Abstract: A thermosetting composition for forming a protective film of a transparent conductive film is described, containing: a polyester amide acid obtained from a reaction of a mixture containing a tetracarboxylic dianhydride, a diamine and a polyhydric hydroxy compound as a first component, an epoxy resin as a second component, an epoxy curing agent as a third component, and a solvent as a fourth component.

Abstract: To provide a photoalignable material that can yield a photoalignable film having a high optical uniformity and no alignment defect, and allows photoalignment with exposure in a short period of time. A photoalignable polymer composition containing a specific photoalignable polymer having a silicone group or a fluorine-substituted alkyl group, and a photoalignable group, and a specific non-photoalignable polymer is manufactured, and the photoalignable film is manufactured by applying the polymer composition onto a base material or the like, drying an applied surface thereon, and irradiating the applied surface with light.

Abstract: A subject is to provide a material capable of obtaining a transparent conductive film that is excellent in conductivity, optical transmission, environmental reliability, suitability for process and adhesion in a single application process, and to provide the transparent conductive film and a device element using the same; a solution is to prepare a coating forming composition containing at least one kind selected from the group of metal nanowires and metal nanotubes as a first component, polysaccharides and a derivative thereof as a second component, an active methylene compound as a third component, an electrophilic compound as a fourth component and a solvent as a fifth component to obtain the transparent conductive film by using the coating.

Abstract: A method for determining a capability of a compound for inhibiting a receptor through a change of intracellular calcium ion when the receptor is activated is provided. Contacting a host cell genetically engineered to express an apo-clytin-II protein generated from a codon-optimized nucleic acid with a test compound, and then determining an amount of light generated. The intracellular calcium ion can be detected much more easily.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition for forming a photosensitive protective film is described which can provide a transparent conductive film including a nanostructure with a high hardness and environmental resistance. The photosensitive composition contains a compound having a dicyclopentadiene skeleton and an epoxy group or oxetanyl group as a first component, a compound including an (meth)acryl group in a molecule as a second component, an alkali-soluble polymer as a third component, and a solvent as a fourth component.

Abstract: A method for enhancing a luminescence activity of clytin-II is provided. A codon-optimized nucleic acid is used for coding the apo-clytin-II protein, and the luminescent activity of the clytin-II is remarkably enhanced when comparing with the conventional use of the wild-type clytin-II.

Abstract: An objective of the invention is to provide an adsorbent allowing purification of a blood coagulation factor or a cell adhesion factor under mild conditions, according to simple procedures, and at a low cost and safely while having a high affinity and a high resistance to deterioration, and a method for purifying the blood coagulation factor or the cell adhesion factor; a solution is to apply a polypeptide having peptide fragments represented by formula (1) as the adsorbent for the blood coagulation factor or the cell adhesion factor, and to purify the blood coagulation factor or the cell adhesion factor using the adsorbent: -(Pro-Hyp-Gly)n- Wherein, in formula (1), n is an integer from 2 to 9,000.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is described, which exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase and contains an achiral component T and a chiral dopant. The achiral component T contains, as its first component, at least one compound selected from compounds represented by formula (1) in an amount of 32 wt % to 85 wt %, wherein R1 is alkyl, for example; L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 and L6 are each independently hydrogen or fluorine; Z1 and Z2 are each independently a single bond or —CF2O—, with at least one of Z1 and Z2 being —CF2O—; and X1 is halogen, for example.

Abstract: Provided is a benzofluorene compound which exhibits excellent performances when applied to an organic electroluminescent device. In the benzofluorene compound, a central five-membered ring in a benzofluorene skeleton is substituted with aryl, and a benzene ring condensed to the five-membered ring is substituted with aryl, diarylamino and the like.

Abstract: An objective of the invention is to provide an excellent biomaterial having a good operability and a high safety; the solution is a polymer having one or more peptide units represented by formula (1) as described below and one or more saccharide residues derived from polysaccharides: -(Pro-Y-Gly)n-??(1) wherein, Y represents Pro or Hyp and n is an integer of 1 or more; the invention provides a novel polymer having both various characteristics of a collagen-like polypeptide suitable for a biomaterial, and characteristics of polysaccharides, namely, a high hydrophilicity and enzymolytic degradation, and also having a high mechanical strength and water absorbing properties; furthermore, the water absorbing properties and enzymolysis properties of the resultant polymer can be controlled by changing an amount of charging the peptide oligomer and the polysaccharides in a condensation reaction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal medium having an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase is described, which has stability to heat, light and so on, a broad temperature range of liquid crystal phase, a large optical anisotropy and a large dielectric anisotropy. A liquid crystal composition is described, which includes an achiral component T and a chiral dopant and exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase. The achiral component T contains, as its first component, at least one compound selected from compounds represented by formula (1), wherein R1 is C1-10 alkyl, the rings A1 to A6 are 1,4-phenylene, Z1 to Z7 are single bonds, Y1 and Y2 are fluorine; X1 is halogen, and i, j, k, m, n, p and q are independently 0 or 1.