A polymer for organic electroluminescent devices having high luminous efficiency and applicable to a wet process is provided. This polymer for organic electroluminescent devices is characterized in that it includes a polymer of a polyphenylene main chain represented by General Formula (1) which is used in at least one layer of an organic layer in an organic electroluminescent device formed by laminating an anode, the organic layer, and a cathode on a substrate, and which has thermally activated delayed fluorescence characteristics (TADF characteristics) (where x is a phenylene group or a linked phenylene group, L is a single bond, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, or an aromatic heterocyclic group, and A is an aromatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic heterocyclic group, or a linked aromatic group, and satisfies S1(A)−T1(A)≤0.50 (eV)).

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The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting (OSC) random copolymers containing a halo-substituted 4,8-dithiophenyl-benzodithiophene unit and a benzodithiophene-dione unit, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions and formulations containing them, to the use of the copolymers and compositions as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE devices comprising these copolymers or compositions.

Crosslinked polymers and related compositions and related compositions, electrochemical cells, batteries, methods and systems are described. The crosslinked polymers have at least one redox active monomeric moiety having a redox potential of 0.5 V to 3.0 V with reference to Li/Li.sup.+ electrode potential under standard conditions or −2.54 V to −0.04 V vs. SHE and has a carbocyclic structure and at least one carbonyl group or a carboxyl group on the carbocyclic structure. The crosslinked polymers also include at least one comonomeric moiety with at least one of the at least one redox active monomeric moiety and/or the at least one comonomeric moiety has a denticity of three to six corresponding to a three to six connected network polymer, and provide stable, high capacity organic electrode materials.

The present disclosure relates to a porous polymer actuator which maintains the porous structure of the polymer actuator by forming a conductive polymer layer on a commercially available porous polymer separation membrane by vapor-phase polymerization and is capable of improving fast responsiveness to organic solvents and durability by ensuring structural anisotropy, and a method for fabricating the same. The porous polymer actuator according to the present disclosure includes: a porous polymer separation membrane having pores; and a conductive polymer layer coated on one surface and in the pores of the porous polymer separation membrane, wherein the porous polymer actuator has a gradient wherein the amount of the conductive polymer coated in the pores decreases from the one surface of the porous polymer separation membrane toward the other surface.

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wherein the compositional ratio of x/y ranges from about 1/99 to about 99/1, and n ranges from 1 to 1,000,000. Additionally, in this composition, R′ and R″ are independently selected from: H, unsubstituted or substituted branched alkyls with 1 to 60 carbon atoms, or unsubstituted or substituted linear alkyls with 1 to 60 carbon atoms.

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The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material comprising: a) optionally at least one electrical dopant, and b) at least one cross-linked charge-transporting polymer comprising 1,2,3-triazole cross-linking units, a method for its preparation and a semiconducting device comprising the charge transporting semi-conducting material.

A method for manufacturing an electrolytic capacitor is provided. A conductive polymer solution is applied onto a porous main body. The porous main body includes a porous electrode body having an electrode material and a dielectric layer covering an outer surface of the electrode material. The conductive polymer solution contains conductive polymer particles whose average particle size ranges from 0.5 nm to 50 nm. A solid electrolyte is formed to completely or partially cover a surface of the dielectric layer. A material of the conductive polymer particles includes at least one of polythiophene having at least one sulfonic acid group and polyselenophene having at least one sulfonic acid group. An electrical conductivity of a dry membrane formed from the conductive polymer particles is higher than 25 S/cm. An amount of metal cations in the conductive polymer solution is less than 500 mg/kg.

A method for manufacturing an electrolytic capacitor is provided. A crosslinking agent is applied onto a capacitor body. A solution containing a conjugated polymer is applied onto the capacitor body after applying the crosslinking agent. A part of a solvent of the solution is removed, so as to form a polymer outer layer onto the capacitor body. The capacitor body includes an electrode body, an electrode material, a dielectric layer, and a solid electrolyte. The electrode material is formed on the electrode body. A surface of the electrode material is covered by the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is covered by the solid electrolyte. The electrode body or the solid electrolyte is formed from at least one of polythiophene having at least one sulfonic acid group and polyselenophene having at least one sulfonic acid group.

A method, includes: reacting at least one donor group with at least one protected acceptor group to form a plurality of protecting group-containing OSC polymers; removing the protecting group from the plurality of protecting group-containing OSC polymers to form H-bonding sites; and fusing the H-bonding sites of a first OSC polymer backbone with H-bonding sites of a second OSC polymer backbone to form π-π interactions between conjugated OSC polymers.