Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode comprises a pair of polarizing plates which are constituted with a polarizing plate at the output side comprising a polarizer at the output side and a polarizing plate at the incident side comprising a polarizer at the incident side having a transmission axis approximately perpendicular to a transmission axis of the polarizer at the output side and two or more sheets of optically anisotropic members and liquid crystal cells disposed between the pair of polarizing plates. In the optically anisotropic member, the sum of the major in-plane refractive indices is twice the sum of the major refractive index in the direction of thickness or smaller. The ratio of retardation of light incident at an angle inclined by 40 degrees with respect to the normal toward the major axis (R40) to the retardation of light incident perpendicularly (R0) is 0.90˜1.10. The device comprises a low refractive index layer which has a refractive index of 1.

Abstract: An optical multilayer film for a liquid crystal display comprising a hard coat layer and a low refractive index layer comprising aerogel, which layers are laminated, in this order, directly or with another intervening layer on one surface of a substrate film comprising a transparent resin, wherein the refractive index nH of the hard coat layer and the refractive index nL of the low refractive index layer satisfy the following three formulae [1], [2] and [3], nL?1.37??Formula [1] nH?1.53??Formula [2] (nH)1/2?0.2<nL<(nH)1/2+0.2.

Abstract: The present invention provide a coating material composition comprising at least fine hollow particles and a matrix-forming material, wherein when the coating material composition is applied and dried to form a coating film having a low refractive index, the matrix-forming material forms a porous matrix.

Abstract: The present invention provide a coating material composition comprising at least fine hollow particles and a matrix-forming material, wherein when the coating material composition is applied and dried to form a coating film having a low refractive index, the matrix-forming material forms a porous matrix.

Abstract: There is provided a composite thin film-holding substrate in which a composite thin film (4) comprising a filler (2) having a refractive index lower than that of a substrate (1) and a binder (3) having a refractive index higher than that of the filler (2) is formed on a surface of the substrate (1). Light is efficiently scattered when passing through the composite thin film (3) which comprises the filler (2) and the binder (3) having different refractive indexes from each other. In addition, the refractive index of a composite thin film (4) comprising a filler (2) having a low refractive index is low. As a result, the discharge efficiency of light which passes through the composite thin film (4) from the substrate (1) to the external is improved.

Abstract: An antifouling film coated article is provided, which has the capability of providing good antifouling property over an extended time period regardless of the amount of rainfall falling thereon. This coated article comprises a film of a silicone resin material formed on a substrate. A contact angle of water on the film is in a range of 5 to 30°, and an average surface roughness of the film is 5 nm or less. It is preferred that the silicone resin material is a composition containing colloidal silica and a silicone resin that is at least one selected from a partial hydrolysate and full hydrolysate of 4-functional hydrolyzable organosilane. This composition may further contain organic zirconium and/or an optical semiconductor material.

Abstract: An antifouling silicone emulsion coating-composition comprising following components (A), (B), (C) and (D), an amount of the component (C) incorporated being in the range of 5 to 80% by weight relative to the total solid contents in the composition: (A) partially hydrolyzed organosiloxane with a weight-average molecular weight of 600 to 5,000 (determined using a polystyrene calibration curve), represented by the average formula (I): R2aSiOb(OR1)c(OH)d wherein R1 and R2 represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group; a, b, c and d are numerals satisfying the following relationships: a+2b+c+d=4, 0≦a<3, 0<b<2, 0<c<4, and 0<d<4; (B) nonionic or anionic surface active agent; (C) photo-semiconductor; and (D) water.

Abstract: The present invention provides a functional coated product having excellent adhesion properties of a coating to a substrate, hardly causing the deterioration of the substrate and the coating due to a photocatalyst, hardly having dirt because the smoothness of the surface coating is high, and having high photocatalytic action; a method for producing the same and the use thereof.The coated product of the present invention has the first coating layer comprising a cured coating made of an acryl-modified silicone resin coating material, which is formed on the surface of the substrate, and the second coating layer comprising a cured coating made of a functional coating material containing the photocatalyst, which is formed con the surface of the first coating layer. When producing such a coated product, the acryl-modified silicone resin coating material is applied to the surface of the substrate as the first coating layer and it is semi-cured.

Abstract: A composition of the present invention comprises organosiloxane partial hydrolyzate represented by a formula R.sub.2.sup.a SiO.sub.b (OR.sup.1).sub.c (OH).sub.d and having a weight-average molecular weight of 600-5,000 in polystylene conversion, (B) colloidal silica, (C) emulsifying agent and (D) water. Its manufacturing method comprises, for example, a step of mixing the mixed (A), (B) and (D) constituents with the (C) constituent, whereby the composition of silicone emulsion coating material which is stable as an emulsion for a long term and capable of being hardened at low temperatures and as heated and forming a hardened film excellent in the weatherability, durability and so on, as well as its manufacturing method can be provided.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor having a charge transporting layer excellent in the abrasion resistance, stain resistance (toner releasability) and corona resistance, having a long life and also having excellent processability. An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive substrate having thereon a charge generating layer containing a photoconductive material in a transparent resin cured product and at least one charge transporting layer containing a charge transporting material in a transparent resin cured product in this order, wherein the transparent resin cured product in the outermost layer of said at least one charge transporting layer is a cured product of silicone resin and contains a linear polysiloxanediol in an amount of 1 to 100 parts per 100 parts by weight of all silicone solids contents exclusive of the polysiloxanediol.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resinous composition for foul releasing coat adhesion containing a silica dispersed oligomer solution of an organosilane, an acrylic resin, a straight-chain polysiloxane diol, a silanol group-containing polyorganosiloxane and a curing catalyst, and an article coated therewith.

Abstract: A heat-fixing roll is coated with a hardened silicone coating composition containing such materials (1A) and (1B) or (2A) through (2D) as follows:(1A) organosiloxane consisting of a hydrolyzed condensation polymer of 20-200 parts by weight of silicon compound Si(OR.sup.1).sub.4 and colloidal silica, 100 parts by weight of silicon compound R.sub.2 Si(OR.sup.1).sub.3, and 0-60 parts by weight of silicon compound R.sub.2 Si(OR.sup.1).sub.2 (R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 being monovalent hydrocarbon radicals), with the weight average molecular weight controlled to be more than 800 in polystyrene conversion, and(1B) a straight-chain polysiloxanediol HO(R.sup.3.sub.2 SiO).sub.n H (R.sup.3 being a monovalent hydrocarbon radical, and n.gtoreq.3); or(2A) a silica dispersed oligomer solution of organosilane prepared by partially hydrolyzing a hydrolyzable organosilane R.sup.4.sub.m SiX.sub.4-m (R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention provides a functional coated product having excellent adhesion properties of a coating to a substrate, hardly causing the deterioration of the substrate and the coating due to a photocatalyst, hardly having dirt because the smoothness of the surface coating is high, and having high photocatalytic action; a method for producing the same and the use thereof. The coated product of the present invention has the first coating layer comprising a cured coating made of an acryl-modified silicone resin coating material, which is formed on the surface of the substrate, and the second coating layer comprising a cured coating made of a functional coating material containing the photocatalyst, which is formed con the surface of the first coating layer. When producing such a coated product, the acryl-modified silicone resin coating material is applied to the surface of the substrate as the first coating layer and it is semi-cured.