Molecular Displays, Inc.

Hyperion Catalysis Int'l Inc.

Nicholas Leventis

Young C Chung

David Moy

Howard G Tennent

Robert W Hausslein

Mark S Wrighton

A method of making randomly oriented carbons fibrils having a cylindrical constant diameter with c-axes perpendicular to their cylindrical axis, which are free of pyrolytically deposited carbon, with a diameter of between 3.5 and 70 nanometers, by dispersing carbon fibrils in a medium and separating them from the medium, by filtration or evaporation to form a porous mat or sheet.

Methods of preparing three-dimensional, macroscopic assemblages of

Electrochromic device having electrode surface confined complementary polymer electrochromic materials, and materials, systems and methods of fabrication therefore. The electrochromic devices employ a polypyrrole-prussian blue composite material on the oxiatively coloring electrode, and a heteroaromatic substance containing at least one quaternized nitrogen atom group on the reductively coloring electrode. A bilayer material consisting substantially of metallic oxide which is conductive in at least one of its redox states and electroplated with a polymer is also disclosed for use as an electrochromic material on either the oxidatively colored or reductively colored electrodes. A method for electrodeposition of viologen polymers at a substantially neutral pH is also disclosed. A method for self-powering and self-modulating electrochromic devices by means of photovoltaic cells is also disclosed.

Complementary surface confined polmer electrochromic materials, systems,

It has now been found that highly advantageous three-dimensional, macroscopic assemblages of randomly oriented carbon fibrils can be prepared which have relatively uniform physical properties along one, preferably two and most desirably three-dimensional axis of the three-dimensional assemblage. Preferred compositions prepared according to the methods of the invention have uniform physical properties along at least one dimensional axis and have relatively isotropic physical properties in at least one plane of the assemblage and most desirably are isotropic throughout the entire three-dimensional structure.

Three dimensional macroscopic assemblages of randomly oriented carbon

Complementary surface confined polymer electrochromic materials,

A display having an array of matrix addressable pairs of electrodes mounted face up on the same substrate. The pairs of electrodes are derivatized with either electrochromic materials or electroluminescent material to form the pixels of the display. In the electrochromic embodiment of the invention, a layer of a solid polymer electrolyte is included. The air of electrodes may also be left clean of derivatizing material, but with an electroluminescent substance dissolved in the solid polymer electrolyte. An electrochemiluminescent embodiment is also provided where the electrochemiluminescent substance can be dissolved in the solid polymer electrolyte. A method of patterning the electrolyte layer to form relatively nonconductive borders around each of the pairs by selective exposure of the electrolyte layer in the region of the border to electromagnetic radiation to cause permanent change in the chemical composition of the electrolyte so that the exposed border regions are rendered relatively non-conductive is also provided. An electrically reconfigurable photomask having an area comprised of an arrangement of electrochromic covered electrode pairs constituting pixels, the opacity and transmissivity of which may be controlled by application of an electrical bias to yield complete control over the transmissivity and opacity of each pixel of the areas, is also provided.

Electrochromic, electroluminescent and electrochemiluminescent displays

The disclosure relates, inter alia, to a composition and, a method of making the composition. The composition comprises an electrically conductive polymer having a porous structure and a compound formed in situ and coating at least a portion of the surfaces of said polymer. The method of making the composition comprises forming an electrically conductive polymer having a porous structure, contacting the surfaces of the polymer with a solution comprising chemical species capable of being electrochemically formed into a coating material on the surfaces of said structure and electrochemically forming the coating material on the surfaces of the structure.

Electrically conductive polymer composition, method of making same and

A display having an array of matrix addressable pairs of electrodes mounted face up on the same substrate. The pairs of electrodes are derivatized with either electrochromic materials or electroluminescent material to form the pixels of the display. In the electrochromic embodiment of the invention, a layer of a solid polymer electrolyte is included. The air of electrodes may also be left clean of derivatizing material, but with an electroluminescent substance dissolved in the solid polymer electrolyte. An electrochemiluminescent embodiment is also provided where the electrochemiluminescent substance can be dissolved in the solid polymer electrolyte. A method of patterning the electrolyte layer to form relatively non-conductive borders around each of the pairs by selective exposure of the electrolyte layer in the region of the border to electromagnetic radiation to cause permanent change in the chemical composition of the electrolyte so that the exposed border regions are rendered relatively non-conductive is also provided. An electrically reconfigurable photomask having an area comprised of an arrangement of electrochromic covered electrode pairs constituting pixels, the opacity and transmissivity of which may be controlled by application of an electrical bias to yield complete control over the transmissivity and opacity of each pixel of the areas, is also provided.

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Nicholas Leventis