Abstract: A golf ball made from a composition that includes at least one triboluminescent material. In one embodiment, the golf ball includes a core; an outer cover layer; one or more intermediate layers; and a coating layer disposed on the outer cover layer, wherein at least one of the core, the outer cover layer, the intermediate layer, or the coating layer comprises at least one triboluminescent material. In another embodiment, the golf ball includes a core; an outer cover layer; and one or more intermediate layers; wherein at least one of the core, the outer cover layer, or the intermediate layer comprises at least one triboluminescent material.

Abstract: Polycyclic ring assembly compound which has a specific flexible partial structure, i.e., a structure containing an aromatic ring in which adjacent carbon atoms have, bonded thereto, an aromatic ring group of another kind and an aliphatic group or aromatic ring group. Also provided are: a polymer constituted of repeating units at least part of which are structures derived from the polycyclic ring assembly compound; a solution of an organic EL material containing the polycyclic ring assembly compound or the polymer; and an organic electroluminescence device. The organic electroluminescence device has excellent heat resistance, high color purity, and a long lifetime and can emit a blue light or green light at a high luminescent efficiency. The polycyclic ring assembly compound realizes the device.

Abstract: A polymer light emitting material, wherein the material has a light emitting mechanism based on transition from an excited triplet state to a ground state or transition through an excited triplet state to a ground state of an electron energy level, and the material comprises a nonionic light emitting part which constitutes a part of the polymer or is bound to the polymer. The polymer light emitting material exhibits high light emission efficiency above 5%, which is the limit of external quantum efficiency of fluorescence and can be designed so as to have a large area and hence are suitable for mass production of organic light emitting devices.

Abstract: A method of quenching fluorescence of a naphthalate polyester that is subjected to UV-radiation in an amount sufficient to cause the naphthalate polyester to reach an excited state and fluoresce, comprising adding to the naphthalate polyester a fluorescence quenching amount of a compound of formula (1): wherein R1 is an alkoxy; R2 is an organic linker; k is either zero or one; l is either zero or one, wherein the sum of k+l is one; and m is an integer in a range from zero to about twenty.

Abstract: A luminescent or charge-transporting polymer which has in the backbone optionally substituted fluorenediyl groups as repeating units and further has a functional side chain comprising at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a hole-injection/transporting group containing one or more heteroatoms other than nitrogen or two or more nitrogen atoms, an electron-injection/transporting group containing one or more heteroatoms other than nitrogen or two or more nitrogen atoms, and a luminescent group comprising a fused aromatic hydrocarbon or heterocycle, characterized in that the functional group is directly bonded to the saturated carbon atom of any of the fluorenediyl groups or is bonded to any of the fluorenediyl groups through —Rk—X— (Rk represents alkylene and X represents a direct bond or connecting group) at the X.

Abstract: Disclosed is a white polymer organic electroluminescent device having excellent device characteristics such as efficiency. Specifically disclosed is a white organic electroluminescent device containing a polymer material as an electron-transporting material or a light-emitting material, wherein at least two light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are laminated and at least one of the light-emitting layers is a crosslinked light-emitting layer. The white organic electroluminescent device is further characterized by emitting a white light as a whole. Preferably, at least one of the crosslinked light-emitting layers and at least one of the non-crosslinked light-emitting layers are in contact with each other in the white organic electroluminescent device.

Abstract: A polymer compound comprising a constitutional unit of the following formula (1): (wherein, P represents an integer of 1 to 4, Q represents an integer of 0 to 4. RX and RY represent each independently an alkyl group, alkoxy group, alkylthio group, aryloxy group, arylthio group, arylalkyl group, arylalkoxy group or arylalkylthio group, when there exist a plurality of RX's, these may be the same or different, and when there exist a plurality of RY's, these may be the same or different. Ar1 represents an unsubstituted or substituted arylene group or an unsubstituted or substituted di-valent heterocyclic group, and Ar2 represents an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group or an unsubstituted or substituted mono-valent heterocyclic group. A plurality of Ar1's and Ar2's may each be the same or different.).

Abstract: A light-emissive device is prepared by depositing a polymer layer on a substrate. The deposition process utilizes a formulation comprising a conjugated polymer dissolved in a solvent, the solvent including a trialkyl-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon wherein at least two of the alkyl substituents are ortho to one another. The deposition of the polymer layer on the substrate may be accomplished by an ink-jet method.

Abstract: A polymer compound which is useful as a light emitting material and a charge transporting material and excellent in electron injection property, comprising as a partial structure therein a structure of the following formula (a) is provided: (wherein, a ring A and a ring B represent each independently an aromatic ring or a non-aromatic ring, and at least one of the ring A and the ring B is an aromatic ring. A ring C represents an aromatic ring. Z1 represents an atom selected from a carbon atom, oxygen atom, sulfur atom, nitrogen atom, silicon atom, boron atom, phosphorus atom and selenium atom or a group containing the atom, and Z2 to Z6 represent each independently an atom selected from a carbon atom, silicon atom, nitrogen atom and boron atom or a group containing the atom.).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides Benzoxazinone compounds represented by the formula: wherein each R1, R2, R3, and R4 is independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl of 1-12 carbon atoms, substituted alkyl, aryl of 6-12 carbon atoms, substituted aryl, halo, and alkoxy; and R5 is selected from alkyl of 1-12 carbon atoms, substituted alkyl, aryl of 6-12 carbon atoms, substituted aryl, halo, and alkoxy; wherein each of the substituted alkyl and the substituted aryl groups have a substituent selected from alkyl, aryl, halo, and alkoxy. The present disclosure provides a mark having a benzoxazinone compound, and a method for applying the mark onto an article. Also provided is a process for preparing benzoxazinone compounds.

Abstract: Compositions of a mixture of (A) a polymerizable compound, which undergoes polymerization on exposure to heat or to actinic radiation, having the general formula wherein Q is an organic charge transporting fragment, L is a linker group, X is a group capable of undergoing free radical or anionic polymerization on exposure to heat or actinic radiation, m is 0 or 1, and n is an integer having a value of 2 or more; and (B) a phosphorescent material are described, as is an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device comprising at least one emissive layer that has been formed by polymerizing such a composition. A method for forming an OLED, including depositing a layer containing the polymerizable composition from solution and exposing the layer to heat or actinic radiation to induce polymerization, is also disclosed.

Abstract: A polymer light emitting material, wherein the material has a light emitting mechanism based on transition from an excited triplet state to a ground state or transition through an excited triplet state to a ground state of an electron energy level, and the material comprises a nonionic light emitting part which constitutes a part of the polymer or is bound to the polymer. The polymer light emitting material exhibits high light emission efficiency above 5%, which is the limit of external quantum efficiency of fluorescence and can be designed so as to have a large area and hence are suitable for mass production of organic light emitting devices.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymer compound containing a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (1). (In the formula, Rf1 and Rg1 may be the same or different, and each represents an alkyl group having 1-12 carbon atoms or the like; Rd1 and Re1 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom or the like; and Ra1, Ra2, Ra3, Rb1, Rb2 and Rb3 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom or the like.

Abstract: Polyfluorene polymers and copolymers having substantial amounts (10-100%) of fluorenes coupled at the 2 and 5 positions of fluorene are useful as active layers in OLED devices where triplet energies >2.10 eV are required.

Abstract: A composite material includes a body and a plurality of nano-scale probes. The body is made of a polymer. The plurality of nano-scale probes is embedded in the body. The nano-scale probes are substantially uniformly distributed in the polymer matrix. A method for making the composite material is further provided.

Abstract: Novel compositions of matter comprise certain derivatives of 9,9-dialkyl fluorene diamine (AFDA). The resultant compositions, whether compositions of matter or monomers that are subsequently incorporated into a polymer, are unique and useful in a variety of applications. Useful applications of AFDA-based material include heavy ion radiation shielding components and components of optical and electronic devices.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions comprising at least one novel polymeric organic iridium compound which comprises at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The polymeric organic iridium compositions of the present invention are referred to as Type (2) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that at least one ligand of the novel organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (2) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “polymeric organic iridium complexes”. The novel organic iridium compositions are useful in optoelectronic electronic devices such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In one aspect, the invention provides novel organic iridium compositions useful in the preparation of OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies.

Abstract: A method for making an electrophoretic solution includes: including two kinds of particles having different charging polarities into the electrophoretic solution; calculating a mixing ratio so that charge amounts of the two kinds of particles become approximately equal to each other on a basis of a unit volume of a dispersion medium; and mixing the two kinds of particles in each mixed quantity that satisfies the calculated mixing ratio.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers which contain novel structural units of the formula (1). The inventive materials exhibit better solubility and improved efficiency when used in a polymeric organic light-emitting diode.

Abstract: A polymer compound comprising a constitutional unit of the formula (1), and a repeating unit of any of the formulae (2) to (4): (wherein, x3, y1, y2, z1 to z3 are 0 or 1. y3 represents an integer of 0 to 2. u represents an integer of 0 to 8. Z represents a pyrene residue, Ar1 represents an arylene group or di-valent heterocyclic group, and Ar2 represents an aryl group or mono-valent heterocyclic group.

Abstract: M-C—N—O based phosphors having high emission intensity are provided without using heavy metals, rare metals, and special activator agents. Colors of the M-C—N—O based phosphors can be changed by adjusting a peak top of an emission spectrum. Highly environmentally-compatible polymer dispersions, inorganic EL devices, light emitting devices, fluorescent tubes, and the like are also provided, which use the M-C—N—O based phosphors. The M-C—N—O based phosphors of the present invention comprise a group IIIB element (M), carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O). Colors are changed by changing an amount of carbon (C) contained in the M-C—N—O based phosphors. The polymer dispersions, inorganic EL devices, light emitting devices, and fluorescent tubes are produced using the M-C—N—O based phosphors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to adhesion promoter compositions having at least one adhesion promoter substance, at least one black pigment and at least one luminescent substance. The adhesion promoter compositions can be located and identified easily by irradiation with UV light and analysis of the radiation which is emitted, and are therefore highly suited to use in automated operations, more particularly in the context of glazing a vehicle.

Abstract: A composition for use in an organic light emissive device, the composition comprising a fluorescent organic light emissive material and a phosphorescent organic light emissive material of the same colour.

Abstract: Techniques are provided to produce and use non-spherical colloidal particles with independently tuned size, shape, flexibility, and chemical properties. A pre-polymer mixture for forming hydrogel particles includes a percentage of PEGDA selected to impart a target stiffness to the particles and includes, a percentage of acrylic acid selected to impart an independent target chemical function to the particles. The mixture also includes a percentage of photo-initiator to polymerize PEGDA upon exposure to a light source to impart an independently selected target size or shape or both to the particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel polymer compositions comprising a polymeric component and a novel organic iridium compound comprising at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The organic iridium compounds used in the polymer compositions are referred to as Type (1) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that no ligand of the novel organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (1) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “organic iridium complexes”. In one aspect, the polymeric component may be an electroactive polymer. The novel polymer compositions of the invention are useful in optoelectronic electronic devices such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In one aspect, the invention provides novel polymer compositions useful in the preparation of OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies.

Abstract: Fluorescent organic nanoparticles and a process for producing fluorescent organic nanoparticles having a size of less than about 500 nanometers comprising a polymeric matrix comprising one or more crosslinked polymer resins, and comprising one or more fluorescent dyes incorporated into the polymer matrix.

Abstract: A nonpolar or solid (or phase change) ink composition that includes a carrier and at least one nanoscale fluorescent pigment particle composition and/or a fluorescent organic nanoparticle composition. The fluorescent organic nanoparticle composition includes a polymeric matrix obtained by modified EA latex process and/or emulsion polymerization and one or more fluorescent dyes and the nanoscale fluorescent pigment particle composition includes pigment molecules with at least one functional moiety, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound including at least one functional group, the functional moiety of the pigment associates non-covalently with the functional group of the stabilizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions comprising at least one novel organic iridium compound which comprises at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The organic iridium compositions of the present invention are referred to as Type (1) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that no ligand of the novel organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (1) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “organic iridium complexes”. The novel organic iridium compositions are useful in optoelectronic electronic devices such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In one aspect, the invention provides novel organic iridium compositions useful in the preparation of OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies.

Abstract: A process for incorporating a long persistent phosphor into a fabric material which occurs by firing a phosphor within a crucible, then grinding the resulting aggregate into a phosphor particulate of specified size, encapsulating the phosphor particulate within a water impervious coating material and then applying a specified ratio by weight of the encapsulated phosphor particulates into the fabric material. Further, a fibrous product is described incorporating encapsulated long persistent phosphor particles.

Abstract: Metal-polymer hybrid nanomaterials are provided. The hybrid nanomaterials comprise nanotubes or nanowires and metal layers formed on the inner or outer surfaces of the nanotubes or the outer surfaces of the nanowires. The nanotubes or nanowires include a light-emitting ?-conjugated polymer and the metal layers are composed of a metal whose surface plasmon energy level is close to the energy band gap of the nanotubes or nanowires. Further provided are a method for preparing the hybrid nanomaterials, a method for controlling the optical properties of the hybrid nanomaterials, and an optoelectronic device using the hybrid nanomaterials. Energy transfer and electron transfer based on surface plasmon resonance increases the number of excitons in the conduction band of the nanotubes or nanowires including the light- emitting polymer, resulting in a remarkable increase in the luminescence intensity of the metal-polymer hybrid nanomaterials.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition containing a compound having a benzotriazole ring structure and a phosphorescent compound.

Abstract: An ultra violet light transmitting polymer is obtainable by the polymerisation of at least one compound having a substantially non UV absorbing core group comprising; linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbons which may contain an aliphatic ring; or polydialkylsiloxanes. The compounds have at least one functional group comprising formula (A), (B) or (C):and each of the groups —R3— are, independently, linking groups which may be present or absent and, where present, may be a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon chain, which may contain an ether linkage. Methods for producing the polymers and uses for the polymers are also described.

Abstract: Security films that are useful for pharmaceutical packaging. In particular, anti-counterfeiting security films having a luminescent composition on or in a fluoropolymer layer, which luminescent composition luminesces upon the application of ultraviolet radiation in the 200 nm to 300 nm range, in which the luminescent component is optionally and preferably not viewable to the unaided eye. The films are particularly useful for the formation of anti-counterfeiting blister packaging in compliance with FDA regulations.

Abstract: A soluble luminescent polymer comprising a first repeat unit [Ar1] and a second repeat unit comprising a unit of general formula (I) which is substituted or unsubstituted: wherein X is RC?CR, S, O or NR; Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 are each independently an aromatic or heteroaromatic group; and each R independently is hydrogen or a substituent group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorescent film containing an azobenzene derivative represented by the general formula (I) below and a binder. (In the general formula (I), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; Ar1 and Ar2 independently represent an optionally substituted arylene group or aromatic heterocyclic ring; X represents an alkylene group which may contain a heteroatom; X1 represents —NH— or the like; Y represents a hydrogen atom or the like; a represents an integer of 0-2; m and n independently represent an integer of 1-8, and when m and n are integers of not less than 2, a plurality of Ar1's and Ar2's may be the same as or different from each other.

Abstract: A composition for use in an organic device, useful in producing an organic device, such as an organic electroluminescent element, having high operation stability, is a composition for use in an organic device that contains at least two cross-linking compounds, at least two of the cross-linking compounds having different numbers of cross-linking groups. A polymer film produced by forming a film of the composition for use in an organic device and then polymerizing the cross-linking compounds. An organic electroluminescent element that includes an anode and a cathode on a substrate and at least one organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein at least one of the at least one organic layer is a layer that is produced by forming a film of the composition for use in an organic device and then polymerizing the cross-linking compounds.

Abstract: The chemical composition and method of the invention enable characterization of microscopic defects in membranes such as pinholes, cracks or fissures. The present invention, however, can be used to characterize defects on different types of porous and non-porous membranes used for diverse applications in various industries. It uses brightly fluorescing silica or silsesquioxane spheres prepared with pre-determined definitive and uniform sizes (15 nm-50 microns). The spheres' uniform, controlled size allows them to be used to characterize defects or holes in membranes based on a size exclusion mechanism. The spheres used are engineered to glow brightly when exposed to ultraviolet light in order to allow visual or highly sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy or microscopy to characterize the passage of the particles through defects or holes in a membrane and even identify where the defect is located.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition comprising a compound having a pyrazine ring structure and a phosphorescent compound, wherein the compound having a pyrazine ring structure has a pyrazine ring structure represented by the general formula (1), (2) or (3): wherein R and R1 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a univalent group and multiple R's and multiple R1's may be the same as or different from one another. Also disclosed is a polymer having a residue derived from the phosphorescent compound and the pyrazine ring structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a class of luminescent and conductive polymer compositions having chromophores, and particularly solid films of these compositions exhibiting increased luminescent lifetimes, quantum yields and amplified emissions. These desirable properties can be provided through polymers having rigid groups designed to prevent polymer reorganization, aggregation or ?-stacking upon solidification. These polymers can also display an unusually high stability with respect to solvent and heat exposures. The invention also relates to a sensor and a method for sensing an analyte through the luminescent and conductive properties of these polymers. Analytes can be sensed by activation of a chromophore at a polymer surface. Analytes include aromatics, phosphate ester groups and in particular explosives and chemical warfare agents in a gaseous state.

Abstract: The present invention discloses composite materials for distant laser sensing in the infrared spectral region. The composites are disclosed to consist of the conductive polymer, the infrared active compound and the thermoplastic matrix polymer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition containing a compound having a benzimidazole ring structure and a phosphorescent compound.

Abstract: Disclosed is a block copolymer characterized by containing a block (A) containing one or more repeating units represented by the general formula (I) below, one or more repeating units represented by the general formula (II) below and one or more repeating units represented by the general formula (III) below, and a block (B) containing one or more repeating units represented by the general formula (III) below and one or more repeating units represented by the general formula (IV) below. (I) (In the formula (I), R1, R2, R3 and R4 may be the same or different and respectively represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R5, R6, R7 and R8 may be the same or different and respectively represent an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or the like; and a, b, c and d may be the same or different and respectively represent an integer of 0-3. When a plurality of R5's, R6's, R7's and R8's are present, they may be the same as or different from one another.

Abstract: A polymer compound comprising as repeating units an optionally substituted fluorenediyl group and a phenylene group having one or more substituents, and comprising a repeating unit of the following formula (1) and/or a group of the following formula (2): (in the formula (1), Ar1 and Ar2 represent an arylene group or di-valent aromatic heterocyclic group, and Ar1 and may be the same or different.) (in the formula (2), Ar1 represents the same meaning as described above. Ar3 represents an aryl group or mono-valent aromatic heterocyclic group.).

Abstract: The present invention discloses a photo-curable hole-transport material used in a polymer light-emitting diode. The photo-curable hole-transport material comprises at least one first conjugate structure, at least one connecting structure, and at least one second conjugate structure. The first conjugate structure is a triarylamine derivative. The second conjugate structure is a carbazole derivative. The connecting structure is derived from one structure selected from the group consisting of the following or the combination thereof: urethane and urea structures.

Abstract: A composition which comprises a compound having a pyrimidine ring structure and a phosphorescent compound.

Abstract: Methods for modifying carbon nanotubes with organic compounds are disclosed. The modified carbon nanotubes have enhanced compatibility with polyolefins. Nanocomposites of the organo-modified carbon nanotubes and polyolefins can be used to produce both fibers and films having enhanced mechanical and electrical properties, especially the elongation-to-break ratio and the toughness of the fibers and/or films.

Abstract: Co-topo-polymeric indicator compositions and methods for making and using the same are provided. Indicator compositions of the invention include a polymer and undergo a color change, which may be reversible or irreversible, in response to an applied stimulus, e.g., temperature. Aspects of methods of producing the compositions include setting a fluid co-topo-polymeric precursor composition into a solid product and then subjecting the solid product (either immediately or after a delay period) to polymerizing conditions to produce the desired indicator composition. Also provided are indicator devices that include the indicator compositions of the invention. The compositions of the invention find use in a variety of different applications.

Abstract: There is provided a polymer composition comprising 1 to 99 wt % of (A) the following copolymer and 99 to 1 wt % of (B) the following copolymer: and when the polymer composition is used as a light emitting material of a light emitting device, a light emitting device having high performances such as high light emission efficiency, longer life and the like can be obtained, Copolymer (A): a copolymer showing fluorescence in the solid state and having a polystyrene-reduced number average molecular weight of 103 to 108, and containing a repeating unit (a) and a repeating unit (b), and said copolymer has a relation of 100>XaA>5, provided that XaA (%) is a percentage of the mol number of the repeating unit (a) based on the sum of the mol numbers of the repeating units (a), Copolymer (B): a copolymer showing fluorescence in the solid state and having a polystyrene-reduced number average molecular weight of 103 to 108, and containing a repeating unit (a) and a repeating unit (b), and said copolymer satisfies a

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel 1,4-bis(2-thienylvinyl)benzene derivatives, to conjugated polymers, dendrimers, blends, mixtures and formulations comprising same, and to the use thereof in electronic devices, in particular in polymeric organic light-emitting diodes.

Abstract: A polymer light emitting material, wherein the material has a light emitting mechanism based on transition from an excited triplet state to a ground state or transition through an excited triplet state to a ground state of an electron energy level, and the material comprises a nonionic light emitting part which constitutes a part of the polymer or is bound to the polymer. The polymer light emitting material exhibits high light emission efficiency above 5%, which is the limit of external quantum efficiency of fluorescence and can be designed so as to have a large area and hence are suitable for mass production of organic light emitting devices.