A method for making an oil- and water-resistant nanocomposite material includes preparing F-doped TiO.sub.2 nanorods, dispersing the F-doped TiO.sub.2 nanorods into a transparent adhesive to obtain a nanocomposite adhesive, and treating a surface of the nanocomposite adhesive to roughen the surface and expose some of the F-doped TiO.sub.2 nanorods. A transparent nanocomposite material suitable for use as transparent packaging for example is thereby obtained. The present disclosure also provides the nanocomposite material, and an encapsulating structure using the nanocomposite material.

The present disclosure relates to fungicidal active compounds, more specifically to trisubstitutedsllylmethylphenoxyquinolines and analogues thereof, processes and, intermediates for their preparation and use thereof as fungicidal active compound, particularly in the form of fungicide compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi of plants using these compounds or compositions comprising thereof.

Disclosed herein is a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: Formula (I). Also disclosed herein are uses of the compounds disclosed herein in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising a compound disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein are uses of the compositions in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.

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Described herein in part are silanol based therapeutic payloads comprising a silanol terminus, a divalent spacer moiety, and a drug moiety capable of effecting a target cell or tissue.

To provide an electrochromic compound, represented by the following general formula (I):

##STR00001## where X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3, X.sub.4, X.sub.5, X.sub.6, X.sub.7 and X.sub.8 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently a monovalent substituent; A.sup. and B.sup. are each independently a monovalent anion; and Y is represented by the following general formula (II) or (III):

##STR00002## where X.sub.9, X.sub.10, X.sub.11, X.sub.12, X.sub.13, X.sub.14, X.sub.15, X.sub.16, X.sub.17, and X.sub.18 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent.

An electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The electrolyte includes a lithium salt; an organic solvent; and at least one siloxane compound represented by Formula 1 or Formula 2, wherein an amount of the at least one siloxane compound is about 0.05 wt % to about 20 wt % based on a total weight of the electrolyte.

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In Formulae 1 and 2, group substituents and number indices are as defined in the specification.

To provide an electrochromic compound, represented by the following general formula ##STR00001##
where X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3, X.sub.4, X.sub.5, X.sub.6, X.sub.7 and X.sub.8 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently a monovalent substituent; A.sup. and B.sup. are each independently a monovalent anion; and Y is represented by the following general formula (II) or (III): ##STR00002##
where X.sub.9, X.sub.10, X.sub.11, X.sub.12, X.sub.13, X.sub.14, X.sub.15, X.sub.16, X.sub.17, and X.sub.18 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent.

Materials which react with (scavenge) sulfur compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans, are useful for limiting sulfur-induced corrosion. Surface-modified particles incorporating a hexahydrotriazine moiety are disclosed and used as sulfur scavengers. These surface-modified particles are used a filter media in fixed filter systems and as additives to fluids including sulfur compounds. The hexahydrotriazine moiety can react with sulfur compounds in such a manner as to bind sulfur atoms to the surface-modified particles, thus allowing removal of the sulfur atoms from fluids such as crude oil, natural gas, hydrocarbon combustion exhaust gases, sulfur polluted air and water. The surface-modified particles may, in general, be sized to allow separation of the particles from the process fluid by sedimentation, size-exclusion filtration or the like.

Organosilicon Lewis acids supported on activated oxides and metal oxo complexes grafted on the organosilicon Lewis acids as heterogeneous catalysts and the related compositions, methods and systems are described. These organosilicon Lewis acids and the grafted metal oxo complexes catalyze industrially important chemical reactions including, respectively, CF bond activation and olefin metathesis reactions such as homocoupling and polymerizations.

Phenoxyphenylsilane monomers were synthesized and polymerized. The polymers have high refractive indices and excellent UV and thermal stability. Their water and oxygen permeability is lower than commercial phenyl silicone elastomers. They show good compatibility with metal oxide nanoparticles. The polymers of the invention are suitable as LED encapsulant, as light guide material in CMOS image sensors, in OLED devices, lasers and in other optical applications.