Nissan Chemical Industries Limited

Kyushu University

Nissan Chemical Corporation

University of Fukui

Keisuke Odoi

Akihiro Tanaka

Masaaki Ozawa

Keizo Tanikawa

Yoshimasa Kamikawaji

Yukinori Masuda

Tsutomu Higashiyama

Hideo Nagashima

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Masayuki Haraguchi

Masayuki Sato

Keisuke Kojima

Kei Yasui

Toshihiko Nagamura

Takashi Sue

Shiyoshi Yokoyama

Osamu Uesugi

Keiji Tanaka

Noboru Koga

Satoru Karasawa

Osamu Hirata

Hiroyuki Hayashi

Katsuhiko Fujita

Hisashi Ichikawa

Takeshi Sakano

Hironori Atarashi

Kei-ichi Akabori

Naoki Shimada

Nobuo Ogata

A complex that includes a metal fine particle dispersant including a branched polymer compound having an ammonium group and having a weight average molecular weight of 500 to 5,000,000; and a metal fine particle, wherein the metal fine particle includes platinum (Pt) or palladium (Pd), the metal fine particle dispersant includes a branched polymer compound of Formula (1): 

Metal fine particle dispersant containing branched polymer compound having ammonium group

There is provided an optical waveguide which has appropriate orientation properties, a production process of which is simple so as to be suitable for producing an electro-optical element, and is able to reduce power consumption of the element due to excellent electro-optical properties, and further can be formed into a thin film and be layered; and a material for the optical waveguide. A cladding material of an optical waveguide, characterized by comprising a polymer compound including a triarylamine structure, and a nonlinear optical compound; and an optical waveguide produced by using the cladding material.

High refractive index cladding material and electro-optical polymer optical waveguide

There is provided a novel production method of a chlorinated hyperbranched polymer that is optically stable and is capable of derivatizing the chlorinated hyperbranched polymer into various compounds. A production method of a chlorinated hyperbranched polymer for producing a chlorinated hyperbranched polymer of Formula (1): {where X is a chlorine atom; Ris a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and Ais a phenylene-alkylene group, n is the number of repeating unit structures and is an integer of 2 to 100,000}, comprising the step of substituting a dithiocarbamate group of a hyperbranched polymer of Formula (3): (where R, A, and n are the same as defined in Formula (1); and each of Rand Ris a Calkyl group, a Chydroxyalkyl group, or a Carylalkyl group, or Rand Roptionally form a ring together with a nitrogen atom bonded to Rand R) with a chlorine atom using sulfuryl chloride.

Method for producing chlorinated hyperbranched polymer

The present invention relates to a process for producing a polymer structure comprising: mixing and unifying a matrix polymer made of a linear polymer and a highly-branched polymer having hydrophilic functional groups at molecular ends and to form a structure containing the matrix polymer and the highly-branched polymer; and subjecting the obtained structure to either immersion in water and/or a hydrophilic solvent or exposure to an atmosphere of vapor of water and/or a hydrophilic solvent at a temperature ranging from a temperature lower than Tg of the matrix polymer by 30&#xb0; C. to decomposition temperature of the matrix polymer; wherein the hydrophilic functional groups at the molecular ends of the highly-branched polymer are distributed in outermost surface of the polymer structure at an enhanced density. The present invention also relates to a process for producing a polymer structure in which vinyl polymer chains are grafted to at least a part of the hydrophilic functional groups.

Process for production of surface-modified polymer structures

There is provided a switching element including two electrodes and an organic bistable material sandwiched between the electrodes, which is expected to be applied to an organic memory element or the like. A switching element which includes: two electrodes; and an organic thin film containing a metal fine particle and interposed between the electrodes, and which exhibits such a current bistability that the switching element has two stable resistance values in response to a voltage applied, the switching element characterized in that the metal fine particle is dispersed in the organic thin film with a metal fine particle-dispersing agent containing a polymer having a dithiocarbamate group and having a weight average molecular weight of 500 to 5,000,000.

Organic switching element and method for producing the same

The present invention relates to an electrochromic polymer compound composed of a hyperbranched polymer having electrochromic characteristics derived from a quaternary pyridinium salt, a terephthalic acid diester or a biphenyl-4,4'-diester structure, and a varnish, a thin film structure and an electrochromic device that are obtained by the polymer compound. The electrochromic material has high response speed, high coloring efficiency, and excellent repetition stability and can be used for a long time, and has excellent solubility in various solvents.

Electrochromic material

There is provided a metal fine particle dispersant containing a branched polymer compound having an ammonium group. The metal fine particle dispersant of the present invention comprises a branched polymer compound having an ammonium group and having a weight average molecular weight of 500 to 5,000,000. The metal fine particle dispersant has the structure of Formula (1): The present invention also relates to a composition comprising the metal fine particle dispersant and a metal fine particle.

There is provided a hyperbranched polymer having a nitroxyl group. A hyperbranched polymer comprising at least one organic radical structure (nitroxyl group) of Formula (1), Formula (2) or Formula (3): and having a weight average molecular weight measured by gel permeation chromatography in a converted molecular weight as polystyrene of 500 to 5,000,000.

Hyperbranched polymer having nitroxyl group

Pyrazole compounds of formula �1! and their tautomers and salts: ##STR1## (wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl group, etc.; R.sup.2 is a carboxyl group, etc.; R.sup.3 is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, a phenyl group, etc.; R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each are a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, etc.; R.sup.7 is a carboxyl group, a 5-tetrazolyl group, etc.; X is a nitrogen atom, etc.; Y and Z each are CH, a nitrogen atom, etc.; A and E each are a methylene group, etc.; D is a phenyl group, etc.; G is a covalent bond, etc.). The compounds of the invention have an antagonistic effect against angiotensin II and are useful for prevention and remedy of hypertension, congestive cardiac insufficiency, chronic renal insufficiency, aldosteronism, hyper-intraocular pressure, etc.

Pyrazole derivatives

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