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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Kubo, Inagi, JP;
Kenji Yamada, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Igawa, Fujisawa, JP;
Yuto Ito, Koganei, JP;
Isao Kawata, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
As an example of an EC element in which vertical color separation is suppressed, the present disclosure provides an EC element including a pair of electrodes, a solvent, an anodic EC compound, and a cathodic EC compound. In the EC element, the difference between a solvation free energy of an oxidized form of the anodic EC compound in water and a solvation free energy of the oxidized form in octanol is 35 kcal/mol or more, and the cathodic EC compound has a substituent containing any one element selected from halogens, sulfur, boron, phosphorus, and silicon.