The present disclosure provides an additive of a lithium ion battery. The additive is an oligomer prepared by mixing maleimides and thiobarbituric acid and reacting the mixture of maleimides and thiobarbituric acid at 80 C.-130 C. for 0.5-24 hours. The present disclosure also provides a cathode of the lithium battery with the additive. The additive is 0.5-10 wt % based on the total weight of the cathode active material and the additive.

A negative-type photosensitive resin composition that has a satisfactory imidization rate and can yield a resin layer with high chemical resistance, even under low-temperature curing conditions of 200? C. or below, the negative-type photosensitive resin composition containing a photopolymerization initiator (B) in a proportion of 0.1 part by mass to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a polyimide precursor (A), the polyimide precursor (A) being a polyamic acid ester or polyamic acid salt with a specific structure, and the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of the polyimide precursor (A) being 3,000 or greater and less than 16,000, in terms of polystyrene, according to gel permeation chromatography (GPC).

A method of additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object, comprises: dispensing from a first array of nozzles a modeling material formulation containing a polyimide precursor to form a layer in a configured pattern corresponding to a shape of a slice of the object; applying to the layer ultraviolet radiation and infrared radiation from two different radiation sources; and repeating the dispensing and the application of radiation to form a plurality of layers in configured patterns corresponding to shapes of other slices of the object. Optionally, an additional modeling material formulation or a support material formulation is dispensed from a second array of nozzles.

A gas separation membrane includes a gas separation layer containing a polyimide compound, in which the polyimide compound has a repeating unit represented by Formula (I),

##STR00001## in Formula (I), R.sup.f1 to R.sup.f6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, a ring Ar.sup.1 and a ring Ar.sup.2 each independently represent an aromatic ring, A represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, and R represents a mother nucleus having a specific structure.

To provide an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device having favorable alignment property and electrical properties.

A liquid crystal display device, which comprises a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other with a liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate respectively have the following characteristics:

first substrate: an electrode-provided substrate having a first electrode and a plurality of second electrodes overlaid on the first electrode via an insulating film, formed on a pixel region on a surface on the liquid crystal side, so constituted that one of the first electrode and the second electrodes is a pixel electrode and the other is a counter electrode, having a first liquid crystal alignment film formed on the surface on the liquid crystal side of the first substrate covered with the second electrodes, and the first liquid crystal alignment film being a film containing a polyimide having liquid crystal alignment performance imparted by irradiation with polarized ultraviolet rays;

second substrate: a substrate having a second liquid crystal alignment film formed on a surface on the liquid crystal side, and the second liquid crystal alignment film being a film containing a photosensitive side chain type polymer which develops liquid crystallinity dependent on the temperature.

Provided are a substrate for an OED and a use thereof. The substrate may be applied to manufacture a flexible device exhibiting a suitable haze to have an excellent physical property such as transmittance, and also have excellent physical properties such as surface smoothness and refractive index when needed.

Disclosed herein is a hydrogel that eradicates biofilm bacteria from wounds and accelerates diabetic wound healing. Also disclosed herein are methods of manufacture and use of said hydrogel.

The present invention provides a thermosetting resin composition characterized by comprising a bismaleimide compound and a triazine compound having a diaminotriazine structure.

A resin composition of the present invention contains: a maleimide compound (A) having a transmittance of 5% or more at a wavelength of 405 nm (h-line); a particular carboxylic acid containing compound (B); and a photo initiator (C) having an absorbance of 0.1 or more at a wavelength of 405 nm (h-line).

It is intended to provide a method for producing a printed circuit board capable of enhancing the adhesion between the inorganic filler-containing insulating layer and the conductor layer of a printed circuit board. The method for producing a printed circuit board of the present invention is a method for producing a printed circuit board, having an alkali treatment step of bringing a surface of an insulating layer for a printed circuit board into contact with an aqueous alkali solution, and a conductor layer forming step of forming a conductor layer on at least a part of the surface of the insulating layer that has undergone the alkali treatment step, wherein the insulating layer contains a resin composition containing a thermosetting resin, a silane compound having a (meth)acrylic skeleton and a hydrolyzable group or a hydroxy group, and an inorganic filler.