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• the present invention relates to a conductive polymer composition and to a layer made from said conductive polymer composition suitable for use as a transparent electrode and/or antistatic layer for display device, such as liquid crystal display (LCD) device.
• LCD liquid crystal display
• Display devices such as liquid crystal display (LCD) devices, are used for a television, a projector, a mobile phone, a PDA, etc. and recently, particularly mobile devices include a touch sensor such that the device can be operated by touching.
• Conventional conductive materials of the transparent electrode for a touch sensor in such display device are transparent conductive oxides (TCO), such as indium tin oxide (ITO), indium zinc oxide (IZO) and antimony tin oxide (ATO).
• TCO transparent conductive oxides
• ITO indium tin oxide
• IZO indium zinc oxide
• ATO antimony tin oxide
• the materials are typically deposited by using sputtering, and thus, has drawbacks such as a rather complicated and costly process. Also, these materials are disadvantageous because many cracks may be generated upon their formation, and indium which is a main element of ITO and IZO is a limited resource that is becoming quickly exhausted these days.
• Conductive polymers have a good flexibility and are considered to be inexpensive because these can be formed by simple processing. Having these characteristics, it is believed that the conductive polymers are among the potential candidates to replace TCO in forming transparent electrode and/or antistatic layer in display devices.
• Korean patent application No. KR 2010-0047440 A discloses a conductive composition forming an electrode of a liquid crystal display containing 0.1-10 parts by weight of conductive polymer, 0.1-10 parts by weight of dopant, 3-30 parts by weight of silane coupling agent, and 50-90 parts by weight of solvent, in order to provide good permeability and surface hardness of the electrode.
• the purpose of the present invention is to provide compositions
• compositions according to the present invention can exhibit high stability and/or sheet uniformity. Also, the compositions according to the present invention can have advantageous permeability characteristics, e.g. less reactivity with moisture and/or oxygen.
• the present invention therefore relates to compositions comprising at least one conductive polymer, at least one binder, and at least one solvent, wherein said binder comprises a silicon containing binder selected from a
• compositions comprising at least one conductive polymer, at least one binder, and at least one solvent, wherein said binder comprises a polysilazane binder.
• compositions according to the present invention have satisfactory adhesion property to the substrate, especially when directly applied on a glass substrate of display devices.
• the present invention provides transparent electrodes and/or antistatic layers, which are in particular suitable for display devices including a touch sensor, made of the compositions according to the present invention.
• the transparent electrodes and/or antistatic layers according to the present invention can exhibit high sheet uniformity, surface hardness and/or transmittance.
• a conductive polymer is understood to denote in particular any polymers that conduct electricity.
• the conductive polymers can be, for example, dissolved or dispersed in the solvent.
• the conductive polymers are dispersed in water and/or alcohol.
• a substrate is understood to denote in particular a solid, in particular a transparent solid on which a layer of material can be deposited using a composition according to the invention.
• substrates include a glass substrate, or preferably transparent solid polymers, for example polyethyleneterephthalate(PET), polyethylene naphthalene
• the substrate is in the form of a sheet.
• alkyl groups is understood to denote in particular a straight chain, branched chain, or cyclic hydrocarbon groups usually having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms.
• alkyl groups include methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl, tert-butyl, pentyl, neopentyl, hexyl, cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl, and cyclohexyl.
• alkoxy groups is understood to denote in particular a straight chain, branched chain, or cyclic hydrocarbon group usually having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, singularly bonded to oxygen (Alk-O-).
• aryl groups is understood to denote in particular any functional group or substituent derived from an aromatic ring.
• the aryl groups can have 6 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 6 to 12 carbon atoms, in which some or all of the hydrogen atoms of the aryl group may or may not be substituted with other groups, especially alkyl groups, alkoxy groups, aryl groups, or hydroxyl groups.
• the aryl groups are preferably optionally substituted phenyl groups, naphthyl groups, anthryl group and phenanthryl group.
• aryloxy groups is understood to denote in particular the aryl group as defined above singularly bonded to oxygen (Ar-O-).
• the conductive polymer is selected from the group consisting of polyacetylene polymers, poly(p-phenylene) polymers, poly(p- phenylenesulfide) polymers, poly(p-phenylenevinylene) polymers, polyaniline polymers, polyacetylene polymers, polypyrrole polymers, polythiophene polymers, polyethylenedioxythiophene(PEDOT) polymers, and any combination thereof, preferably polyaniline polymers, polythiophene polymers, PEDOT polymers, and any combination thereof. More preferably, the conductive polymer in the present invention comprises PEDOT polymers.
• the PEDOT polymer is preferably doped with at least one further compound.
• doped PEDOT polymers include PEDOT doped with lignosulfonic acid (LSA) (PEDOT/LSA), PEDOT doped with polyethyleneglycol (PEG) (PEDOT/PEG), PEDOT doped with
• POM polyoxometalate
• SPI sufonated polyimide
• CNT carbon nanotube
• PEDOT/DMSO/CNT carbon/PEDOT composite, PEDOT/graphene composite, or PEDOT/CNT composite), PEDOT doped with DMSO and CNT (PEDOT/DMSO/CNT), PEDOT doped with tosylate, PEDOT doped with C1-, PEDOT doped with N0 3 , PEDOT doped with PSS (PEDOT:PSS), PEDOT/PSS doped with pentacene, PEDOT doped with ammonium persulfate (APS) (PEDOT/APS), and PEDOT doped with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (PEDOT/DMSO), but the present invention is not limited thereto.
• the conductive polymer is a
• PEDOT/PSS polyethylenedioxythiophene/polystyrenesulfonate
• PEDOT/PSS polyethylenedioxythiophene/polystyrenesulfonate
• the ratio of PEDOT and PSS is preferably 5:95 to 50:50 by weight.
• the binder comprises a silicon containing binder, preferably selected from a polysilsesquioxane binder and a polysiloxane binder having a two-dimensional structure, preferably obtainable by reacting a polysilazane with a source of oxygen.
• the binder comprises polysilazane binder. It has been found that the compositions according to the invention comprising these binders provide superior adhesion property of a layer to a substrate. Also, the compositions according to the invention allow for high wet/air endurance, and/or good storage stability.
• the binder can consist of one type of binder. Alternatively, the binder may be constituted of two or more types of different binders.
• the polysilsesquioxane binder in the composition according to the present invention comprises or preferably consists of a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS), comprising the structure below :
• PES polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane
• compositions according to the invention having a POSS binder provide even better adhesion to the substrate. Also, it has been found that the compositions comprising POSS binder according to the present invention can exhibit better wet/air endurance and/or stability of the composition.
• the binder in the composition according to the present invention comprises a polysilazane binder.
• the polysilazane binder is preferably perhydropolysilazane, which may be prepared by ammono lysis reaction of ammonia and chlorosilanes. It has been found that the composition according to the present invention comprising the polysilazane binder leads to a superior stability of the compositions as well as a uniform sheet resistance in the layer resulting from the composition.
• the binder in the composition according to the present invention comprises a polysiloxane binder having a two-dimensional structure which is preferably obtainable by reacting a polysilazane, preferably a perhydropolysilazane with a source of oxygen atoms.
• the perhydropolysilazane can be prepared by ammono lysis reaction of ammonia and chlorosilanes.
• the perhydropolysilazane may be synthesized by the following chemical reaction :
• R denotes in particular hydroxyl group, alkyl groups, aryl groups, alkoxy groups and aryloxy groups.
• the thus produced perhydropolysilazane can be further processed to the polysiloxane binder having a two-dimensional structure in the present invention.
• the perhydropolysilazane can be reacted with oxygen and water in a presence of a catalyst, preferably metal catalyst, resulting in the polysiloxane binder with a generation of hydrogen and ammonia.
• the catalyst which is described hereinafter can be used to accelerate the conversion of the polysilazane into the polysiloxane.
• the resulting polysiloxane binder has a particular two-dimensional recurring rhombic structure. It has been found that the composition according to the present invention comprising the polysiloxane binder having the two-dimensional structure leads to even better wet/air endurance quality. Also, the compositions of this embodiment can have superior stability of the compositions.
• the binder in the composition according to the present invention comprises polysilazane/polysiloxane block copolymers, preferably prepared by copolymerizing at least one polysilazane with at least one polysiloxane.
• the binder in the composition according to the present invention further comprises at least one thermosetting monomer and/or binder.
• the thermosetting monomer and/or binder can be selected from the group consisting of trialkoxysilane, trichlorosilane, tetrachlorosilane, aminosilane-based binders, tetraalkoxysilane-based binders, and any
• thermosetting monomer and/or binder are tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), tetramethoxysilane (TMOS), TEOS-based binder, TMOS-based binder and any combination thereof.
• TEOS tetraethoxysilane
• TMOS tetramethoxysilane
• the composition according to the present invention comprises TEOS binder in addition to a polysilsesquioxane binder or a polysilazane binder.
• the solvent in the composition according to the present invention is selected from the group consisting of water ; aliphatic alcohols, such as methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, butanol, n-propylalcohol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, butanediol, neopentyl glycol, 1,3-pentanediol, 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, diethyleneglycol, polyethelene glycol, polybutylene glycol, dimethylolpropane, trimethylolpropane, sorbitol, esterification products of the afore-mentioned alcohols ; aliphatic ketones, such as methyl cellosolve, propyleneglycol methylether, diacetone alcohol, ethylacetate, butylacetate, acetone and methylethylketone ; ethers such as tetrahydrofuran, dibutyl
• the conductive polymer is used in an amount of 0.01 to 10 wt %, preferably 0.05 to 5 wt %, more preferably 0.1 to 2 wt % of the composition.
• the binder is used in an amount of 1 to 40 wt %, preferably 5 to 20 wt %, more preferably 10 to 15 wt % of the conductive polymer composition.
• the binder in an amount of 1 to 40 wt % of the composition, the composition according to the present invention can exhibit good surface hardness when processed to a layer and also a good compatibility.
• the solvent is used in an amount of 50 to 98.99 wt %, preferably 50 to 95 wt %, more preferably 50 to 90 wt % of the conductive polymer composition.
• the composition according to the present invention can exhibit good coatability and surface hardness when processed to a layer.
• composition according to the present invention further comprises at least one additive selected from the group consisting of a coupling agent, a surfactant, an inhibitor, a catalyst, and any combination thereof.
• a coupling agent is understood to function to aid an adhesion to the substrate when applied to the substrate.
• Such coupling agent can be selected, for example, from the group consisting of ammonia,
• chlorosilane monomeric aminosilane, ⁇ -glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane, ⁇ -glycidoxypropyltriethyoxysilane, ⁇ -glycidoxypropylethyldimethoxysilane, ⁇ -glycidoxypropylethyldiethoxysilane, vinyltrimethoxysilane,
• vinyltriethoxysilane ⁇ -glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane, N-P-aminoethyl-y- aminopropyltrimethoxysilane, N-P-aminoethyl-Y-aminopropyltriethoxysilane, ⁇ -mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane, ⁇ -chloropropyltrimethoxysilane,
• ⁇ -acryloxypropyldimethoxysilane and any combination thereof.
• Preferred examples of the coupling agent are chlorosilane, monomeric amino silane, vinyltrimethoxysilane, and vinyltriethoxysilane.
• a surfactant is understood to denote in particular a material that lowers the surface tension of a liquid, the interfacial tension between two liquids, or that between a liquid and a solid.
• the surfactant in the present invention preferably has a hydrophile lipophile balance (HLB) of 8 to 16, preferably 10 to 13.
• HLB hydrophile lipophile balance
• Preferred examples of the surfactant include BYK ® surfactants (obtainable from BYK Additives & Instruments), such as BYK ® -307, alkanesulfonates, betaines, alkylethoxylates, ethersulfates, and any combination thereof. More preferably, the surfactants are BYK ® -307, alkanesulfonates, and alkylethoxylates .
• an inhibitor can be optionally added to the composition in order to keep the adequate extent of the polymerization.
• the examples of the inhibitor include hydroquinone, dialkylacetylenedicarboxylate, dimethylacetylenedicarboxylate, diethylenedicarboxylate,
• methylethylacetylenedicarboxylate and any combination thereof.
• Preferred inhibitors are hydroquinone, dialkylacetylenedicarboxylate, and
• a catalyst can be used to accelerate the conversion of the polysilazane, preferably a perhydropolysilazane, into the polysiloxane having two-dimensional structure.
• Amines, organic or inorganic acids, metals or metal salts, peroxides, or any combination thereof can be used as the catalyst in the present invention.
• the non-limiting examples of the amines include ammonia, methylamine, dimethylamine, trimethylamine, ethylamine, diethylamine,triethylamine, n-propylamine, isopropylamine, di-n-propylamine, di-isopropylamine, tri-n-propylamine, n-butylamine, isobutylamine,
• organic or inorganic acids include acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, valeric acid, caproic acid, maleic acid, stearic acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, chloric acid, hypochlorous acid, and any combination thereof.
• metals and metal salts include palladium, palladium acetate, palladium acetylacetonate, silver, silver acetylacetonate, platinum, platinum acetylacetonate, ruthenium, ruthenium acetylacetonate, ruthenium carbonyls, gold, copper, copper acetylacetonate, aluminum acetylacetonate, aluminum tris(ethylacetoacetate), and any
• peroxides include hydrogen peroxide, metal chlorides, organometallic compounds, such as ferrocenes and zirconocenes, and any combination thereof.
• Preferred examples of the catalyst in the present invention are 4,4-methylenebis(cyclohexylamine), acetic acid, hydrochloric acid, platinum, platinum acetylacetonate, hydrogen peroxide, and dicumyl peroxide.
• the composition according to the present invention comprises at least one conductive polymer comprising PEDOT polymer, in particular PEDOT/PSS polymer, at least one binder comprising a polysilsesquioxane binder or polysilazane binder, and at least one solvent.
• the present invention also concerns a layer comprising or preferably consisting of the composition according to the present invention.
• the layer is selected from a transparent electrode and/or antistatic layer.
• Such layer according to the present invention is particularly suitable for touch sensor function in display devices.
• the layer can be formed by applying the compositions of the present invention on the substrate, in particular on a surface of glass substrate. Such application can be brought about for example using laser etching, wetting, such as dipping, printing, such as gravure printing and inkjet printing, coating, such as spin coating, bar coating, slit coating, spray coating, roll coating, and spreading, or deposition.
• the thickness of the layer on the substrate is preferably from 100 to 10,000 A, more preferably 3,000 to 4,000 A.
• the layer can be formed for example by curing.
• Typical temperatures for the curing are from 25 to 150°C, preferably 100 to 150°C.
• Typical curing time is from 5 to 30 min, preferably 10 to 30 min. It has been found that the composition according to the present invention can exhibit better hardening at relatively mild curing condition during processing to a layer to the substrate.
• the present invention also concerns a process for the manufacture of a layer comprising a conductive polymer and a silicon containing binder, obtainable by using the composition according to the present invention.
• the process for the manufacture of the layer comprises (a) evenly spreading the composition according to the present invention on the surface of the substrate and (b) curing the composition spread on the surface.
• the layer preferably a transparent electrode and/or antistatic layer, according to the present invention is formed on a surface of substrate of display devices.
• the substrate is a glass substrate or polymeric film substrate, preferably a glass substrate.
• the transparent electrode according to the present invention has generally a sheet resistance of 10 2 to 10 5 ⁇ /D , preferably 10 2 to 10 3 ⁇ /D .
• the antistatic layer according to the present invention generally has a sheet resistance of 10 5 to 10 11 ⁇ / ⁇ , preferably 10 7 to 10 9 ⁇ / ⁇ .
• the antistatic layer according to the present invention has a sheet resistance of 10 3 to 10 11 ⁇ /D , preferably 10 4 to 10 8 ⁇ /D .
• the layer has generally a pencil hardness of equal to or more than 9 H, which sufficiently satisfies the requirement as a transparent electrode and/or antistatic layer in display device, especially LCD device having touch sensor function.
• Example 1-1 Conductive polymer solution 1
• Example 2 Evaluation of coating films made of Conductive Polymer Solutions
• the conductive polymer solutions 1 and 2 each prepared according to Example 1-1 and 1-2 were supplied to a spin coater, and coated with rotation speed at 300 rpm for 3 seconds, 1000 rpm for 15 seconds, and 300 rpm for 3 seconds at a room temperature.
• the coating workability of the conductive polymer solutions was excellent without any problems.
• the formed coating film using the conductive polymer solution 1 was treated in dry oven at a temperature of about 140°C for 10 min.
• the formed coating film using the conductive polymer solution 2 was treated in thermo-hygrostat at a temperature of about 65 °C and humidity of 90 % for 10 min.
• a sheet resistance, transmittance, surface hardness, reliability (e.g. high temperature/high humidity test), heat stability, storage stability and sheet uniformity of the coating film were evaluated, and summarized as below :

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