Curable Composition Resin for Color Filter Adhesion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current curable compositions used in manufacturing color filters and solid-state imaging elements face challenges in achieving excellent adhesiveness with supports, leading to issues with film stability and pattern formation during the manufacturing process.

Innovation Solution

A curable composition incorporating a resin with specific constitutional units, including an anionic structure and a quaternary ammonium cationic structure ionically bonded to the anionic structure, along with a radically polymerizable group, which enhances electrostatic interactions and suppresses polymerization, resulting in improved adhesiveness and pattern stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If conventional curable compositions are used, then manufacturing process is simple, but adhesiveness to support is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadhesiveness to supportVSAvoidresin structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses a composite resin structure containing both anionic structures (for adhesion to support) and quaternary ammonium cationic structures (for electrostatic interaction with pigment particles). This composite molecular design enables the resin to simultaneously achieve excellent adhesiveness to the support and effective pigment dispersion without requiring multiple separate components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The resin molecules are designed with localized functional groups: anionic structures positioned to interact with the support surface for adhesion, and quaternary ammonium cationic structures positioned to interact with pigment particles through electrostatic attraction. This local functional differentiation within the resin structure resolves the contradiction between adhesion and pigment binding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If resin with high polymerization reactivity is used, then curability is improved, but storage stability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovecurabilityVSAvoidstorage stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent modifies the chemical parameters of the resin by introducing quaternary ammonium cationic structures that create electrostatic stabilization in the composition. This prevents premature polymerization during storage while maintaining the ability to cure properly when exposed to UV light, thus resolving the contradiction between curability and storage stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If conventional resins are used, then composition is simple, but pattern formation quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepattern formation qualityVSAvoidresin composition complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The resin is designed as a composite molecular structure containing both anionic and quaternary ammonium cationic groups. This composite structure enables precise pattern formation by ensuring uniform pigment dispersion and strong adhesion to the support, while the molecular design itself remains as a single resin component, minimizing compositional complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

4Stability of the object's composition

If resin with strong electrostatic interaction is used, then pigment dispersion is improved, but adhesiveness to support may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepigment dispersion stabilityVSAvoidadhesiveness to support
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The resin molecules are designed with localized functional groups: anionic structures positioned to interact with the support surface for adhesion, and quaternary ammonium cationic structures positioned to interact with pigment particles through electrostatic attraction. This local functional differentiation within the resin structure resolves the contradiction between adhesion and pigment binding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The curable composition achieves enhanced adhesiveness to supports, improved storage stability, and reduced development residue, leading to better pattern formation and curability in color filters and solid-state imaging elements.

Implementation Method 1

a quaternary ammonium cationic structure which is ionically bonded to the anionic structure

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectIonic bonding: Coulomb's Law

Implementation Method 2

a resin which includes a constitutional unit having a radically polymerizable group

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotopolymerization: Photopolymerisation

Data Source

PatentUS20210382388A1Curable composition, film, color filter, method for manufacturing color filter, solid-state imaging element, image display device, and polymer compound
Publication Date: 2021.12.09 FUJIFILM CORP
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AI summary

Provided are a curable composition including a pigment and a resin which satisfies at least one or the following requirement 1 or the following requirement 2; a film and a color filter formed from the curable composition; a method for manufacturing a color filter formed from the curable composition; a solid-state imaging element and an image display device including the film or the color filter; and a polymer compound.Requirement 1: the resin includes a constitutional unit having, in the same side chain, an anionic structure, a quaternary ammonium cationic structure which is ionically bonded to the anionic structure, and a radically polymerizable group.Requirement 2: the resin includes a constitutional unit having, in a side chain, a quaternary ammonium cationic structure and a group to which a radically polymerizable group is linked.