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Granted Patent B2
US 9,349,778 · App. 14/422,421 · Granted May 24, 2016

Polymer film, flexible light emitting element display device, and rollable display device

Inventors: Heon Kim (Daejeon, KR); Yeong Rae Chang (Daejeon, KR); Hye Min Kim (Daejeon, KR); Young Suk Kim (Daejeon, KR); Soon-Hwa Jung (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
H01L27/3244C08J7/047H01L51/0097H01L51/5253C08J2303/02C08J2333/08C08J2333/14C08J2363/00C08J2367/02C08J2367/04C08J2375/04C08J2400/21H01L2251/5338Y10T428/10Y10T428/1086
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Patent No.
US 9,349,778
App. No.
14/422,421
Granted
May 24, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a polymer film containing a binder resin and polyrotaxane having a specific structure, and a flexible light emitting element display device and a rollable display device including the coating film.

Claims (52)

1. A polymer film comprising:

a binder resin having a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 to 800,000; and

a polyrotaxane including a macrocycle to which a lactone-based compound is bonded, a linear molecule penetrating into the macrocycle, and a blocking group arranged at both ends of the linear molecule to prevent the macrocycle from being separated,

wherein a rate of a polyrotaxane in which an end of the lactone-based compound is substituted by a (meth)acrylate-based compound in the entire polyrotaxane is 40 mol % to 70 mol %, and

the polymer film is bent over a mandrel having a diameter of 10 mm or less without cracking in a mandrel test.

2. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film has sufficient flexibility to be bent over a cylindrical steel mandrel having a diameter of 7.0 mm or less without cracking at the time of performing measurement according to ASTM Standard D522-93A method B.

3. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film has a thickness of 5 μm to 100 μm.

4. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

elongation measured according to ASTM D638 at room temperature is 5% to 500%.

5. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film has light transmittance of 92.0% or more and haze of 0.9 or less.

6. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film is used as a substrate, an external protective film, or a cover window of a light emitting element display device.

7. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film has a glass transition temperature of −80° C. to 100° C.

8. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the binder resin includes at least one selected from a group consisting of a (meth)acrylate-based polymer, a urethane (meth)acrylate-based polymer, a polyurethane resin, and a silicone-epoxy copolymer having a (meth)acrylate group introduced at an end thereof.

9. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the macrocycle includes at least one selected from a group consisting of α-cyclodextrin, β-cyclodextrin, and γ-cyclodextrin.

10. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the lactone-based compound is directly bonded to the macrocycle or bonded to the macrocycle via a straight or branched oxyalkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.

11. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

a residue of the lactone-based compound includes a functional group of the following Chemical Formula 1:

wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, m is an integer of 2 to 11, and n is an integer of 1 to 20.

12. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the (meth)acrylate-based compound is directly bonded to the end of the lactone-based compound or bonded to the end of the lactone-based compound via a urethane bond, an ether bond, a thioester bond, or an ester bond.

13. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

a residue of the (meth)acrylate-based compound bonded to the end of the lactone-based compound includes a functional group of the following Chemical Formula 2:

wherein, in Chemical Formula 2, R 1 is hydrogen or methyl, and R 2 is a straight or branched alkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a cycloalkylene group having a 4 to 20 carbon atoms, or an arylene group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and

* means a binding site.

14. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the linear molecule is a polyoxyalkylene-based compound or a polylactone-based compound.

15. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the linear molecule has a weight average molecular weight of 1000 to 50,000.

16. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the blocking group includes at least one functional group selected from a group consisting of a dinitrophenyl group, a cyclodextrin group, an adamantane group, a trityl group, a fluorescein group, and a pyrene group.

17. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polyrotaxane has a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 800,000.

18. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film contains the polyrotaxane at a content of 1 wt % to 50 wt % based on the entire weight of the polymer film.

19. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film has a crosslinked structure between the binder resin and the polyrotaxane.

20. The polymer film of claim 1 , wherein

the polymer film contains a multifunctional acrylate-based compound forming a crosslink bond with at least one of the binder resin and the polyrotaxane.

21. A flexible light emitting element display device comprising the polymer film of claim 1 .

22. The flexible light emitting element display device of claim 21 , wherein the flexible light emitting element display device includes the polymer film as a substrate, an external protective film, or a cover window.

23. The flexible light emitting element display device of claim 21 , wherein the flexible light emitting element display device includes a cathode providing electrons, an electron transport layer, an emission layer, a hole transport layer, and an anode providing holes, and

the polymer film is bonded to at least one surface of the cathode or the anode.

24. A rollable display device comprising the polymer film of claim 1 .

25. The rollable display device of claim 24 , wherein the rollable display device includes the polymer film as a substrate, an external protective film, or a cover window.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 19, 2015
From: KIM, HEON; CHANG, YEONG RAE; KIM, HYE MIN; KIM, YOUNG SUK
To: LG CHEM, LTD.
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Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2013-0052701 · May 9, 2013 · national
KR 10-2014-0054991 · May 8, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150218323A1 · Aug 6, 2015