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Kaoru Iwata

Hideaki Nitta

Takeshi Sasaki

Utami Yonemura

Takashi Shiro

Kiyonari Hashidzume

Yutaka Taketani

Michio Yamaura

Masaki Takeuchi

Yoichi Saito

Akihiro Horike

Hiroshi Matsuzawa

Shunichi Matsumura

Katsushi Sasaki

Shigeyoshi Hara

Takahiro Daido

Takeyuki Kawaguchi

Akihiko Uchiyama

Nobuaki Kido

Takashi Kushida

Toshio Nishihara

Michisuke Ohe

Tsuneo Hagiwara

Masanori Abe

Yoshihiko Imanaka

Takayuki Kawaguchi

Hiroshi Nakamatsu

A film which is a single polymer film and has a smaller phase difference as the wavelength becomes shorter. This film is made from an olefin-based polymer which has an alicyclic group in the side chain, such as hydrogenated polystyrene, the amount of the alicyclic group in the side chain being 60 to 90 wt % based on the whole polymer, and satisfies the following expression:(450)/(550)&#x3c;1wherein R(450) and R(550) are phase differences on the film plane at a wavelength of 450 nm and a wavelength of 550 nm, respectively.

Optical film

Process for producing a hydrogenated &agr;-olefin-dicyclopentadiene copolymer. The process includes a step of distilling of unreacted dicyclopentadiene or tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene which is a hydrogenated product of unreacted dicyclopentadiene from a mixture containing &agr;-olefin-dicyclopentadiene copolymer or its hydrogenated product in the presence of a high-boiling hydrocarbon solvent having a boiling point of 195 to 300&deg; C. and an ignition point of 260&deg; C. or more. Method for melt molding the hydrogenated &agr;-olefin-dicyclopentadiene copolymer is also proposed.

Process for producing hydrogenated &agr;-olefin-dicyclopentadiene copolymer, method for molding the same and optical material

A cyclic olefin polymer having a small content of a catalyst residue, a production process for the same and use of the same as an optical material. Catalysts used for polymerization and/or hydrogenation reaction for forming the cyclic olefin polymer are decomposed efficiently by adding at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an &agr;-oxyacid and &bgr;-oxyacid having one hydroxyl group and one carboxyl group in the molecule and derivatives obtained by substituting hydroxyl group thereof by an alkoxyl group, and the decomposition products are removed by rendering them insoluble in a reaction solvent used for the polymerization and/or hydrogenation reaction and precipitating them efficiently.

Cyclic olefin polymer containing little catalyst residue

&agr;-olefin-cycloolefin copolymers and process for their production

An optically isotropic film of an aromatic polyethersulfone, which is useful as a substrate for a liquid crystal display device, and an optically anisotropic, uniaxially oriented film of an aromatic polyethersulfone, which is useful as a phase difference plate for a liquid crystal display device. The optically isotropic film is produced by casting an aromatic polyethersulfone solution composition comprising 15 to 40 parts by weight of a solvent which contains at least 60% by weight of 1,3-dioxolane and can dissolve an aromatic polyethersulfone and 10 parts by weight of the aromatic polyethersulfone, on a substrate, and heating the cast solution composition containing a solvent to evaporate the solvent off.

Film of aromatic polyethersulfone, process for the production thereof,

An acylated cellulose film having a high optical isotropy and uniformity is produced by dissolving an acylated cellulose in a solvent substantially free from water and including, as a principal component, 1,3-dioxolane in a ratio in weight of the acylated cellulose to the solvent of 10/250 to 10/15; spreading the acylated cellulose solution on a film-forming surface of a support; and drying, for example, initially drying the spread solution layer on film-forming surface so as to reduce the content of the residual solvent in the resultant film to 5 to 30% by weight; removing the resultant residual solvent-containing film from the film-forming surface; and finally drying the removed film, while allowing the film to shrink in the transversal direction thereof, at a drying temperature controlled continuously or intermittently to a level satisfying the relationship (I): (Tg'-50.degree. C.).ltoreq.T.ltoreq.(Tg'+20.degree. C.) (I), wherein T is the drying temperature (.degree.C.) and Tg' is a glass transition temperature (.degree.C.) of the solvent-containing film, the temperature Tg' varying in response to the solvent content in the film.

Method of producing an acylated cellulose film

Film of aromatic polyethersulfone process for the production thereof and

The present invention is to provide polycarbonate film excellent in optical properties such as high transparency and a process for producing it. The present invention relates to polycarbonate film having a specific retardation values, and a process for producing polycarbonate film by casting a dope onto a support and evaporating the solvent with heat wherein the dope is prepared by dissolving 10 parts by weight of polycarbonate resin in 30 to 150 parts by weight of the solvent mixture which contains more than 60% by weight of dioxolane.

Polycarbonate film for optical purposes and a production process thereof

The present invention is to provide a polycarbonate film excellent in optical properties such as high transparency and a process for producing it. The present invention relates to a polycarbonate film having a specific retardation value, and a process for producing a polycarbonate film by casting a dope onto a support and evaporating the solvent with heat wherein the dope is prepared by dissolving 10 parts by weight of polycarbonate resin in 30 to 150 parts by weight of the solvent mixture which contains more than 60% by weight of dioxolane.

A sulfur compound-coordinate bonded organic coloring matter, having a high resistance to ultraviolet rays and usable for a photorecording medium, comprises a reaction product of a transition metal complex of the formula: ##STR1## wherein n is zero, 1 or 2, A is a cation when n is 1 or but when n is zero, no cation A exists, X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3 and X.sub.4 are --O--, --S--, --SH--, --NH-- or --NH.sub.2 --, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, cyano or alkyl, optionally the groups of the formulae ##STR2## are cyclized to form a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene or naphthylene or divalent heterocyclic ring containing O, S or N, and M is a transition metal atom having a coordinate number of 4 or more, with an organic sulfur compound having a mercapto or disulfide radical, to form at least one coordinate bond between the transition metal atom M and the mercapto or disulfide radical.

Sulfur compound-coordinate bonded organic coloring matter, compositions

An organic nonlinear optical substance having the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents --H or --CH.sub.3 ;

Organic nonlinear optical substance

A novel naphthalocyanine based compound having Si atom as a central metal and groups selected from ##STR1## CN, and --CH.dbd.CH.sub.2 which is bonded to said Si atom via a specific hydrocarbon group, by which solubility in an organic solvent, compatibility with a polymeric substance and durability against an infrared ray are improved. The compound may be incorporated into a polymeric substance layer to form a recording layer of an optical recording medium.

Naphthalocyanine based compound and optical recording medium containing

A photocrosslinkable substantially linear polyester polymer having sensitivity to visible light is provided which contains at least 10 mole %, based on the entire polymer, of units derived from a phenylenebis(.alpha.-cyanobutadienecarboxylic acid) and has a reduced viscosity of at least 0.2 dl/g. A typical use of the polymer is in making printing plates.

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