A conductive polymer composition comprising: (a) a conductive polymer; (b) a solvent; and (c) an acid or a salt.

An electric conductive fiber structure includes an electric conductive resin containing electric conductive polymer(s), the electric conductive resin being filled in gaps between single fibers included in a fiber structure, the electric conductive fiber structure having 15% or more area ratio of the electric conductive resin present in an area of 15 to 30 μm from a surface when a cross section in a thickness direction of the fiber structure is observed.

An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer disposed on the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer disposed on the dielectric layer, and a cathode lead-out layer disposed on the solid electrolyte layer. The solid electrolyte layer contains a first conductive polymer having a thiophene skeleton and a second conductive polymer having an aniline skeleton. In the solid electrolyte layer, a mass ratio of the second conductive polymer with respect to a total mass of the first conductive polymer and the second conductive polymer in a region close to the dielectric layer is greater than a mass ratio of the second conductive polymer with respect to a total mass of the first conductive polymer and the second conductive polymer in a region close to the cathode lead-out layer.

This is to provide a non-halogen containing compound excellent in proton conductivity and capable of suitably being used for a polymer electrolytic fuel cell

The compound of the present invention has a structure represented by the following general formula (I).

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(In the above-mentioned general formula (I), l and n are molar fractions when l+n=1.0, and 0l<1.0 and 0<n1.0, A represents a structure represented by the following general formula (II) or (III), B represents a structure represented by the following general formula (VII), the respective structural units are random copolymerized, and at least one benzene ring in the formula (I) has at least one sulfo group.)

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(In the above-mentioned general formula (II) or (III), R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 are each independently selected from hydrogen and an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, le and R.sup.2 form together with the carbon atom, they are attached to, an aromatic ring or a fused aromatic ring and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 form together with the carbon atom, they are attached to, an aromatic ring or a fused aromatic ring, or R.sup.1, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are hydrogens and R.sup.2 is a single bond and bonded to the carbon of c, X is a single bond, or a structure represented by the following formula (IV), the following formula (V) or the following formula (VI), when X is a single bond, bonds as are both bonded at ortho positions or both bonded at meta positions relative to the carbons bonded to X, when X is a structure represented by the following formula (IV), bonds as are both bonded at para positions relative to the carbons bonded to X, and when it is a structure represented by the following formula (V), bonds as are both bonded at para positions or both bonded at meta positions relative to the carbons bonded to x, when X is a structure represented by the following formula (VI), the bonds as in the above-mentioned general formula (II) or (III) exist only one of these, and A binds to other structure or a structural unit by one of the bonds as and the bond b.)

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A composition comprising a conductive polymer, and a compound having an OH group and further having a butoxy group.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a conductive polymer thin-film having a semiconductor property and to a thin-film transistor including a conductive polymer thin-film having a semiconductor property. The method for manufacturing a conductive polymer thin-film having a semiconductor property includes exposing at least a portion of a conductive polymer thin-film to a surface treatment agent to reduce a charge density of the exposed at least a portion of the conductive polymer thin-film.

The present disclosure relates to a measuring device with a bipolar electrode array for the impedimetric analysis of adherent cells according to the ECIS principle (electric cells substrate impedance sensing). The measuring device comprises an electrode array which is adapted for being wetted with an electrolyte solution and adherently growing cells in order to perform impedimetric cell analyzes, characterized in that the electrode array comprises a bipolar electrode on a substrate, where the bipolar electrode is formed as a conductive path on the transparent substrate and has an inherent resistance between two connection points of the conductive path that is a multiple of the AC impedance of the electrolyte solution at 1 MHz, measured at the two connection points.

The conductive composition of the present invention includes a conductive polymer (A) having an acidic group, and a basic compound (B) having a cyclic amide and an amino group in its molecule. The conductive film of the present invention is formed from the conductive composition. The laminate of the present invention includes a substrate; an electron beam resist layer, formed on at least one surface of the substrate; and a conductive film formed on the electron beam resist layer.

The conductive film of the present invention includes a conductive polymer (A) and has a film thickness of 35 nm or less, wherein: a surface resistance of the conductive film is 110.sup.11 /sq. or less, and a standard deviation of current that flows through the conductive film upon application of voltage to the conductive film is 5 or less. The conductor of the present invention has a substrate, and the conductive film provided on at least a part of the surface of the substrate. The resist pattern forming method of the present invention includes a lamination step of forming the conductive film on a surface of a resist layer including a chemically amplified resist, said resist layer formed on one surface of a substrate, and an exposure step of irradiating the substrate with an electron beam according to a pattern on its side on which the conductive film is formed. The laminate of the present invention has a resist layer and an antistatic film formed on the surface of the resist layer, wherein the antistatic film is the above-mentioned conductive film.

A method for producing a polyaniline complex composition including: removing a solvent from an organic solution that includes (a) polyaniline doped with a compound represented by M(XARn)m (I) and (b) a phenolic compound, thereby to obtain a composition; and immersing the composition in (c) a solution that comprises at least one of sulfonic acid and sulfonate, followed by drying.