Abstract: An antiglare film is provided, the antiglare film including a transparent plastic film substrate; an antiglare layer having fine recesses and projections on the surface thereof; and an abrasion resistant layer provided at an uppermost surface of the antiglare film, the abrasion resistant layer having an average film thickness of from 0.03 to 0.4 ?m, wherein the abrasion resistant layer is formed from a curable composition containing at least following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) an inorganic fine particle containing silicon oxide as a main component and having an average particle size of from 1 to 300 nm; (B) an ionizing radiation-curable resin; and (C) a polymer thickener.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an anti-reflection film, the method forming a multi-layer structure with different refractive indices from a coating composition in which the following (A) to (F) components are mixed. (A) Fluorine-containing polymer including a fluorine-containing hydrocarbon structure and a constituent unit derived from a compound having at least one group selected from a polyalkylene oxide group and a basic functional group, (B) Low refractive index inorganic fine particles which are not surface-modified or low refractive index inorganic fine particles which are surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having the molecular weight of 600 or less, (C) A curable binder containing no fluorine atoms in the molecule, (D) A solvent, (E) A polyfunctional fluorine-containing curable compound, and (F) High refractive index inorganic fine particles treated with a specific surface modifying agent.

Abstract: A light-scattering substrate having an irregular shape on one surface thereof is provided, the light-scattering substrate including: a thermoplastic resin; and at least one kind of transparent particles having a mean primary particle size of 3 ?m or more and not more than 12 ?m, wherein the light-scattering substrate contains a first region having a thickness of ½ or more times and not more than 4 times the mean primary particle size of the transparent particles from the surface having an irregular shape; and a second region having a thickness of 3/2 or more times the mean primary particle size of the transparent particles from a surface on back side of the surface having an irregular shape, and the first region and the second region have a region not substantially containing the transparent particle.

Abstract: An antireflective film is provided and includes: a transparent substrate; at least one conductive layer formed from a composition including at least one transparent conductive polymeric material and a compound forming a cross-liking site, the compound having a plurality of cross-linking reactive groups, at least one of which cross-links with the transparent conductive polymeric material; and at least one low refractive index layer.

Abstract: A hardcoat laminate including: a support formed from a thermoplastic resin composition; and a hardcoat layer formed from a hardcoat layer forming coating composition, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition contains a polymer having a lactone ring unit or a glutaric anhydride unit, and the hardcoat layer forming coating composition contains at least a component (a), a component (b) and a component (c) and contains substantially no organic solvent: (a) a curable compound having three or more polymerizable groups within one molecule, (b) a polymerization initiator, and (c) a diluent having from one to three polymerizable groups within one molecule.

Abstract: A hard coating film is provided and includes a transparent plastic substrate film, and a hard coating layer. The transparent plastic substrate film has mutually independent microscopic pits in at least one surface thereof, the microscopic pits each independently have a depth of 3 ?m or below, the microscopic pits have an average length of major diameters of from 0.5 ?m to 20 ?m, and the number of the microscopic pits is from 25 to 3,000 per mm2.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical film including: laminating a hard coat layer on one side of an optical substrate in roll form, the hard coat layer having a transparent support and an optical anisotropic layer. The transparent support is laminated on the optical anisotropic layer, the one side is a transparent support-side of the optical substrate, the hard coat layer is obtained by coating, drying and curing a composition for forming a hard coat layer containing a curable monomer, a photo-polymerization initiator, and a solvent. The solvent is a mixture of at least one solvent selected from (S-1) and (S-2) and at least one solvent selected from (S-3), or a mixture of at least one solvent selected from (S-1) and at least one solvent selected from (S-2): (S-1) solvents dissolving the transparent support; (S-2) solvents swelling the transparent support; and (S-3) solvents neither dissolving nor swelling the transparent support.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical film is provided and includes: simultaneously coating at least two coating solutions over a transparent support, the at least two coating solutions each containing a solvent and a solute; and drying the solvent in each of the at least two coating solutions to provide at least two coating layers. When the at least two coating layers are 1, 2, . . . n?1 and n layers in sequence from the outermost surface of the at least two coating layers toward the transparent support, n being an integer of 2 or more, the main component of the solute in the n-th layer is insoluble or sparingly soluble in the main component of the solvent in the (n?1)-th layer.

Abstract: A hard coat film includes a transparent plastic film substrate; and a hard coat layer, wherein the hard coat layer is formed of a composition for forming a hard coat layer, the composition containing the following component (A), component (B), and an organic solvent: Component (A): a polyrotaxane, Component (B): a monomer having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups.

Abstract: In a method for making an antiglare film including the casting, the releasing, the drying, the applying and the curing as defined herein, the transparent particles have an average primary particle size of greater than 2.5 ?m and not greater than 12 ?m, the transparent base has on at least one side thereof flat portions substantially parallel to a film-forming plane and rounded protrusions arising from the transparent particles, the protrusions having a maximum height Rt from the flat portions of from 1 to 15 ?m, and the cured layer has an average thickness of from 1 to 15.0 ?m and a surface profile with an arithmetic average roughness Ra, a mean spacing between peaks Sm, and an average slope ?a, all as measured in accordance with JIS B0601, satisfying the relationships (1) to (3) as defined herein.

Abstract: A method for producing a light scattering film is provided and includes: casting onto a support a dope containing at least a thermoplastic resin and light transmitting particles to provide a casted film, and peeling and drying the casted film to prepare a light transmitting base material; applying an coating solution containing at least a curable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a solvent onto the light transmitting base material and drying the solvent; and curing the curable compound to form a cured layer. At least one surface of the light transmitting base material has an asperity shape, the light transmitting particles have an average primary particle size greater than 2.5 ?m but not greater than 12 ?m, the cured layer has an average thickness of 0.1 ?m or greater but not greater than 10.0 ?m, and the cured layer satisfies the specific formulae.

Abstract: A light-transmitting substrate has an uneven profile on at least one surface thereof, the light-transmitting substrate contains a thermoplastic resin and a flat translucent particle; a tilt angle of the uneven profile on at least one surface of the light-transmitting substrate has the following distribution: (a) an integral value of frequencies of from 0° to less than 1.0° is from 0% to less than 25%, (b) an integral value of frequencies of from 1.0° to less than 10° is from 60% to less than 100%, and (c) an integral value of frequencies of 10° or more is from 0% to less than 25%, and an average distance between trough and crest in the uneven profile is from 10 to 300 ?m.

Abstract: An optical film is provided and includes: a support; a hard coat layer formed by hardening a hard coat layer-coating composition; and a overcoat layer formed by hardening an overcoat layer-coating composition, in this order. Each of the hard coat layer-coating composition and the overcoat layer-coating composition contains a compound having a plurality of polymerizable functional groups in one molecule, and the compound in the overcoat layer-coating composition contains a compound having at least three polymerizable functional groups.

Abstract: The method for producing an antireflection film is provided. The method includes, a step of coating a coating composition including the following components (A) to (D) on a base material to form a coating film, a step of volatilizing the solvent from the coating film for drying the coating film, and a step of curing the coating film to form a cured layer, in which a multilayer structure having different refractive indices from the coating composition is formed: (A) a fluorine-containing polymer with a specific structure, having a polyalkylene oxide group in the molecule, (B) non-surface-modified inorganic fine particles, or inorganic fine particles that are surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having a molecular weight of 600 or less, (C) a curable binder having no fluorine atom in the molecule, and (D) a solvent, provided that the mass ratio of [component (A)+component (B)]/[component (C)] is from 1/199 to 60/40.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide methods for treating or preventing fibrotic diseases, which are based on the novel finding that fibrosis is suppressed by administering ER-TR7 to a subject.

Abstract: A production method of an antireflection film comprises, in order, a step of applying a coating composition obtained by mixing the following components (A) to (D) on a base material to form a coating film, a step of drying the coating film to volatilize the solvent therefrom, and a step of curing the coating film to form a cured layer, wherein a multilayer structure having different refractive indexes is formed from the coating composition: (A) a compound having at least one structure selected from a fluorine-containing hydrocarbon structure and a polysiloxane structure and at least one isocyanate group; (B) an inorganic fine particle; (C) a curable binder containing no fluorine atom in the molecule; and (D) a solvent; provided that the mass ratio of [component (A)+component (B)]/[component (C)] is from 1/199 to 60/40.

Abstract: A hardcoat laminate including: a support formed from a thermoplastic resin composition; and a hardcoat layer formed from a hardcoat layer forming coating composition, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition contains a polymer having a lactone ring unit or a glutaric anhydride unit, and the hardcoat layer forming coating composition contains at least a component (a), a component (b) and a component (c) and contains substantially no organic solvent: (a) a curable compound having three or more polymerizable groups within one molecule, (b) a polymerization initiator, and (c) a diluent having from one to three polymerizable groups within one molecule.

Abstract: A production method of an antireflection film comprises, in order, a step of applying a coating composition obtained by mixing the following components (A) to (D) on a base material to form a coating film, a step of drying the coating film to volatilize the solvent therefrom, and a step of curing the coating film to form a cured layer, wherein a multilayer structure having different refractive indexes is formed from the coating composition: (A) a compound having at least one structure selected from a fluorine-containing hydrocarbon structure and a polysiloxane structure and at least one basic functional group, (B) an inorganic fine particle, (C) a curable binder containing no fluorine atom in the molecule, and (D) a solvent, provided that the mass ratio of [component (A)+component (B)]/[component (C)] is from 1/199 to 60/40.

Abstract: A light-scattering film includes a support; and a layer including a light-scattering particle and a light-transparent resin, wherein the light-scattering film satisfies following formulae (1) to (3) at the same time: nB435<nP435??Mathematical Formula (1) nB545<nP545??Mathematical Formula (2) 0.9<(nP435/nB435)/(nP545/nB545)<1.005??Mathematical Formula (3) wherein nP435 and nP545 represent refractive indexes of the light-scattering particle at wavelengths of 435 nm and 545 nm, respectively, and nB435 and nB545 represent a refractive indexes of the light-transparent resin at wavelengths of 435 nm and 545 nm, respectively.

Abstract: An optical film includes a filmy support that includes a polymer having all alicyclic structure; an ultraviolet absorbing layer; and a hardcoat layer, wherein the ultraviolet absorbing layer has a beam transmittance of 5% or less in a wavelength region of 200 to 340 nm and includes at least one ultraviolet absorbent selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide fine particle and a polymer particle.