阅读说明：本技术 一种多层光学薄膜、高亮度颜料及其制备方法 (Multilayer optical film, high-brightness pigment and preparation method thereof ) 是由 马道远 于 2018-09-07 设计创作，主要内容包括：本申请公开了一种多层光学薄膜、高亮度颜料及其制备方法,该多层光学薄膜,用于制作高亮度颜料,包括：中间层；以及设置在中间层两侧的交替层叠的第一折射率光学膜层和第二折射率光学膜层,第一折射率小于第二折射率；其中,中间层的材料的折射率大于第一折射率；多层光学薄膜的表面设置有第二折射率光学膜层。通过上述方式,本申请能够提供结构简单且具有优异反射性能的多层光学薄膜,进而降低制作成本,并简化制作工艺。(The application discloses multilayer optical film, high brightness pigment and preparation method thereof, the multilayer optical film is used for preparing the high brightness pigment, and comprises the following steps: an intermediate layer; the first refractive index optical film layer and the second refractive index optical film layer are arranged on two sides of the middle layer and are alternately stacked, and the first refractive index is smaller than the second refractive index; wherein the refractive index of the material of the intermediate layer is greater than the first refractive index; and a second refractive index optical film layer is arranged on the surface of the multilayer optical film. Through the mode, the multilayer optical film with the excellent reflection performance and the simple structure can be provided, the manufacturing cost is further reduced, and the manufacturing process is simplified.)

1. A multilayer optical film for making a high brightness pigment, comprising:

an intermediate layer;

and first and second refractive index optical film layers alternately stacked on both sides of the intermediate layer, the first refractive index being smaller than the second refractive index;

wherein the material of the intermediate layer has a refractive index greater than the first refractive index;

the surface of the multilayer optical film is provided with the second-refractive-index optical film layer.

2. The multilayer optical film of claim 1,

the material of the second refractive index optical film layer comprises at least one of titanium dioxide, tantalum pentoxide, niobium pentoxide, zinc sulfide or zirconium dioxide;

the material of the first refractive index optical film layer comprises at least one of silicon monoxide, silicon dioxide or magnesium fluoride.

3. The multilayer optical film of claim 2,

the first refractive index optical film layer is made of magnesium fluoride;

the second refractive index optical film layer is made of zinc sulfide.

4. The multilayer optical film of claim 1,

the total number of layers of the multilayer optical film is greater than or equal to 5, and the total number of layers is an odd number.

5. The multilayer optical film of claim 1,

the optical thickness of each first refractive index optical film layer and the optical thickness of each second refractive index optical film layer are both 20 nanometers to 1000 nanometers.

6. The multilayer optical film of claim 5,

the optical thickness of the first refractive index optical film layer and the optical thickness of the second refractive index optical film layer are integral multiples of a quarter of the wavelength of incident light, and the range of the wavelength of the incident light is 380-780 nanometers.

7. A high brightness pigment in the form of flakes of the multilayer optical film of any one of claims 1-6, wherein the total number of optical film layers of each of the flakes is the same as the total number of layers of the multilayer optical film, and wherein the optical properties of the optical film layers of each of the flakes are the same as the optical properties of the multilayer optical film.

8. A method for producing a high-brightness pigment, characterized by comprising, for producing the high-brightness pigment according to claim 7:

providing a base layer;

disposing a multilayer optical film on the base layer;

peeling the multilayer optical film;

fragmenting the multilayer optical film;

filtering and separating to obtain the high-brightness pigment;

wherein the multilayer optical film comprises: an intermediate layer; and the first refractive index optical film layer and the second refractive index optical film layer are arranged on two sides of the middle layer and are alternately stacked, and the first refractive index is smaller than the second refractive index.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of reducing the multilayer optical film comprises:

the solution mixed with the multilayer optical film is put into an ultrasonic solution and subjected to ultrasonic treatment to crush the multilayer optical film.

10. A production method according to claim 8, wherein, before the step of disposing the respective film layers of the multilayer optical film on the base layer in this order, the method further comprises:

providing a release agent;

and coating the release agent on the surface of the base layer.

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of luminescent pigments, in particular to a multilayer optical film, a high-brightness pigment and a preparation method thereof.

Background

With the widespread use of nanotechnology, various fields have begun to use optical material films for the production of pigments, the two sides of the central portion of which are alternately laminated by high refractive index optical film layers and low refractive index optical film layers in sequence. Brightness has been a basic measure of pigments, and in order to improve the brightness of pigments, the prior art generally uses metals with higher reflectivity as the material of the high refractive index optical film layer, such as silver, or increases the total number of high refractive index optical film layers and low refractive index optical film layers.

In a long-term research and development process, the inventor of the present application finds that when silver is used as a material scheme of a high refractive index optical film layer, the manufacturing cost is increased due to the high price of silver, and the electromagnetic performance is affected, so that the pigment effect is affected; the solution of increasing the total number of layers of the high refractive index optical material layer and the low refractive index optical material layer increases the number of manufacturing process steps, which also results in increased manufacturing cost.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem mainly solved by the application is to provide a multilayer optical film, a high-brightness pigment and a preparation method thereof, and the multilayer optical film which is simple in structure and has excellent reflection performance can be provided, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced, and the manufacturing process is simplified.

In order to solve the technical problem, the application adopts a technical scheme that: there is provided a multilayer optical film for making a high brightness pigment comprising: an intermediate layer; the first refractive index optical film layer and the second refractive index optical film layer are arranged on two sides of the middle layer and are alternately stacked, and the first refractive index is smaller than the second refractive index; wherein the refractive index of the material of the intermediate layer is greater than the first refractive index; the surface of the multilayer optical film is provided with a second refractive index optical film layer

The material of the second refractive index optical film layer comprises at least one of titanium dioxide, tantalum pentoxide, niobium pentoxide, zinc sulfide or zirconium dioxide; the material of the first refractive index optical film layer comprises at least one of silicon monoxide, silicon dioxide or magnesium fluoride.

The first refractive index optical film layer is made of magnesium fluoride; the material of the second refractive index optical film layer is zinc sulfide.

Wherein, the total number of layers of the multilayer optical film is more than or equal to 5, and the total number of layers is an odd number.

Wherein, the optical thickness of each first refractive index optical film layer and the optical thickness of each second refractive index optical film layer are both 20 nanometers to 1000 nanometers.

The optical thickness of the first refractive index optical film layer and the optical thickness of the second refractive index optical film layer are integral multiples of a quarter of the incident light wavelength, and the range of the incident light wavelength is 380-780 nanometers.

In order to solve the technical problem, the application adopts a technical scheme that: the high-brightness pigment is characterized in that the high-brightness pigment is fragments of the multilayer optical film, the total number of the optical film layers of each fragment is the same as that of the multilayer optical film, and the optical properties of the optical film layers of each fragment are the same as those of the multilayer optical film.

In order to solve the technical problem, the application adopts a technical scheme that: provided is a method for producing a high-brightness pigment, characterized by comprising: providing a base layer; disposing a multilayer optical film on the base layer; peeling the multilayer optical film; fragmenting the multilayer optical film; filtering and separating to obtain high-brightness pigment; wherein the multilayer optical film comprises: an intermediate layer; and the first refractive index optical film layer and the second refractive index optical film layer are arranged on two sides of the middle layer and are alternately stacked, and the first refractive index is smaller than the second refractive index.

Wherein the step of fragmenting the multilayer optical film comprises: the solution mixed with the multilayer optical film is put into an ultrasonic solution and subjected to ultrasonic treatment to crush the multilayer optical film.

Wherein, before the step of sequentially arranging each film layer of the multilayer optical film on the base layer, the method further comprises: providing a release agent; the release agent is coated on the surface of the substrate.

The beneficial effect of this application is: be different from prior art's condition, this application adopts high refractive index optical material as the material in intermediate level, simultaneously, adopts second refractive index optical film layer as keeping away from the outermost side rete in intermediate level, and the refractive index of keeping away from the outermost side rete in intermediate level is higher, is favorable to increasing the reflection effect of visible light more, and then can increase the luminance of pigment. Therefore, the multilayer optical film with simple structure and excellent reflection performance can be provided on the basis of cheap optical materials and less total film layers of the optical film, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced, and the manufacturing process is simplified.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of one embodiment of the multilayer optical film of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of one embodiment of a process for preparing a high brightness pigment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of another embodiment of a process for preparing a high brightness pigment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a multilayer optical film according to the present disclosure.

The multilayer optical film 10 is used to make a high brightness pigment comprising: an intermediate layer 11. And first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 and second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 alternately stacked on both sides of the intermediate layer 11, the first refractive index being smaller than the second refractive index. Wherein the refractive index of the material of the intermediate layer 11 is greater than the first refractive index. The outer surfaces 12, 13 of the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 are provided with second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2.

Specifically, the first refractive-index optical film layers L1 and L2 are made of a low-refractive-index optical material, and the second refractive-index optical film layers H1 and H2 are made of a high-refractive-index optical material. Wherein the high refractive index optical material may be an optical material having a refractive index of 2.3 or more. The low index optical material may be an optical material having a refractive index of less than or equal to 1.6. The difference between the refractive indexes of the second refractive index optical film layers H1 and H2 and the refractive indexes of the first refractive index optical film layers L1 and L2 is greater than or equal to 0.7.

The multilayer optical film 10 may have a structure in which layers of first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 and second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 are alternately deposited, that is, the multilayer optical film 10 may include a second refractive index optical film layer H1, a first refractive index optical film layer L1, an intermediate layer 11, a first refractive index optical film layer L2, and a second refractive index optical film layer H2, which are sequentially stacked. The refractive index of the material of the intermediate layer 11 is greater than the first refractive index, that is, the material of the intermediate layer 11 may be an optical material with a refractive index greater than 1.6, and preferably, the high-refractive-index optical material used for the intermediate layer 11 may be the same as the material of the second-refractive-index optical film layers H1 and H2.

The total number of layers of the multilayer optical film 10 is greater than or equal to 5, and the total number of layers is an odd number, for example, 5 layers, 9 layers, and 13 layers. For example, the multilayer optical film 10 may be made of five optical film layers, in order of the second refractive optical film layer H1-the first refractive optical film layer L1-the second refractive optical film layer H (intermediate layer 11) -the first refractive optical film layer L2-the second refractive optical film layer H2. Or the multilayer optical film 10 may be made of nine optical film layers, in order of the second refractive index optical film layer-the first refractive index optical film layer-the second refractive index optical film layer (intermediate layer) -the first refractive index optical film layer-the second refractive index optical film layer.

Wherein the optical thickness of each second refractive index optical film layer H1, H2 and the optical thickness of each first refractive index optical film layer L1, L2 is 20 nm-1000 nm, for example, 20 nm, 50 nm, 100 nm, 500 nm, 1000 nm.

It should be noted that the parameters of the multilayer optical film 10, such as the number of the specific layers, the specific material and refractive index of each layer, and the thickness of each layer, can be set according to the actual situation, so as to sufficiently improve the adaptability and application versatility of the multilayer optical film 10 of the present embodiment. It should be understood that the higher the refractive index of the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 and the second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 on the outer surfaces 12, 13 is, the more beneficial the reflection effect of the visible light is, the refractive index of each layer of the multilayer optical film 10 of the present embodiment may be different or the same, and may be derived from the optical admittance and the optical characteristic matrix, and the process of the present embodiment is not described in detail.

Different from the prior art, the present embodiment adopts a high refractive index optical material as the material of the intermediate layer 11, and at the same time, the outer surfaces 12 and 13 of the first refractive index optical film layers L1 and L2 are provided with the second refractive index optical film layers H1 and H2, and the higher the refractive indexes of the second refractive index optical film layers H1 and H2 are, the more beneficial the reflection effect of visible light is increased, and further the brightness of the pigment can be increased. Therefore, the present embodiment can provide the multilayer optical film 10 with a simple structure and excellent reflection performance based on the cheap optical material and the less total number of the optical films, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost and simplifying the manufacturing process.

In one embodiment, the material of the second refractive index optical film layers H1 and H2 may include at least one of titanium dioxide, tantalum pentoxide, niobium pentoxide, zinc sulfide, or zirconium dioxide. The material of the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 may include at least one of silicon monoxide, silicon dioxide, or magnesium fluoride.

In an embodiment, the material of the second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 may be zinc sulfide, and the material of the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 may be magnesium fluoride.

Specifically, when light is incident to the second refractive index optical film layers H1 and H2 and the first refractive index optical film layers L1 and L2, several refractions and reflections occur. Therefore, the transmission direction of the light is changed, and the interference of the light is formed, and the required color can be realized through design. The lowest refractive index of the optical film layer is magnesium fluoride (refractive index of about 1.38). While zinc sulfide (refractive index of about 2.38) is the most important thin film material for the visible and infrared regions, with good mechanical properties and theoretically good optical properties. By using zinc sulfide as the material of the second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 and magnesium fluoride as the material of the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2, the refractive index difference between the second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 and the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 can be increased. The reflectivity of light on the multilayer optical film 10 depends on the refractive indexes of the second refractive index optical film layers H1 and H2 and the first refractive index optical film layers L1 and L2, wherein the larger the refractive index difference between the second refractive index optical film layers H1 and H2 and the first refractive index optical film layers L1 and L2 is, the larger the reflectivity of light on the multilayer optical film 10 is, the more favorable the reflection effect of light is, and the brightness of the pigment can be increased.

In an embodiment, the optical thicknesses of the second refractive-index optical films H1 and H2 and the optical thicknesses of the first refractive-index optical films L1 and L2 are all integral multiples of a quarter of the wavelength of incident light, and the wavelength range of the incident light is 380-780 nm.

In other embodiments, the optical thicknesses of the second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 and the optical thicknesses of the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 are not limited to optical thicknesses that are integer multiples of one-quarter of the wavelength of the incident light. It should be noted that the optical thickness of each of the second refractive index optical film layers H1, H2 and the optical thickness of the first refractive index optical film layers L1, L2 can be set according to the actual situation.

The present application also provides a high brightness pigment which is a fragment of the multilayer optical film 10 of the above embodiment, the total number of optical film layers of each fragment being the same as the total number of layers of the multilayer optical film 10, and the optical properties of the optical film layers of each fragment being the same as the optical properties of the multilayer optical film.

Specifically, the optical film can be ultrasonically crushed into micron-sized fragments, the process is not particularly limited, and the ultrasonic crushing can be completed by adopting an ultrasonic crusher in the prior art. The paint composed of the high-brightness pigment flakes can be obtained by physically mixing the fragments of the multilayer optical film 10 with the viscous solution according to the preset mass ratio and uniformly stirring, and the multilayer optical film 10 has the characteristic of conformal adhesion on any curved surface because the multilayer optical film is changed into the form of the paint.

The viscous solution is a material with certain viscosity, and optical epoxy glue is generally adopted. The mass percentage of the high-brightness pigment fragments is 3% -70%, for example, 3%, 5%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, and the range can ensure that the performance of the high-brightness pigment after forming a coating is consistent with the design. The high brightness pigment is brushed, sprayed or hot pressed onto the target surface and cured to form a coating on the target surface that carries the multilayer optical film 10.

It is noted that the high brightness pigment may be a color-changing pigment or a non-color-changing pigment. The color shifting characteristics of the high brightness pigment can be controlled by appropriate design of the multilayer optical film 10 used to make the high brightness pigment. The color change at a certain angle depends on the combined refractive index at the optical film layer. By varying relevant parameters, such as the thickness of each layer and the refractive index of each layer of the multilayer optical film 10, the desired effect can be achieved. The color change that occurs at different viewing or incidence angles is a result of the combination of selective absorption and wavelength dependent interference effects of the materials of the layers. The interference effect resulting from the superposition of multiple reflected light waves is a major factor in the occurrence of color changes at different angles.

Different from the prior art, the present embodiment adopts a high refractive index optical material as the material of the intermediate layer, and at the same time, the outer surfaces 12 and 13 of the first refractive index optical film layers L1 and L2 are provided with a second refractive index optical film layer, and the higher the refractive index of the second refractive index optical film layer is, the more favorable the reflection effect of visible light is increased, and then the brightness of the pigment can be increased. Therefore, the present embodiment can provide the multilayer optical film 10 with a simple structure and excellent reflection performance based on the cheap optical material and the less total number of the optical films, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost and simplifying the manufacturing process.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of an embodiment of a method for preparing a high-brightness pigment according to the present application, the method for preparing the high-brightness pigment includes:

step S11: a base layer is provided.

The base layer can be a transparent glass substrate, polyethylene hard plastic and the like.

Step S12: a multilayer optical film is disposed on the base layer.

Specifically, the background refractive index of the film system design software may be modified to the refractive index of the viscous solution to be used, and the film system structure of the optical thin film may be designed by using the film system design software according to the design requirements. Wherein, the film system design software has no special requirement, and the optical design software commonly used in the field can be, for example, the Essential Macleod software. The viscous solution to be used is the viscous solution in the high brightness pigment embodiment described above.

The film system designed according to the design requirement can be formed on the base layer sequentially by at least one of electron beam evaporation, thermal evaporation and sputtering, which are well known to those skilled in the art and will not be described herein. The multilayer optical film includes an intermediate layer, and first and second refractive index optical film layers alternately stacked on both sides of the intermediate layer. The multilayer optical film is the multilayer optical film in the above embodiments, and details are not described herein.

The operation process is as follows: first, a film material is sequentially filled in the deposition chamber, the film material being at least one of the material of the second refractive index optical film layer and the material of the first refractive index optical film layer in the above embodiments, then the vacuum degree of the deposition chamber is pumped to a preset vacuum degree, the thickness of each film is monitored by a photometric method, and the second refractive index optical film layer, the first refractive index optical film layer, the intermediate layer (the intermediate layer is made of a high refractive index optical material), the first refractive index optical film layer and the second refractive index optical film layer with corresponding thicknesses are sequentially deposited on the base layer. And completing the deposition of the multilayer optical film.

And taking the substrate with the multilayer optical film out of the vacuum chamber after the plating is finished.

Step S13: the multilayer optical film is peeled.

Specifically, the base layer plated with the multilayer optical film can be placed in a stripping solution for stripping treatment.

Step S14: the multilayer optical film is fragmented.

Specifically, the process is not particularly limited and can be completed by using an ultrasonic pulverizer in the prior art. It should be noted that after the multi-layer optical film is broken, the film layers are not peeled off from each other, and the total number of the broken pieces of the multi-layer optical film is the same as the total number of the layers of the multi-layer optical film

Step S15: filtering and separating to obtain the high-brightness pigment.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of another embodiment of the method for preparing a high brightness pigment of the present application, before step S12, the method further includes:

step S21: a mold release agent is provided.

Step S22: the release agent is coated on the surface of the substrate.

Specifically, a release agent may be coated on the base layer in step S11 to prepare a transition layer, then each layer of the multilayer optical film designed in step S12 may be prepared on the transition layer, and then the base layer with the multilayer optical film may be placed in a release solution, so that the transition layer is dissolved by the release solution, and the optical film is released from the base layer. The material of the release agent is easily soluble in the release solution, the release solution does not dissolve the optical film, the material of the base layer is not limited, and the release agent can be selected according to the prior art, for example, the material of the release agent is sodium chloride, the release solution is water, or the material of the release agent is an organic material, and the release solution is ethanol or toluene. The optical film layer is coated by the existing electron beam evaporation coating machine.

In one embodiment, step S14 includes: the solution mixed with the multilayer optical film is put into an ultrasonic solution and subjected to ultrasonic treatment to crush the multilayer optical film.

Specifically, the solution mixed with the multilayer optical film is placed in an ultrasonic solution for about thirty minutes to carry out ultrasonic treatment, so that the film is crushed. The high-brightness pigment for manufacturing the application is obtained after filtration and separation. Furthermore, the fragments of the multilayer optical film and the viscous solution can be physically mixed according to a preset mass ratio and uniformly stirred to obtain the high-brightness coating, and the multilayer optical film is changed into a coating form and has the characteristic of conformal adhesion on any curved surface.

Different from the situation in the prior art, the embodiment adopts a high-refractive-index optical material as a material of the intermediate layer, and meanwhile, the surface of the multilayer optical film is provided with the second-refractive-index optical film layer, and the higher the refractive index of the second-refractive-index optical film layer is, the better the reflection effect of visible light is increased, and further the brightness of the pigment can be increased. Therefore, the multilayer optical film with simple structure and excellent reflection performance can be provided on the basis of cheap optical materials and less total film layers of the optical film, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced, and the manufacturing process is simplified.

Hereinafter, a multilayer optical film, a high brightness pigment and a method for preparing the same according to the present application will be described in further detail with reference to specific examples.