Abstract: To provide a fiberboard capable of reducing a load on the environment at all states of producing, using, and abolishing and moreover having a high degree of bending strength and a high bending-strength retention rate at high temperature and high humidity so as to be usable for an automobile interior material or building material and a fiber-board producing method. The fiberboard is formed by mixing natural fiber with polylactic acid resin serving as a binder and has an apparent density of 0.2 g/cm3.

Abstract: Compositions are provided including aqueous dispersions of at least one polyaniline and at least one colloid-forming polymeric. New compositions are useful in electronically conductive and semi-conductive layers in electronic devices and other applications. Also provided are methods of making the compositions.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an organic layer having a light emission region and being disposed between an anode and a cathode is provided. The organic layer contains, as an organic light-emitting material, a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein each of R1 to R26 represents a substituents, such as a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, a nitro group, an amino group, a cyano group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, a silyl group, an alkylsilyl group, a siloxanyl group, an aralkyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic heterocyclic group, an ester group, an aryloxy group, a formyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, and a carboxyl group, and n1 is a numeric value from 1 to 3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to porous bone filling materials prepared by sintering bioactive glass fibers in order to achieve a three dimensional block with interconnecting porosity. Due to the osteoconductive properties the bioactive glass fibers, in block form are an ideal scaffold for new tissue (e.g. bone or cartilage) formation to occur. The manufacturing parameters can be adjusted to achieve porosities as high as 90 vol-%, or the manufacturing parameters can be adjusted to prepare strong porous blocks useful in load bearing application.

Abstract: Different formulations of copolymers can be used to adjust or “tune” the energy levels (HOMO and LUMO) and the color of light emitted by an organic electronic device. The copolymer may principally include of electron-rich and electron-deficient monomeric units whose composition and number are chose to optimize the efficiency of the device. A relatively smaller amount of fluorophore monomeric units may also be used to adjust the emission wavelength. The copolymer can be used in displays and potentially other electronic devices.

Abstract: A light-emitting element having at least a light-emitting region arranged between a pair of electrodes is provided, in which the light-emitting region contains either (A) a light-emitting material, a compound capable of sustaining the charge transport, and a heavy metal as a mixture, or (B) a compound that is capable of sustaining the charge transport and that includes both of a portion for contributing to the charge transport and a portion for contributing to the light emission within the compound, and a heavy metal as a mixture. A method for producing the light-emitting element, and a display device in which a plurality of the light-emitting elements are used, are provided also.

Abstract: A family of non-polymeric heterogeneous spiro compounds having visible light emissive, hole-transport, electron transport or bipolar-transport properties may be used in organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), as an emissive layer in the OLEDs and/or in one or more of the charge transport layers, or as a host material for one or more of such layers.

Abstract: A transparent electrically-conductive film comprising a substrate made of an aliphatic polyimide having a repeating unit of the formula [I] and a transparent electrically-conductive thin film layer, the transparent electrically-conductive thin film layer being provided on the substrate, wherein R is a tetravalent aliphatic group having 4 to 39 carbon atoms and ? is a divalent aliphatic group having 1 to 39 carbon atoms or a divalent aromatic group having 6 to 39 carbon atoms; an organic EL element using the above film; a thin-film transistor substrate comprising a substrate formed of a film of a polyimide having a repeating unit of the formula [I] and, provided thereon, a thin-film transistor; and an organic EL element using the above transistor substrate.

Abstract: A composite material includes a ceramic matrix and two different fractions of fiber bundles, namely a reinforcing fiber bundle fraction and a matrix fiber bundle fraction having different average fiber bundle lengths. The fractions of fiber bundles are separated in a total fiber bundle distribution relative to a fiber bundle length by a minimum. A method for manufacturing a composite material and a method for manufacturing elements formed of a composite material are also provided.