Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an n-type thermoelectric conversion layer, which has a high power factor and exhibits excellent performance stability, a thermoelectric conversion element including the n-type thermoelectric conversion layer, and a composition for forming an n-type thermoelectric conversion layer used in the n-type thermoelectric conversion layer. The n-type thermoelectric conversion layer of the present invention contains carbon nanotubes and an amine compound which is represented by General Formula (1) or (2) and has a ClogP value of 2.0 to 8.2.

Abstract: Provided are a thermoelectric conversion element and a thermoelectric conversion module which can efficiently generate power by preventing heat from being accumulated in a cooling side even in a naturally cooled environment.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an anode, a cathode, an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic layer containing a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer and an emission layer containing a host material, wherein the hole injection layer, the hole transport layer and the emission layer each contain a phosphorescent light-emitting material, wherein the hole injection layer contains the phosphorescent light-emitting material in an amount of 10% by mass or more but less than 50% by mass, and wherein a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the hole transport layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer, and a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the emission layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer and higher than that in the hole transport layer.

Abstract: Provided are a thermoelectric conversion element and a thermoelectric conversion module using the thermoelectric conversion element. The thermoelectric conversion element has a first substrate having a high thermal conduction portion which has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of other regions, a thermoelectric conversion layer formed on the first substrate, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer formed on the thermoelectric conversion layer, a second substrate formed on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, having a concave portion, which at least partially overlaps the high thermal conduction portion of the first substrate in a plane direction and is on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer side, and made of a metal material, and an electrode pair connected to the thermoelectric conversion layer.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generation module having: a base material; a plurality of electrodes disposed on the base material; and a thermoelectric conversion layer that coats each of the electrodes individually leaving a portion of the electrode to which a wiring is to be connected, wherein the thermoelectric conversion layer adheres to the base material around the electrode excluding the portion of the electrode to which the wiring is to be connected.

Abstract: The present invention provides an n-type thermoelectric conversion layer, which has excellent electric conductivity and thermoelectromotive force and is inhibited from experiencing a change of the thermoelectromotive force even in a high-temperature environment, a thermoelectric conversion element having the n-type thermoelectric conversion layer, and a composition for forming an n-type thermoelectric conversion layer. A thermoelectric conversion element of the present invention has an n-type thermoelectric conversion layer and a p-type thermoelectric conversion layer electrically connected to the n-type thermoelectric conversion layer, in which the n-type thermoelectric conversion layer contains carbon nanotubes and a compound containing a repeating unit represented by Formula (1). ?L1-X?n ??Formula (1) In Formula (1), L1 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group. n represents an integer of equal to or greater than 2.

Abstract: The present invention has a first substrate having a high thermal conduction portion which has a thermal conductivity higher than that of other regions in a plane direction, a thermoelectric conversion layer which is formed on the first substrate, consists of an organic material, and has a thermoelectric conversion material having a positive Seebeck coefficient, a second substrate which is formed on the thermoelectric conversion layer and has a high thermal conduction portion having a thermal conductivity higher than that of other regions in the plane direction and in which the high thermal conduction portion does not completely overlap the high thermal conduction portion of the first substrate in the plane direction, and a pair of electrodes which are connected to the thermoelectric conversion layer and consist of a metal material having a negative Seebeck coefficient.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an anode, a cathode, an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic layer containing a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer and an emission layer containing a host material, wherein the hole injection layer, the hole transport layer and the emission layer each contain a phosphorescent light-emitting material, wherein the hole injection layer contains the phosphorescent light-emitting material in an amount of 10% by mass or more but less than 50% by mass, and wherein a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the hole transport layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer, and a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the emission layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer and higher than that in the hole transport layer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an anode, a cathode, an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic layer containing a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer and an emission layer containing a host material, wherein the hole injection layer, the hole transport layer and the emission layer each contain a phosphorescent light-emitting material, wherein the hole injection layer contains the phosphorescent light-emitting material in an amount of 10% by mass or more but less than 50% by mass, and wherein a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the hole transport layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer, and a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the emission layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer and higher than that in the hole transport layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a charge transport film which is prepared through subjecting a coating film including at least one charge transporting agent to an atmospheric pressure plasma treatment, wherein electron transfer between the charge transport film and a substance that contacts with the charge transport film is promoted, and deterioration in performance due to diffusion and mixing or crystallization of low molecular weight components, such as a charge transporting agent, incorporated in a cured film is suppressed also in the case of film formation by a wet method, and which exhibits excellent charge transportability and stability over time; a production method with good productivity; and a light-emitting element and photoelectric conversion element equipped with the charge transport film, the atmospheric pressure plasma treatment being preferably a treatment that applies plasma, which is generated using a plasma generating apparatus and conveyed using an inert gas, to the coating film.

Abstract: An electrically conductive composition, containing an electrically conductive polymer, and an onium salt compound as a dopant to the electrically conductive polymer, an electrically conductive film formed by shaping the composition and a method of producing the electrically conductive film.

Abstract: Provided are a thermoelectric conversion element which has a thermoelectric conversion layer made of an organic material and is capable of generating electric power at a favorable efficiency and a method for manufacturing the thermoelectric conversion element.

Abstract: Provided is a thermoelectric conversion module in which the warping degree of the thermoelectric conversion module can be adjusted, the adhesiveness for being attached to a heat source such as a pipe improves, and the degradation of the thermoelectric performance can be prevented. This object is achieved by a thermoelectric conversion module having a flexible substrate and a thermoelectric conversion element having a first electrode, a thermoelectric conversion layer including an organic material, and a second electrode in this order, in which the thermoelectric conversion module has a stress relaxation layer that adjusts warping of the flexible substrate on a surface of the flexible substrate opposite to the thermoelectric conversion element and warps so as to become concave with respect to a thermoelectric conversion element side.

Abstract: An electrically conductive composition, containing (A) a carbon nanotube, (B) an electrically conductive polymer, and (C) an onium salt compound, an electrically conductive film using the composition, and a method of producing the electrically conductive film.

Abstract: Provided are a thermoelectric conversion element in which an electrode pair is formed on a substrate, an insulating layer is formed between the electrode pair, an n-type thermoelectric conversion layer containing an organic n-type thermoelectric conversion material is formed on one electrode, and a p-type thermoelectric conversion layer containing an organic p-type thermoelectric conversion material is formed on the other electrode, while the n-type thermoelectric conversion layer and the p-type thermoelectric conversion layer have a separation region in which the two members are arranged apart by the insulating layer and a contact region formed thereabove, in which the two members are joined to each other; and a thermoelectric conversion module using this thermoelectric conversion element.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an organic electroluminescence device which contains an anode, a cathode and an organic layer between the anode and the cathode where the organic layer contains a light-emitting layer and an adjacent layer adjacent to the light-emitting layer, the method including: applying to the adjacent layer a coating liquid prepared by dissolving or dispersing a light-emitting material and a host material in a solvent, and heating the coating liquid applied to the adjacent layer at a temperature higher than a melting temperature of the host material and higher than a boiling point of the solvent, to thereby form the light-emitting layer, wherein a difference as an absolute value between contact angle A (°) of the light-emitting layer with respect to pure water and contact angle B (°) of the adjacent layer with respect to pure water is 13 (°) or smaller.

Abstract: A method of producing a thermoelectric conversion element which has, on a substrate, a first electrode, a thermoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, which method comprising a step of preparing a dispersion for the thermoelectric conversion layer containing a nano conductive material by subjecting at least the material and a dispersion medium to a high-speed rotating thin film dispersion method; and a step of applying the prepared dispersion on or above the substrate and then drying the dispersion; and a method of preparing a dispersion for a thermoelectric conversion layer, which method comprises dispersing a nano conductive material into the dispersion medium by subjecting at least the material and the medium to a high-speed rotating thin film dispersion method.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generation module having: a base material; a plurality of electrodes disposed on the base material; and a thermoelectric conversion layer that coats each of the electrodes individually leaving a portion of the electrode to which a wiring is to be connected, wherein the thermoelectric conversion layer adheres to the base material around the electrode excluding the portion of the electrode to which the wiring is to be connected.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generation module having: a thermoelectric conversion layer in which a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements are electrically connected to each other in series and radially disposed in a principal surface direction of a substrate; a heat radiation layer that is connected to a center of the thermoelectric conversion layer and disposed on the side opposite to the principal surface of the substrate; a heat insulating layer disposed at a periphery of the heat radiation layer; and a heat absorbing layer that is connected to the periphery of the thermoelectric conversion layer and disposed on the principal surface side of the substrate, wherein the thermoelectric conversion elements each are composed of a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor, the p-type semiconductor and the n-type semiconductor are alternately and radially disposed, and electrically connected to each other in series with electrodes in sequence.

Abstract: A composition includes: (B) an arylamine derivative having at least one polymerizable group; and (A) a cyano group-free azo based polymerization initiator.