Abstract: There is provided a fluorine-containing polymer solid electrolyte which has an excellent ion-conducting property, is high in oxidation resistance, is stable electrochemically and thermally, has sufficient strength and is applicable to various electrochemical devices. The electrolyte comprises (A) a non-crystalline fluorine-containing polymer having, in a trunk chain and/or side chain of the polymer molecule, a structural unit D having five or more chained units derived from a fluorine-containing ether, (B) an electrolytic compound and (C) a solvent, and has an ionic conductivity of from 10?10 to 101 S/cm measured at 25° C. by an alternating current complex impedance method. The electrolyte is useful for various electrochemical devices.

Abstract: There is provided a material which can give a high elasticity and heat resistance to an optical waveguide member by photo-curing while maintaining transparency in a near infrared region and further makes it possible to use a film forming process by a spin coating method and a process for producing a waveguide by photolithograph, to obtain a waveguide having a large area and to produce an optical waveguide having reduced water absorption, and further there can be provided an optical waveguide member and an optical waveguide device. Namely, there are provided a fluorine-containing optical waveguide material comprising a curable fluorine-containing prepolymer (I) which is a non-crystalline polymer having a fluorine content of not less than 25% by weight and has a carbon-carbon double bond in a polymer side chain and/or at an end of a polymer trunk chain, an optical waveguide member which is a cured article of the optical waveguide material and an optical waveguide device comprising the optical waveguide member.

Abstract: There is provided a novel fluorine-containing polymer having an acid-reactive group which has a high transparency against energy rays (radioactive rays) in a vacuum ultraviolet region (157 nm), and further there are provided a material for fluorine-containing base polymer prepared from the polymer and suitable for a photoresist and a chemically amplifying type resist composition obtained therefrom. The polymer has a number average molecular weight of from 1,000 to 1,000,000 and represented by the formula: —(M1)—(M2)—(A)—, wherein M1 is a structural unit having an acid-labile or acid-degradable functional group, M2 is a structural unit of fluorine-containing acryl ester, A is a structural unit derived from other copolymerizable monomer, the percent by mole ratio M1/M2 is 1 to 99/99 to 1 and the polymer comprises from 1 to 99% by mole of the structural unit M1, from 1 to 99% by mole of the structural unit M2 and from 0 to 98% by mole of the structural unit A1.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing allyl ether polymer having a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 1,000,000 and consisting of chains of at least one repeating unit of the formula: wherein A is an organic group having 1 to 100 carbon atoms.

Abstract: There is provided a material which can give a high elasticity and heat resistance to an optical waveguide member by photo-curing while maintaining transparency in a near infrared region and further makes it possible to use a film forming process by a spin coating method and a process for producing a waveguide by photolithograph, to obtain a waveguide having a large area and to produce an optical waveguide having reduced water absorption, and further there can be provided an optical waveguide member and an optical waveguide device. Namely, there are provided a fluorine-containing optical waveguide material comprising a curable fluorine-containing prepolymer (I) which is a non-crystalline polymer having a fluorine content of not less than 25% by weight and has a carbon-carbon double bond in a polymer side chain and/or at an end of a polymer trunk chain, an optical waveguide member which is a cured article of the optical waveguide material and an optical waveguide device comprising the optical waveguide member.

Abstract: There is provided an optical material which is an organic composition comprising a rare earth metal ion and a fluorine-containing polymer having functional group being capable of forming a complex with the rare earth metal ion and is suitable as an optical material for optical communication, in which the fluorine-containing polymer having functional group being capable of forming a complex with the rare earth metal ion has a side chain having at least two hetero-atoms in its structural unit and has a maximum absorption coefficient of not more than 1 cm?1 in each bandwidth of from 1,290 to 1,320 nm, from 1,530 to 1,570 nm and from 600 to 900 nm, and the rare earth metal ion is at least one selected from the group consisting of erbium (Er) ion, thulium (Tm) ion, praseodymium (Pr) ion, holmium (Ho) ion, neodymium (Nd) ion, europium (Eu) ion, dysprosium (Dy) ion, samarium (Sm) ion, cerium (Ce) ion and terbium (Tb) ion.

Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a fine pattern by using a practicable fluorine-containing polymer which has a high transparency to exposure light having a short wavelength such as F2 laser and can undergo resolution of a fine pattern.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorine-containing resin composition which is used for nonlinear optical material and comprises (I) a fluorine-containing prepolymer and (II) an organic compound exhibiting a second- or higher-order nonlinear optical effect, in which the fluorine-containing prepolymer (I): (1) is a non-crystalline polymer having a fluorine content of not less than 25% and (2) has a carbon-carbon double bond in a polymer side chain or at an end of a polymer trunk chain and also there is provided a nonlinear optical waveguide device produced from the fluorine-containing resin composition. A suitable nonlinear optical material having a stable structure with a nonlinear substance is produced, and an excellent nonlinear optical waveguide device is produced by relatively simple steps while maintaining transparency in a near infrared region.

Abstract: It is possible to provide the heat resistant material and coating material for OA equipment which comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having heat resistance, abrasion resistance, non-sticking property against toner and oil resistance in addition to flexibility and are used particularly on surfaces of fuser roll and belt. Those materials comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having an elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A and a non-elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment B, and the elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A comprises not less than 90% by mole of perhaloolefin unit as a recurring unit and imparts flexibility to the whole polymer.

Abstract: There is provided a method of forming, on a substrate, a fine resist pattern comprising a step for forming a photosensitive layer by using a photo-sensitive composition comprising at least a compound generating an acid by irradiation of light and a fluorine-containing polymer,

Abstract: Aqueous dispersion of a vinylidene fluoride (VdF) polymer which comprises a VdF polymer having a particle size of not more than 200 nm and contains 30 to 50% by weight of solids and not more than 1% by weight of a fluorine-containing surfactant on the basis of water. This aqueous dispersion is prepared by emulsion-polymerizing VdF monomer or a monomer mixture containing VdF under coexistence of not more than 1% by weight of the fluorine-containing surfactant and 0.001 to 0.1% by weight of a nonionic non-fluorine-containing surfactant on the basis of water, and is suitably used for paints.

Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a fine resist pattern in which a highly practicable photosensitive composition obtained from a material having a high transparency against an exposure light having a short wavelength such as F2 excimer laser beam is used as a resist.

Abstract: There are provided a novel norbornene derivative which is a material for a chemically amplifying type photoresist for F2 laser, possesses excellent transparency and improved dry etching resistivity and has a fluorine-containing ketone unit or fluorine-containing tertiary alcohol unit directly bonded to the norbornene backbone; a fluorine-containing polymer obtained by using the norbornene derivative as a copolymerizable monomer; and a chemically amplifying type photoresist composition comprising the fluorine-containing polymer, a photoacid generator and a solvent.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorine-containing copolymer having an aliphatic monocyclic structure in the polymer trunk chain which has a number average molecular weight of from 500 to 1,000,000 and is represented by the formula (Ma):

Abstract: A surface treatment agent, which contains:

Abstract: To provide the method of forming the thin coating film of fluorine-containing polymer having heat resistance and non-sticking property by adhering directly to a substrate without lowering characteristics such as reflection and light transmission which the substrate has. The thin coating film is a film which comprises a continuous layer of fluorine-containing polymer formed by adhering directly to the substrate and has a thickness of less than 3 &mgr;m, wherein the fluorine-containing polymer in the coating film has a hydrophilic functional group and a crystalline melting point of not less than 200° C.

Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a fine resist pattern in which a highly practicable photo-sensitive composition obtained from a material having a high transparency against an exposure light having a short wavelength such as F2 excimer laser beam is used as a resist, and the method of forming a fine resist pattern comprises a step for forming a photo-sensitive layer on a substrate or on a given layer on a substrate using a photo-sensitive composition comprising at least a compound generating an acid by irradiation of light and a compound having fluorine atom in its molecular structure, a step for exposing by selectively irradiating a given area of said photo-sensitive layer with energy ray, a step for heat-treating the exposed photo-sensitive layer, and a step for forming a fine pattern by developing the heat-treated photo-sensitive layer to selectively remove the exposed portion or un-exposed portion of the photo-sensitive layer.

Abstract: Composite materials for cooking apparatuses which are produced by applying, to a substrate, a material comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having an excellent adhesive property to the substrate without necessitating complicated steps and are excellent in heat resistance, non-sticking property, stain-proofing property, water- and oil-repelling property, stain-removing property, chemical resistance, rust-preventing property, antibacterial property, resistance to energy ray and abrasion resistance. The composite materials for cooking apparatuses are produced by applying, to the substrate, the material comprising a fluorine-containing ethylenic polymer having functional group which is prepared by copolymerizing (a) 0.05 to 30% by mole of at least one of fluorine-containing ethylenic monomers having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, carboxyl, a carboxylic salt group, a carboxylic ester group and epoxy, and (b) 70 to 99.

Abstract: The structural member of the present invention comprises (A) a layer which comprises a fluorine-containing polymer and does not contain an adhesive material other than the fluorine-containing polymer substantially and (B) a substrate, in which the layer (A) is adhered directly to the substrate (B) without interposing a binder therebetween and a longitudinal shear strength between the layer (A) comprising a fluorine-containing polymer and the substrate (B) is not less than 0.98 N/mm2 at 150° C. The structural member comprising a fluorine-containing polymer and a substrate adhered to each other, particularly the structural member having improved adhesive strength at high temperature and the sliding material produced by using the structural member are provided.

Abstract: A heat resistant scattering-preventing composite material is produced by applying, to a substrate, a material comprising a fluorine-containing ethylenic polymer having functional group which is prepared by copolymerizing (a) 0.05 to 30% by mole of at least one of fluorine-containing ethylenic monomers having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, carboxyl, a carboxylic salt group, a carboxylic ester group and epoxy, and (b) 70 to 99.95% by mole of at least one of fluorine-containing ethylenic monomers which do not have said functional group. The heat resistant scattering-preventing composite material is produced by applying, to the substrate, the material comprising the fluorine-containing polymer having an excellent adhesive property to the substrate without necessitating complicated steps.