From Boron Reactant Having At Least One Boron To Hydrogen Or Boron To Carbon Bond Patents (Class 528/4)
  • Patent number: 11943953
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode and a fabricating method thereof are provided, where a package is performed on a surface of a light emitting layer. The process is simple, and it can effectively protect the light emitting layer. It can effectively protect the light emitting layer, prevent water and oxygen from invading and reducing activity of a light emitting layer material, and effectively improve the service life of the organic light emitting diode. Problems of poor packaging effect and complicated preparation procedures of the organic light emitting device in the prior art are solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Anxing Zhong
  • Patent number: 11414599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerizable compounds and liquid crystalline media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid crystalline displays, especially in liquid crystalline displays of the polymer sustained alignment type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Qiong Tong, Nico Schwebel, Constanze Brocke, Kaja Christina Deing, Julian Vogt, Elisabeth Meyer
  • Patent number: 10562825
    Abstract: A ceramic article includes a ceramic matrix composite that has a porous reinforcement structure and a ceramic matrix within pores of the porous reinforcement structure. The ceramic matrix composite includes a surface zone and a glaze material within pores of the surface zone and on an exterior side of the surface zone as an exterior glaze layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Wayde R. Schmidt, Tania Bhatia Kashyap
  • Patent number: 10332688
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a device that includes a first layer that includes a hole-transport material and an acid, where the first layer has a conductivity between 20 ?S/cm and 500 ?S/cm. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first layer may absorb light having a wavelength between 400 nm and 600 nm. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the hole-transport material may include at least one of 2,2?,7,7?-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,9?-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD), a derivative of spiro-OMeTAD, poly(triarylamine), poly(3-hexylthiophene), and/or N,N?-bis(3-methylphenyl)-N,N?-diphenylbenzidine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Kai Zhu, Zhen Li, Alan Sellinger, Jonathan Scott Tinkham
  • Patent number: 10118976
    Abstract: Anion-coordinating polymers comprising one or more anion-coordinating unit of Formula (I), optionally in combination with one or more cation-coordinating unit of Formula (II) and/or a linking unit of Formula (III) and related electrolytes, batteries, methods and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Brett M. Savoie, Michael A. Webb, Robert H. Grubbs, Thomas F. Miller, III, Geoffrey W. Coates, Qi Zheng
  • Patent number: 9701591
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a ceramic material includes providing a mobilized filler material capable of infiltrating a porous ceramic matrix composite. The mobilized filler material includes at least one of a ceramic material and a free metal. The mobilized filler material is infiltrated into pores of the porous ceramic matrix composite. The mobilized filler material is then immobilized within the pores of the porous ceramic matrix composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Wayde R. Schmidt, Tania Bhatia Kashyap
  • Patent number: 9611280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel tetraaryl borate compound and a method for producing the same, and a method for producing a tetraaryl borate compound using the tetraaryl borate compound as an intermediate. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a tetraaryl borate compound which has high thermal stability and can be safely handled industrially and a method for producing the same. It is also possible to provide a method for producing a tetraaryl borate compound used as a co-catalyst for a polymerization reaction using a metallocene catalyst by further reacting the tetraaryl borate compound with an amine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: KOEI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Takaishi, Hang Jiang
  • Patent number: 9299933
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer comprising a repeating unit containing a specific partial structure and a repeating unit containing a crosslinking group, a composition for an organic electroluminescent element comprising the polymer, and an organic electroluminescent element comprising an organic layer formed using the composition for an organic electroluminescent element by a wet film formation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsushi Baba, Yanjun Li, Koichiro Iida, Hideki Gorohmaru, Emi Nakamoto, Takayuki Shouda
  • Patent number: 9273158
    Abstract: Environmentally friendly, energy efficient methods for making hydrocarbons, including oxygen containing hydrocarbons, linear or branched polymers, oligomers, waxes, small hydrocarbon molecules, fuels, coatings and starting materials/reactants to be used for making other hydrocarbons. A C1 carbon source, such as coal, natural gas, petroleum or biomass (including non-food biomass), is converted to the desired hydrocarbon. The reaction can be run in water, at room temperature and under atmospheric pressure. In some embodiments, the method comprises combining a) a C1 carbon source; b) water; c) an alkaline agent; and d) an alkyl Lewis acid in an amount effective to initiate or catalyze reaction of the components to form the hydrocarbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Shea, Jun Luo
  • Patent number: 9023978
    Abstract: A material capable of luminescence comprising a polymer or oligomer and an organometallic group, wherein the polymer or oligomer is at least partially conjugated and the organometallic group is covalently bound to the polymer or oligomer and at least one of the nature, location, and proportion of the polymer or oligomer and of the organometallic group in the material are selected so that the luminescence predominantly is phosphorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Enterprise Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Bruce Holmes, Albertus Sandee, Charlotte Williams, Annette Koehler, Nick Evans
  • Patent number: 8945820
    Abstract: The present invention is a silicon-containing resist underlayer film-forming composition containing a condensation product and/or a hydrolysis condensation product of a mixture comprising: one or more kinds of a compound (A) selected from the group consisting of an organic boron compound shown by the general formula (1) and a condensation product thereof and one or more kinds of a silicon compound (B) shown by the general formula (2). Thereby, there can be provided a silicon-containing resist underlayer film-forming composition being capable of forming a pattern having a good adhesion, forming a silicon-containing film which can be used as a dry-etching mask between a photoresist film which is the upperlayer film of the silicon-containing film and an organic film which is the underlayer film thereof, and suppressing deformation of the upperlayer resist during the time of dry etching of the silicon-containing film; and a patterning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ogihara, Takafumi Ueda, Yoshinori Taneda
  • Patent number: 8933182
    Abstract: A polymer comprising a first repeat unit comprising ArhX2 wherein ArhX2 comprises a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group and each X is the same or different and independently comprises a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl group and a second repeat unit that is adjacent to the first repeat unit wherein each X that is part of a main body of the polymer backbone is directly conjugated to the second repeat unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventor: Mary McKiernan
  • Patent number: 8829065
    Abstract: Porous networks are described linked by boronates. Also described are processes for producing the porous networks. The porous networks are formed by reacting a polyboronic acid with itself or with a polydiol, a polydiamine, or a polyamino alcohol. The resulting boronate linkage is covalently bonded. The characteristics and properties of the resulting porous material can be varied and altered by changing the reactants and by incorporating functional groups into the reactants. Of particular advantage, the porous materials can be formed at or near atmospheric pressure and at low temperature in the presence of one or more solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: University of South Carolina
    Inventors: John J. Lavigne, R. William Tilford
  • Publication number: 20140217375
    Abstract: Novel semiconducting polymers have been formed via the electron-induced cross-linking of orthocarborane B10C2H2 and 1,4-diaminobenzene. The films were formed by co-condensation of the molecular precursors and 200 eV electron-induced cross-linking under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions. Ultraviolet photoemission spectra show that the compound films display a shift of the valence band maximum from ˜4.3 eV below the Fermi level for pure boron carbide to ?1.7 eV below the Fermi level when diaminobenzene is added. The surface photovoltage effect decreases with decreasing B/N atomic ratio. A neutron detector comprises the polymer as the p-type semiconductor to be paired with an n-type semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: QUANTUM DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Dowben, Jeffry Kelber
  • Patent number: 8779077
    Abstract: A method for the production neutral triblock all-conjugated copolymers by palladium-catalyzed chain-growth polymerization, and methods to convert these copolymers into all-conjugated triblock polyelectrolytes with well-controlled molecular weight and polydispersity. A device is provided which incorporates such all-conjugated triblock polyelectrolytes as an electron injection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Guillermo C. Bazan, Lei Ying, Zhao Chen, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8765903
    Abstract: A carbazole polymer containing a repeating unit represented by a chemical structure 1: where R represents an aliphatic or alicyclic bifunctional group, Ar represents an aromatic hydrocarbon or heterocyclic ring bifunctional group, and Ar1 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon or heterocyclic ring monofunctional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaomi Sasaki, Shigeyuki Harada, Takashi Okada, Toshiya Sagisaka
  • Publication number: 20140142242
    Abstract: A hybrid siloxy derived resin and a method of making them and a method of applying them as a benign passivant on electrochemical electrodes is provided. These resins are made by the process of reacting a silane and an alkaline, transition metal or metalloid alkoxide, in the presence of a lewis acid. The methods described do not require further purification steps; heat; or strong acid/base catalysis to initiate hydrolysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. GERBEC
  • Patent number: 8674046
    Abstract: A low dielectric constant material having an excellent water resistance obtained by heat-treating a borazine compound of the formula (1-2): or an inorganic or organic compound having a group derived from the borazine compound (1-2) to undergo a condensation reaction, thereby producing an oligomer or polymer, wherein R1 to R6 are independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryl group, a substituted aryl group, an alkenyl group, an amino group, an alkylamino group, an alkoxyl group, a thioalkoxyl group, a carbonyl group, a silyl group, an alkylsilyl group, a phosphino group, an alkylphosphino group, or a group of the formula: Si(OR7)(OR8)(OR9), and at least one of R1 to R6 is not hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideharu Nobutoki, Teruhiko Kumada, Toshiyuki Toyoshima, Naoki Yasuda, Suguru Nagae
  • Patent number: 8674047
    Abstract: Compositions comprising at least one hole transport material, such as a conjugated polymer, and at least one dopant, providing improved thermal stability. Compositions can be applied to substrates and used in HIL and HTL layers and organic electronic devices such as light emitting devices such as OLEDs or OPVs. The conjugated polymer can be a polythiophene, including a 3,4-substituted polythiophene or a regioregular polythiophene. The dopant can be a silver salt such as silver tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate. Improved methods of making dopant are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Plextronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Brown, Mark A. Bower, Venkataramanan Seshadri
  • Patent number: 8669344
    Abstract: A method of removing a residual catalyst metal compound from a polymer solution comprises the steps of: a) mixing a solution in which at least one organic nitrogen compound is dissolved in a polar solvent and the polymer solution to precipitate a chelate compound of the organic nitrogen compounds and the residual catalyst metal compound, b) adding the polar solvent to the solution mixture to dissolve a chelate compound and to precipitate a polymer, and c) filtering the precipitated polymer. After the polymer polymerization is completed, an organic nitrogen compound solution is added to perform a chelate reaction with the residual catalyst metal compound in a solution phase, and the polar solvent is added to precipitate the polymer so that only polymer precipitates are filtered while an additional filtration process in respect to the chelate compound is not performed to easily remove the residual catalyst metal compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye-Young Jung, Sung-Ho Chun, Sung-Don Hong, Jung-Min Lee, Heon Kim, Dmitry Kravchuk
  • Patent number: 8664629
    Abstract: Boron cage compound-containing materials for shielding and absorbing neutrons. The materials include BCC-containing composites and compounds. BCC-containing compounds comprise a host polymer and a BCC attached thereto. BCC-containing composites comprise a mixture of a polymer matrix and a BCC filler. The BCC-containing materials can be used to form numerous articles of manufacture for shielding and absorbing neutrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel E. Bowen, III, Eric A. Eastwood
  • Patent number: 8664328
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing an emulsion composition by forming a mixture of a silanol functional organopolysiloxane, a boron compound, an emulsifier, and then admixing water to the mixture to form an emulsion. The resulting emulsions are useful for providing a coating of a high viscosity or dilatant silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Severine Cauvin, Glenn Gordon, Bethany Johnson, Donald Liles
  • Patent number: 8580392
    Abstract: The invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) having an improved lifetime and improved transport of negative charge carriers. The organic light-emitting diode is based on an organic semiconductor material, in which the transport of negative charge carriers and stability with respect to reduction is achieved with triarylated Lewis acid units, in particular perarylated borane units. This leads to an improved lifetime of the emission layer which in turn increases the lifetime of the component and eliminates the need for correcting brightness during operation. Furthermore, the invention relates to organic light-emitting diodes in which the position of the emission zone in the emitter layer and the color of the emission can be influenced in a targeted manner through triarylated Lewis acids such as perarylated borane units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Heuser, Arvid Hunze, Andreas Kanitz, Wolfgang Rogler, Debora Henseler
  • Patent number: 8519077
    Abstract: N-type conjugated compounds are disclosed which include at least one conjugated electron-acceptor unit The conjugated electron-acceptor unit includes a diborylene unit. The compounds find application in an electron acceptor layer of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventor: Li Jia
  • Patent number: 8501887
    Abstract: A radical polymerizable composition includes a radical polymerizable compound and an organoborane-azole complex. The organoborane-azole complex includes an azole having at least two nitrogen atoms wherein at least one nitrogen atom is an sp3 nitrogen atom and is substituted. A method of forming the composition includes the step of combining the radical polymerizable compound and the organoborane-azole complex to form the composition. The method also includes the step of polymerizing the composition. A composite article which includes a substrate and a cured composition disposed on the substrate is also provided. The cured composition is formed from polymerization of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Dongchan Ahn, Gang Lu
  • Patent number: 8450442
    Abstract: A borosiloxane composition comprising a borosiloxane having an average of at least two alkenyl groups per molecule, an organosilicon compound having an average of at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule, and a hydrosilylation catalyst; a borosiloxane adhesive comprising a cured product of at least one borosiloxane; and a coated substrate and a laminated substrate, each comprising the borosiloxane adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventor: Bizhong Zhu
  • Patent number: 8426545
    Abstract: Polymers comprising residues of cage compound monomers having at least one polyalkoxy silyl substituent are provided. The cage compound monomers are selected from borane cage compound monomers comprising at least 7 cage atoms and/or carborane cage compound monomers comprising 7 to 11 cage compound monomers. Such polymers can further comprise one or more reactive matrices and/or co-monomers covalently bound with the cage compound monomer residues. Articles of manufacture comprising such polymers are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel E. Bowen, III, Eric A. Eastwood
  • Patent number: 8349985
    Abstract: A composition includes a boron-containing hydrogen silsesquioxane polymer having a structure that includes: silicon-oxygen-silicon units, and oxygen-boron-oxygen linkages in which the boron is trivalent, wherein two silicon-oxygen-silicon units are covalently bound by an oxygen-boron-oxygen linkage therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Cheil Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Sina Maghsoodi, Shahrokh Motallebi, SangHak Lim, Do-Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 8258197
    Abstract: Porous networks are described linked by boronates. Also described are processes for producing the porous networks. The porous networks are formed by reacting a polyboronic acid with itself or with a polydiol, a polydiamine, or a polyamino alcohol. The resulting boronate linkage is covalently bonded. The characteristics and properties of the resulting porous material can be varied and altered by changing the reactants and by incorporating functional groups into the reactants. Of particular advantage, the porous materials can be formed at or near atmospheric pressure and at low temperature in the presence of one or more solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: University of South Carolina
    Inventors: John J. Lavigne, R. William Tilford
  • Publication number: 20120077949
    Abstract: An exemplary organic semiconductor copolymer includes a polymeric repeat structure having a polythiophene structure and an electron accepting unit. The electron accepting unit has at least one electron-accepting heteroaromatic structure with at least one electron-withdrawing imine nitrogen in the heteroaromatic structure or a thiophene-arylene comprising a C2-30 heteroaromatic structure. Methods of synthesis and electronic devices incorporating the disclosed organic semiconductors, e.g., as a channel layer, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Bang Lin Lee, Kook Min Han, Jung Han Shin, Sang Yoon Lee, Eun Jeong Jeong
  • Patent number: 8097348
    Abstract: Pi-conjugated organoboron polymers for use in thin-film organic polymer electronic devices. The polymers contain aromatic and or unsaturated repeat units and boron atoms. Pi-conjugated organoboron polymers which are end capped, derivatized with solubilizing groups or both exhibit improved solubility and handling properties beneficial for the formation of thin films useful for device fabrication. The vacant p-orbital of the boron atoms conjugate with the pi-conjugated orbital system of the aromatic or unsaturated monomer units extending the pi-conjugation length of the polymer across the boron atoms. The pi-conjugated organoboron polymers are electron-deficient and, therefore, exhibit n-type semiconducting properties, photoluminescence, and electroluminescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: TDA Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Silvia DeVito Luebben, Shawn Sapp
  • Patent number: 8034467
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a moisture-reactive composition having a moisture-reactive polysiloxane having a main chain and one or more side chains, wherein the main chain and/or the one or more side chains has a group represented by the formula: —MXmYn; and wherein M is selected from the group consisting of a multivalent metal atom, B, and P?O; X is a hydrogen atom, a substituted or nonsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkoxy group; Y is a substituted or nonsubstituted alkoxy, siloxy, carboxyl, or diketolate group; m is from 1 to 3; and n is from 0 to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jun Fujita, Takashi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 8021756
    Abstract: The present invention provides a microlens array produced by molding a resin obtained by reacting a silicon compound with a boron compound or an aluminum compound, in which the silicon compound is represented by the following formula (I): in which R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an aryl group, in which a plurality of R1's are the same or different and a plurality of R2's are the same or different; X represents a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an aryl group; and n is 4 to 250. This microlens array has excellent heat resistance and light resistance even when applied to LEDs having an increased power and to LEDs emitting blue light having a short wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Suehiro, Hiroyuki Katayama, Kouji Akazawa, Hideyuki Usui
  • Publication number: 20110133174
    Abstract: N-type conjugated compounds are disclosed which include at least one conjugated electron-acceptor unit The conjugated electron-acceptor unit includes a diborylene unit. The compounds find application in an electron acceptor layer of an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: The University of Akron
    Inventor: Li Jia
  • Patent number: 7910687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to conjugated polymers which contain specific fused arylamine structural units. The inventive materials have improved efficiency at a high illumination density and are therefore suitable in particular for use in what are known as passive matrix displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Büsing, Esther Breuning, Hubert Spreitzer, Heinrich Becker, Corinna Leske
  • Patent number: 7893165
    Abstract: There are provided in accordance with embodiments of the invention metal-containing inorganic block copolymers, structures formed by self-assembly of such copolymers, and metal-containing ceramics which may be formed from such copolymers and/or structure. Methods for making such copolymers, structures and ceramics are also provided. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patrick Roland Lucien Malenfant, Andrea Peters, Julin Wan
  • Patent number: 7868131
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of preparing linear polymers such as polyalkylene oxides containing a terminal amine in high purity. One preferred method includes reacting a polyalkylene oxide such as polyethylene glycol containing a terminal azide with a phosphine-based reducing agent such as triphenylphosphine or an alkali metal borohydride reducing agent such as sodium borohydride in a solvent to reflux. The resultant polymer-amines are of sufficient purity so that expensive and time consuming purification steps required for pharmaceutical grade polymers are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Zhao, Belen Rubio, Jing Xia
  • Patent number: 7858724
    Abstract: The invention relates to luminescent compounds with semi-conducting properties, as well as their production and their use in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The compounds are copolymers comprising a metal complex with a central atom from subgroup 8 of the periodic table of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Kanitz, Wolfgang Rogler, Wolfgang Roth, Thomas Sonnabend, Jasmin Woerle
  • Patent number: 7824473
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are metal-organic frameworks of metals and boron rich ligands, such as carboranes and icosahedral boranes. Methods of synthesizing and using these materials in gas uptake are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Joseph T. Hupp, Omar K. Farha, Alexander M. Spokoyny, Karen L. Mulfort
  • Patent number: 7816562
    Abstract: The invention is amido-borate compounds containing one or more anionic amido-borate moieties comprising an organoborate anion wherein the boron atom is bonded to a nitrogen atom of ammonia or an organic compound containing one or more nitrogen atoms, such as a hydrocarbyl amine, a hydrocarbyl polyamine, or an aromatic heterocycle containing one or more nitrogen atoms, and a cationic counter ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Shaoguang Feng, Gary L. Jialanella, Peter Nickias, Toni Ristoski
  • Patent number: 7799875
    Abstract: The present invention relates to conjugated polymers and dendrimers containing styryl-triarylamine structural units, to the use thereof in electronic components, in particular in polymeric organic light-emitting diodes, to monomers for the preparation thereof, and to components and light-emitting diodes comprising polymers and dendrimers of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Buesing, Aurélie Ludemann, René Scheurich
  • Publication number: 20100197875
    Abstract: The present invention relates to white-emitting copolymers which are obtained by a combination of blue-, green- and red-emitting repeating units. The copolymers of the invention display better film formation and an improved efficiency when used in polymeric organic light-emitting diodes compared to materials according to the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Aurelie Falcou, Arne Büsing, Susanne Heun, Jürgen Steiger, Anja Gerhard, Niels Schulte, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 7767220
    Abstract: Implantable or insertable medical devices comprising a surface region that is modified by covalently coupling a molecular species (or a combination of molecular species) to the same. The molecular species are selected such that the resulting modified surface region has critical surface energy between 20 and 30 dynes/cm. In certain embodiments, the covalently coupled molecular species comprise one or more methyl groups. An advantage of the present invention is that novel medical devices are provided, which have a surface with a critical surface energy value that has been shown to display enhanced biocompatibility, including enhanced thromboresistance, relative to other surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Shrirang V. Ranade, Michael N. Helmus
  • Patent number: 7745362
    Abstract: There are provided in accordance with embodiments of the invention metal-containing inorganic block copolymers, structures formed by self-assembly of such copolymers, and metal-containing ceramics which may be formed from such copolymers and/or structure. Methods for making such copolymers, structures and ceramics are also provided. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patrick Roland Lucien Malenfant, Andrea Peters, Julin Wan
  • Patent number: 7737241
    Abstract: The invention is a system for initiating free radical polymerization comprising: a) in one part, one or more amido-borate compounds containing one or more anionic amido-borate moieties comprising an organoborate wherein the boron atom is bonded to a nitrogen atom of ammonia or an organic compound containing one or more nitrogen atoms, such as a hydrocarbyl amine, a hydrocarbyl polyamine, or an aromatic heterocycle containing one or more nitrogen atoms and optionally containing one or more heteroatoms or heteroatom containing functional moieties, and one or more cationic counter ions and b) in a second part, a liberating compound which reacts with the nitrogen atom(s) bound to the boron atom(s) upon contact with the amido-borate to form an organoborane radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Shaoguang Feng, Gary L. Jialanella, Peter Nickias, Toni Ristoski
  • Patent number: 7723455
    Abstract: The invention relates to conjugated polymers containing novel structural units according to formula (1). The inventive materials are characterized by increased efficiency and a longer service life when used in polymer organic light emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Esther Breuning, Arne Büsing, Aurélie Ludemann, Corinna Leske, Hubert Spreitzer, Silke Türk
  • Patent number: 7658778
    Abstract: A method for making high temperature filter media includes the steps of melt-spinning a plurality of fibers of pre-ceramic thermoplastic polymer to form a non-woven textile web of the fibers, curing and cross-linking the thermoplastic polymer to a thermo-set polymer and thermally decomposing the thermo-set polymer to ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Global Strategic Materials, LLC
    Inventors: Edward J. A. Pope, Jozsef Hepp, Kenneth M. Kratsch
  • Patent number: 7632908
    Abstract: A polymer for use in an optical device comprising a hole transporting region, an electron transporting region, an emissive region, said polymer comprising an optionally substituted repeat unit of formula (I): wherein each Ar is the same or different and comprises an optionally substituted aryl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Richard O'Dell, Carl Towns
  • Patent number: 7629429
    Abstract: A polymer having a first repeat unit comprising a group having general formula (I) which is substituted or unsubstituted: where at least one of R1 or R2 comprises at least two substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl groups and excluding the group having general formula (I) where one or both of R1 and R2 comprises a triarylamine group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Richard O'Dell, Carl Towns
  • Publication number: 20090281264
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of removing a residual catalyst metal compound from a polymer solution. The method comprises the steps of: a) mixing a solution in which at least one organic nitrogen compound is dissolved in a polar solvent and the polymer solution to precipitate a chelate compound of the organic nitrogen compounds and the residual catalyst metal compound, b) adding the polar solvent to the solution mixture to dissolve a chelate compound and to precipitate a polymer, and c) filtering the precipitated polymer. After the polymer polymerization is completed, an organic nitrogen compound solution is added to perform a chelate reaction with the residual catalyst metal compound in a solution phase, and the polar solvent is added to precipitate the polymer so that only polymer precipitates are filtered while an additional filtration process in respect to the chelate compound is not performed to easily remove the residual catalyst metal compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Hye-Young Jung, Sung-Ho Chun, Sung-Don Hong, Jung-Min Lee, Heon Kim, Dmitry Kravchuk