Abstract: The disclosure relates to an anode or an electrolytic capacitor electrode including an active anode material containing a chalcogen-containing-germanium composition in which the germanium:chalcogen atom ratio is between 80:20 and 98:2. The disclosure also relates to an anode including an active anode material containing a lithium and germanium-containing alloy wherein the lithium:germanium atom ratio is 22:5 or less. The anode also includes a non-cycling lithium chalcogenide. The disclosure further relates to lithium ion batteries including such anodes. The disclosure additionally relates to capacitor electrodes containing similar materials and capacitors containing such electrodes.

Abstract: An electronic device, such as a thin-film transistor, includes a semiconducting layer formed from a semiconductor composition. The semiconductor composition comprises a polymer binder and a small molecule semiconductor. The small molecule semiconductor in the semiconducting layer has a crystallite size of less than 100 nanometers. Devices formed from the composition exhibit high mobility and excellent stability.

Abstract: Compositions, devices, and methods of stabilizing Magneli phase materials are presented where the modified materials have a host phase and a locking phase in which locking compounds prevent rearrangement of a Magneli shear plane to a rutile structure and so prevent or reduce the oxidation of the Magneli phase material.

Abstract: A light-reflective anisotropic conductive adhesive used for anisotropic conductive connection of a light-emitting element to a wiring substrate includes a thermosetting resin composition, conductive particles, and light-reflective insulating particles. The light-reflective insulating particles are formed by subjecting titanium oxide particles to a surface treatment with one kind selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, SiO, SiO2, ZnO, ZnO2, and ZrO2. The amount of the titanium oxide contained in the light-reflective insulating particles is 85 to 93%. The particle diameter of the light-reflective insulating particles is 0.2 to 0.3 ?m, and the particle diameter of the conductive particles is 2 to 10 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive polymer material including (A) a ?-conjugated polymer, (B) a dopant polymer which contains a repeating unit having a sulfo group and has a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 500,000, and (C) either or both of sulfonium salt compounds represented by the following general formulae (1-1) and (1-2). There can be provided a conductive polymer material that has low acidity, can suppress the gradual agglomeration of particles, and has excellent solution-stability.

Abstract: A conductive polymer material includes a ?-conjugated polymer, dopant polymer which contains a repeating unit having a sulfo group and has a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 500,000, and amphoteric ion compound represented by the following general formula (1), wherein RC1 and RC2 independently represent a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a linear, branched, or cyclic alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, an acyloxy group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, a halogen atom; and “m” and “n” are each an integer of 0 to 4. A conductive polymer material with low acidity that suppresses the agglomeration of particles with overtime, with an excellent stability in a solution state can be provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor device connected by an anisotropic conductive film. The anisotropic conductive film includes a composition for an anisotropic conductive film including a first epoxy resin having an exothermic peak temperature of about 80° C. to about 110° C. and a second epoxy resin having an exothermic peak temperature of 120° C. to 200° C., as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The first epoxy resin and the second epoxy resin are present in combined amount of about 30 wt % to about 50 wt % based on a total weight of the composition in terms of solid content. The second epoxy resin is present in an amount of about 60 to about 90 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the first and second epoxy resins.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for an antistatic release agent comprising: a release component, a conductive component, an organic solvent, and water, wherein the release component contains a condensation-type organopolysiloxane, the conductive component contains a complex with a ?-conjugated electrically conductive polymer and a polyanion having a molecular weight of 20,000 to 900,000, an amount of the conductive component is 1 to 300 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the release component, at least one amine compound selected from the group consisting of a secondary amine, a tertiary amine or a quaternary ammonium salt is coordinated to or bonded to portion of anion groups in the polyanion as an ion pair, and the water content is 5% by mass or less, relative to a total amount of the composition for an antistatic release agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electroconductive polymer dispersion liquid characterized in containing a ?-conjugated electrically conductive polymer, a polyanion, a compound represented by the following chemical formula (1), and a dispersion medium. In accordance with the present invention, an electroconductive polymer dispersion liquid capable of readily forming an electroconductive coating having excellent electrical conductivity, heat resistance, moist-heat resistance, and substrate adhesion property can be provided. [Chemical formula 1] CH2?C(R1)—CO—NH—R2—O—CO—NH—R3—Si(OR4)3??(1) In chemical formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 and R3 each independently represent an arbitrary substituent group, and R4 represents a methyl group or an ethyl group.

Abstract: The invention relates to an antistatic release agent comprising: a release component that contains a condensation-curing type organopolysiloxane, a conductive component that contains a complex of a ?-conjugated electrically conductive polymer and a polyanion and an organic solvent, wherein the amount of the conductive component relative to 100 parts by mass of the release component is 1 to 300 parts by mass, at least one amine-type compound selected from the group consisting of a secondary amine, a tertiary amine or a quaternary ammonium salt is coordinated to or bonded to portion of anion groups in the polyanion as an ion pair, and the amine-type compound has one or more substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkylene group, an arylene group, an aralkylene group and an oxyalkylene group.

Abstract: A polyether rubber comprising units expressed by the following general formula (1) in 0.1 mol % or more but less than 30 mol % is provided. (wherein in the above general formula (1), A+ is a group which contains a cationic nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic ring. Said group which contains a cationic nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic ring is bonded with the carbon atom at the “2” position which is shown in the above general formula (1) through a nitrogen atom which forms said cationic nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic ring. X? is arbitrary counter anion.

Abstract: An oligophenylene monomer of general formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are independently of each other H, halogene, —OH, —NH2, —CN, —NO2 or a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-C40 hydrocarbon residue, which can be substituted 1-to 5-fold with halogene (F, Cl, Br, I), —OH, —NH2, —CN and/or —NO2, and wherein one or more CH2-groups can be replaced by —O— or —S—, or an optionally substituted aryl, alkylaryl or alkoxyaryl residue; and m represents 0, 1 or 2.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to thermally conductive polymer composites and particularly to thermal interface materials.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a conductive metal ink composition comprising a conductive metal powder; a non-aqueous solvent; an organo phosphate compound; and a polymer coating property improving agent, and a method for forming a conductive pattern by using the conductive metal ink composition.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrophoretic fluid which can improve display performance such as switching speed, vertical bistability and the ghosting effect, and also reduce display defects. The electrophoretic fluid comprises charged pigment particles dispersed in a mixture of isoparaffins.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cross-linkable and cross-linked polymers and to a method for the production thereof. The invention further relates to the use of said polymers in electronic devices and to the corresponding electronic devices themselves.

Abstract: A polyamide composition which provides moldings having a significantly reduced percolation threshold and an improved electrical conductivity is provided. The composition contains a) at least 40 parts by weight of a polyamide; b) from 0.15 to 25 parts by weight of an electrically conductive carbon; c) from 0.3 to 8 parts by weight of an oligofunctional compound; and, optionally, d) conventional auxiliaries and additives, wherein the electrically conductive carbon comprises at least one of carbon nanotubes and graphene, the oligofunctional compound comprises at least one functional group reactive with reactive groups on a surface of the electrically conductive carbon and at least one functional group reactive with an end group of the polyamide, and the sum of the parts by weight of the components a) to d) is 100.

Abstract: A method of controlling a growth crystallographic plane of a metal oxide semiconductor having a wurtzite crystal structure by using a thermal chemical vapor deposition method includes controlling a growth crystallographic plane by allowing the metal oxide semiconductor to grow in a non-polar direction by using a source material including a thermal decomposition material that reduces a surface energy of a polar plane of the metal oxide semiconductor.

Abstract: A conductive polymer composition which can be homogeneously dissolved in a solvent and can form a smooth film. The conductive polymer composition is a conductive polymer composition comprising a polymer compound (A) and a ?-conjugated polymer (?), wherein the polymer compound (A) is a polymer compound obtained by polymerizing 10 to 50% by mol of a monomer (a-1) having a sulfonic acid group or a sulfonate group, 10 to 90% by mol of a monomer (a-2) having chelating ability and 0 to 70% by mol of other monomer (a-3), and the ?-conjugated polymer (?) is a ?-conjugated polymer obtained by polymerizing at least one monomer selected from monomers represented by the following formulas (I) to (III).

Abstract: Use of 2-aminoethanol as an additive in an aqueous suspension, containing from 25 to 62 vol. % of at least one calcium carbonate-comprising material, wherein the use provides improved stability with regard to the conductivity of the suspension.