Electroactive polymeric arylenes and intermediates useful for making such polymers are disclosed. The present invention also provides electroactive compositions comprising the electroactive polymeric arylenes, organic electronic devices which comprise these polymers and compositions, and methods of fabricating these devices.

The invention relates to polysaccharide graft polymers useful for incorporation as benefit agents in laundry detergent and fabric treatment compositions, and their preparation. The invention also relates to substituted polysaccharides useful as macroinitiator intermediates for the preparation of the polysaccharide graft polymers, and the preparation of the macroinitiators. The polysaccharide graft polymers may be used, for example, to impart soil release and/or fabric care benefits to laundry de...

A pharmaceutical composition consisting of identical repeating units, each unit having a charge motif composed of a positively charged free amino moiety and a negatively charged moiety, wherein the positively charged free amino moiety and the negatively charged moiety of each charge motif are separated by at least one neutral amino acid, and wherein the positively charged free amino moiety of one of the charge motifs is separated by a distance of at least 8 amino acids from the positively charge...

The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention also relates to devices including an electroactive polymer to convert between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention further relates to compliant electrodes that confo...

The present invention is drawn to a series of highly branched, essentially saturated, liquid oil phases having primary alcohol groups, and a method of treating skin. The polymers of the present invention are high molecular weight oil phases which provide outstanding lubrication and conditioning to skin.

Methods and products for inducing IL-2 secretion, inducing IL-10 secretion, activating T cells, suppressing IgG antibody response to specific antigen, promoting allograft survival, reducing postoperative surgical adhesion formation, and protecting against abscess formation associated with surgery, trauma or diseases that predispose the host to abscess formation are provided. The methods of the invention are accomplished using an immunomodulator which is a polymer having at least two repeating ch...

Alicyclic nortricyclene polymers and co-polymers suitable for deep ultraviolet microlithography applications.

The present invention relates to a class of luminescent and conductive polymer compositions having chromophores, and particularly solid films of these compositions exhibiting increased luminescent lifetimes, quantum yields and amplified emissions. These desirable properties can be provided through polymers having rigid groups designed to prevent polymer reorganization, aggregation or .pi.-stacking upon solidification. These polymers can also display an unusually high stability with respect to so...

This invention relates to an organic semiconductor device comprising a substrate bearing an organic layer sandwiched between electrode structures wherein the organic layer comprises a polymer of general Formula (I): wherein X is selected from H, CN, F, Cl, Br, COOCH.sub.3. Y is given by the following general Formula (II): wherein A is a phenyl group which may be further substituted in 1 or 2 or 3 positions with groups independently selected from C.sub.1-8 alkyl, CN, F, Cl; B and C are both pheny...

The invention relates to novel crosslinkable copolymers of formula ##STR1## wherein the variables are as defined in the claims. The copolymers of the invention are especially useful for the manufacture of biomedical moldings, for example ophthalmic moldings such as in particular contact lenses.