Adhesive composition for polarizing plate, polarizing plate including the same, and optical display including the same

1. An adhesive composition for polarizing plates, comprising a (meth)acrylic copolymer and a curing agent,

wherein the (meth)acrylic copolymer is prepared by copolymerization of a monomer mixture, the monomer mixture comprising:

about 4 wt % to about 20 wt % of a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer,

a tertiary amine group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer, and

a monomer having a homopolymer glass transition temperature (Tg) of about 100° C. or greater, the monomer having a homopolymer Tg of about 100° C. or greater comprising at least one of (meth)acryloyl morpholine or isobornyl (meth)acrylate and being present in the monomer mixture in an amount of about 5 wt % to about 19 wt %,

wherein the monomer mixture comprises the hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer and the tertiary amine group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer in a weight ratio of about 500:1 to about 1:1,

the adhesive composition having a gel fraction of about 50% or greater after aging for 12 hours, as calculated by Equation 1:

Gel Fraction=( WC−WA )/( WB−WA )×100  Equation 1

wherein:

WA is a weight of a wire mesh (200 mesh);

WB is a total weight of the wire mesh and a specimen of an adhesive film for polarizing plates, the adhesive film being obtained by depositing 1.0 g of the adhesive composition for polarizing plates to a thickness of 20 μm on a release film, followed by aging the adhesive composition for polarizing plates on the release film at 23° C. and 55% RH for a period of time; and

WC is a total weight of the wire mesh and the adhesive film after placing the wire mesh and the adhesive film in a sample bottle, adding 50 cc of ethyl acetate to the sample bottle, allowing the sample bottle to stand for 1 day, and drying the sample bottle at 90° C. for 24 hours.

2. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the adhesive composition has an absolute value (|G48−G12|) of a difference between a gel fraction (G12) after a 12-hour aging and a gel fraction (G48) after a 48-hour aging of about 5% or lower.

3. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the tertiary amine group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer comprises at least one of N,N-(dimethylamino)ethyl (meth)acrylate, or N,N-(diethylamino)ethyl (meth)acrylate.

4. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the monomer having a homopolymer glass transition temperature (Tg) of about 100° C. or greater further comprises N-vinylpyrrolidone.

5. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the tertiary amine group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer is present in the monomer mixture in an amount of about 0.01 wt % to about 5 wt %, and the monomer having a homopolymer glass transition temperature of about 100° C. or greater is present in the monomer mixture in an amount of about 5 wt % to about 19 wt %.

6. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the monomer mixture further comprises an alkyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer.

7. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 6 , wherein the monomer mixture comprises about 4 wt % to about 20 wt % of the hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer, about 0.01 wt % to about 5 wt % of the tertiary amine group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer, about 5 wt % to about 19 wt % of the monomer having a homopolymer glass transition temperature (Tg) of about 100° C. or greater, and about 60 wt % to about 95 wt % of the alkyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer.

8. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the monomer mixture comprises the hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer and the monomer having a homopolymer glass transition temperature (Tg) of about 100° C. or greater in a weight ratio of about 4:1 to about 0.2:1.

9. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the (meth)acrylic copolymer has a glass transition temperature of about −45° C. to about −30° C.

10. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the (meth)acrylic copolymer has an acid value of about 0.3 mgKOH/g or lower.

11. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the (meth)acrylic copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of about 100,000 g/mol to about 2,000,000 g/mol.

12. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , wherein the curing agent comprises an isocyanate curing agent.

13. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , further comprising an acetoacetyl group-containing silane coupling agent.

14. The adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 , further comprising a reworking agent.

15. A polarizing plate comprising an adhesive for polarizing plates formed from the adhesive composition for polarizing plates according to claim 1 .

16. An optical display comprising the polarizing plate according to claim 15 .