Abstract: Described is a process for preparing urethane (meth)acrylates. In a first step, a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate (A) is reacted with a lactone (B) in the presence of at least one catalyst (C), selected from the group consisting of iron compounds, titanium compounds, aluminum compounds, zirconium compounds, manganese compounds, nickel compounds, zinc compounds, cobalt compounds, and bismuth compounds to provide a product; and, in a further step, the product is reacted with a polyisocyanate (D) which comprises at least one hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate bonded via an allophanate group.

Abstract: Compositions are described for protecting a metal surface against corrosion. The composition includes a corrosion-inhibiting particle. The corrosion inhibiting particle may be usable in an epoxy resin-based coating or an olefin resin-based coating. The particle may include a core and a protectant. The core may include a water soluble corrosion inhibitor. The protectant may be disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the core and may be covalently or ionically bonded to a thiol group of the corrosion inhibitor. The protectant may be configured to reduce reaction between the core and the epoxy resin or the olefin resin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating composition for metal surfaces comprising a polymer matrix and at least first and second functionalized nano-containers dispersed within the matrix and respectively containing active substances different from each other. Each of said first and second functionalized nano-containers defines a volume of nanometric size containing said active substance confined within a porous core and/or a porous shell that, in normal conditions, prevent the direct contact of the active substance with the external environment, while, in predetermined triggering conditions, allow the release of the active substance into external environment.

Abstract: Described is a method for producing a mesh structure involving forming a substantially uniform layer of a material on a surface of a substrate, wherein upon occurrence of a predetermined chemical or a physical reaction, the material of the uniform layer mechanically contracts and wherein the material of the uniform layer has a sufficiently high adhesion to the surface of the substrate and causing the uniform layer of material to break into clusters separated by gaps by facilitating the occurrence of the predetermined chemical or physical reaction in the uniform layer of the material formed on the surface of the substrate, wherein the uniform layer of material breaks into the clusters due to appearance of mechanical stresses, sufficient to break the uniform layer of material into the clusters, the mechanical stresses being caused by the occurrence of the predetermined chemical or physical reaction in the uniform layer of the material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface treatment composition for forming a self-assembled coating layer which is easily coated and removed and a surface treatment method, where the self-assembled coating layer can be easily formed because of use of a compound having the hydroxyl groups as a diol are attached to an ortho position of a benzene ring and be removed by treatment of Al3+ or Fe3+. Thus, the surface can be reused by forming a new self-assembled coating layer, thereby making the surface treatment composition be applied to various researches and industrial fields of the self-assembly coating layer which are used for reduction in metal abrasion resistance, introduction of a chemical functional group for detecting a biomolecule, the surface hydrophilicity, introduction of an antifouling property to the surface, and the like.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are directed to a composition of an inverse emulsion acrylate ink for use in variable data digital lithographic image forming devices and methods for preparing and using the ink. The disclosed inverse emulsion acrylate ink includes an acrylate monomer, oligomer, polymer, or mixtures thereof that is a continuous phase, and water dispersed as an emulsion in the continuous acrylate phase. The disclosed inverse emulsion acrylate ink includes one or more of a color pigment component, a rheology modifying agent, a stabilizing agent, and a photoinitiator component. The water may be supplemented with a surfactant to lower a surface tension of the water.

Abstract: This disclosure includes a hot melt ink composition that includes at least one wax having a freezing point of from about 20° C. to about 45° C. and a melting point of at least about 35° C., and at least one colorant. The composition includes at least about 50 wt % of the at least one wax. This disclosure also relates to a printing process using such a composition and a product containing such a composition.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to compounds of formula (I), as well as related ink compositions and printing methods: In formula (I), L, X, R1, and R2 are defined in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous sublimation transfer ink composition. The sublimation transfer ink composition comprises a polysaccharide. The present invention further relates to a method of preparing said ink composition. The present invention also relates to a method for providing an image onto a receiving medium.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition includes: a polymer compound; a polymerization initiator; and a polymerizable compound. The polymer compound contains at least one of a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (1) or a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (2). An ink composition for ink-jet recording includes the polymerizable composition. A method of ink jet recording and a printed article use the ink composition.

Abstract: An ink composition for inkjet recording includes a (meth)acrylic resin, a polymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound. The (meth)acrylic resin includes a skeleton structure derived from a multifunctional thiol that is trifunctional to hexafunctional, and plural polymer chains connected to the skeleton structure by a sulfide bond, each of the plural polymer chains including at least two kinds of (meth)acrylic repeating units selected from the group consisting of a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate having a C1-C8 linear, C3-C8 branched, C3-C8 alicyclic, or C6-C8 aromatic hydrocarbon group which may include an oxygen atom, a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate having a C9-C10 alicyclic hydrocarbon group, and a repeating unit derived from (meth)acrylic acid, in an amount of more than 90 mol % with respect to the total repeating units in the polymer chain. An inkjet recording method uses the ink composition and a printed matter is printed with the ink composition.

Abstract: Recordation and removal of an image that can be removed from a recording medium are facilitated with suitable workability. An ink composition for forming an image using an ink jet scheme on a recording medium, and removing the image from the recording medium by dissolving the image by a solvent after having fixed the formed image by light irradiation, and an ink composition that is to become a base of an image layer formed on the recording medium using the ink jet scheme, and that is for removing the image layer from the recording medium by dissolving the ink composition by the solvent after having fixed the formed image layer by the light irradiation that are according to the present disclosure include a photocurable compound that is cured by receiving light irradiation and dissolved by a solvent while in a cured state.

Abstract: The invention provides: an ink composition, a method of producing the ink composition, and an image forming method using the ink composition. The ink composition includes: a urethane resin that includes an alicyclic structure at a content of from 6,000 mmol/kg to 12,000 mmol/kg; a water-soluble organic solvent; water; and a colorant.

Abstract: A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes a colorant, water, a surfactant, and a compound represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), R is an alkyl ether group or an alkyl ester group in which a number of carbon atoms of a main chain is not less than 6, and each of an alkyl group of the alkyl ether group and an alkyl group of the alkyl ester group is in a straight chain form or a branched chain form.

Abstract: A printing ink composition includes a metal salt of a metal ion and a counter ion, and a viscosity adjusting agent. The metal ion is present as a metal complex of the metal ion and the viscosity adjusting agent, the viscosity adjusting agent includes at least one functional ligand, where the functional ligand may be a monofunctional ligand having one functional group and multifunctional ligands having more than one functional groups.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a semicrystalline polymer/graphene oxide composite film, comprising: a first semicrystalline-typed polymer, distributed in structural space of the composite film and having a porous structure; and graphene oxide, having a layered structure and distributed in the composite film wherein gas passage exist between adjacent layered structures, the first semicrystalline-typed polymer existing between part of adjacent layered structures forms into a second semicrystalline-typed polymer by further heat treatment after the first semicrystalline-typed polymer and graphene oxide are blended uniformly to be distributed in the composite film so as to fill and seal a portion of the porous structure to block gas from flowing to extend path length(s) of gas passage; wherein graphene oxide existing between the first semicrystalline-typed polymers induces formation of the second semicrystalline-typed polymer.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition includes (A) a colorant including a copolymer represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a green pigment; (B) a binder resin; (C) a photopolymerizable monomer; (D) a photopolymerization initiator; and (E) a solvent, wherein the copolymer represented by Chemical Formula 1 is included in an amount of about 100 parts by weight to about 300 parts by weight based on about 100 parts by weight of the green pigment: wherein a is an integer ranging from 1 to 100, b is an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and c is an integer ranging from 1 to 50. A color filter manufactured using the same is also provided.

Abstract: A stable aqueous dispersion including certain composite particles and a method for forming the stable aqueous dispersion is provided. The composite particles include a pigment particle, the pigment particle having disposed thereon a certain water-soluble polymer including copolymerized carboxylic acid monomer and N-containing monomer and the pigment particle bearing the water-soluble polymer having disposed on it a plurality of water-insoluble polymer particles. Also provided is a dry coating formed from the aqueous dispersion.

Abstract: A method of using a putty in a mechanical processing method includes dosing a binder component comprising at least one epoxy resin, dosing a hardener component comprising at least one NH-group-containing compound, mixing the binder component and the hardener component into a putty mass, and applying the putty mass on an undercoat. At least one of the binder component and the hardener component comprises synthetic hollow bodies so that the putty mass comprises 0.1 to 15 wt.-% of the synthetic hollow bodies relative to a total weight of the putty mass.

Abstract: An undercoat composition comprises an isocyanate group-containing compound as Component A, a radically polymerizable monomer containing at least b1 or b3 below as Component B, and a photopolymerization initiator as Component C, wherein the total content of b1 and b2 is 50 to 90 mass % relative to the total solids content mass of the undercoat composition, and the total content of b1 and b3 is 5 to 90 mass % relative to the total solids content mass of the undercoat composition, b1: a polyfunctional radically polymerizable monomer having a Log P value of no greater than 2.0, b2: a polyfunctional radically polymerizable monomer having a Log P value of greater than 2.0, and b3: a monofunctional radically polymerizable monomer having a Log P value of no greater than 2.0.

Abstract: A polymer composition with (A) a first poly(meth)acrylate polymer or urethane polymer; and (B) a second poly(meth)acrylate polymer or urethane polymer which has a residue X incorporated therein, where X is the residue of a cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol which is substituted with at least one —R1; —C(O)R1; —(CH2CH2O)n(CH(CH3)CH2O)mR2; —(CH2CH2O)n(CH(CH3)CH2O)mC(O)R1; or mixtures thereof; where the cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol is selected from a saccharide, reduced sugar, aminosaccharide, aldonic acid, or aldonic acid lactone; wherein each n is independently 0 to 20; each m is independently 0 to 20; m+n is greater than 0; each R1 is independently a linear or branched alkyl group having 5 to 29 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond; and each R2 is independently —H, a linear or branched alkyl group having 6 to 30 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: Mosaic tesserae comprising a substrate having a visible face covered with a coating layer of transparent material are provided. This coating layer has a fire resistance of at least CLASS B according to standard EN ISO 11925, improved abrasion resistance and transmittance of radiation with a wavelength between about 400 and about 800 nm equal to at least 80%. Methods of making mosaic tesserae which exhibit these features are also provided.

Abstract: Cure-on-demand, moisture-curable, urethane-containing prepolymers having urethanes incorporated into a sulfur-containing prepolymer backbone and compositions thereof for use in sealant applications are disclosed. The cure-on-demand moisture-curable urethane-containing prepolymers are terminated with polyalkoxysilyl groups. The compositions contain a controlled-release moisture cure catalyst. Compositions containing the prepolymers provide cured sealants exhibiting improved tensile strength.

Abstract: The present invention is an aqueous composition comprising at least one hydrophobic compound having at least one linkage of Formula I: —NHC(O)—X—??(I) wherein X is the residue of a cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol which is substituted with at least one —R1; —C(O)R1; —(CH2CH2O)n(CH(CH3)CH2O)mR2; —(CH2CH2O)n(CH(CH3)CH2O)mC(O)R1; or mixtures thereof; where the cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol is selected from a saccharide, reduced sugar, aminosaccharide, aldonic acid, or aldonic acid lactone; wherein each n is independently 0 to 20; each m is independently 0 to 20; m+n is greater than 0; each R1 is independently a linear or branched alkyl group having 5 to 29 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond; each R2 is independently —H, a linear or branched alkyl group having 6 to 30 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for imparting surface effects to a substrate using at least one hydrophobic compound with at least one linkage of Formula I: —NHC(O)—X—??(I) wherein X is the residue of a cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol which is substituted with at least one —R1; —C(O)R1; —(CH2CH2O)n(CH(CH3)CH2O)mR2; —(CH2CH2O)n(CH(CH3)CH2O)mC(O)R1; or mixtures thereof; where the cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol is selected from a saccharide, reduced sugar, aminosaccharide, aldonic acid, or aldonic acid lactone; wherein each n is independently 0 to 20; each m is independently 0 to 20; m+n is greater than 0; each R1 is independently a linear or branched alkyl group having 5 to 29 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond; and each R2 is independently —H, a linear or branched alkyl group having 6 to 30 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A urethane composition useful in a variety of applications such as, for example, as a direct-to-metal coating, i.e. a coating composition that can be applied directly to the surface of a metal substrate without a primer or pretreatment is described. The coating composition preferably includes a polyol that is the reaction product of a resin of general formula (I) with an acid or a diol respectively, with the reaction being carried out in the presence of a catalyst. The coating composition also includes an isocyanate-functional compound as a crosslinker. The coating composition forms a corrosion-resistant film when applied directly to the substrate surface without a pretreatment or primer.

Abstract: Provided are: a silicone coating composition that can be applied to the surface of a substrate without a primer, that has weather resistance and oxidation resistance, and that can be used to obtain a cured coating that has excellent adhesion, weather-resistant adhesion, interference pattern suppression, scratch resistance, and transparency; and an article that is coated with the silicone coating composition.

Abstract: An asphalt shingle coating system that includes a coater, a mixer, a viscosity gauge, a wax supply, a wax pump and a control system. The coater applies a layer of a coating asphalt mixture on an asphalt shingle substrate. The mixer mixes the coating asphalt mixture and is positioned upstream of the coater. The viscosity gauge may be positioned between the coater and the mixer, and it measures the viscosity of said coating asphalt mixture before it is delivered to the coater. The wax supply is in fluid communication with the mixer and a wax pump may deliver a volume of wax from the wax supply to the mixer, and the control system may selectively adjust the operation of the wax pump to substantially maintain a desired viscosity of said coating asphalt mixture.

Abstract: CMP processes, tools and slurries utilize composite particles that include core particles having organosilica particles disposed about the core particles. Using these processes, tools and slurries can enhance removal rates, reduce defectivity and increase cleanability with respect to comparable systems and substrates.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for fabricating a separator assembly. The method comprises: providing a central core element comprising at least one concentrate exhaust conduit and at least one permeate exhaust conduit; disposing a first portion of a membrane stack assembly comprising a permeate carrier layer, a membrane layer, and a feed carrier layer within the central core element such that the concentrate exhaust conduit and permeate exhaust conduit are separated by the first portion of the membrane stack assembly; radially winding a second portion of the membrane stack assembly around the central core element; and sealing the wound assembly comprising two opposing end surfaces made of the membrane stack assembly by applying an adhesive on both end surfaces of the wound assembly; and applying a negative pressure inside the central core element so that the adhesive penetrates into the membrane stack assembly.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polyurethane composition comprising one first component and one second component, said first component comprising an alkoxylated aromatic diol, a low molecular aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diol, a specific polybutadiene polyol and a specific polyetherpolyol, in specific ratios. The hardened composition is characterized by having good adhesion characteristics, a resistance which is only slightly dependent on the temperature, in the temperature range of ?35 to +85° C. and also very high resistances. It is particularly suitable as a structural adhesive for bonding two substrates.

Abstract: An abrasive grain is disclosed and may include a body. The body may define a length (l), a height (h), and a width (w). In a particular aspect, the length is greater than or equal to the height and the height is greater than or equal to the width. Further, in a particular aspect, the body may include a primary aspect ratio defined by the ratio of length:height of at least about 2:1. The body may also include an upright orientation probability of at least about 50%.

Abstract: The absorbent mat provides a convenient inexpensive absorbent apparatus for collecting and handling spilled oils and other hazardous liquids and includes an expanded paper honeycomb core filled with adsorbent granules sandwiched between a permeable top covering and non-permeable bottom covering.

Abstract: Water-cooled extrusion equipment capable of operating at high temperatures in forming chemical and plastic components is highly subject to water-influenced corrosion of, and/or deposition of water-borne dissolved solids on, the narrow conduits carrying the circulating coolant and the system components and auxiliaries in contact with the coolant. The inventive water-based coolant circulated through the extrusion equipment's cooling passages is purified, thus having a reduced amount of dissolved solids and incorporates: (1) a yellow metal inhibitor for preventing corrosion and fouling of non-ferrous metals forming the coolant-bearing passages; (2) an organic/inorganic alkaline nitrogen-based compound to raise the pH of the water and reduce corrosion; and (3) a reducing agent to passivate the equipment's steel surfaces to reduce metal loss.

Abstract: The present invention relates to formulated refrigerant systems of 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (R1233zd) that are sufficiently thermally and chemically stable such that they can be effectively used sans additional stabilizers. The formulations of the present invention are particularly useful compositions for refrigeration, heat transfer and foam blowing.

Abstract: A heat storage material composition contains a sugar alcohol and a stabilizer that allows the sugar alcohol to maintain a liquid state and a supercooled state. The stabilizer is one selected from (i) a salt that has a solubility of 9 g or more in 100 mL of 20° C. water and gives a monovalent anion, (ii) a polymer prepared by using the salt as a monomer, and (iii) a polymer having a molecular weight of 7,000 or more and 4,000,000 or less prepared by using, as a monomer, an alcohol having a solubility of 9 g or more in 100 mL of 20° C. water.

Abstract: A paraffin-based latent heat storage material composition is provided which has a melting point close to the melting point of n-heptadecane and has a high latent heat of fusion. The paraffin-based latent heat storage material composition of the present invention substantially includes n-octadecane, and n-hexadecane and/or n-heptadecane. The paraffin-based latent heat storage material composition contains not less than 76% by mass of n-octadecane, not more than 23% by mass of n-hexadecane, and not more than 23% by mass of n-heptadecane (the total of the three is set to 100% by mass) and has a melting point lower than that of n-octadecane and latent heat of fusion of 210 J/g or more.

Abstract: A flexible heat-dissipating sheet including a composite layer of filler and polymer resin is provided. The heat-dissipating sheet is obtained by dispersing a polymerization catalyst in a polymerizable thermoplastic resin and blending them with each other to form a thermoplastic resin composition, and mixing fillers with the thermoplastic resin composition, applying the resultant mixture onto a substrate film, followed by heating to carry out in-situ polymerization and to allow the composite layer of fillers and thermoplastic resin to be adhered to the substrate film. The heat-dissipating sheet has excellent heat-dissipating properties, i.e. heat conductivity, particularly in-plane heat conductivity, and shows improved physical properties, including mechanical properties and thermal properties, etc.

Abstract: Some embodiments described herein provide a method comprising method comprising providing an oil-in-water emulsified spacer fluid comprising a binary surfactant mixture, solvent non-aqueous base fluid, and an aqueous base fluid, wherein the binary surfactant mixture comprises a surfactant and an amphiphilic co-surfactant, wherein the surfactant is present in an amount in the range of from about 0.5% to about 30% by weight of the oil-in-water emulsified spacer fluid and wherein the amphiphilic co-surfactant is present in an amount in the range of from about 0.5% to about 30% by weight of the oil-in-water emulsified spacer fluid, and introducing the oil-in-water emulsified spacer fluid into a subterranean formation comprising a residual non-aqueous fluid therein, wherein the binary surfactant mixture in the oil-in-water emulsified spacer fluid emulsifies at least a portion of the residual non-aqueous fluid.

Abstract: The technology disclosed herein provides compositions and methods for asphaltene control in a hydrocarbon fluid, such as crude oil, by employing a thiophosphonate ester compound.

Abstract: This invention relates to a composition and method of fracturing subterranean formations utilizing a polymerized alkali silicate. The fracturing fluid includes an alkali silicate such as sodium silicate and an acid such as hydrochloric acid. The sodium silicate is polymerized to a silica gel using an acid. The resulting silica gel has a pH from about 2 to less than 7.5.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a method comprising providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid, a gelling agent, and a multifunctional boronic crosslinker, wherein the multifunctional boronic crosslinker comprises a dendritic polymer comprising a water-soluble monomer and a boronic acid group, wherein the ratio of the water-soluble monomer to the boronic acid group is in the range of from about 1:210 to about 1:800; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing a water-insoluble metal hydroxide, and a use thereof. The water-insoluble metal hydroxide of the present invention is conveniently and efficiently prepared s through the high-temperature heat treatment step two times and the washing step, and thus contains a small amount of an alkali metal and has a high crystallinity and a phase purity. The water-insoluble metal hydroxide of the present invention or metal oxide therefrom exhibits an absorption wavelength at a low wavelength range (for example, 490 nm or less) and a light emitting wavelength at a high wavelength range (for example, from 500 nm or more to less than 1,100 nm).

Abstract: A method for producing a fluoride fluorescent material including: preparing a first solution containing manganese, a second solution containing at least one cation selected from the group consisting of K+, Li+, Na+, Rb+, Cs+, and NH4+, and a third solution containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of the elements from Groups 4 and 14 of the periodic table, and adding the first and third solutions dropwise, each at a rate of 0.3% or less of the total volume of the solution per minute to the second solution to obtain particles having a composition represented by formula (I): A2[M1-?Mn4+aF6] (I) wherein A denotes at least one cation selected from the group consisting of K+, Na+, Rb+, Cs+, and NH4+; M denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of the elements from Groups 4 and 14 of the periodic table; and a satisfies 0.04<a<0.20.

Abstract: The present invention relates to silicate phosphors, to a process for the preparation thereof and to the use thereof as conversion phosphors. The present invention also relates to an emission-converting material comprising at least the conversion phosphor according to the invention, and to the use thereof in light sources, in particular pc-LEDs (phosphor converted light emitting devices). The present invention furthermore relates to light sources, in particular pc-LEDs, and to lighting units which comprise a primary light source and the emission-converting material according to the invention.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and heat, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device having characteristics such as short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio and long service life.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition having at least one or a suitable balance regarding at least two of characteristics such as high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, low minimum temperature thereof, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light or heat and a large elastic constant; an AM device having characteristics such as short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio and long service life are described.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition and an AM device including the composition. The composition has a nematic phase and contains a specific compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific compound having a small viscosity as a second component, and may contain a specific compound having a high maximum temperature or a small viscosity as a third component or a specific compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component, and a liquid crystal display device includes the composition.

Abstract: Liquid-crystalline medium which comprises at least one compound of the formula I, in which R1 and R1* each, independently of one another, denote an alkyl or alkoxy radical having 1 to 15 C atoms, where, in addition, one or more CH2 groups in these radicals may each be replaced, independently of one another, by —C?C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH?CH—, ?—O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which, in addition, one or more H atoms may be replaced by halogen, L1 and L2 each, independently of one another, denote F, Cl, CF3 or CHF2, and the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, PSA, PA-VA, PS-VA, PALC, IPS, PS-IPS, FFS or PS-FFS effect.

Abstract: To provide a compound having an effect for preventing photolysis of a liquid crystal composition, and having a high solubility in the liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal composition containing the compound, and a liquid crystal display device including the composition. The compound is represented by formula (1), a liquid crystal composition contains the compound, and a liquid crystal display device includes the composition: M(Z-Q)a(Rb)b??(1) wherein, in formula (1), a is 1 to 4, and b is a numerical value: (4?a); M is an organic group; Z is a single bond or the like; and Q is a monovalent group represented by formula (Q-1), (Q-2) or (Q-3), in which Ra and Rb are hydrogen, alkyl or the like.