Disclosed are low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers that can be used as active and/or passive organic materials in various electronic, optical, and optoelectronic devices. In some embodiments, the device can include an organic semiconductor layer and a dielectric layer prepared from such low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers. In some embodiments, the device can include a passivation layer prepared from the low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers described herein. In certain embodiments, a polymer of the disclosure has a repeating unit having the structure (I) in which Q.sup.1-Q.sup.2 and Q.sup.3-Q.sup.4 are each independently C(H)C(H) or (II) in which each n is independently selected from 1, 2, 3 and 4, and the polymer includes at least one repeating unit of Formula (I) wherein Q.sup.1-Q.sup.2 and Q.sup.3-Q.sup.4 is (II).

The present invention relates to a process for producing cycloalkenamer-containing compositions. The polymerization of cycloalkenamer is stopped by addition of alkyl vinyl ethers. This is followed by a membrane filtration. This type of production affords polyalkenamers that are thermally stable at 180 C.

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes

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where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 include at least one of a hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, and/or an alkyl group, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 include at least one of hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, and/or a ketone, and 1n2000.

The present invention provides a modified block copolymer composition comprising a modified block copolymer containing at least one aromatic vinyl polymer block and at least one conjugated diene polymer block, and having at least one modified terminal modified with a compound having a silicon atom and an acrylic group and/or a methacrylic group.

A resin composition is provided, which includes 1 part by weight of (a) thermally conductive resin with a biphenyl group, 1.0 to 10.0 parts by weight of (b) polyphenylene oxide, 0.01 to 5.0 parts by weight of (c) hardener, and 0.1 to 5.0 parts by weight of (d) inorganic filler. (d) Inorganic filler is boron nitride, aluminum nitride, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, aluminum oxide, carbon nitride, octahedral carbon, or a combination thereof with a surface modified by iron-containing oxide. (d) Inorganic filler is sheet-shaped or needle-shaped.

1) Hydrocarbon copolymer P comprising 2 alkoxysilane end groups F.sup.1 and F.sup.2 of formulae: F.sup.1: (RO).sub.3-tR.sub.tSi(CH.sub.2).sub.g1- and F.sup.2: (CH.sub.2).sub.d1SiR.sub.t(OR).sub.3-t; or F.sup.1: (RO).sub.3-tR.sub.tSiRO(O)C(CH.sub.2).sub.g2 and F.sup.2: (CH.sub.2).sub.d2C(O)ORSiR.sub.t(OR).sub.3-t; wherein t is 0, 1 or 2; g1 and d1 are 1, 2 or 3; g2 and d2 are 0, 1, 2 or 3; R et R represent a C.sub.1-C.sub.4 alkyl; R is a C.sub.1-C.sub.4 alkylene radical; the main chain comprising motifs (I) and (II) in which R.sup.0 is in particular the methyl radical; and the number average molecular mass Mn thereof being between 400 and 100,000 g/mol. 2) Method for producing said copolymer, comprising: (i) a step of heating a statistical bipolymer A selected from a poly(butadiene-isoprene), a poly(butadiene-myrcene) and a poly(butadiene-farnesene); and subsequently (ii) a step of heating the formed product, in the presence of a chain transfer agent of formula (C). 3) Adhesive composition comprising said copolymer.

Polymers are obtained by polymerizing in the presence of a Bronsted acid or a Lewis acid catalyst, a monomer comprising a 1,3-diisoalkenylarene, a 1,4-diisoalkenylarene, or mixtures thereof. The polymer comprises at least one of repeat units (A), (B), (C), and (D); wherein R.sup.1 is H or a C1-C8 alkyl group. ##STR00001## The polymers have high T.sub.g and exhibit good solubility in non-polar solvents, forming substantially gel-free solutions. The polymers are useful for producing crosslinked materials having good physical properties. The crosslinked materials are valuable for further downstream uses, such as copper clad laminates.

Described herein are methods, compositions and articles of manufacture involving neutral conjugated polymers including methods for synthesis of neutral conjugated water-soluble polymers with linkers along the polymer main chain structure and terminal end capping units. Such polymers may serve in the fabrication of novel optoelectronic devices and in the development of highly efficient biosensors. The invention further relates to the application of these polymers in assay methods.

A compound includes two or more structures shown by the following general formula (1-1) in the molecule, ##STR00001##
Ar represents an aromatic ring or one that contains at least one nitrogen atom and/or sulfur atom optionally having a substituent, and two Ars are optionally bonded with each other to form a ring structure; the broken line represents a bond with Y; Y represents a divalent or trivalent organic group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms that contains an aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ring optionally having a substituent, the bonds of which are located in a structure of the aromatic ring or the heteroaromatic ring; R represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent group having 1 to 68 carbon atoms. This compound can be cured even in an inert gas not only in air atmosphere without forming byproducts, and can form an organic under layer film.

One embodiment relates to an organic electronic material containing a charge transport polymer or oligomer having a crosslinking group represented by formula (1) shown below at least at one terminal, and also having a crosslinking group represented by formula (2) shown below at least at one terminal. In formula (1), each of R.sup.a to R.sup.g independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. In formula (2), each of R.sup.a to R.sup.c independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.

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