(Meth)acrylic Copolymer, Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Composition, Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive, and Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Sheet

Abstract

There is provided a (meth)acrylic copolymer with which a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer exhibiting excellent low temperature coatability and exhibiting holding power and excellent base material contamination resistance even in a case of being irradiated with a low dose of UV irradiation can be formed. The (meth)acrylic copolymer of the present invention comprises a constituent unit a derived from a macromonomer and a constituent unit b derived from a monomer represented by Formula (b), where a content of the constituent unit b is 0.01% to 25% by mass with respect to a total mass of the (meth)acrylic copolymer. In Formula (b), RA and RB each independently represent an alkyl group, a carboxy group, or a halogen atom, n represents an integer of 0 to 5, m represents an integer of 0 to 4, and X represents a (meth)acryloyloxy group or a (meth)acryloyloxyalkyleneoxy group.

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