By using the liquid -phase-deposition (LPD) process, which has a potetnial of preparing organic inorganic composite materials, samples doped with benzo[f]quinoline (BfQ)into silica thia films wre prepared. We observed the fluorescene and fluorescene excitation spectra of the samples, as well as the fluorescence lifetimes and time-resoluved fluorescence spectra. The comparison of thefluorescence spectra in pH-controlled buffer solutions yields the results that the dominant species of BfQ in the LPD silica films is a protonated one. The fluorescence band assigned to a hydrogen-bonded species was observed on the samples prepared from the dipping solutions of 3 and 2 M hexafluorosilicic acid. The band assignment was confirmed by the fluorescence lifetime measurement. The FT-IR M hexaflurosilicic acid. The band assignment was confirmed by the flurescence lifetime meausurement. The FT-IR data proved the existence of included water in silica films prepared from the LPD process. The appearance of the band corresponding to the hydrogen-bonded species within LPD silica phases was explained by the proesence of included water. Depending on the preparation conditions of LPD silica films, the band assigned to protonated species shows bad shifts in a wavenumber region between the peak of hydrogen-bonded and typical protonated species. This implies that there is some distribution of steric conformation of protonated species of BfQ interacting with adsorbing sites of LPD silica. The time -resolved fluorescence spectra suggest that some relaxation process is involved in the conformation of BfQ doped into the solid phase of LPD silica.

Sensitized photolysis of two onium borates (diphenyliodoium and dimethylphenacylsulfonium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate, 1a and 2a , respectively) and cationic photopolymerization of an epoxy monomer by the photolysis were investigate. The onium borates were sensitized by the excited singlet of the athracenes(non-substituted, 9-methyl-and 9, 10-dimethylanthracene) and generated acid by decomposing teemselves. The quantum yields of photobleaching of the anthracenes($\Phi$-AH) and acid generatiion (øacid) by the onium borates were the same order as those of the corresponding onium salts in aerated solutions (methanol and acetoitrile) and in argon(Ar) saturated acetonitrile. However, in the photolysis of the iodonium borates 1a in Ar saturated MeOH , øacid was much higher than the corresponding ø-AH. The acid generated by the photolysis of the onium borates initiated cationic polymerization of an epoxy monomer. The values of both rate of polymerization (Rp) and degree of conversion on the photopolymerization for the iodonium borated 1a were higher than those of the sulfoium borate 2a. In the photopolymerization for the iodonium borate 1a, both the Rp value and the degree of conversinio increased upon the addition of glycerol as a hydrogen donor. It is suggested that the increase of both values may be caused with the increase of øacid by addition of glycerol.

Occurrence of an electron (or H atom equivalent to one electron plus H+) transfer from $\alpha$- tocopherol $\alpha$(TOH) to a number of photosensitizers in theri triplet states were investigated by monitoring the ESR signal of $\alpha$-chromaoxyl radical ($\alpha$(TO.) in ethanolic solutions of $\alpha$TOH and the sensitizers under continuous illumination. Every sensitizer molecule examined, such as protocholorophyllide (Pchl), hematoporphyrin and rose bengal which are generally regarded as efficient type II photosensitizers and thus have long-lived triplet states, was found to actively participate in an electro transfer reaction with $\alpha$TOH even under air-saturation conditions, generating $\alpha$TOH complex as an intermediate in a fashion of Michaelis-Menten type of reaction. For the reaction of $\alpha$TOH with triplet Pchl, the rate law was derived by applying the steady approximation for the binary complex, triplet Pchl-$\alpha$TOH , which turned out to be well consistent with the kinetic data.

Using differential display reverse transcription technique, the present study attempted to isolate and characterize genes specifically expressed in cotyledons of Pharbitis nil Choisy cv. Violet during floral induction. A total of 107 bands specific to the inductive condition were initially obtained with 80 primer sets of 20 different arbitrary primers combined with 4 kinds of T12MN. In northern blot analysis with reamplified cDNAs as probes, three cDNAs were detected to be expressed specificcally in the induced cotyledon tissues, and designated PnFL-1, PnFL-2 and PnFL-3 , the size of which were 228 bp, 317 bp and 272 bp, respectively. A search for sequences similar to the decuced amino acid sequences was conducted using GenBank and EMBL database ; seequence encoded by PnFL-1 had 29% identity with the clone of Arabidopsis thaliana similiar to reverse trascriptase (Genbank Acc. N0.3047086), PnFL-2 shared 50% identity with hydroxiyproline-rich glycoprotein of Glycine max(GenBank Acc. No.347455), and PnFL-3 had 46% identity with TAMU 4. Thaliana genomic clone T23E16 (GenBank Acc. No.B67574). None of them was known gene in the plant system up to date, implying that the fragments may comprise parts of genes which are associated with the floral induction in Pharbitis nil.

The current status of flat panel display (FPD) technologies is outlined, with emphasis on liquid crystal displays(LCDs). The principles of a number of LCDs are explained and compared with alternative technologies on the flat panel market. Recently annuounced LCDs, their structures, and their underlying technologies are summarized and compared.