Provided are a dispersion, applications thereof, and a compound, the dispersion including: a colorant represented by the following Formula 1; and a medium. In Formula 1, L.sup.1 represents a methine chain consisting of 5 or 7 methine groups, a methine group at a center of the methine chain has a substituent represented by the following Formula A, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a monovalent heterocyclic group, and X's each independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a selenium atom. In Formula A, SA represents a single bond, an alkylene group, an alkenylene group, or an alkynylene group, T.sup.A represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, and * represents a binding site to the methine group at the center of the methine chain.

Provided are a dispersion, applications thereof, and a compound, the dispersion including: a colorant represented by the following Formula 1; and a medium. In Formula 1, L.sup.1 represents a methine chain consisting of 5 or 7 methine groups, a methine group at a center of the methine chain has a substituent represented by the following Formula A, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a monovalent heterocyclic group, and X's each independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a selenium atom. In Formula A, SA represents a single bond, an alkylene group, an alkenylene group, or an alkynylene group, T.sup.A represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, and * represents a binding site to the methine group at the center of the methine chain.

The present invention relates to an optical filter containing: an absorption layer containing a near-infrared absorbing dye (A) having a maximum absorption wavelength in dichloromethane being in a wavelength range of 850 to 1,100 nm and a transparent resin; and a reflection layer formed of a dielectric multilayer film, in which the near-infrared absorbing dye (A) satisfies the following Formulae (1) to (4).

ABS.sub.400(A)DCM/ABS.sub.max(A)DCM<0.10(1),

ABS.sub.550(A)DCM/ABS.sub.max(A)DCM<0.04(2),

ABS.sub.400(A)TR/ABS.sub.max(A)TR<0.15(3), and

ABS.sub.550(A)TR/ABS.sub.max(A)TR<0.10(4).

The present invention provides methods, compositions, and kits useful in preparing labeled molecules, which are useful in the detection of binding partners.

The present invention is directed, in certain embodiments, to polymerizable near-IR dyes and polymers comprising said dyes as monomeric residues. In other embodiments, the present invention also relates to methods for the preparation of polymerizable near-IR dyes, and to the use of polymerizable near-IR dyes in the preparation of fluorescent polymers.

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a display device including: a thin film transistor array panel; an anti-reflective layer overlapping the thin film transistor array panel; and a color conversion display panel positioned between the thin film transistor array panel and the anti-reflective layer, wherein: the color conversion display panel may include a color conversion layer including a semiconductor nanocrystal and a transmissive layer; the anti-reflective layer may include an adhesive layer positioned on the color conversion display panel, a low-reflective layer overlapping the adhesive layer, and a base film positioned between the adhesive layer and the low-reflective layer. A dye is present in one of the layers of the anti-reflective layer.

A group of fluorescent polymeric coating films visible in near-infrared light for coating a medical device, and a method for preparing such NIR visible polymeric coating films.

Low-copper click chemistry, 1.3-dipolar cycloadditions, and Staudinger ligations for modifying biomolecules is provided. Compositions, methods, and kits relating to low-copper click chemistry, 1.3-dipolar cycloadditions, and Staudinger ligations are also provided.

Protected fluorescent reagent compounds and their methods of synthesis are provided. The compounds are useful in various fluorescence-based analytical methods, including the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, such as single molecule real time nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The compounds contain fluorescent dye elements, that allow the compounds to be detected with high sensitivity at desirable wavelengths, binding elements, that allow the compounds to be recognized specifically by target biomolecules, and protective shield elements, that decrease undesirable contacts between the fluorescent dye elements and the bound target biomolecules and that therefore decrease photodamage of the bound target biomolecules by the fluorescent dye elements.

An ink jet ink includes water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a resin, and an anionic heptamethine cyanine dye including a substituted or unsubstituted five or six membered ring in the heptamethine chain, the dye having a maximum absorption between 800 and 1200 nm to increase drying speed and improve image quality when dried with NIR or CIR dryers.