KR20100127128A - Anti-static transparent film - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An antistatic transparent film displaying the antistatic property and the excellent antifouling property is provided to improve the display material productivity and fairness used for the various fields in which transparency requires the antistatic property and antifouling property. CONSTITUTION: An antistatic transparent film is manufactured by using an inline process. The conductivity polymer is spread in the anti-static layer. A polymer resin layer is coated on the anti-static layer. A polymer resin layer is on an anti-static layer. It coats to the in-line process or the offline process. The conductivity polymer is spread on the polyester base film. It is manufactured including the inline drawing process.

Description

Antistatic Transparent Film {ANTI-STATIC TRANSPARENT FILM}

The present invention relates to an antistatic transparent film formed of an antistatic coating using a conductive polymer or the like on a polyester base film.

As a conductive polymer compound, polyaniline (PAN), polypyrrol (PPy), polythiophene (PT), and the like are widely used as conductive polymer compounds. By applying the electrical properties of these conductive polymer compounds, the possibility of use in various applications, such as the electrode of the secondary battery, electromagnetic shielding material, flexible electrode, antistatic material, anti-corrosion coating material has been proposed, but difficult processing, thermal and atmospheric Due to problems of stability, moisture resistance, and price, it is not actively commercialized.

However, recently, with the attention of dust adhesion preventing and antistatic coating materials, the standards for electromagnetic wave shielding have begun to attract attention as a coating material for electromagnetic wave shielding of various electronic devices. In particular, the conductive polymer has been attracting attention as a conductive coating material on the CRT glass surface, as described in US Patent Nos. 5,035,926 and 5,391,472, polyethylene dioxythiophene (PEDT), a polythiophene-based conductive polymer This is from the beginning of receiving attention. Such conductive polymers have properties of excellent transparency compared to other conductive polymers such as polyaniline, polypyrrole and polythiophene.

Conventional polyethylene dioxythiophene prepared a coating solution capable of water dispersion using a high molecular acid salt such as polystyrene sulfonate as a doping material in order to improve conductivity, and is excellent in mixing and processing with alcohol solvents, and is excellent in CRT. Coating materials for various applications such as glass and plastic film surfaces could be used. A typical example of such a water-dispersible polyethylene dioxythiophene is the case of Baytron-P (Baytron-P, Bayer) currently on the market. However, since Beitron-P is an aqueous dispersion and has a SO ₃ ⁻ group inside, it has a disadvantage of being extremely vulnerable to moisture even after the formation of the polymer membrane, and thus, changes in electrical properties of the polymer membrane are severe when exposed to long-term neglect or high humidity environment.

Looking at the prior art in this field, a conductive polymer composition (Korean Patent No. 2000-10221) containing polyethylene dioxythiophene, alcohol solvents, amide solvents, polyester resin binders and the like, polyethylene dioxythiophene, alcohols A conductive light diffusion film coating liquid composition (Korean Patent No. 2005-66209) containing a solvent, an amide solvent, a silane coupling agent, and the like are disclosed. Such a prior art may have high transparency, strong adhesion and durability while having electrical properties of 1 ㏀ / sq or less, but these also have a change in electrical properties of the conductive polymer film over time and changes in electrical properties at high temperature and high humidity. It is severely impossible to commercialize.

Recently, the polyester film has been used in various display base materials or protective films with excellent durability and transparency, but there is a problem that it is easy to be contaminated with dust, foreign materials, etc. when using the polyester film. In order to impart antistatic property to the polyester film or to impart antistatic function to the protective film adhesive layer, various methods are used as follows.

A method of forming an antistatic layer on the surface of a polyester film (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-25615), or a first coating layer containing a complex compound on a stretched polyester film and a second coating layer containing conductive or carbon nanotubes Method including (Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2009-0027132), Method of imparting chargeability using an ammonium salt in the adhesive layer (Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2009-0016241) and the like biaxially stretched polyester film The off-line coating method used is using an antistatic agent dispersed in an organic solvent.

Conventional methods for forming an antistatic layer on a polyester film substrate include a monomolecular or polymer salt containing an ammonium cation or an ionic surfactant using an anion of sulfone or phosphate, but the surface resistance is 10 times. It is pointed out that the following performance is difficult to achieve, lack of antistatic persistence or high humidity dependence, and in particular layer separation. As another method, the use of metal oxides or metal particles such as tin oxide and titanium oxide is excellent in antistatic properties, but the price is high, and since they are dispersed in a bulk solution, the amount of use is increased to achieve surface resistance. Haze (haze) due to the higher the material, there is a disadvantage that the dispersibility of the metal sol is difficult.

The method of forming the antistatic layer is a method of coating the biaxially stretched polyester film off-line, and the coating thickness is 0.5 to 10 μm. It is difficult to achieve the antistatic properties required during coating, the use of the polymer resin selected to achieve the respective properties is limited and the technical solution is not easy.

In addition, Korean Patent Registration No. 813179 filed by the present inventors discloses an antifouling antistatic polyester film using a coating composition in which a polyester-based urethane resin, a conductive polymer, an antifouling agent, and a slip agent are mixed, but at room temperature. The problem is that the antistatic property of the film is reduced and the film appearance cannot be used for optics.

Accordingly, the present inventors have made research efforts to solve the problem that the antistatic properties formed on the existing polyester substrate properties change depending on the surrounding environment, the environmentally unfriendly method of the offline method and the problems such as inconvenience and high cost of the process, An antistatic polyester film having excellent antifouling properties and durability using a conductive polymer could be developed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, to provide excellent antifouling properties and durability, and to provide an antistatic transparent film that maintains antistatic properties even after secondary coating of the polymer resin on the antistatic film substrate. There is a purpose.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is prepared using an in-line (in-line) process, the antistatic layer formed by applying a conductive polymer on one or both sides of the polyester base film, and the number of polymers coated on the antistatic layer It provides an antistatic transparent film comprising a layer, and having a surface resistance of 1 x 10 ⁶ to 1 x 10 ¹¹ kPa / sq.

At this time, the antistatic layer is preferably formed by coating a polymer resin in an inline process or an off-line process.

The antistatic transparent film is prepared by applying a conductive polymer on the polyester base film, followed by an in-line stretching process, and preferably has a surface resistance of 1 x 10 ⁶ to 1 x 10 ¹⁰ dl / sq.

The conductive polymer is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of polythiophene, polypyrrole, polyaniline, polyacetylene, poly p-phenylene, poly p-phenylene sulfide and poly p-phenylene vinyl.

It is preferable that the thickness of the said polymeric resin layer is 0.1-100 micrometers.

The polymer resin layer is preferably formed to have a scratch prevention function or an antistatic function using a UV curable resin or a thermosetting resin.

As the polymer resin layer, it is preferable to use at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of urethane, acrylic, urethane-acrylic copolymers, polyimides, polyamides, polyesters, olefins, and melamine resins. .

It is preferable that the antistatic transparent film has a thickness of 20 to 350 μm.

The antistatic transparent film is preferably formed with a microlens, prism or diffusion bead layer on one surface.

Since the film produced through the transverse stretching after coating in the polyester film stretching process using the polythiophene-based conductive polymer solution composition according to the present invention exhibits excellent antistatic properties and antifouling properties at the same time, a display material using a polyester film It is possible to obtain the effect of improving the productivity and fairness, and can be utilized in various fields requiring transparency, antistatic properties and antifouling properties.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail.

The present inventors have researched to solve the problem that the antistatic property formed on the existing polyester base material properties change according to the surrounding environment, the environment-friendly method of the off-line method and the problems such as inconvenience of the process and high cost, polyti An antistatic polyester film having excellent antifouling properties and durability using an opene-based conductive polymer was prepared (Korean Patent Application No. 10-2009-0008568). In addition, the present invention provides an antistatic transparent film that maintains antistatic properties even after secondary coating of a polymer resin on a polyester antistatic film substrate prepared by applying a polythiophene conductive polymer in a drawing process. . In particular, as a method of forming a second resin layer on the polyester film, a hard coating for preventing scratches, an adhesive coating layer for imparting adhesion, and a second resin layer for lens diffusion and light condensing, and a pattern method for patterning It can be formed as.

The polythiophene-based conductive polymer according to the present invention is generally used in the art, but is not particularly limited, but preferably polyethylenedioxythiophene (PEDT), for example, Baytron-P (Baytron) The product can be used. The PEDT is doped with polystyrenesulfonate (PSS) as a stabilizer (dopant), so that it shows good solubility in water, and has excellent thermal and atmospheric stability. In addition, the PEDT has a PEDT and PSS solid concentration is adjusted in the range of 1.0 to 1.5% by weight in order to maintain optimum dispersibility in water. The PEDT is easily mixed with water, alcohol or a solvent having a high dielectric constant so that it can be easily diluted and coated with such a solvent. The coating film may be one or more of other conductive polymers, such as polypyrrole, polyaniline, polyacetylene, poly p-phenylene, poly p-phenylene sulfide and poly p-phenylene vinyl.

The antistatic and antifouling polyester film prepared by coating the at least one side of the polyester before biaxial stretching using the polythiophene-based conductive polymer solution composition according to the present invention and undergoing a process such as heat fixing after transverse stretching is 1 The surface resistance of x 10 ⁶ to 1 x 10 ¹⁰ Ω / sq, the transmittance of 89% or more and the contact angle of 90 ° or more are maintained, and the surface resistance changes after 10 hours and constant temperature and humidity. The polyester film which has antistatic and antifouling property with strong moisture resistance can be obtained. In addition, even when no antifouling agent is used, the surface resistance can be maintained, and the preferred layer thickness of the film is 25 to 250 μm, and the coating thickness is 20 to 200 nm.

On the other hand, the production method of the antistatic transparent film of the present invention is not particularly limited, and after coating the polythiophene-based conductive polymer composition on one side or both sides of the non-primed polyester-based substrate, and then transverse at 100 to 140 ℃ After stretching 3 to 6 times in the direction, a biaxially stretched polyester film may be prepared by heat fixing at 220 to 240 ° C.

Even if a transparent film is prepared by coating a polymer resin on the conductive antistatic polyester film surface prepared as described above, the antistatic property of the surface resistance of 1 X 10 ⁷ to 9 X 10 ¹¹ Ω / sq may be maintained. .

As a secondary offline coating material on a polyester film surface coated with a polythiophene-based conductive polymer, surface resistance is maintained even when a thermosetting resin, a UV curable resin, or an adhesive resin is coated. However, in the case of the present invention, forming a polymer coating material such as polyurethane, polyester-based thermosetting resin, acrylate-based UV-curable resin, acrylic adhesive resin, or the like to have a thickness of 0.1 to 100 μm may prevent antistatic properties. It is desirable to maintain.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be described in detail by the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view showing a cross section of a film coated with a polymer resin on a second coating layer on an antistatic surface coated with a polythiophene-based conductive polymer. At this time, a thermosetting or photocurable resin such as urethane, acrylic, urethane-acrylic copolymer and polyimide, polyamide, polyester, olefin and melamine resin may be used as the polymer resin used in the secondary coating layer. Can be. When the polymer resin as described above is used, an antistatic film having a high scratch resistance may be manufactured using the antistatic effect treated on the polyester film and the hardness of the polymer resin.

FIG. 2 is a view showing that a scratch-resistant hard coating is formed on a surface opposite to an adhesive coating as a second coating layer, and those skilled in the art may further modify and include other functional layers. The design of the functional optical film as described above may be utilized in various fields and may be effectively used in the following fields.

3A, 3B, and 3C are diagrams illustrating a film in which a polymer resin is formed as a secondary layer on an antistatic surface and a microlens, prism, and diffusion bead layer is formed on the opposite side by using a UV resin or the like. Microlens formation refers to a film structure used in the backlight unit as a functional optical film that increases the brightness in the vertical direction of the film by using a difference in refractive index. The above applications can be designed to require various functionalities such as microlenses, prisms, and diffusion films. Therefore, when the second layer is formed using the thermosetting resin or the photocuring resin on the rear surface of the microlens, it is possible to effectively prevent the adhesion of foreign substances or the use of the protective film. It can be manufactured and can be effective for improving optical brightness.

Figures 4a, 4b and 4c is a view showing an antistatic film formed on both sides of the polyester film by an in-line process, and further formed with a microlens, prism, diffusion bead layer. As in FIG. 3, a second coating layer using a polymer resin may be formed on the antistatic layer, and a pattern such as a micro lens, a prism, and a diffusion bead coating may be formed on another antistatic layer.

5A, 5B, and 5C are views showing transparent films using antistatic surfaces as they are and forming functional imparting layers such as microlenses, prisms, and diffusion bead layers on opposite surfaces thereof. It can be used as a foreign matter prevention and static electricity suppressing film when other functions such as scratch prevention of the back side are not required.

The film produced through the transverse stretching after coating in the polyester film stretching process using the polythiophene-based conductive polymer solution composition according to the present invention shows excellent antistatic properties and antifouling properties at the same time, the surface resistance at room temperature According to the present invention, it was possible to obtain a transparent polyester film having a small change, in which electrical properties did not change, particularly at high temperature and high humidity. Therefore, the polyester film used in the display industry can suppress static electricity during the process to prevent contamination such as dust adhesion, or have high antifouling properties, thereby making it easy to remove contaminants during the process, thereby improving display material productivity and processability using the polyester film. It can be obtained, and can be utilized in various fields that require transparency, antistatic properties and antifouling properties.

In addition, it was confirmed that the antistatic property is maintained even when forming the secondary coating layer using a polymer resin on the polyester antistatic film prepared by the stretching process. In general, polyester films have a low hardness of the primer layer, and thus, in the display field, the secondary coating layer is used by secondary processing of a hard coating layer with a thermosetting resin or a UV curable resin. In particular, antistatic properties are required to prevent contamination such as dust adhesion, such as hardness of 1 ~ 3H on the back of diffusion film, micro lens film, and prism film. It is difficult, and there exists a problem, such as peeling with a polyester layer. However, in the case of this research and development product, even if a secondary coating layer is formed of a thermosetting resin and a UV curable resin, antistatic properties are maintained, and coating layers can be formed in various hardnesses. In addition, since the adhesive layer of the protective film adhesive film used in the display field, etc. is also required to prevent the static electricity generated when peeling, even when applying the film of the present invention to the protective film can remove the static electricity generated during peeling It has an effect.

Through the design of the functional optical film that requires antistatic as described above can be utilized in various fields, it is possible to design the optical film that requires functionality such as microlenses, prisms, diffusion film. Therefore, by forming a second layer using a thermosetting resin or a photocuring resin on the rear surface of the microlens, it is possible to effectively prevent the static electricity generated when the protective film is peeled off when using a protective film or to prevent foreign matter adhesion, and to produce an optical film with high scratch resistance. And may be effective for improving optical brightness.

In addition, a microlens having an antistatic surface formed of a polymer resin on one side of the antistatic film produced by the in-line process on both sides of the polyester film and having a scratch and antistatic function of the polymer resin, and on the other side requires functional optical characteristics, By forming patterns such as prism and diffusion bead coating, it is possible to improve brightness, prevent foreign substances, and prevent static electricity generated when a protective film is attached.

In addition, it is possible to use the antistatic surface as it is and to produce a transparent film with a functional grant layer like microlens on the opposite side. It has an effect.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to Examples. However, the following examples are merely to illustrate the invention, but the content of the present invention is not limited to the following examples.

Comparative Example 1

PEDOT (3,4-polyethylenedioxythiophene) water dispersion solution was used as the conductive polymer, and the conductive polymer was applied to the polyester sheet from which the coating composition was melt-extruded during the polyester film manufacturing process and stretched four times in the transverse direction. The applied coating layer was dried and cured. After heat-setting at a temperature of 230 ℃ to prepare an antistatic polyester film having a total thickness of 188 ㎛.

Example 1

The antistatic layer of the film obtained in Comparative Example 1 was coated with a thermosetting resin to a desired thickness with a second coating layer, followed by thermosetting to prepare an antistatic polyester film.

Example 2

The antistatic layer of the film obtained in Comparative Example 1 was coated with a UV curable resin to a desired thickness with a second coating layer, and then subjected to UV curing to prepare an antistatic polyester film.

Example 3

The antistatic layer of the film obtained in Comparative Example 1 was coated with an adhesive to a desired thickness with a second coating layer, and then an antistatic polyester film was prepared after thermosetting.

Example 4

As in Example 1 or 2, the secondary coating layer was formed on the antistatic layer of the polyester film by thermosetting or UV curable resin, and microlenses were formed on the back surface of the polyester film to prepare various optical films, and luminance was measured. .

Test Example

Property evaluation method

(1) surface resistance

Surface resistance (Ω / sq) was measured using a surface resistance measuring instrument (model name: 19782) of DESCO, USA (temperature: 23 ° C., relative humidity: 30%, applied voltage: 500 V, unit: Ω / sq). The results are shown in Table 1 below.

(2) luminance

The case of one and two microlens films was measured using a brightness meter (BM-7), and the brightness was evaluated in comparison with the polyester film (SH40, SKC Co., Ltd.) which was not antistatically treated. The results are shown in Table 2 below.

As described in the table, Examples 1 to 3 prepared according to the present invention is a secondary coating layer of a thermosetting resin, UV reaction resin, adhesive resin, etc. on the polyester film having an antistatic function to a thickness of 200 ㎛ Even when formed, it was found that the antistatic property of 11 power or less was maintained. In addition, when the polymer resin was used as the second coating layer on the antistatic layer and the functional pattern such as the microlens was formed on the opposite side, the luminance was improved compared to the microlens made of the antistatic film. The characteristics were also maintained.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be taken by way of limitation, It is to be understood that the invention may be practiced within the scope of the appended claims.

1 is a cross-sectional view of a film coated with a polymer resin on a second coating layer on an antistatic surface coated with a polythiophene-based conductive polymer.

Figure 2 shows that the scratch-resistant hard coating is formed on the opposite side to the adhesive coating as the second coating layer.

3A, 3B, and 3C illustrate a film in which a polymer resin is formed as a second layer on an antistatic surface and a microlens, prism, and diffusion bead layer is formed on the opposite side by using a UV resin or the like.

Figures 4a, 4b and 4c shows an antistatic film formed on both sides of the polyester film by an in-line process, and further formed a microlens, prism or diffusion bead layer.

5A, 5B, and 5C show a transparent film using an antistatic surface as it is and forming a functional imparting layer such as a micro lens, a prism, and a diffusion bead layer on the opposite surface.

Claims (11)

It is prepared using an in-line process and includes an antistatic layer formed by coating a conductive polymer on one or both sides of the polyester base film, and a polymer resin layer coated on the antistatic layer, 1 x 10 ⁶ to Antistatic transparent film having a surface resistance of 1 x 10 ¹¹ Ω / sq. The method of claim 1, The polymer resin layer, characterized in that formed on the antistatic layer by coating in an inline process or off-line (off-line) process, antistatic transparent film. The method of claim 1, The antistatic transparent film is prepared by applying a conductive polymer on the polyester base film, followed by an in-line stretching process, and having a surface resistance of 1 x 10 ⁶ to 1 x 10 ¹⁰ μs / sq. , Antistatic transparent film. The method of claim 1, The conductive polymer is at least one member selected from the group consisting of polythiophene, polypyrrole, polyaniline, polyacetylene, poly p-phenylene, poly p-phenylene sulfide, poly p-phenylene vinyl, Anti-transparent film. The method of claim 1, The thickness of the polymer resin layer, characterized in that 0.1 to 100 ㎛, antistatic transparent film. The method of claim 1, The polymer resin layer, using an UV curable resin or a thermosetting resin, characterized in that formed to have a scratch prevention function or an antistatic function, antistatic transparent film. The method of claim 1, The polymer resin layer is characterized by using at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of urethane, acrylic, urethane-acrylic copolymer, polyimide, polyamide, polyester, olefin and melamine resins. Antistatic transparent film made. The method of claim 1, The antistatic transparent film, characterized in that having a thickness of 20 to 350 ㎛, antistatic transparent film. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, The antistatic transparent film, characterized in that the microlens is formed on one surface, the antistatic transparent film. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, The antistatic transparent film, characterized in that the prism is formed on one surface, the antistatic transparent film. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, The antistatic transparent film, characterized in that the diffusion bead layer is formed on one surface, the antistatic transparent film.

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