Abstract: A material comprising: a support 10; and a brush layer 20 containing a brush-like polymer chain assemblage 21 formed of a plurality of polymer chains and a swelling liquid 22, in which a brush layer 20 is swollen with the swelling liquid 22, the brush layer 20 retaining on the surface a lubricating liquid 30, and the swelling liquid 22 contained in the brush layer 20 and the lubricating liquid 30 being phase-separated to form a liquid-liquid phase separation interface 40 in between and a sliding system using the material.

Abstract: A method of producing a polymer compound which is capable of improving yield while lowering the dispersity of the molecular weight is described.

Abstract: A polymer compound having a constitutional unit represented by formula (1A) or formula (1B) and a constitutional unit represented by formula (2A) or formula (2B) is provided, wherein each of XM and XN is a crosslinkable group; and RAm, RBm, Ar1m to Ar5m, LM, ArM, m1 to m6, RAn, RBn, Ar1n to Ar5n, ArLn, LN, ArN, n1 to n6, and Ln are as defined in the specification. The polymer compound is excellent in crosslinkability and hole transportability.

Abstract: A polymer compound having an excellent crosslinking ability is provided. The polymer compound has at least one terminal constitutional unit represented by the formula (1) and a constitutional unit represented by the formula (2): In the constitutional unit represented by formula (1), mT represents an integer of 0 to 5, nT represents an integer of 1 to 4, cT represents an integer of 0 to 1, QT represents a crosslinkable group, KT represents an alkylene group or the like and ArT represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like. In the constitutional unit represented by formula (2), mA represents an integer of 0 to 5, n represents an integer of 1 to 4, Ar1 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like, KA represents an alkylene group or the like and Q1 represents a crosslinkable group.

Abstract: A polymer compound having a constitutional unit represented by formula (1A) or formula (1B) and a constitutional unit represented by formula (2A) or formula (2B) is provided, wherein each of XM and XN is a crosslinkable group; and RAm, RBm, Ar1m to Ar5m, LM, ArM, m1 to m6, RAn, RBn, Ar1n to Ar5n, ArLn, LN, ArN, n1 to n6, and Ln are as defined in the specification. The polymer compound is excellent in crosslinkability and hole transportability.

Abstract: A polymer compound having an excellent crosslinking ability is provided. The polymer compound has at least one terminal constitutional unit represented by the formula (1) and a constitutional unit represented by the formula (2): In the constitutional unit represented by formula (1), mT represents an integer of 0 to 5, nT represents an integer of 1 to 4, cT represents an integer of 0 to 1, QT represents a crosslinkable group, KT represents an alkylene group or the like and ArT represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like. In the constitutional unit represented by formula (2), mA represents an integer of 0 to 5, n represents an integer of 1 to 4, Ar1 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like, KA represents an alkylene group or the like and Q1 represents a crosslinkable group.

Abstract: A composition is provided for forming a conductive film. The composition includes a metal compound, a reducing agent, an ionic compound and/or a polar compound, and a compound having at least one atom selected from a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom and a phosphorus atom. The composition may be an ink composition for coating on an electronic device.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a composition that can provide an electroluminescent device emitting light with high brightness. The present invention provides following: a composition including a polymer compound comprising one or more structural unit(s) selected from the group consisting of a structural unit represented by Formula (1), a structural unit represented by Formula (3), a structural unit represented by Formula (5), a structural unit represented by Formula (16), a structural unit represented by Formula (18), a structural unit represented by Formula (20), and a structural unit represented by Formula (22) and an ionic compound represented by Formula (23); an organic film and an electric device comprising the composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound that has high solubility in a highly polar solvent and is usefully usable for an application method using a highly polar solvent, the compound that can manufacture an electroluminescent device having high light-emitting efficiency. Specifically, the present invention provides a compound containing a structure represented by Formula (1): wherein: Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, and Ar4 each independently represent a divalent aromatic group optionally having substituent(s); Ar5 represents a monovalent aromatic group optionally having substituent(s); p and q each independently represent an integer of 0 or more; and R1 represents a given monovalent group.

Abstract: Provided is a layered structure having a first electrode, a second electrode, a light emitting layer or a charge separation layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a layer located between the light emitting layer or the charge separation layer and the first electrode and containing a polymer having a repeating unit containing one or more ionic groups selected from two specific groups and one or more specific polar groups. Also provided is a polymer having, as the repeating unit containing one or more ionic groups selected from two specific groups and one or more specific polar groups, one or more repeating units selected from four specific repeating units containing an aromatic group. The layered structure of the present invention provides an electroluminescent device capable of emitting light at a high luminance and a photoelectric conversion device having a high photoelectric conversion efficiency.

Abstract: An electronic device that serves as a high-brightness electroluminescent device includes a layer containing a polymer compound having one or more structural units selected from a structural unit represented by formula (1) and a structural unit represented by formula (14) as a charge injection layer and/or a charge transport layer: wherein Ar1 and Ar2 represent certain fused polycyclic aromatic groups; R1, R2, R6 and R7 represent certain organic groups; m1, m2 and m6 represent an integer of 1 or more; m7 represents an integer of 0 or more; and when R1, R2, R6 and R7 are each plurally present, they each may be the same or different.

Abstract: An electronic device that serves as a high-brightness electroluminescent device includes a layer containing a polymer compound having one or more structural units selected from a structural unit represented by formula (1) and a structural unit represented by formula (7) as a charge injection layer and/or a charge transport layer: Wherein R1, R2, R6 and R7 represent certain groups; m1 and m5 represent an integer of 0 or more; when R2 and R7 are plurally present, they may be the same or different; and a hydrogen atom in formula (1) or (7) may be replaced with a substituent other than the certain groups.

Abstract: A composition is provided for forming a conductive film. The composition includes a metal compound, a reducing agent, an ionic compound and/or a polar compound, and a compound having at least one atom selected from a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom and a phosphorus atom. The composition may be an ink composition for coating on an electronic device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound that has high solubility in a highly polar solvent and is usefully usable for an application method using a highly polar solvent, the compound that can manufacture an electroluminescent device having high light-emitting efficiency. Specifically, the present invention provides a compound containing a structure represented by Formula (1): wherein: Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, and Ar4 each independently represent a divalent aromatic group optionally having substituent(s); Ar5 represents a monovalent aromatic group optionally having substituent(s); p and q each independently represent an integer of 0 or more; and R1 represents a given monovalent group.

Abstract: A network management system transmits/receives an email via a network; saves, in a database, first history information including the address of at least one of the destination and the source of the email written in the email; receives transmission information in which access information for accessing a web page via a network is written; saves, in the database, second history information including the access information written in the transmission information; inputs authentication information for identifying a user; and selectively displays the first history information saved in the first saving unit and the second history information saved in the second saving unit in a predetermined display format on a display unit by switching between the first history information and the second history information based on an instruction inputted by a user when the inputted authentication information is identical to previously registered information.

Abstract: An electronic device that serves as a high-brightness electroluminescent device includes a layer containing a polymer compound having one or more structural units selected from a structural unit represented by formula (1) and a structural unit represented by formula (14) as a charge injection layer and/or a charge transport layer: wherein Ar1 and Ar2 represent certain fused polycyclic aromatic groups; R1, R2, R6 and R7 represent certain organic groups; m1, m2 and m6 represent an integer of 1 or more; m7 represents an integer of 0 or more; and when R1, R2, R6 and R7 are each plurally present, they each may be the same or different.

Abstract: An electronic device that serves as a high-brightness electroluminescent device includes a layer containing a polymer compound having one or more structural units selected from a structural unit represented by formula (1) and a structural unit represented by formula (7) as a charge injection layer and/or a charge transport layer: Wherein R1, R2, R6 and R7 represent certain groups; m1 and m5 represent an integer of 0 or more; when R2 and R7 are plurally present, they may be the same or different; and a hydrogen atom in formula (1) or (7) may be replaced with a substituent other than the certain groups.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a composition that can provide an electroluminescent device emitting light with high brightness. The present invention provides following: a composition including a polymer compound comprising one or more structural unit(s) selected from the group consisting of a structural unit represented by Formula (1), a structural unit represented by Formula (3), a structural unit represented by Formula (5), a structural unit represented by Formula (16), a structural unit represented by Formula (18), a structural unit represented by Formula (20), and a structural unit represented by Formula (22) and an ionic compound represented by Formula (23); an organic film and an electric device comprising the composition.

Abstract: Provided is a layered structure having a first electrode, a second electrode, a light emitting layer or a charge separation layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a layer located between the light emitting layer or the charge separation layer and the first electrode and containing a polymer having a repeating unit containing one or more ionic groups selected from two specific groups and one or more specific polar groups. Also provided is a polymer having, as the repeating unit containing one or more ionic groups selected from two specific groups and one or more specific polar groups, one or more repeating units selected from four specific repeating units containing an aromatic group. The layered structure of the present invention provides an electroluminescent device capable of emitting light at a high luminance and a photoelectric conversion device having a high photoelectric conversion efficiency.

Abstract: The present invention provides a distributed system control method information processing apparatus that enables a user to ascertain easily and in real time the environment around such user, that is, the status of other users and of peripheral devices, during use of the distributed system, in particular enabling the user to obtain easily information on peripheral devices the user is permitted to use. In a distributed system in which a plurality of user terminals and peripheral devices are dispersed, information indicating the current status of the users of the user terminals and information indicating the current status of the peripheral devices is stored, updated according to changes in status, and the current status of users of other user terminals and the current status of the peripheral devices selectively displayed on the same display screen at each of the plurality of user terminals.