Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a light transmissive electromagnetic wave shielding material having an excellent light transmissive property, an excellent electromagnetic wave shielding property, an excellent appearance property and an excellent legibility by a simple method. A process for the preparation of a light transmissive electromagnetic wave shielding material comprising; (A1) printing a pretreatment agent for electroless plating comprising a composite metal oxide and/or a composite metal oxide hydrate and a synthetic resin in a mesh pattern on a transparent substrate 11 to form a mesh-patterned pretreatment layer 12, and (A3) subjecting the pretreatment layer 12 to electroless plating to form a mesh-patterned metal conductive layer on the pretreatment layer 13.

Abstract: To manufacture an electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate having a conductive pattern of which line width is narrow and open area ratio is high, a negative pattern 2 composed of dots is printed on a transparent film 1 having a high affinity for a plated layer of a conductive material by using a transparent resin having a low affinity for the plated layer and a backside coating layer 3 is formed by printing a transparent resin on the entire back surface of the transparent film 1. Then, a conductive material layer is formed by electroless plating to cover the film exposed surface not covered by the negative pattern 2 of the film 1, thereby forming the conductive pattern 4. After that, the blackening treatment is conducted, thereby obtaining the electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing the light transmissive electromagnetic wave shielding material having an enhanced productivity. A process for preparing a light transmissive electromagnetic shielding material comprising; coating a transparent substrate with a pretreatment agent for electroless plating comprising a noble metal compound and a mixture of silane coupling agent and azole compound or a reaction product thereof to form a coated layer and drying the coated layer to provide a pretreatment layer on the transparent substrate, forming a plating protective layer in the dot pattern on the pretreatment layer, and subjecting the exposing part of the pretreatment layer having no plating protective layer to electroless plating to form a metal conductive layer in the mesh pattern.

Abstract: A transparent conductive film comprising a polymer film and a transparent conductive layer provided thereon, especially a transparent conductive film improved in durability and mechanical and electrical properties, a process for the preparation thereof, and a touch panel provided with the transparent conductive film, as well as transparent conductive plate and the process for the preparation thereof. The transparent conductive film comprising a polymer film, an undercoat layer and a transparent conductive layer which are superposed in this order, and the undercoat layer contains a compound having at least one selected from an amino group and a phosphoric acid group.

Abstract: A touch panel having excellent durability, in which depression is scarcely generated on the surface of the touch panel by pushing the surface with a pen, and a transparent conductive film and plate useful in the touch panel are provided. The transparent conductive film comprises a first polymer film having a transparent conductive thin layer thereon and a second polymer film having a hardcoat layer thereon, the first and second polymer films being bonded each other through an adhesive layer such that a surface having no transparent conductive thin layer of the first polymer film faces a surface having no hardcoat layer of the second polymer film, wherein work of the adhesive layer in elastic deformation is not less than 60%. The transparent conductive plate is provided with the adhesive layer, the touch panel is provided with the transparent conductive film or plate as an upper or lower electrode.

Abstract: A photo-curable transfer sheet having a photo-curable transfer layer comprising a photo-curable composition, the photo-curable composition being deformable by application of pressure and containing a reactive polymer having a photopolymerizable functional group, wherein the photo-curable transfer layer shows linearity in relationship between strain [?] (%) and time [t] (second) measured by a creep test using a dynamic viscoelasticity measuring apparatus under the conditions of an ordinary temperature, stress of 50 Pa and a time period of 120 seconds, and satisfies a following formula: log ?=a+b·log t, in which “a” is a real number, and “b” is in the range of 0.10 to 0.53; and a process for the preparation of an optical information recording medium using the sheet and an optical information recording medium.

Abstract: An electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate 1 comprising an antireflection film 3, an electromagnetic-wave shielding film 10, a transparent substrate 2, and a near-infrared ray blocking film 5, wherein they are laminated and united by using intermediate adhesive layers 4A, 4B and a pressure-sensitive adhesive 4C, and the peripheries thereof are covered by a conductive sticky tape 7. The electromagnetic-wave shielding film 10 has a conductive foil 11 formed by pattern etching on a substrate film 13, is processed to have antireflection function by forming a light absorbing layer 12 on the conductive foil 11, and is subjected to a matting process to form small irregularities by roughening the surface of the light absorbing layer 12. A display panel is manufactured by bonding this electromagnetic-wave shielding film 10 to the front surface of a plasma display panel body.

Abstract: A method for producing an electromagnetic-shielding transparent window member including a transparent film and a patterned conductor disposed thereon includes the steps of applying a resin coating material containing a catalyst for electroless plating to the transparent film to form a patterned resin having the same pattern as the patterned conductor to be formed; and depositing a conductive material only on the patterned resin by electroless plating to form the patterned conductor.

Abstract: An electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate 1 having an antireflection film 3, an electromagnetic-wave shielding film 10, a transparent substrate 2, and a near-infrared ray blocking film 5, laminated and united by using intermediate adhesive layers 4A, 4B and a pressure-sensitive adhesive 4C, the peripheries thereof covered by a conductive sticky tape 7. The film 10 has a conductive foil 11 formed by pattern etching on a substrate film 13, is processed for antireflection by forming a light absorbing layer 12 on the conductive foil 11, and is subjected to matting to form small irregularities by roughening the surface of the light absorbing layer 12. A display panel is manufactured by bonding this film 10 to the front surface of a plasma display panel body.

Abstract: An ultraviolet-curable resin paste containing an electroless plating catalyst is applied by printing to a surface of a transparent substrate 1, and the resulting printed pattern 2 is cured by irradiation of ultraviolet light to form a resin pattern 3. Subsequently, a plating layer 4 is deposited on the resin pattern 3 by electroless plating treatment to form a conductive pattern 5. The resin pattern 3 to be subjected to the electroless plating treatment has an uncured layer 3A provided on a surface thereof. During the electroless plating treatment, the uncured layer 3A is eroded in the plating bath and particles of the catalyst are exposed. It is possible to form a satisfactory plating layer 4 using the exposed catalyst particles as nuclei. By using the ultraviolet-curable resin paste, a good conductive pattern having excellent adhesion to the transparent substrate can be formed with high accuracy, efficiently, and at low cost.

Abstract: An acid-resistant transparent electroconductive substrate with an ITO layer includes a transparent base and the ITO layer formed over the transparent base. The ITO layer contains at least 30 percent by weight of tin oxide. A dye-sensitized solar cell electrode includes the transparent electroconductive substrate and a dye-adsorbed semiconductor layer formed over the ITO layer of the transparent electroconductive substrate. A dye-sensitized solar cell is provided which uses the dye-sensitized solar cell electrode as a dye-sensitized semiconductor electrode. A SnO2 content of 30 percent by weight or more enhances acid resistance. The dye-sensitized semiconductor electrode for the dye-sensitized solar cell is prepared by forming a layer-by-layer self-assembled film on the ITO layer by a layer-by-layer assembly technique, forming a replica layer by acid-treating the layer-by-layer self-assembled film to form irregularities, and forming a semiconductor layer on the replica layer.

Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention, an image display device, in which one or more groups of particles or liquid powders are sealed between opposed two substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the particles or the liquid powders, to which an electrostatic field produced by two groups of electrodes having different potentials is applied, are made to move so as to display an image, has a construction such that a member for transmitting a signal, which is applied to circuits for an image display, is provided to the substrate by means of an anisotropic conductive film and members such as the electrode are provided to a substrate opposed to a transparent substrate.

Abstract: A touch panel having excellent durability, in which depression is scarcely generated on the surface of the touch panel by pushing the surface with a pen, and a transparent conductive film and plate useful in the touch panel are provided. The transparent conductive film comprises a first polymer film having a transparent conductive thin layer thereon and a second polymer film having a hardcoat layer thereon, the first and second polymer films being bonded each other through an adhesive layer such that a surface having no transparent conductive thin layer of the first polymer film faces a surface having no hardcoat layer of the second polymer film, wherein work of the adhesive layer in elastic deformation is not less than 60%. The transparent conductive plate is provided with the adhesive layer, the touch panel is provided with the transparent conductive film or plate as an upper or lower electrode.

Abstract: An adhesion-including film is provided, wherein the total light transmittance is varied in a width direction of the film. The adhesion-including film includes a mold release film, a first adhesive layer disposed on this mold release film, a second adhesive layer disposed on the first adhesive layer, a base film on the second adhesive layer, and an antireflection film disposed on the film surface opposite to the second adhesive layer of the base film. The first adhesive layer is highly colored as compared with the second adhesive layer. The second adhesive layer may be colorless. The thickness of the central portion of the first adhesive layer in the width direction of the film is larger than the thicknesses of both end sides. The total thickness of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer is uniform all over the film.

Abstract: A method for producing an electromagnetic-shielding transparent window member including a transparent film and a patterned conductor disposed thereon includes the steps of applying a resin coating material containing a catalyst for electroless plating to the transparent film to form a patterned resin having the same pattern as the patterned conductor to be formed; and depositing a conductive material only on the patterned resin by electroless plating to form the patterned conductor.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an optical information recording medium comprises superposing two optical information recording substrates having an uneven surface of recorded pits and/or grooves on each other through a photo-curable adhesive sheet comprising a photo-curable composition which comprises a reactive polymer having a photopolymerizable functional group and Tg of not more than 20° C., the photo-curable adhesive sheet having a light transmittance of not less than 70% in a wavelength range of 380 to 420 nm, such that the two uneven surfaces face each other, depressing the substrates and sheet to form a laminate, and curing the laminate by light. A process for the preparation of an optical information recording medium comprises placing a photo-curable transfer sheet comprising a photo-curable composition which comprises a reactive polymer having a photopolymerizable functional group and Tg of not more than 20° C.

Abstract: To manufacture an electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate having a conductive pattern of which line width is narrow and open area ratio is high, a resin pattern 2 is printed on a transparent film 1 having a low affinity for a plated layer by using a resin having a high affinity for the plated layer. Then, a conductive material layer is formed by electroless plating on the resin pattern 2 of the film 1, thereby forming the conductive pattern 3. After that, the blackening treatment is conducted, thereby obtaining the electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate.

Abstract: A transparent conductive film comprising a polymer film and a transparent conductive layer provided thereon, especially a transparent conductive film improved in durability and mechanical and electrical properties, a process for the preparation thereof, and a touch panel provided with the transparent conductive film, as well as transparent conductive plate and the process for the preparation thereof. The transparent conductive film comprising a polymer film, an undercoat layer and a transparent conductive layer which are superposed in this order, and the undercoat layer contains a compound having at least one selected from an amino group and a phosphoric acid group.

Abstract: A photo-curable transfer sheet having a photo-curable layer comprising a photo-curable composition, the photo-curable composition being deformable by application of pressure and containing a reactive polymer having a photopolymerizable functional group. The photo-curable transfer sheet preferably has a light transmittance of not less than 70% in a wavelength rang of 380 to 420 nm. An optical information recording substrate and medium prepared by the sheet. The sheet easily and precisely enables transfer of unevenness of the surface of a stamper by pressing.

Abstract: To manufacture an electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate having a conductive pattern of which line width is narrow and open area ratio is high, a negative pattern 2 composed of dots is printed on a transparent film 1 having a high affinity for a plated layer of a conductive material by using a transparent resin having a low affinity for the plated layer and a backside coating layer 3 is formed by printing a transparent resin on the entire back surface of the transparent film 1. Then, a conductive material layer is formed by electroless plating to cover the film exposed surface not covered by the negative pattern 2 of the film 1, thereby forming the conductive pattern 4. After that, the blackening treatment is conducted, thereby obtaining the electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate.