Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable photochromic composition that includes: (a) a photochromic compound; and (b) a segmented polymer that includes active hydrogen groups, at least one first segment, and at least one second segment, in which, (i) each first segment independently includes a (meth)acrylic polymer segment, and (ii) each second segment independently includes at least one of, a polycarbonate segment, a polyester segment, a polyether segment, a polyurethane segment, and combinations of two or more thereof. The curable photochromic composition further includes (c) a curing agent having reactive functional groups that are reactive with the active hydrogen groups of the segmented polymer (a), in which the curing agent includes at least one of, a polyisocyanate, a polyisothiocyanate, and an aminoplast. The present invention also relates to photochromic articles that include at least one layer formed from the curable photochromic composition of the present invention.

Abstract: Disclosed are a near-infrared absorbing composition, an optical structure, and a camera module and an electronic device including the same. The near-infrared absorbing composition includes a copper salt capable of absorbing light in a near-infrared wavelength region and an amine compound, wherein the amine compound includes a first amine compound having no polymerizable functional group and a second amine compound including at least monofunctional polymerizable functional group.

Abstract: A photochromic compound including a core skeletal structure represented by the following Formula (I), wherein D is oxygen or sulfur; E is oxygen, sulfur, or NR2?; a is 0 or 1; R1 is hydrogen, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl; R2 and R2? are each independently selected from hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl, or substituted or unsubstituted heterocycloalkyl; and the photochromic compound is a thermally reversible photochromic compound.

Abstract: A color material dispersion liquid including a color material, which is a salt-forming compound of an organic dye with a heteropolyoxometalate, a dispersant and a solvent, wherein the organic dye is at least one organic dye selected from the group consisting of a porphyrin dye, a tetraazaporphyrin dye, a phthalocyanine dye and a squarylium dye, and wherein the heteropolyoxometalate is a heteropolyoxometalate which has an oxidation-reduction potential larger than ?0.3 V relative to the silver/silver chloride electrode.

Abstract: A solar radiation shielding fine particle dispersion body containing a thermoplastic resin, solar radiation shielding fine particles, a solar radiation shielding fine particle-containing masterbatch, a solar radiation shielding resin formed body formed into a predetermined shape using the same, and a solar radiation shielding resin laminate including the solar radiation shielding resin formed body stacked on another transparent formed body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a solid color film, a preparation method thereof and a display device. The solid color film includes a transparent substrate and a solid color material dispersed in the transparent substrate, and the solid color material includes a host structure formed of cucurbituril and a guest structure supported on the host structure and formed by bonding a carboxyl group-containing rhodamine-based dye and an aminoadamantane through a chemical bond, wherein the guest structure is bonded to the host structure through the adamantane to form a host-guest structure.

Abstract: A squarylium dye [A] that has high invisibility, i.e., exhibits low absorption in the visible light region (400 nm to 750 nm), has excellent near-infrared absorption capability and high light resistance, tends not to exhibit aggregations, and has specific X-ray diffraction peaks; and an image-forming material and the like containing the squarylium dye [A] having said characteristics. The problem is solved by a squarylium dye [A] having specific X-ray diffraction peaks represented by general formula (1). Moreover, the problem is also solved by various materials containing the squarylium dye [A].

Abstract: An imaging element which is formed by sequentially stacking at least an anode, an anode-side buffer layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a cathode, in which the anode-side buffer layer includes a material having structural formula in which thiophene and carbazole are combined.

Abstract: Herein are described two-dimensional metal organic frameworks (2D MOFs). The 2D MOFs includes a plurality of multivalent metals or metal ions and a plurality of multidentate ligands arranged to form a crystalline structure having a lateral size of at least about 2.5 ?m and a thickness of less than about 5 nm. Herein are also described methods for preparing the 2D MOFs. The 2D MOFs can be used, for example, in electrochromic devices such as smart windows and flexible displays.

Abstract: A copolymer useful as an ingredient of a colored resin composition, comprising a structural unit derived from an aromatic carboxylic acid having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a structural unit (Ab) represented by formula (Z), and a structural unit (Ac) derived from an unsaturated compound having a cyclic ether structure having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, wherein L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, A represents a phenyl group optionally having a substituent other than a carboxy group or a naphthyl group optionally having a substituent other than a carboxy group, Ra represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and a hydrogen atom contained in the alkyl group is optionally replaced by a hydroxy group.

Abstract: To provide a method for producing lanthanum hexaboride-containing composite particles which are capable of forming a formed product having sufficiently high transparency and which are excellent in weather resistance, by a simple operation without calcination treatment at high temperature, and a method for producing a formed product using it. Also provided is a method for producing composite particles, which involves: reacting at least one silica precursor selected from a tetraalkoxysilane, its hydrolysate and its condensate, in the presence of lanthanum hexaboride particles, a volatile base, water and an organic solvent to obtain a first reaction mixture, and reacting the first reaction mixture with at least one silicon compound selected from an amino-modified silicone, an alkylsilane and an aminosilane, or the silicon compound and the silica precursor added, to obtain a second reaction mixture containing lanthanum hexaboride-containing composite particles.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a compound containing nitrogen, and a color conversion film, a backlight unit, and a display device, including the same.

Abstract: The polymerizable composition for an optical material of the present invention includes a compound (A) represented by General Formula (a) and including two or more allyloxycarbonyl groups, at least one kind of radical polymerization initiator (B) selected from the group consisting of a peroxyketal-based radical polymerization initiator, a peroxymonocarbonate-based radical polymerization initiator, and a peroxyester-based radical polymerization initiator, and a modifier (C) selected from a polyether modified siloxane compound represented by General Formula (c1) or a polyol compound represented by General Formula (c2).

Abstract: Provided is a composition with which a film having reduced color unevenness can be formed. In addition, provide are a film, an infrared transmitting filter, a solid image pickup element, an image display device, and an infrared sensor. The composition including a light shielding material; and a compound A having a weight-average molecular weight of 3000 or higher that has a radically polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated group, in which the compound A includes a repeating unit having a graft chain, and a ratio Amin/Bmax of a minimum value Amin of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 400 to 640 nm to a maximum value Bmax of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 940 to 1300 nm is 5 or higher.

Abstract: A ligand-modified quantum dot composition, a ligand-modified quantum dot layer, preparation methods thereof, and a quantum dot light emitting diode are provided. Segment B of the ligand modifier in the ligand-modified quantum dot composition is a chain-cleavable segment, that is, segment B is a longer molecular chain, so that the material has good solubility and stability, thus the ligand-modified quantum dot composition is present in the form of a solution or ink, etc. Segment B itself is not very stable and may be cleaved under certain conditions. In specific applications, the group in segment B may be cleaved by heating or illumination, so that the ligand modifier becomes a short molecular chain ligand, thereby making the quantum dots densely stack and improving the carrier transfer performance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to photochromic indeno fused phenanthrenopyran compounds represented by the following Formula (I). With some embodiments, the photochromic compounds represented by Formula (I) include at least one lengthening group (e.g., R6 and/or R7 each independently being a lengthening group) and the compounds of the present invention are photochromicdichroic compounds. The present invention also relates to photochromic compositions and photochromic articles, such as photochromic ophthalmic articles that include one or more photochromic compounds represented by Formula (I).

Abstract: A stepped substrate-coating composition for forming a coating film having filling property of a pattern and flattening property including a compound (E) having a partial structure (I) and a partial structure (II) having a hydroxy group formed by a reaction of an epoxy group with a proton-generating compound, a solvent (F), and a crosslinkable compound (H), wherein the partial structure (I) is from Formulae (1-1) to (1-5) or including a partial structure of Formula (1-6) combined with a partial structure of Formula (1-7) or (1-8), and the partial structure (II) is of the following Formula (2-1) or (2-2), wherein the compound (E) contains the epoxy and hydroxy group at a molar ratio (epoxy group)/(hydroxy group) of 0 or more and 0.5 or less, and contains the partial structure (II) so the molar ratio (partial structure (II))/(partial structure (I)+partial structure (II)) is 0.01 or more and 0.8 or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a nano dye molecule, a color filter, and a display panel. The nano dye molecule comprises a gold nanocluster and a plurality of dye groups which are connected to the gold nanocluster by gold-sulfur bonds and cover an outer periphery of the gold nanocluster.

Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising a three-dimensional amorphous trivalent network which reduces the number of modes within a particular frequency range (?c±??). The invention also extends to use of the composition as a structural colouration material and a paint, dye or fabric comprising the structural colouration material. Additionally, the invention extends to use of the composition as an optical filter or as a supporting matrix configured to define at least one optical component, such as a frequency filter, light-guiding structure for a telecommunications application, an optical computer chip, an optical micro-circuit or a laser comprising the supporting matrix.

Abstract: An object is to provide a semiconductor material and coating having high solubility in solvents and having advantageous filling property, high heat resistance, and/or high etching resistance. Another object is to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor using the semiconductor material. Still another object is to provide a novel compound. Provided are: a semiconductor material consisting of a specific aromatic hydrocarbon ring derivative; methods for manufacturing a coating and a semiconductor using the semiconductor material; and a compound consisting of a specific aromatic hydrocarbon ring derivative.