Abstract: A method producing authenticatable documents by incorporating a fluorescent organometallic complex in the toner or in the paper in which the fluorescent organometallic complex gives off light with a characteristic spectrum when exposed to UV light.

Abstract: A method of production of a homopolymer or copolymer or homo-oligomer or co-oligomer product characterised in that the product is obtained by condensation reaction of a diaminoanthracene, substituted or not, optionally with a diiminoanthracene substituted or not in the absence of anthraquinone substituted or not.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device which has an electroluminescent layer formed of a binuclear, trinuclear or polynuclear rare earth organic complex in which the metals are linked through a bridging ligand.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device has, as the electroluminescent layer, a metal compound selected from organic complexes of non rare earth metals.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device in which there is an electroluminescent which comprises a complex of general formula (L12)nM1M2 (Lp), where Lp is a neutral ligand and where M1 is a rare earth, transition metal lanthamide or an actimide, M2 is a non rare earth metal, L&agr;is an organic complex and n is the combined valence state of M1 and M2.

Abstract: An electroluminescent material which can form electroluminescent devices which emit light in the ultra-violet region of the spectrum which comprises an organic metallic complex of a transition metal, lanthanide or actinide and a polyamine ligand particularly gadolinium ethylenediaminetetraacetate sodium salt, Na[Gd(EDTA)] and gadolinium europium ethylenediaminetetraacetate salts Gd[Eu(EDTA)]3.

Abstract: The use of unsubstituted or substituted polymer of an amino substituted aromatic compound as a hole transporting and/or hole injecting layer in an electroluminescent device using an organic metal complex as the electroluminescent material produced improved performance of the device.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device which emits white light which comprises sequentially an anode, a layer of a hole transporting material which emits light in the blue spectrum, a layer of an organo metallic complex and a cathode.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device has a conjugated polymer as a layer of a hole transmitting material which is a conjugated polymer.

Abstract: An improved method for forming films of organic-metallic complexes in which an organic complex and a labile metal salt are vaporised together or sequentially and the vapour condensed on to a substrate to form a film or layer of the organic-metallic complex on the substrate. The method produces electroluminescent films with improved performance.

Abstract: Tb(TMHD)3OPNP where TMHD is 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionato and OPNP is diphenylphosphonimide triphenyl phosphorane is an electroluminescent material which emits white light at an applied voltage of above 12 volts.

Abstract: Electrolumiinescent devices with a high photoluminescent efficiency comprise a transparent conductive substrate on which is a layer of an electroluminescent material. The electroluminescent material is a rare earth metal, actinde or transition metal organic complex which has a photoluminescent efficiency of greater than 25%.

Abstract: There are disclosed polymeric or oligomeric product obtainable from the reaction of an anthraquinone with an aromatic diamine, characterised in that the anthraquinone is substituted or is not substituted and in that the diamine is a diamino anthracene which is substituted or is not substituted. The anthraquinone may be of the general formula (I): where, R may be the same as or different to R′, and may be a hydrogen atom (when R=R′=H, the compound is anthraquinone), or CH3, CH3CH2—, —OCH3, —OCH2CH3, —CH2OCH3, —CH2OCH2CH2OCH3, methoxyethoxyethoxymethyl, aryloxymethyl, phenyl, Cl, Br, CN or NO2, —CH2COOR or CH2NHCOR″ (where R″ is C1-C6 alkyl or a phenyl or biphenyl group).

Abstract: A method of production of a homopolymer or copolymer or homo-oligomer or co-oligomer product characterised in that the product is obtained by condensation reaction of a diaminoanthracene, substituted or not, optionally with a diiminoanthracene substituted or not in the absence of anthraquinone substituted or not.

Abstract: There is disclosed poly (9-aminoanthracene) (P9-AA) free or substantially free of anthraquinone, methods of making such material and P9-AA in various oxidation states. Certain substituted 9 aminoanthracenes and polymers thereof are also disclosed as are polymers of 9 aminoanthracene with aniline.

Abstract: Material which is coated with a coating of an inherently conductive polymeric material. Suitable conductive polymeric materials include polypyrrole, substituted polypyrrole, polyaniline and substituted polyanilines.The coated powdery or granular metallic material may be used as an EMI and/or RFI shielding material.

Abstract: Thiophene derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are certain specified substituent groups can be homopolymerized or copolymerized to form polymers which are electroconductive. These polymers find many uses, for example, as EMI/RF shielding materials, in electrochromic display systems, as antistatics, as ion and pH sensors, as battery electrode materials etc.

Abstract: An inorganic powdery or granular material which is coated with a coating of an inherently conductive polymeric material, such as a conductive polypyrrole or substituted polypyrrole, a polythiophene or substituted polythiophene, a polyaniline or substituted polyaniline, a polyethylene oxide or an aniline copolymer. The material which is coated is talc, mica, wollastonite, calcium carbonate, aluminium hydroxide, clay or hydroxyapatite.