TRANSPARENT ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE HARD-COATED SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

• US 20080152870A1
• Filed: 12/22/2006
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
• Inventors: Juni, Noriyuki, Nakamura, Toshitaka, Mochizuki, Amane, Takada, Katsunori, Miyagawa, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US11/615,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20080152870A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/174
• CPC Class Codes: B82Y 20/00 Nanooptics, e.g. quantum optics or photonic crystals
• CPC Class Codes: B82Y 30/00 Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/305 including organic materials, e.g. polymeric layers
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/3058 comprising electrically conductive elements, e.g. wire grids, conductive particles
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 1/24 the conductive material comprising carbon-silicon compounds, carbon or silicon
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24628 Nonplanar uniform thickness material
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31504 Composite [nonstructural laminate]

Abstract

A transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate of the invention comprises a transparent base material; a deposited carbon nanotubes layer formed on the transparent base material; and a cured resin layer formed on the deposited carbon nanotubes layer, wherein the deposited carbon nanotubes layer has a thickness of 10 nm or less, the total thickness of the deposited carbon nanotubes layer and the cured resin layer is 1.5 μm or more, and part of the deposited carbon nanotubes layer is diffused into the cured resin layer so that carbon nanotubes are present in the cured resin layer. The transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate possesses high transparency and hard coating properties and also has electrical conductivity.

Claims

1. A transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate, comprising:

a transparent base material;

a deposited carbon nanotubes layer formed on the transparent base material; and

a cured resin layer formed on the deposited carbon nanotubes layer, wherein

the deposited carbon nanotubes layer has a thickness of 10 nm or less,

the total thickness of the deposited carbon nanotubes layer and the cured resin layer is 1.5 μ

m or more, and

part of the deposited carbon nanotubes layer is diffused into the cured resin layer so that carbon nanotubes are present in the cured resin layer.

2. The transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate according to claim 1, wherein the carbon nanotubes is a single-walled carbon nanotubes.

3. The transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate according to claim 1, wherein a cured resin layer side of the transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate has a surface resistance of 1.0×

10¹⁰Ω

/□

or less.

4. The transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate according to claim 1, wherein the total thickness of the deposited carbon nanotubes layer and the cured resin layer is from 1.5 μ

m to 30 μ

m.

5. The transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate according to claim 1, wherein an outer side of the cured resin layer has an irregular fine surface structure.

6. The transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate according to claim 1, further comprising at least one anti-reflection layer formed on the cured resin layer.

7. A polarizing plate, comprising:

a polarizer; and

the transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate according to claim 1, wherein the transparent base material side of the substrate is laminated with at least one side of the polarizer.

8. An image display, comprising the transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate according to claim 1 or the polarizing plate according to claim 7.

9. A method for producing a transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate that comprises a transparent base material, a deposited carbon nanotubes layer on the transparent base material and a cured resin layer on the deposited carbon nanotubes layer, comprising the steps of:

applying, to a transparent base material, a carbon nanotubes dispersion containing carbon nanotubes and a solvent and drying it to form a deposited carbon nanotubes layer with a thickness of 10 nm or less;

applying, to the deposited carbon nanotubes layer, a solution of a material for forming a cured resin layer in a solvent, removing the solvent by drying, then curing the material to form a cured resin layer such that the deposited carbon nanotubes layer and the cured resin layer provide a total thickness of 1.5 μ

m or more, and

allowing carbon nanotubes to diffuse from part of the deposited carbon nanotubes layer to the material for forming the cured resin layer before the curing for the cured resin layer is completed.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the deposited carbon nanotubes layer has a surface resistance of 1.0×

10⁹Ω

/□

or less.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the deposited carbon nanotubes layer has an open area ratio of 50% or more.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the solvent used in the solution of the material for forming the cured resin layer has a boiling point of 50°

C. to 160°

C.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the carbon nanotubes is a single-walled carbon nanotubes.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein a cured resin layer side of the obtained transparent electrically-conductive hard-coated substrate has a surface resistance of 1.0×

10¹⁰Ω

/□

or less.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the total thickness of the deposited carbon nanotubes layer and the cured resin layer is from 1.5 μ

m to 30 μ

m.