An organic light-emitting material contains a 6-silyl-substituted isoquinoline ligand. The organic light-emitting material is a metal complex containing a 6-silyl-substituted isoquinoline ligand and may be used as a light-emitting material in a light-emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device. These new complexes can provide redder and saturated emission and meanwhile demonstrate a significantly improved lifetime and efficient and excellent device performance. Further disclosed are an electroluminescent device and a compound formulation including the metal complex.

An organic light-emitting material contains a 6-silyl-substituted isoquinoline ligand. The organic light-emitting material is a metal complex containing a 6-silyl-substituted isoquinoline ligand and may be used as a light-emitting material in a light-emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device. These new complexes can provide redder and saturated emission and meanwhile demonstrate a significantly improved lifetime and efficient and excellent device performance. Further disclosed are an electroluminescent device and a compound formulation including the metal complex.

An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the emission layer includes a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1. The organic electroluminescence device may exhibit high luminous efficiency and/or service life characteristics: ##STR00001##

An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the emission layer includes a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1. The organic electroluminescence device may exhibit high luminous efficiency and/or service life characteristics: ##STR00001##

The invention relates to novel fluorescent dyes with multiple negatively charged groups in their ionized form which are 9-aminoacridines or 1-aminopyrene shaving of one of the following general formulae A-E: or salts or protonated forms thereof, wherein the ionizable groups are typically selected from the following: OH, SH, COOH, SO.sub.3H, OSO.sub.3H, SO.sub.2NHCN, P(O)(OH).sub.2, P(O) (OH).sub.2. The invention further relates to the use of these dyes as fluorescent tags, in particular for reducing sugars and glycans, and to carbohydrate-dye conjugates comprising these dyes as well as to methods for preparing the same.

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The invention relates to novel fluorescent dyes with multiple negatively charged groups in their ionized form which are 9-aminoacridines or 1-aminopyrene shaving of one of the following general formulae A-E: or salts or protonated forms thereof, wherein the ionizable groups are typically selected from the following: OH, SH, COOH, SO.sub.3H, OSO.sub.3H, SO.sub.2NHCN, P(O)(OH).sub.2, P(O) (OH).sub.2. The invention further relates to the use of these dyes as fluorescent tags, in particular for reducing sugars and glycans, and to carbohydrate-dye conjugates comprising these dyes as well as to methods for preparing the same.

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An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode, a cathode, and at least one emitting layer between the cathode and the anode, wherein the emitting layer contains a first host material, a second host material, and a dopant material, the first host material is a compound having at least one deuterium atom, and the emitting layer contains the first host material in the proportion of 1% by mass or more.

A plastic scintillating fiber according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an outermost peripheral layer containing a fluorescent substance that emits scintillation light when it is irradiated with at least one of neutron radiation and heavy-particle radiation; a core disposed inside the outermost peripheral layer and containing at least one type of fluorescent substance that absorbs the scintillation light and wavelength-converts the absorbed light into light having a wavelength longer than that of the absorbed light; and a cladding layer covering an outer peripheral surface of the core and having a refractive index lower than that of the core. A wavelength shifting fiber including the core and the cladding layer, and the outermost peripheral layer covering an outer peripheral surface of the wavelength shifting fiber are integrally formed.

An organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high driving stability, and a material suitable for the organic electroluminescent device are provided. The material for organic electroluminescent devices comprises an indolocarbazole compound represented by a general formula (1). In the formula, the ring a is represented by a formula (1a), X is NR, S, O or CR.sub.2, and Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 are an aromatic heterocyclic group represented by a formula (1b). Y is N or CR, and at least one is N. L.sup.1 is an aromatic hydrocarbon group. The material for the organic electroluminescent devices is suitable as material for the host of the light emitting layer or the hole blocking layer of organic EL devices.

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A compound represented by the following formulas (1-1) and (1-3), or a compound represented by the following formulas (1-2) and (1-3). At least one of R.sub.1 to R.sub.16 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group including 1 to 50 carbon atoms or the like. In the compound represented by the formulas (1-1) and (1-3), at least one of R.sub.5 to R.sub.7 and R.sub.14 to R.sub.16 is —N(R.sub.36)(R.sub.37), and in the compound represented by the formulas (1-2) and (1-3), at least one of R.sub.2 to R.sub.16 is —N(R.sub.36)(R.sub.37).

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