The present invention provides a composition having an interior hydrophobic space encapsulated by at least one non-derivatized cellulose molecular layer surrounded by a hydrophilic medium. The invention also provides methods for making an oil-in-water dispersion or water-in-oil dispersion by mixing a hydrophilic medium, a hydrophobic composition and non-derivatized cellulose solution in an ionic liquid or pure non-derivatized cellulose hydrogel.

An organic-inorganic silicon structure-containing block copolymer including a first domain including an ion conductive polymer block; and a second domain including a polymer block including a non-conducting polymer and an organic-inorganic silicon structure, wherein the organic-inorganic silicon structure is connected to a side chain connected to a backbone of the non-conducting polymer.

The present invention provides a conductive material including: (A) a π-conjugated polymer, (B) a dopant polymer which contains one or more repeating units selected from “a1” to “a4” respectively represented by the following general formula (1) and has a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 500,000, and (C) one or more metal oxide nanoparticles whose metal oxide is selected from indium-tin oxides, tin oxides, antimony-tin oxides, antimony-zinc oxides, antimony oxides, and molybdenum oxides having a particle diameter of 1 to 200 nm. There can be provided a conductive material that has excellent film-formability and also can form a conductive film having high transparency and conductivity, superior flexibility and flatness when the film is formed from the material. ##STR00001##

The invention relates to purely organic molecules according to formula A without metal center and their use as emitters in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and in other optoelectronic devices

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with Y is independently selected from the group consisting of C, PR, S, and S(═O); W is independently selected from the group consisting of C(CN).sub.2, NR, O, and S; X is selected from the group consisting of CR.sup.2, C═C(CN).sub.2, NR, O, and S; Ar is a substituted aryl or heteroaryl group with 5 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which is substituted with m same or different radicals R* and with n same or different donor groups D with electron-donating properties, wherein m+n equals the number of substitutable ring atoms and wherein D comprises a structure of formula I:

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wherein A and B are independently selected from the group consisting of CRR′, CR, NR, and N, wherein there is a single of a double bond between A and B and a single or a double bond between B and Z; Z is a direct bond or a divalent organic bridge group selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C9-alkylene group, C2-C8-alkenylene group, C2-C8-alkynylene or arylene group or a combination of these, —CRR′, —C═CRR′, —C═NR, —NR—, —O—, —SiRR′—, —S—, —S(O)—, —S(O).sub.2—, O-interrupted substituted or unsubstituted C1-C9-alkylene, C2-C8-alkenylene, C2-C8-alkynylene or arylene groups, and phenyl or substituted phenyl units; wherein the waved line indicates the position over which D is bound to Ar.

To provide a membrane/electrode assembly excellent in the power generation characteristics in a wide temperature range and a wide humidity range; an electrolyte material suitable for a catalyst layer of the membrane/electrode assembly; and a liquid composition suitable for forming a catalyst layer of the membrane/electrode assembly.

To use an electrolyte material which is formed of a polymer (H) obtained by converting precursor groups in a polymer (F) having structural units (A) based on a perfluoromonomer having a precursor group represented by the formula (g1), structural units (B) represented by the formula (u2), and structural units (C) based on tetrafluoroethylene, wherein the proportion of the structural units (A) is from 8 to 19 mol %, the proportion of the structural units (B) is from 65 to 80 mol %, and the proportion of the structural units (C) is from 1 to 27 mol %, to ion exchange groups.

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A problem is to provide a method and a device for producing a conductive polymer conductor according to which a conductive polymer cm be easily adhered to a base material with high accuracy. A solution is a production device 10 equipped with a heating means 11 for heating a base material 22, a raw material application means 12 for applying, to the base material 22, a raw material solution containing a monomer of the conductive polymer, and a producing solution application means 13 for applying, to the base material 22, a producing solution containing an oxidizing agent for promoting polymerization of the monomer, a dopant for developing electrical conductivity in the conductive polymer, and a viscosity improver for improving viscosity. The raw material solution is applied thereto after heating the base material 22 or while heating the base material 22, and then the producing solution is applied thereto.

An electrochemical cell having an anode, a solid electrolyte, and a cathode. The solid electrolyte includes a polymer gel formed from an ethylene oxide polymer combined with a liquid precursor. The liquid precursor contains at least 15 molar percent of a lithium salt in a solvent.

An electrochemical cell having an anode, a solid electrolyte, and a cathode. The solid electrolyte includes a polymer gel formed from an ethylene oxide polymer combined with a liquid precursor. The liquid precursor contains at least 15 molar percent of a lithium salt in a solvent.

The present disclosure provides a high-temperature thermal pellet composition that maintains structural rigidity up to a transition temperature of about 240° C. The composition comprises at least one organic compound (e.g., triptycene or 1-aminoanthroquinone). The pellet can be disposed in a housing of a thermally-actuated, current cutoff device, such as a high-temperature thermal cutoff device (HTTCO). Also provided are material systems, which include the pellet composition and a high-temperature seal that provides substantial sealing up to at least the transition temperature. Methods of making such high-temperature pellet compositions and incorporating them into a thermally-actuated, current cutoff device are also provided.

The present disclosure provides a high-temperature thermal pellet composition that maintains structural rigidity up to a transition temperature of about 240° C. The composition comprises at least one organic compound (e.g., triptycene or 1-aminoanthroquinone). The pellet can be disposed in a housing of a thermally-actuated, current cutoff device, such as a high-temperature thermal cutoff device (HTTCO). Also provided are material systems, which include the pellet composition and a high-temperature seal that provides substantial sealing up to at least the transition temperature. Methods of making such high-temperature pellet compositions and incorporating them into a thermally-actuated, current cutoff device are also provided.