The present invention provides soluble, stable singlet fission (SF) compounds, compositions, materials, methods of their use, and methods for their preparation that provide efficient intramolecular singlet fission (iSF) and multiple excitons. The SF compound may be a dimer, an oligomer, or a polymer of polyoligoacenes, where for example, the compound achieves a triplet yield reaching about 200% per absorbed photon. In this system, SF does not depend on intermolecular inter-actions. Instead, SF is an intrinsic property of the molecule and therefore occurs independent of intermolecular interactions. Singlet fission has the potential to significantly improve the photocurrent in single junction solar cells and thus raise the Shockley-Queisser power conversion efficiency limit from about 33% to about 46% or greater. Quantitative SF yield at room temperature has only been observed in crystalline solids or aggregates of higher acenes.

A composition, comprising: trisilylamine and less than 5 ppmw of halogen. A method of making a silylamine comprising combining ammonia and a compound comprising aminosilane functionality, where the compound comprising aminosilane functionality is according to formula (I) R.sup.1 N(R.sup.2)a(SiH.sub.3).sub.2a (I), where R.sup.1 is an organic polymer, a C-.sub.1-20 hydrocarbyl group or SiR.sup.3.sub.3.sup.1, where R.sup.3 is C.sub.1-6 hydrocarbyl, R.sup.2 is a C-.sub.1-20 hydrocarbyl group, H, or -SiR.sup.3.sub.3.sup.1 , where R.sup.3 is as defined above, subscript a is 0 or 1, provided that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different except if R.sup.1 is phenyl, R.sup.2 is not phenyl, under sufficient conditions to cause a reaction to form a silylamine and a byproduct.

Provided are a novel indene-based transition metal complex, a transition metal catalyst composition including the same having high catalyst activity for preparing an ethylene homopolymer or copolymers of ethylene and one or more -olefins, a method for preparing an ethylene homopolymer or copolymers of ethylene and -olefins using the same, and the thus-prepared ethylene homopolymer or copolymers of ethylene and -olefins.

Provided are a compound of Formula 1; an organic electric element comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, comprising a compound of Formula 1 in the organic material layer; and an electronic device comprising the element, which has lowered driving voltage and increased luminous efficiency and life time.

The present disclosure provides boron-containing diacylhydrazines having Formula I:

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and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, and R.sup.5 are defined as set forth in the specification. The present disclosure also provides the use of boron-containing diacylhydrazines is ecdysone receptor-based inducible gene expression systems. Thus, the present disclosure is useful for applications such as gene therapy, treatment of disease, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based screening assays, functional genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms, where control of gene expression levels is desirable.

The present invention provides: a novel organic titanium compound having an effect as an adhesion promoter by itself; a production method of such organic titanium compound; and a room temperature-curable resin composition containing such organic titanium compound both as a curing catalyst and as an adhesion promoter. Provided are an organic titanium compound represented by an average composition formula (I):
Ti(OR.sup.1).sub.4-a(Y.sub.3Si-A-OCOCHC(O)R).sub.a
(wherein R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, A represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, Y represents a hydrolyzable group, and a represents a number satisfying 0<a<4); a production method of such organic titanium compound; and a room temperature-curable resin composition that contains a room temperature-curable resin.

The present invention provides a compound that thickens or gels a fluid organic substance to a desired viscosity, or uniformly stabilizes a composition containing a fluid organic substance. The compound of the present invention is a compound represented by Formula (1) below: wherein, R.sup.1 represents a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 4 or more carbons; R.sup.2 represents a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 12 carbons; R.sup.3 represents a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 12 carbons; m represents an integer from 0 to 10; and n represents an integer from 1 to 4; in a case where n is 1 or 2, (4n) R.sup.1s may be the same or different; and in a case where n is from 2 to 4, n R.sup.2s, n R.sup.3s, and n m's each may be the same or different.

A component made of micromachinable material for a high quality factor resonator or escapement mechanism, with a core made of micromachinable material and/or coated with an oxide layer, and including, on this core or on this oxide layer an abrasion resistant layer including a contact surface cooperating with an opposing contact surface an which is a hydrophobic self-assembled monolayer of the alkylsilane and/or fluorinated or perfluorinated or polyperfluorinated type, with a low or zero sulphur content, and arranged to repel any wetting agent from the area of contact between the contact surface and the opposing contact surface.

An interconnect structure includes a metal interconnect layer, a dielectric layer on the metal interconnect layer, a fluorocarbon layer on the dielectric layer, a metal interconnect extending through the fluorocarbon layer and the dielectric layer to the metal interconnect layer. The metal interconnect includes a first portion extending through the fluorocarbon layer and into an upper portion of the dielectric layer and a second portion below the first portion and extending through a lower portion of the dielectric layer to the metal interconnect layer.

A method for producing an alkenyl or alkynyl-containing organosilicon precursor composition, the method comprising the steps of distilling at least once a composition comprising an alkenyl or alkynyl-containing organosilicon compound having the formula R.sub.nSiR.sup.1.sub.4n wherein R is selected a linear or branched C.sub.2 to C.sub.6 alkenyl group, a linear or branched C.sub.2 to C.sub.6 alkynyl group; R.sup.1 is selected from hydrogen, a linear or branched C.sub.1 to C.sub.10 alkyl group, and a C.sub.3 to C.sub.10 cyclic alkyl group; and n is a number selected from 1 to 4, wherein a distilled alkenyl or alkynyl-containing organosilicon precursor composition is produced after distilling; and packaging the distilled alkenyl or alkynyl-containing organosilicon precursor composition in a container, wherein the container permits transmission into the container of no more than 10% of ultraviolet and visible light having a wavelength of between 290 nm to 450 nm.