Abstract: Provided is a composition for a hole trapping layer of an organic photoelectric conversion element, such composition: containing a solvent and a charge-transporting substance comprising a polyaniline derivative represented by formula (1); and providing a thin film that is suitable as a hole trapping layer of an organic photoelectric conversion element and can also be used to produce an inverse lamination type organic photoelectric conversion element.

Abstract: A resist underlayer film-forming composition comprising a novolac resin obtained by reacting an aromatic compound (A) with an aldehyde (B) having formyl group bonded to a secondary carbon atom or tertiary carbon atom of a C2-26 alkyl group. A resist underlayer film-forming composition according to the first aspect, in which the novolac resin comprises a unit structure of Formula (1): (in Formula (1), A is a bivalence group derived from a C6-40 aromatic compound; b1 is a C1-16 alkyl group; and b2 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-9 alkyl group). A is the bivalent group derived from an aromatic compound comprising an amino group, a hydroxy group, or both an amino group and a hydroxy group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resist underlayer film that has a wide focus position range within which a good resist shape can be obtained. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography comprising a linear polymer that is obtained by a reaction of a diepoxy group-containing compound (A) with a dicarboxyl group-containing compound (B). The linear polymer has structures of the following formulae (1), (2), and (3) derived from the diepoxy group-containing compound (A) or the dicarboxyl group-containing compound (B): The linear polymer preferably contains a polymer obtained by a reaction of two diepoxy group-containing compounds (A) each having structures of Formulae (1) and (2) with a dicarboxyl group-containing compound (B) having a structure of Formula (3), or a polymer obtained by a reaction of a diepoxy group-containing compound (A) having a structure of Formula (1) with two dicarboxyl group-containing compounds (B) each having structures of Formulae (2) and (3).

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition, a thermosetting resin composition for protective films, a thermosetting resin composition for planarizing films, and a method for producing a cured film, a protective film, or a planarizing film by using the resin composition. A thermosetting resin composition has a polymer having a structural unit of Formula (1) below, a curing agent in an amount of 0% by mass to 30% by mass with respect to the polymer, and a solvent. When the thermosetting resin composition includes the curing agent, the curing agent is at least one compound selected from polyfunctional (meth)acrylate compounds and polyfunctional blocked isocyanate compounds: (wherein A1 is a C2 or C3 alkenyl group or alkynyl group, and A2 is a C2 alkenylene group or alkynylene group).

Abstract: An optical waveguide-forming composition: 100 parts by mass of a reactive silicone compound (a) composed of a polycondensate of a diarylsilicic acid compound A of Formula [1] Ar1 and Ar2 are a phenyl, naphthyl or a biphenyl group optionally substituted, and an alkoxy silicon compound B of Formula [2] Ar3—Si(OR1)aR23-a??[2] Ar3 is a phenyl, naphthyl or biphenyl group having at least one group having a polymerizable double bond, R1 is methyl or ethyl group, R2 is methyl, ethyl, or vinylphenyl group, and a is 2 or 3, and 1 part by mass to 200 parts by mass of a di(meth)acrylate compound (b) of Formula [3]. R3 and R4 are a hydrogen atom or methyl group, R5 is a hydrogen atom, methyl group, or ethyl group, L1 and L2 are an alkylene group, and m and n are 0 or a positive integer, wherein m+n is 0 to 20.

Abstract: The invention provides a coating agent for a flow passage which comprises a copolymer containing a recurring unit which contains an organic group of the formula (a) wherein Ua1 and Ua2 are defined herein, and a recurring unit which contains an organic group of the formula (b) wherein Ub1, Ub2, Ub3, and An? are defined herein. The invention also provides a flow passage device having the coating agent for a flow passage on at least part of an inner surface of a flow passage, a platelet-producing flow passage device and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: An object is to provide dispersion containing lipid peptide type compound useful as low molecular weight gelator, such as lipid dipeptide and lipid tripeptide, and dissolution accelerator capable of dissolving the lipid peptide type compound at lower temperature and more easily. It is also an object to provide dispersion that can form hydrogel by simpler method and under milder condition (low temperature) and from which gel can be obtained as gel having high thermal stability, and provide method for forming the gel. Dispersion including: a lipid peptide type compound in which peptide portion formed by repetition of at least two or more identical or different amino acids is bonded to lipid portion including C10-24 aliphatic group; dissolution accelerator having, in molecules thereof, hydrophilic portion and hydrophobic portion, the hydrophilic portion having betaine structure; and water; and method for producing hydrogel by use of the dispersion.

Abstract: With a photocurable composition for film formation which comprises a polymer containing a repeating unit structure having a triazine ring, for example, one represented by the following formula (17), a crosslinking agent, an ultraviolet absorber, and a light stabilizer, it is possible to produce a cured film which has a high refractive index and satisfactory weatherability

Abstract: A method for producing a drug substance of crystalline pitavastatin calcium excellent in stability, is presented. In the production of a compound (pitavastatin calcium) represented by the formula (1): The water content is adjusted to a level of from 5 to 15%, and the crystal form is controlled to be crystal form A, thereby to obtain a drug substance excellent in stability.

Abstract: A saccharification reaction mixture wherein the reaction mixture can saccharify at least one of cellulose and hemicellulose and contains at least one of cellulose and hemicellulose, a saccharification enzyme, silica or a silica-containing substance, and at least one compound (A) selected from the group including a polyhydric alcohol compound represented by the following formula (1) or a derivative thereof and an acetylene glycol represented by formula (2) or an alkylene oxide adduct thereof. The symbols in the chemical formulas are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A cured-film formation composition suitable to form a cured film having liquid-crystal alignment properties. A cured-film formation composition including a component (A) that is one or more monomers having a group having a photo-alignment moiety and thermally reactive moiety, and a polymerizable group; component (B) that is at least one polymer selected from the group of components (B-1) to (B-3) (the component (B-1) being a polymer having, in a quantity of at least two of at least one group selected from the group of hydroxy group, carboxyl group, amide group, amino group, an alkoxysilyl group and group of Formula (2), component (B-2) being a polymer capable of thermally reacting with thermally reactive moiety of component (A) and is self-cross-linkable, and component (B-3) being a melamine formaldehyde resin); and component (C) that is a cross-linking agent; and an orientation material and retardation material which are formed of the cured-film formation composition.

Abstract: This is to provide a blood filter comprising a porous element; and a copolymer which exists in at least a part of a surface of the porous element, and which contains a recurring unit containing an organic group of the following formula (a) and a recurring unit containing an organic group of the following formula (b), wherein Ua1, Ua2, Ub1, Ub2 and Ub3, and An? are as defined in the present specification and the claims.

Abstract: A solid base material for skin external application has a breaking strength high enough to be used for a stick-shaped base material and the like. A solid base material for skin external application has: a surfactant; water; and a lipid peptide compound including at least one of compounds of Formula (1) and the analogous thereof or pharmaceutically usable salts of the compound: wherein R1 is a C9-23 aliphatic group; R2 is a hydrogen atom, or a C1-4 alkyl group that may have a C1 or C2 branched chain; R3 is a —(CH2)n—X group, where n is a number from 1 to 4, and X is amino group, guanidino group, —CONH2 group, or a 5-membered or 6-membered ring that may have 1 to 3 nitrogen atoms or a condensed heterocycle composed of 5-membered and 6-membered rings that may have 1 to 3 nitrogen atoms.

Abstract: A stable high-water-content W/O-type emulsion gel comprising: a gelator composed of a compound of Formula (1) or (2) below (wherein, R1 and R3 are each independently a linear or branched alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 20, a cyclic alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 3 to 20, or a linear or branched alkenyl group having a carbon atom number of 2 to 20, n is an integer of 0 or 1 to 4, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 10, or an aryl group optionally having a substituent, and R4 and R5 are a hydroxyl group); a surfactant; and a mixed solvent of a hydrophobic organic solvent and water, wherein the content of the gelator is 0.1-20% by mass with respect to the mass of the mixed solvent.

Abstract: To provide an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device having favorable alignment property and electrical properties.

Abstract: A thin film that has high flatness and high charge transport properties and enables an organic EL element to achieve excellent luminance characteristics if applied thereto can be obtained by using a charge-transporting varnish which contains a charge-transporting substance, an organosilane compound that is composed of a polymer prepared in advance by subjecting an alkoxysilane compound to hydrolysis-condensation and having a weight average molecular weight of 500-10,000, and an organic solvent, said alkoxysilane compound containing at least one compound selected from among alkoxysilane compounds represented by formulae (1-1) and (1-2). SiR1(OR2)3 (1-1) SiR12(OR2)2 (1-2) (In the formulae, each R1 independently represents an alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms, which is substituted by Z1, or the like; each R2 independently represents an alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms, which may be substituted by Z3; and each of Z1 and Z3 represents a halogen atom or the like.).

Abstract: A retardation material-forming resin composition for providing an orientation material that has high photoreaction efficiency and with which a polymerizable liquid crystal can be aligned in a highly sensitive manner. A retardation material-forming resin composition being thermally curable wherein including a resin (component (A)) having a photo-aligning group to which a thermally reactive moiety is bonded directly or connected via a linking group; an orientation material obtained by use of the composition, and a retardation material formed by use of a cured film obtained from the composition.

Abstract: A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography having an aliphatic polycyclic structure including, as a silane, a hydrolyzable silane, a hydrolysis product thereof, a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, or a combination thereof, in which the aliphatic polycyclic structure is a structure which a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1): R1aR2bSi(R3)4-(a+b)??Formula (1) (where R1 is an organic group having an aliphatic polycyclic structure and bonded to a Si atom through a Si—C bond; R3 is an ethoxy group; a is an integer of 1; b is an integer of 0 to 2; and a+b is an integer of 1 to 3) has, or a structure included in a compound added as an aliphatic polycyclic compound, an aliphatic polycyclic dicarboxylic acid, or an aliphatic polycyclic dicarboxylic acid anhydride, each optionally having a double bond, a hydroxy group, or an epoxy group.

Abstract: A water absorbing and releasing body that absorbs water in engine oil and releases water when the temperature of the engine oil is high in order to maintain the performance of the engine oil, automotive parts including the water absorbing and releasing body, and a method for producing the water absorbing and releasing body for engine oil.

Abstract: The present invention provides the following: a photo alignment method-use liquid crystal aligning agent used to obtain a photo alignment method-use liquid crystal alignment film that does not cause bright spots even when negative liquid crystals are used, and that is capable of achieving good after-image characteristics; a liquid crystal alignment film obtained from the liquid crystal aligning agent; and a liquid crystal display element provided with the liquid crystal aligning agent. Provided is the liquid crystal aligning agent which contains a polyimide or polyimide precursor obtained from a reaction between: a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride represented by formula (1) (in the formula, X1 is as set forth in the present specification) or a derivative thereof; and a diamine component that contains a diamine represented by formula (2) (in the formula, R1, Z1 and n are as set forth in the present specification).