly removable from at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate after conditioning the article at a temperature of from at least 60° C. to no greater than 100° C. for a period of about 30 minutes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent conductive polymer electrode including a plurality of electrode lines formed of droplets of conductive polymer, each of the electrode lines including first and second regions having different conductive polymer droplet hit densities. The first region has a ratio of b/a within a range of 0.2 to 0.8, where “a” is a distance from a center to an edge of the electrode line in at least one direction of width and length directions thereof, and “b” is a distance from the center to an edge of the first region in the at least one direction. The second region is the remaining region of the electrode line, and the conductive polymer droplet hit density of the second region is lower than that of the first region.

Abstract: Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents and a plurality of alkyl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in optical films, such as optical films having certain Nz values, ?A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which even in the case of using a photo-alignment technique, excellent afterimage characteristics can be stably obtained. Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate having an alignment film, an opposed substrate which is arranged to face the TFT substrate and on which an alignment film is formed, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the alignment films, wherein the alignment films are materials that can provide a liquid crystal alignment restraining force by irradiating polarized light, and the ratio of oxygen atoms on the surface of the alignment film is higher than that in the alignment film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal film and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal composition can be uniformly aligned with no problems such as dewetting in an operation of aligning horizontally alignable liquid crystals. Also, a state of the aligned liquid crystal compound can be stably maintained.

Abstract: A frame sealant and a process for preparing the same, and a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid display containing the frame sealant. The frame sealant comprises a curing resin, an anion exchange resin, a photoinitiator, a heat curing agent, a coupling agent, an organic filler, and an inorganic filler.

Abstract: A flexible display and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible display includes a display panel configured to display images, a window substrate disposed on a first surface of the display panel, and a lower passivation film attached to a second surface of the display panel opposing the first surface. The flexible display can also include a lower adhesive layer interposed between the display panel and the lower passivation film. The lower adhesive layer can include a plurality of isolated-pattern portions and a peripheral portion surrounding the isolated-pattern portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive composition, a protective film for optical elements, an optical element and a liquid crystal display device. The present invention may provide a pressure sensitive adhesive composition and a protective film for optical elements, having a high peel force at a low rate and a low peel force at a high rate, the balance of which is excellently maintained and showing excellent wettablity to an adherend, durability, repeelability, transparency and antistatic performance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display. In the present invention, provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive which can effectively prevent the light leakage resulting from dimensional changes of the polarizing plate, and the like, and exhibit excellent endurance reliability even when it is used or stored for a long time. Further, in the present invention, provided is the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition or the pressure-sensitive adhesive which can exhibit excellent physical properties, such as removability, workability, and the like.

Abstract: The invention discloses a frame-sealing agent, a display panel and a display device. The frame-sealing agent comprises an acrylic resin, an epoxy resin, a thermal curing agent and an ultraviolet photoinitiator, wherein the frame-sealing agent further comprises a compound which decomposes to produce a gas under a condition of light irradiation, heating or high temperature. In the invention, by providing a compound that decomposes to produce a gas under a condition of light irradiation, heating or high temperature, when the frame-sealing agent is cured, the compound decomposes to produce a gas with the effect of light irradiation, heating or high temperature. The light leak of the display screen at the position of backlight is obstructed by the gas.

Abstract: Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents and a plurality of alkyl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in optical films, such as optical films having certain Nz values, ?A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a horizontal alignment film, stabilizes liquid crystal alignment by the PSA technique, can suppress the increase in power consumption, reduction in contrast, and image sticking in display, and has long-term reliability. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, a horizontal alignment film formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, and a polymer layer which is formed on the horizontal alignment film and controls the alignment of adjacent liquid crystal molecules, wherein the polymer layer is formed by the polymerization of at least one or more kinds of monomers added into the liquid crystal layer, and at least one of the one or more kinds of monomers is polymerized by itself functioning as a polymerization initiator by being irradiated with light.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical film that comprises a block copolymer that comprises a vinyl polymer block containing styrene or a derivative thereof, and a poly-dimethylsiloxane block, a retardation film using the same, a method of manufacturing them, and a liquid crystal display comprising the films.

Abstract: The invention relates to an acrylic adhesive composition, more particularly, to an adhesive composition which: specifies the contents of a (meth)acrylic ester-based monomer and an aromatic group-containing monomer of an acrylic copolymer as a composition having little or no difference of birefringence; has excellent durability; and can reduce light leakage due to flexure by mixing a crosslinkable functional group-containing acrylic copolymer (A) and an acrylic copolymer (B) which does not contain the crosslinkable functional group, in a ratio of 1:9 to 5:5.

Abstract: A material from which a cured film exhibiting high solvent resistance, liquid crystal-alignment performance, heat resistance and high transparency can be formed. A composition for forming a thermoset film having photo alignment properties, the composition comprising: a component (A) that is an acrylic copolymer having a photodimerizing moiety and a thermal cross-linking moiety; a component (B) that is an acrylic polymer having at least one of a C2-5 alkyl ester group and a C2-5 hydroxyalkyl ester group and at least one of a carboxy group and a phenolic hydroxy group; and a component (C) that is a cross-linking agent.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is provided. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition shows stable antistatic performance, and in particular, stably maintains its antistatic performance even when the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is kept for an extended time under extreme conditions or conditions in which environmental changes are severe, and also has excellent general physical properties such as pressure-sensitive adhesive properties, durability and workability.

Abstract: The present invention provides an excellent optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having an excellent adhesion property to an optical member. The present invention relates to an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein a relative dielectric constant at a frequency of 1 MHz is 5 to 10, and an adhesion strength to a glass, which is measured with a peel angle of 180° and a tensile speed of 300 mm/min after 30 min of laminating the optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet to the glass, is 3 N/20 mm to 15 N/20 mm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device. In the present invention, the polarizing plate is lightweight and has a small thickness and excellent properties including durability, water resistance, workability, pressure-sensitive adhesion and light leakage prevention ability; and the liquid crystal display device including the same are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed therein are a photoalignment polyimide copolymer making it easier to form a liquid crystal alignment layer with excellences in alignment properties, thermal and structural stabilities, and adhesiveness to a substrate, and a liquid crystal alignment layer using the same. The photoalignment polyimide copolymer includes all the three types of repeating units each having a defined structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polarizing plate characterized in that pressures-sensitive adhesives used in the upper and lower polarizing plates have different elastic properties and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a polarizing plate with improved light leakage phenomenon in accordance with bend of liquid crystal panels, characterized in that as slid distances of pressure-sensitive adhesives on the polarizing plate having the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed thereon and bonded to a glass plate with a contact area of 1 cm×1 cm at the time of applying a load of 1,000 gf at room temperature (25° C.) for 1,000 seconds, the difference between the slid distance X1 of pressure-sensitive adhesive for the upper polarizing plate and the slid distance X2 of pressure-sensitive adhesive for the lower polarizing plate is 50 to 500 ?m.