An infrared absorbing composition which is used for forming an infrared cut filter in a solid image pickup element having the infrared cut filter includes at least one infrared absorber having an absorption maximum at a wavelength of 650 nm or longer which is selected from polymethine colorants.

To provide a photoelectric conversion element being excellent in photoelectric conversion efficiency and stability of photoelectric conversion function, a method for producing the photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell using the photoelectric conversion element. A photoelectric conversion element having a substrate, a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer containing a semiconductor and a sensitizing pigment, a hole transport layer having a conductive polymer, and a second electrode, wherein the hole transport layer is formed by bringing the photoelectric conversion layer into contact with a solution containing a conductive polymer precursor and an oxidizer at a ratio of 0.1<[Ox]/[M] (wherein [Ox] is the molar concentration of the oxidizer; and [M] is the molar concentration of the conductive polymer precursor), and irradiating the photoelectric conversion layer with light.

A near-infrared absorbent dispersion includes water, a near-infrared absorbent, and a resin dispersant, wherein a weight ratio of the near-infrared absorbent to the total weight of the near-infrared absorbent and the resin dispersant is more than 0.01 and less than 0.33.

The present invention relates to a compound based on cyanine scaffold for diagnosing sepsis by selectively detecting glutathione. The compound based on cyanine scaffold according to the present invention has the advantages of maintaining its structure in intracellular environment and of reacting selectively to glutathione only among many amino acids containing thiol group (RSH) such as cysteine, homocysteine, and glutathione, to produce changes in absorption or fluorescence spectrum, making the compound useful for the detection of in vivo glutathione in biosamples and also for the diagnosis of sepsis characteristically displaying the changes of glutathione concentration.

The present disclosure relates to prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeted compounds conjugated to near-infra red (NIR) dyes and methods for a method for synthesizing a compound of the formula:

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The invention relates to a family of compounds that comprise fluorescent cyanine dyes. The compounds are near infrared absorbing heptamethine cyanine dyes with a 4,4-disubstituted cyclohexyl ring as part of the polymethine chromophore. The compounds are generally hydrophilic and can be chemically linked to biomolecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids, and therapeutic small molecules. The compounds can be used for imaging in a variety of medical, biological and diagnostic applications.

A composite resin particle comprising a near infrared absorber according to general formula I and a resin selected from the group consisting of (poly(amino acids), polyphosphazenes, poly saccahride derivatives, poly(esters), poly(ortho esters), poly(cyano-acry lates) and copolymers thereof (General formula (I)). The composite resin particles are suitable for opto-medical applications such as phototherapies including photothermal therapy (PTT), photodynamic therapy (PDT), chemo-photodynamic nanotherapeutics and fluorescence medical imaging.

A compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1. ##STR00001## In Chemical Formula 1, R.sup.1 to R.sup.4, R.sup.11a to R.sup.14c, and n are the same as defined in the detailed description.

Nonlinear optical chromophores having one or more diamondoid groups covalently attached to the chromophore, methods of making nonlinear optical chromophores, their use in thin films and electro-optical devices containing such nonlinear optical chromophores and thin films comprising the same.

Provided are dyes and compositions which are useful in a number of applications, such as the detection and monitoring protein aggregation, kinetic studies of protein aggregation, neurofibrillary plaques analysis, evaluation of protein formulation stability, protein thermal stability shift assay and analysis of molecular chaperone activity. These dyes and compositions are also useful as probes in nucleic acid and protein detection.