Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a translucent polycrystalline material with optical properties continuously varying in the material. A slurry including single crystal grains that are acted upon by a force when placed in a magnetic field is immobilized in a gradient magnetic field with a spatially varying magnetic flux density and then sintered. For example, where a slurry including single crystal grains of YAG doped with Er and single crystal grains of YAG undoped with a rare earth material is immobilized in the gradient magnetic field, the region with a strong magnetic field becomes a laser oscillation region that is rich in Er-doped YAG, whereas the region with a weak magnetic field becomes a translucent region rich in YAG undoped with a rare earth material. A polycrystalline material having a core with laser oscillations and a guide surrounding the core are obtained at once.

Abstract: A method is provided for preparing solid or thin-film single-crystals of cubic sesquioxides (space group no. 206, Ia-3) of scandium, yttrium or rare earth elements doped with lanthanide ions with valence +III, using a high-temperature flux growth technique, and to the various uses of the single-crystals obtained according to said method, in particular in the field of optics.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light reflective substrate capable of achieving high optical reflectance even though fine particles are not used as a material, and a light emitting device using the same. The light reflective substrate according to the present invention comprises: a glass matrix; and RNb2O6 crystal and/or R4Nb2O9 crystal (R is at least one of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba) in the glass matrix.

Abstract: Metal deco ink formulations are improved by the use of fluorescent dyes, UV-absorbing dyes and/or IR-absorbing dyes. These may be premixed with a phenol-formaldehyde resin without microencapsulation to protect the dye from other ink ingredients that have chemistries which are incompatible with that of the dye, in order to obtain photochromic ink formulation with a good shelf life.

Abstract: A composition comprises a fluoropolymer such as an elastomeric fluoropolymer and at least 1 weight % of a fluoro-functionalized near-infrared radiation absorber. This composition can be formed into laser-engraveable layers for various elements that can be laser-engraved to provide relief images. The resulting laser-engraved elements can take various forms including flexographic printing members, and can be used to apply various inks to receiver materials in an imagewise fashion.

Abstract: Electromagnetic interference shielding structures and methods of shielding an object form electromagnetic radiation at frequencies greater than a megahertz generally include providing highly doped graphene sheets about the object to be shielded. The highly doped graphene sheets may have a dopant concentration greater than >1e1013 cm?2, which is effective to reflect the electromagnetic radiation or a dopant concentration of 1e1013 cm?2>n>0 cm?2, which is effective to absorb the electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: A method is provided for making thermochromic pigments in microcapsules having unusually small particle sizes.

Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition in unit dose form wherein the composition comprises at least about 0.2 mg of active starch degrading enzyme per gram of composition and wherein the weight of the composition is less than about 25 grams.

Abstract: Electromagnetic interference shielding structures and methods of shielding an object form electromagnetic radiation at frequencies greater than a megahertz generally include providing doped graphene sheets about the object to be shielded. The doped graphene sheets have a dopant concentration that is effective to reflect and/or absorb the electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of inscribing a substrate comprises contacting the substrate with a laser beam to generate a mark, wherein the mark results from increasing the reflectivity of the thermoplastic material, wherein the substrate comprises a composition comprising a non-reflective thermoplastic material. In an embodiment, a method for generating a mark on an article comprises bonding a first component to a second component with a laser beam having a wavelength of greater than or equal to 800 nanometers, wherein the first component composition comprises a thermoplastic composition absorbing light having a wavelength of less than or equal to 500 nanometers and wherein the second component comprises a thermoplastic composition absorbing light having a wavelength of greater than or equal to 800 nanometers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition, and it has the advantages of a high development speed and good compatibility. The invention also provides a method for manufacturing a color filter, color filter and liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystal composition including the same, and an optically anisotropic body. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound according to the present invention has not only high birefringence but also excellent coating orientation, and thus it is possible to prepare a optically anisotropic body which is thin but superior in optical properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to aryl- and/or heteroaryl-substituted main group element halides and/or pseudohalides, the use of main group element halides and/or pseudohalides as dopant for the doping of an organic semiconducting matrix material, as charge injection layer, as hole blocker layer, as electrode material, as transport material itself, as memory material in electronic or optoelectronic structural elements.

Abstract: A design method for an optical sheet for solar concentration and an optical sheet for solar concentration obtained by means of the design method are disclosed. The design method is characterized in that, for a resin optical sheet for solar concentration containing an ultraviolet absorber in a base material thereof, an amount of the ultraviolet absorber to be contained in the base material is determined such that: in an accelerated degradation test by means of a metal-halide-lamp weathering test (device specification: JTM G 01:2000, Japan Testing Machinery Association), decrease in average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 1850 nm after testing for an irradiation time T1 satisfies the following equation (1) ?uv(0)+?uv(T1)>?0(0)+?0(T1)??(1) and that decrease in transmittance at each of wavelengths in the wavelength range from a corresponding initial value after testing for the irradiation time T1 is not greater than 10%.

Abstract: A reagent delivering article comprising porous sintered polycrystalline diamond where the delivering article is capable of retaining at least one chemical reagent and releasing the chemical reagent in a fluid or has reactive sites on diamond surfaces of the article.

Abstract: A camouflage covering which has a surface coating composition which is a metamer of a natural object from an environment of an animal, such as plant life or soil, as perceived by the vision system of the animal, which is created by completing the steps of creating a mathematical model of the vision system of the animal, measuring a set of spectral characteristics from the natural object, entering the set of spectral characteristics as an input into the mathematical model, and using an output of the mathematical model to iteratively create the surface coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a near-infrared reflective film and a near-infrared reflector, which can be used over large areas and are flexible, and have low haze and high visible light transmittance. The near-infrared reflective film comprises at least one unit composed of a high refractive index layer and low refractive index layer on a substrate, and is characterized in that the refractive index difference between an adjacent high refractive index layer and low refractive index layer is at least 0.1, and said high refractive index layer contains at least one type of compound (A) selected from: 1) a rutile-type titanium oxide having a volume-average particle diameter of not more than 100 nm; 2) a water-soluble polymer; and 3) the following group of compounds. Group of compounds: a carboxyl group-containing compound, hydroxamic acids, pyridine derivatives.

Abstract: This invention relates to a laser-marking additive wherein the laser-marking additive comprises a bismuth containing compound and a functionalized polymer having 0.01 to 50 wt % of functional groups, in which the weight percentage is based on the total amount of functionalized polymer and bismuth containing compound. The invention further relates to a method for preparation of such laser-marking additive, a laser-markable composition comprising such laser-marking additives and preparation thereof and molded parts comprising the laser-markable composition, as well as films made from the laser-markable composition.

Abstract: Finely divided solids are highly suitable for use as stabilizers for pyrocarbonic acid diesters, it being possible to use the mixtures obtained in this manner for preserving industrial materials and foodstuff.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition for a color filter includes (A) a dye including a cation moiety represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein in Chemical Formula 1, each substituent is the same as defined in the detailed description; (B) an acrylic-based photopolymerizable monomer; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; (D) an acrylic-based binder resin; and (E) a solvent, and a color filter using the same.