569 results about "Crystalline particle" patented technology

In a process for producing an oriented inorganic crystalline film, a non-monocrystalline film containing inorganic crystalline particles is formed on a substrate by a liquid phase technique using a raw-material solution which contains a raw material and an organic solvent, where the inorganic crystalline particles have a layered crystal structure and are contained in the raw material. Then, the non-monocrystalline film is crystallized by heating the non-monocrystalline film to a temperature equal to or higher than the crystallization temperature of the non-monocrystalline film so that part of the inorganic crystalline particles act as crystal nuclei.

The present invention provides a high-capacity and low-cost non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising: a negative electrode containing, as a negative electrode active material, a ssubstance capable of absorbing/desorbing lithium ions and/or metal lithium; a separator; a positive electrode; and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode active material contained in the positive electrode is composed of crystalline particles of an oxide containing two kinds of transition metal elements, the crystalline particles having a layered crystal structure, and oxygen atoms constituting the oxide forming a cubic closest packing structure.

The present invention relates to a process for producing a spherical particle comprising an aggregate of particles containing at least 95% of a water-soluble single substance having a viscosity of 10 mPa.s or less as determined in the form of a saturated aqueous solution, the process comprising: preparing moist spherical particles of the single substance by charging, as cores, crystalline particles or granulated particles of the single substance on a rotary disc in a processing vessel of a centrifugal tumbling granulating apparatus, wherein the granulated particles are prepared by granulating a powder of the single substance, and dispersing over the cores a powder of the single substance and simultaneously spraying on the cores a liquid such as water or the like while supplying slit air to provide a fluidized condition; and then fixation treating the moist spherical particles by drying them while spraying an aqueous solution of the single substance or the like on the spherical particles in a fluidized bed apparatus; to the spherical particle produced by the process; and to a pharmaceutical preparation and a food containing the spherical particle.

A drug delivery balloon (10) has a drug thereon in the form of crystalline particles (12), the drug having a predetermined size distribution. Optionally marker particles (14, 16) are also provided. A texturized coating (18), a cap layer (20) and/or other methods may be used to increase particle loading capacity of the balloon.

A sintered porous metal body, which has a sintered structure having a volumetric porosity of 10 to 90%, wherein there are at least one powder particles selected from the group consisting of dielectric material powders and semiconductor material powders that absorb energy of electromagnetic wave having a frequency of 300 MHz to 300 GHz among the metal crystalline particles constituting the sintered body, wherein the particles are substantially homogeneously dispersed in the sintered body, and wherein the metal particles are sintered to bond each other to be united to constitute pores. The invention discloses a method of manufacturing the sintered porous metal body.

Disclosed are a cerium oxide abrasive for selectively polishing various SiO₂ films and SiO₂—Si₃N₄ films; and a slurry containing the same. The cerium oxide abrasive and the polishing slurry of the present invention have a high polishing rate and are also free from microscratches in a polished surface upon polishing since polycrystalline cerium oxide having a mean crystalline particle size of 5 nm or less is synthesized by using hexagonal cerium carbonate having a hexagonal crystal structure as a raw material of cerium.

Inhalation particles incorporating, in an individual particle, a combination of a βhd 2-agonist and a glucocorticosteroid in a predetermined and constant ratio, a process for the preparation thereof and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the inhalation particles. The particles have a narrow particle size distribution and are preferably in the form of spherical crystalline particles with a rough surface. The particles are particularly useful in the treatment of asthma and other respiratory disorders.

Column packing materials useful in applications such as liquid chromatography, as well as a process for producing such a packing material are described. A first aspect of the invention concerns a column packing material composed of a spherical substrate having a coating of a calcium phosphate based compound on the surface thereof. A second aspect of the invention concerns a packing material comprising porous calcium phosphate based granules having open pores with an average pore size of from 0.01 to 20 .mu.m, said granules being composed of crystalline particles with an average size of from 0.1 to 10 .mu.m. A third aspect of the invention concerns a spherical packing material for liquid chromatography comprising spherical particles of at least one material selected from the group consisting of Ca.sub.10 (PO.sub.4).sub.6 (OH).sub.2, Ca.sub.3 (PO.sub.4).sub.2, Ca.sub.2 P.sub.2 O.sub.7, Ca(PO.sub.3).sub.2, Ca.sub.10 (PO.sub.4).sub.6 F.sub.2 and Ca.sub.10 (PO.sub.4).sub.6 Cl.sub.2, said packing material having a dense structure with a porosity of no more than 5%. A fourth aspect of the invention concerns a packing for liquid chromatography comprising particles having at least on the surface thereof a fluoroapatite represented by formula (I): wherein x is a number of from about 0.1 to 1.

A rotating electrical machine comprises a stator and a rotor; the stator comprising a stator core having teeth and slots, and stator windings disposed in the slots, wherein the stator core is made of laminated steel sheets, teeth and slots of the steel sheet are made by etching, and the thickness of the steel sheet is between 0.05 mm and 0.30 mm. Specifically, it is preferable that the steel sheet used herein be a silicon steel sheet containing crystalline particles.

A semiconductor memory device comprises a field effect transistor including a source/drain region, an interlayer insulation film burying the field effect transistor, a ferroelectric capacitor including a lower electrode, a ferroelectric film and an upper electrode, the lower electrode with a concave-convex surface, and a plug electrically connecting between the source/drain region and the ferroelectric capacitor. A height and a size in an in-place direction of each convex portion in the concave-convex surface is 1 to 50 nm. The ferroelectric film includes a lower ferroelectric film with a predetermined height from the lower electrode and an upper ferroelectric film formed on the lower ferroelectric film as being formed from the same material as the lower ferroelectric film. The lower ferroelectric film includes a part of which at least one of composition, crystallizing orientation and size of a crystalline particle being different from a crystalline particle in the upper ferroelectric film.

The invention discloses a preparation method of compact silicon carbide ceramic, which is characterized in that the compact accumulation among silicon carbide crystalline particles is realized so as to obtain a polycrystalline block ceramic with high compactness by using decomposition and chemical combination reactions generated by pure silicon carbide or a material source of silicon carbide at the temperature of 2,250-2,500DEG C, wherein the material source of silicon carbide is generated by a chemical combination reaction, adopting a high-temperature physical gaseous phase transmission technology and controlling the gaseous phase recrystallizing and arraying accumulation process. For the compact silicon carbide ceramic prepared by the method, crystals are directly bonded by pure silicon carbide interfaces, silicon carbide crystalline particles are directionally arrayed and compactly accumulated according to the preferred orientation of crystals and the volume density of the ceramic can approach to the theoretical density.

There is disclosed a piezoelectric/electrostrictive film type device 1 provided with: a thin substrate 2 made of a ceramic; and a piezoelectric/electrostrictive operating portion 5 disposed on the substrate 2 and constituted by successively laminating a lower electrode film 3a, a piezoelectric/electrostrictive film 4 containing a large number of crystal particles constituted of a piezoelectric/electrostrictive composition, and an upper electrode film 3b. The piezoelectric/electrostrictive composition contains one or more alkali metal elements selected from the group consisting of lithium (Li), potassium (K), and sodium (Na), and one or more metal elements selected from the group consisting of niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), antimony (Sb), and silver (Ag) (however, surely containing niobium (Nb), and circle equivalent diameters of 90% or more of the large number of crystal particles are in a range of 0.3 to 50 μm. It is possible to exhibit a superior piezoelectric/electrostrictive characteristic without containing lead (Pb) and obtain an especially large displacement.

The invention provides a surface-modified zirconia nanocrystal particle, wherein the surface of the zirconia nanoparticle is modified by organic sulfonyloxy groups, and a method of producing a zirconia nanocrystal particle whose surface is modified by carbonyloxy groups, organic phosphoryloxy groups or aryloxy groups. This makes it possible a highly stable surface-modified zirconia nanocrystal particle having a solvent dispersibility by a simple method. Further, it is possible to the surface-modified zirconia nanocrystal particle of the invention is equipped with a surface modifier having a structure that can be easily substituted with a desired functional group according to use. Furthermore, it is possible to the method of producing the surface-modified zirconia nanocrystal particle which is capable of easily producing that.

The invention discloses a method for using blast furnace slag to produce a micro-crystalline light brick. The light brick uses the blast furnace slag as main raw material. The method for using the blast furnace slag to produce the micro-crystalline light brick includes that tempering and clearing the blast furnace slag to obtain slag with qualified ingredients, feeding to a water quenching pool to form micro-crystalline particles through water quenching, grinding and sieving the micro-crystalline particles to obtain micro-crystalline particles with proper granularity, uniformly mixing with foaming agent, putting the mixture in a casting mould, and sintering to form the micro-crystalline light brick with uniform air bubbles and stable ingredients. Compared with the traditional clay brick, the micro-crystalline light brick has lower density and higher intensity, so that the micro-crystalline light brick has better bearing ability, and moreover, the micro-crystalline light brick has good heat preservation effect and sound insulation effect due to the uniform air hole structure, so that the micro-crystalline light brick can replace the clay brick or ordinary light brick in a certain degree to serve as novel building material.

A magnetic core for use in a saturable reactor made of an Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy comprising as essential alloying elements Fe, Cu and M, wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, W, Ta, Zr, Hf, Ti and Mo, and having an alloy structure at least 50% in area ratio of which being fine crystalline particles having an average particle size of 100 nm or less. The magnetic core has control magnetizing properties of a residual operating magnetic flux density DELTABb of 0.12 T or less, a total control operating magnetic flux density DELTABr of 2.0 T or more, and a total control gain Gr of 0.10-0.20 T/(A/m) calculated by the equation: Gr=0.8x(DELTABr-DELTABb)/Hr, wherein Hr is a total control magnetizing force defined as a control magnetizing force corresponding to 0.8x(DELTABr-DELTABb)+DELTABb.

Disclosed is a thin film transistor which includes, over a substrate having an insulating surface, a gate insulating layer covering a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer which functions as a channel formation region; and a semiconductor layer including an impurity element imparting one conductivity type. The semiconductor layer exists in a state that a plurality of crystalline particles is dispersed in an amorphous silicon and that the crystalline particles have an inverted conical or inverted pyramidal shape. The crystalline particles grow approximately radially in a direction in which the semiconductor layer is deposited. Vertexes of the inverted conical or inverted pyramidal crystal particles are located apart from an interface between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer.