A lithium ion battery electrolyte, comprises lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent and additives. The additives comprise an SEI film forming additive and furil and derivatives thereof, and the SEI film forming additive is at least one of vinylene carbonate, fluoroethylene carbonate and vinyl ethylene carbonate. Compared with the prior art, furil and derivatives thereof are added to the electrolyte as electrolyte additives in the present invention, to enhance the permeability for separator and the wettability for positive/negative electrode materials, facilitate the film forming reaction of the SEI film forming additive, and further improve the cycling performance of the lithium ion battery using the electrolyte. Furthermore, the furil and derivatives thereof have good chemical and electrochemical stability and free from decomposition reaction within the operating voltage range of the lithium ion battery, thereby imparting no negative effect upon battery performances.

Lithium-ion battery and electrolyte thereof

Display devices such as EL elements or LED elements, are formed from thin film elements having banks of prescribed height and a thin film layer formed by an ink jet method in areas to be coated that are partitioned by those banks. The banks may be formed of an organic material on a bank formation surface configured of an inorganic material, plasma treatment is performed under conditions that the induction gas is fluorine-based and that fluorine is present excessively, and the areas enclosed by the banks subjected to surface treatment are filled with the liquid thin film material to form the thin film layer or layers.

Method of forming thin film patterning substrate including formation of banks

Disclosed are apparatus for delivery of a gas, e.g., carbon dioxide and/or chlorine dioxide, and methods of its use and manufacture. The apparatus includes a sachet (30) constructed in part with a hydrophobic material. The sachet (30) contains one or more reactants (40) that generate a gas in the presence of an initiating agent, e.g., water. The apparatus can also include a barrier layer (550) and/or a rigid frame. In another embodiment, the apparatus is combined with a reservoir (1845) that can be used to deliver a gas to the reservoir and, optionally, a conduit. In another embodiment, the apparatus is incorporated into a fluid dispersion system that includes a dispersion apparatus, e.g., a humidifier.

Apparatus and method for controlled delivery of a gas

An anisotropic conductive adhesive contains conductive particles dispersed in a resin composition, wherein the resin composition includes a radical polymerization resin (A), an organic peroxide (B), a thermoplastic elastomer (C) and a phosphoric ester (D). The resin composition can further contain an epoxy silane coupling agent (E) represented by formula (2) or (3). The resin composition is mixed with other components after the radical polymerization resin (A), the thermoplastic elastomer (C), the phosphoric ester (D) and the epoxy silane coupling agent (E) are reacted. It is also possible to preliminarily react only the phosphoric ester (D) and the epoxy silane coupling agent (E) and to react the product of the preliminary reaction with the radical polymerization resin (A) and the thermoplastic elastomer (C), and then to add other components. The anisotropic conductive adhesive of the present invention can be used for electrical joining of electronic or electric parts of electrical apparatus.

Anisotropic conductive adhesive and method for preparation thereof and an electronic apparatus using said adhesive

Substrates have a hydrophobic surface coating comprised of the reaction products of a chlorosilyl group containing compound and an alkylsilane. Most preferably the substrate is glass. In one embodiment, highly durable hydrophobic coatings may be formed by forming a silicon oxide anchor layer or hybrid organo-silicon oxide anchor layer from a humidified reaction product of silicon tetrachloride or trichloromethylsilane, followed by the vapor-deposition of a chloroalkylsilane. Such a silicon oxide anchor layer will advantageously have a root mean square surface roughness of less than about 6.0 nm and a low haze value of less than about 3.0 %. Another embodiment includes the simultaneous humidified vapor deposition of a chlorosilyl group containing compound and a chloroalkylsilane. In preferred embodiments, the simultaneous vapor deposition onto a glass substrate of silicon tetrachloride and dimethyldichlorosilane results in a hydrophobic coating comprised of cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane, which may then be capped with a fluoroalkylsilane. The cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane layer may be formed on the surface of the glass substrate, or a silicon oxide anchor layer may be deposited under the cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane layer.

Highly durable hydrophobic coatings and methods

The present invention relates to crosslinkable thermoplastic compositions comprising a plurality of crosslinkable moieties, capable of undergoing addition polymerization, incorporated by functionalization of the precursor poly(hydroxy ethers). The poly(hydroxy ethers) comprise recurring moieties derived from aromatic dihydroxy compounds. The crosslinkable polymeric compositions are crosslinked to obtain crosslinked thermoset polymeric compositions of the invention. The polymeric compositions of the inventions can be suitably used either as an active guiding layer, and/or as a NLO active upper and lower cladding layers in an electro-optic device. The polymeric compositions can also be used as non-NLO polymers for the upper and lower cladding layers, prior to orientation by the application of an electric field.

Crosslinkable thermoplastic and crosslinked thermoset nonlinear optical polymeric compositions derived from aromatic dihydroxy compounds

A process for making PBZ fibers of ultra-high physical properties is given. Polybenzoxazole fibers made by the process of this invention have tensile strengths nearly double in value from what has been reported previously.

Polybenzazole fiber with ultra-high physical properties

The present invention relates to nonlinear optical materials comprising aminoaryl hydrazones and to nonlinear optical polymeric compositions containing recurring covalently bonded moieties derived from the aminoaryl hydrazones of the invention. The polymeric compositions of the present invention have high glass transition temperatures and exhibit stable nonlinear optical activity at high temperatures over a period of time.

Novel nonlinear optical aminoaryl hydrazones and nonlinear optical polymers thereof

The present invention discloses oriented optical epoxy compositions comprising a reaction product of arylhydrazones with a monomer copolymerizable therewith and to oriented crosslinked polymeric composition comprising the reaction product of an epoxy arylhydrazone or the epoxy composition of the invention with a curing agent. The present invention also discloses processes for making the said compositions.

Nonlinear optical epoxy-containing compositions and crosslinked nonlinear optical polymeric composition therefrom

The present invention discloses novolacs and thermosets thereof containing mesogenic moieties. Certain of said novolacs and thermosets thereof exhibit nonlinear optical properties upon orientation.

Mark D. Newsham

Papers

Crosslinkable thermoplastic and crosslinked thermoset nonlinear optical polymeric compositions derived from aromatic dihydroxy compounds

Polybenzazole fiber with ultra-high physical properties

Novel nonlinear optical aminoaryl hydrazones and nonlinear optical polymers thereof

Nonlinear optical epoxy-containing compositions and crosslinked nonlinear optical polymeric composition therefrom

Mesogenic novolacs and resins