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The present invention provides a heat insulator that is extremely low in environmental load during production and recycling, is superior in handleability and workability, and shows favorable heat-insulating properties over an extended period of time. The present invention relates to vacuum heat insulator, comprising at least a core member and an external packaging member that stores the core member and can keep inside under reduced pressure, wherein the core member is a sheet-shaped fiber aggregate containing a polyester fiber having fiber size of 1 to 6 deniers in an amount of 50 wt % or more.

In an ink jet ink containing a pigment, a binder resin, water, an organic solvent, and a surfactant, the surface tension of the ink is in a region defined by γ0−γx≧1.0 (γ0: surface tension before evaporation, γx: surface tension at an evaporation rate X %) when the evaporation rate X of the ink is in a range of 0<X(%)≦20; the ink jet ink contains two or more organic solvents; and the content of an organic solvent of which the sum ΣSP of the hydrogen bonding term and the polarity term of the solubility parameter is 8 to 18 MPa1 / 2 is 30 mass % or more and less than 95 mass % of the total amount of the organic solvents; and the content of the surfactant is less than the critical micelle concentration of the surfactant.

A method of producing a biodiesel fuel oil, in which all fats or oils having an acid value of 20 or less can be used as a raw material, and in which no wastewater treatment is needed to thereby attain reduction of environmental load, and in which a biodiesel fuel oil conformable to quality standard levels can be obtained. The process for producing a biodiesel fuel comprises the steps of providing a fat or oil having an acid value of 20 or less as a raw material and heating the raw material oil in vacuum to thereby distill off any moistures, odorous substances and free fatty acids; bringing the raw material oil into contact with a hydrophilic adsorbent to thereby adsorb off any remaining free fatty acids and acidic substances; carrying out an ester exchange reaction in the presence of a potassium based alkali catalyst; and purifying light liquid components as a product of ester exchange reaction in accordance with a nonaqueous method.

An aqueous liquid composition contains a water-based medium containing water, a polymer having at least one type of groups selected from hydroxyl groups and amino groups, and phosphonobutanetricarboxylic acid. The aqueous liquid composition contains low-cost materials having low environmental load, can retain adequate viscosity even when stored over a long term, and can form a functional coating film having excellent adhesiveness to a base material and superb durability, solvent resistance and waterproofness and capable of exhibiting various functions led by electrical conductivity and hydrophilicity.

To provide a slurry for thermal spraying capable of forming a favorable sprayed coating. The present invention provides a slurry for thermal spraying including spray particles including at least one material selected from the group consisting of ceramics, inorganic compounds, cermets, and metals and a dispersion medium. Here, the spray particles have an average particle size of 0.01 μm or more and 10 μm or less and are contained in the slurry for thermal spraying at a proportion of 10% by mass or more and 70% by mass or less. In the slurry for thermal spraying, the spray particles have a zeta potential of −200 mV or more and 200 mV or less.

A glass composition satisfying the following conditions (A) to (L), the conditions are: (A) a content ratio of TeO2 is in a range from 50 to 95 mol %; (B) a content ratio of B2O3 is in a range from 1 to 33 mol %; (C) a content ratio of ZnO is in a range from 1 to 37 mol %; (D) a content ratio of Bi2O3 is in a range from 1 to 18 mol %; (E) a content ratio of P2O5 is in a range from 0 to 15 mol %; (F) a content ratio of R2O (where R represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, and K) is in a range from 0 to 13 mol %; (G) a content ratio of MO (where M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba) is in a range from 0 to 13 mol %; (H) a content ratio of TiO2 is in a range from 0 to 13 mol %; (I) a content ratio of Nb2O5 is in a range from 0 to 10 mol %; (J) a content ratio of Ta2O5 is in a range from 0 to 13 mol %; (K) a content ratio of L2O3 (where L represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium and lanthanoids) is in a range from 0 to 11 mol %; and (L) a content ratio of a total amount of P2O5, R2O, MO, TiO2, Nb2O5, Ta2O5, and L2O3 described in (E) to (K), respectively, is in a range from 0 to 15 mol %.

A liquid-ejecting head includes a pressure-generating chamber communicating with a nozzle opening, and a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element has piezoelectric layer contains a perovskite complex oxide containing Bi, La, Fe, and Mn and can undergo electric-field-induced phase transition.

There are provided a lead- and potassium-free piezoelectric material that has a high Curie temperature and a high mechanical quality factor and is stable in long-term driving and a piezoelectric element including the lead- and potassium-free piezoelectric material. A piezoelectric material containing a perovskite-type metal oxide having the general formula (1): NaxBa1-yNbyZr1-yO3 wherein x satisfies 0.85≦x≦0.96 and y satisfies 0.90≦y≦0.96 and a piezoelectric element including the piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material may include the perovskite-type metal oxide and Cu, and the Cu content corresponds to 2.00 mol % or less of the amount of the perovskite-type metal oxide.

This binder for battery electrodes is characterized by containing a polymer including: (A) a structural unit represented by general formula (1) and derived from a monomer having a hydroxyl group(in the formula, R1 is a hydrogen or a C1-C4 straight-chain or branched alkyl group, R2 and R3 are each a hydrogen or a C1-C4 straight-chained or branched alkyl group, and n is an integer of 2-30); (B) a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a difunctional carboxylic acid group, a nitrile group and a ketone group; and (C) a structural unit derived from a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate monomer having at most five functional groups.

The present invention comprises a liquid-crystalline polymer composition comprising a nanostructured hollow-carbon material and a liquid-crystalline polymer. The nanostructured hollow-carbon material may comprises particles, each particle of which is selected from the group consisting of a particle which is composed of a carbon part and a hollow part and has a structure that the hollow part is entirely enclosed by the carbon part; and a particle which is composed of a carbon part and a hollow part and has a structure that the hollow part is partly enclosed by the carbon part.

The invention provides a flame retardant resin composition containing a polyalkylene furan dicarboxylate represented by the following formula (1), an aromatic polycarbonate, a phosphazene compound represented by the following formula (2) and a fluorine-containing compound:wherein m and n1 are each an integer of 2 or more;wherein n2 is an integer of 2 or more, and R1 and R2 are each an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or an aryl group.

An object is to establish a technique for producing a resin composite material at low cost. A resin composition contains cellulose fibers, a fibrillation aid, and a resin.

The invention relates to a method for producing silyl enol ether compound (3) by reacting ketone or aldehyde compound (1) with allylsilane compound (2) in the presence of a base and 0.00001 to 0.5 equivalents of an acid catalyst relative to ketone or aldehyde compound (1).

A polyester resin composition and a product produced from the polyester resin composition are provided. The polyester resin composition is prepared from a material comprising 100 parts by mass of a resin compound containing 90 to 99.5% by mass of a biodegradable polyester resin and 10 to 0.5% by mass of a plasticizer, and 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of a peroxide. Further, 0.01 to 5 parts by mass of a crosslinking assist agent may be blended in the polyester resin composition. The biodegradable polyester resin preferably mainly contains a polylactic acid, and the crosslinking assist agent is preferably a (meth)acrylate compound.

A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet comprising, on a support, at least one image-receiving layer containing at least one polymer latex and comprising at least one heat-insulating layer between the receiving layer and the support, wherein at least one layer on the support is formed by water-base coating and at least one layer on the support contains a defoaming agent.

A piezoelectric element comprises a piezoelectric layer made of a perovskite compound containing sodium, potassium, lithium, niobium and tantalum and bismuth manganate and electrodes for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric layer.

A hydrogen gas detecting material, which changes in light absorption characteristics when exposed to an atmosphere containing hydrogen, and the coating method are characterized in that (1) the principal component of the hydrogen gas detecting material is tungsten oxide, (2) palladium is deposited on the surface of the tungsten oxide, (3) the tungsten oxide is coated on a substrate by a sputtering method involving a controlled oxygen pressure, and (4) the temperature of the substrate during coating with the tungsten oxide is room temperature (20° C.).

A flame retardant resin composition including: a thermoplastic resin; and a flame retardant, wherein the flame retardant includes a phosphorylated lignin derivative, and wherein the phosphorylated lignin derivative is produced by adding phosphoric acid to a lignin derivative obtained by subjecting a naturally occurring lignin to a predetermined treatment.

The invention provides a plastic eraser comprising a vinyl chloride resin as a base resin and a combination of 4,5-epoxy-1,2-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid bis(2-ethylhexyl) and diethylene glycol dibenzoate as plasticizers, wherein the plastic eraser comprises the base resin in an amount of 25-60% by weight, and the combination of plasticizers in an amount of 30-60% by weight, and wherein the proportion of the diethylene glycol dibenzoate in the combination of plasticizers is 5-60% by weight, and wherein the plastic eraser has a hardness in the range of 55-75, and a gel hardness in the range of 3.0-6.0 kgf.

A method for manufacturing a recycled polycarbonate raw material for a flame retardant resin composition from discarded and / or recovered optical discs using a polycarbonate resin as a substrate material, and includes (a) a step to identify if 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane as a divalent phenol of the polycarbonate resin raw material is polymerized as the sole raw material in the polycarbonate resin as the substrate material of the discarded and / or recovered optical discs and (b) a step to remove impurities by a chemical treatment by separating only the discarded and / or recovered optical discs, wherein the polycarbonate resin is identified as polymerized by using 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane as the sole raw material. Accordingly, used optical discs using a PC resin as a substrate material and discarded optical discs as substandard articles in a manufacturing step can be reused as a raw material for a flame retardant polycarbonate resin composition by treating with a method at low cost and a low environmental load.

A mounting structure 1 in which an electronic component 5 is surface-mounted with solder 4 to a wiring substrate 2 is disclosed. The solder is Sn—Ag—Bi—In-based solder containing 0.1% by weight or more and 5% by weight or less of Bi, and more than 3% by weight and less than 9% by weight of In, with the balance being made up of Sn, Ag and unavoidable impurities. The wiring substrate has a coefficient of linear expansion of 13 ppm / K or less in all directions. Thus, it is possible to realize a mounting structure using lead-free solder and for which the occurrence of cracks in a solder joint portion due to a 1000-cycle thermal shock test from −40 to 150° C. has been suppressed.

A cellulose resin formed by substituting hydrogen atoms of hydroxy groups of a cellulose with a long-chain component being a linear saturated aliphatic acyl group having 14 or more carbon atoms and a short-chain component being an acyl group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, in which a degree of substitution with the long-chain component (DSLo) and a degree of substitution with the short-chain component (DSSh) satisfy conditional expressions (1) and (2) shown below:DSLo+DSSh≥2.1  (1)4≤DSSh / DSLo≤12  (2).

There is provided a lead- and potassium-free piezoelectric material having a high piezoelectric constant and a satisfactory insulation property and a piezoelectric element that includes the piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material contains a perovskite-type metal oxide having the general formula (1): (NaxBa1-y) (NbyTi1-y)O3 (wherein x satisfies 0.80≦x≦0.95, and y satisfies 0.85≦y≦0.95) and Zn, wherein the Zn content corresponds to more than 0 mol % and 5 mol % or less of the amount of perovskite-type metal oxide. The piezoelectric element includes the piezoelectric material.

Provided is a method for producing fine particles in which fine particles having a uniform particle size distribution can be simply obtained with a low environmental load. The present invention relates to a method for producing fine particles including the step of preparing minute pieces by cutting a resin film at equal intervals into a width of 0.05 to 500 μm.

A control system of a NOx removal device is provided with reagent introducing means for introducing a reagent into a fluid, a temperature measuring device that measures a temperature distribution of the fluid, a reagent-concentration calculating portion that calculates a concentration distribution of the reagent introduced into the fluid with the temperature distribution determined at the temperature measuring device, a reagent-flow-rate determining portion that determines a flow rate of the reagent that the reagent introducing means introduces in accordance with the concentration distribution calculated at the reagent-concentration calculating portion, and a reagent-introducing-means control portion that controls the reagent introducing means so as to introduce the reagent into the fluid at the flow rate determined at the reagent-flow-rate determining portion.

The method for nickel concentration processing, which is low cost, simple and convenient, as well as having low environmental load, which is capable of enhancing nickel content of a saprolite ore with low nickel content, which was not conventionally used effectively as a raw material of ferronickel smelting due to having low nickel content, to a level to be utilized economically as a raw material of ferronickel smelting.The method is characterized by including the steps of the following (1) to (4).(1) a saprolite ore is subjected to crushing processing to adjust the ore particle size to a size passing a sieve with an mesh opening of 50 mm.(2) a crushed ore is subjected to dry-type grinding processing of the surface layer part by attrition.(3) a ground ore is subjected to dry-type classification processing at a classification point to be selected from 0.5 to 2.0 mm, and then an ore portion having a particle size of equal to or smaller than the classification point is recovered as a nickel concentrate.(4) an ore portion having a particle size over the classification point is subjected to dry-type gravity separation processing, and then an ore portion, having a specific gravity of equal to or smaller than 2.0, is recovered as a nickel concentrate.

A multilayer sheet includes at least three layers, including a layer A as at least one outermost layer and a layer B as an inner layer, in which the layer A includes a polylactic acid and a polybutylene succinate-based resin, wherein the polylactic acid is contained in an amount of 60% mass to 97.5% mass with all components of the layer A as 100% mass % (mass percentage of the polylactic acid with all components of the layer A as 100 mass % is “Pa”), and a rate Xa of thickness of the layer A is 10 to 40% with entire thickness of the multilayer sheet as 100%; the layer B comprises a polylactic acid and a polybutylene succinate-based resin, wherein the polylactic acid is contained in an amount of 90 mass % to less than 100 mass % (mass percentage of the polylactic acid with all components of the layer B as 100 mass % is “Pb”); and plane orientation degree (ΔP) is 0 to 0.002.

A compound represented by Formula (1): each of L1 and L2 independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, NH2, NHR3, NR3R4, an ester group, a carboxy group, an amide group, a cyano group, a nitro group, a halogen atom, an acyl group, CF3, O(CH2)1OCH3, a carbamate group, or an aryl group. 1 represents 1 or 2. Each of R1 and R2 independently represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, at least one hydrogen atom of the divalent hydrocarbon group is optionally substituted with an alkyl group, an aryl group, an ester group, a carboxy group, an amide group, a cyano group, a nitro group, a halogen atom, an acyl group, CF3, O(CH2)1OCH3, a carbamate group, or an alkoxy group, each of R3 and R4 independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group, an ester group, an alkylsulfonyl group, or an arylsulfonyl group, each of R5 and R6 independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group, and n+m≥1.

The performance of a bipolar type metal air battery is improved while a low environmental load is maintained. The bipolar type metal air battery includes a plurality of cells including air electrodes composed of a co-continuous component having a 3D network structure in which a plurality of nanostructures are integrated by non-covalent bonds, negative electrodes, and an electrolyte disposed between the air electrode and the negative electrode, and a current collector disposed between the plurality of cells, and the plurality of cells are electrically connected in series, and the current collector is in close contact with the negative electrode using a biodegradable material.