Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy compound which is 2,2?,7,7?-tetraglycidyloxy-1,1?-binaphthalene. Also, the present invention provides a method for producing [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol, the method including a step of bringing a crude product produced by dimerization reaction of naphthalene-2,7-diol or a naphthalene-2,7-diol derivative into contact with an aromatic solvent; a step of separating [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol dissolved in the aromatic solvent from insoluble substances; and a step of removing the solvent from a solution of [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol. The present invention also provides a method for producing an epoxy compound, the method including reacting [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol or [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol monohydrate with epihalohydrin.

Abstract: An epoxy resin composition for electronic material, containing a polyfunctional biphenyl type epoxy resin that is a triglycidyloxybiphenyl or a tetraglycidyloxybiphenyl and at least one of a curing agent and a curing accelerator is provided. Furthermore, the epoxy resin composition for electronic material, further containing a filler, in particular, a thermal conductive filler, is provided. Furthermore, a cured product obtained by curing the epoxy resin composition for electronic material, and an electronic component containing the cured product are provided.

Abstract: A metal tin-carbon composite having excellent properties required for various use applications, a method for producing the composite at low cost and in a simple manner, and use applications of a non-aqueous lithium secondary battery produced using the composite are provided. A metal tin-carbon composite comprising metal tin nanoparticles (B) contained in a sheet-like matrix (A) composed of carbon, wherein the metal tin-carbon composite contains the metal tin nanoparticle (B) having a particle size of a range of 0.2 nm to 5 nm and does not contain a coarse metal tin particle having a particle size of 1 ?m or more, a preferable method for producing the composite using a specific precursor, an anode active material for a non-aqueous lithium secondary battery comprising the composite, a negative electrode for non-aqueous lithium secondary battery using the anode active material, and a non-aqueous lithium secondary battery.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a simple and efficient method for manufacturing ?-alumina particles, main component particles of which each have a crystal face other than the face [001] as a main crystal face and a polyhedral shape other than a hexagonal bipyramidal shape. According to the method for manufacturing ?-alumina particles of the present invention, when an aluminum compound is calcined in the presence of a specific content of a metal compound, ?-alumina particles each having a particle diameter of 50 ?m or less, a degree of ? crystallization of 90% or more, and a polyhedral shape can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin containing a biphenyl skeleton, a method for producing the epoxy resin, an epoxy resin composition containing a biphenyl skeleton, and a cured product thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to an epoxy resin being a compound having a 3,3?,5,5?-tetraglycidyloxy biphenyl skeleton, and to an epoxy resin composition containing the epoxy resin. The present invention also relates to a method for producing an epoxy resin including causing a compound having a 3,3?,5,5?-tetrahydroxy biphenyl skeleton to react with epihalohydrin, and to an epoxy resin obtained by the production method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition including aluminum oxide (A) containing molybdenum having a size on the order of ?m or less and a resin (B); and a resin molded body formed by molding the resin composition. Also, the present invention provides a heat-dissipating material containing the resin composition; and a heat-dissipating member containing the resin molded body. The heat-dissipating member of the present invention can be used for electronic parts such as electronic devices, electric devices, OA devices or for LED illumination.

Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy resin composition including 2,2?,7,7?-tetraglycidyloxy-1,1?-binaphthalene as an epoxy resin (A), and a filler (B). Further, the present invention provides an epoxy resin composition in which the filler (B) in the epoxy resin composition is a thermally conductive filler and an epoxy resin composition in which the filler (B) is silica. Further, the present invention provides a cured product produced by curing the epoxy resin composition of the present invention and a heat dissipation material and an electronic material each including the cured product.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a biphenyl-skeleton-containing epoxy resin represented by Formula (1) described below including a step of allowing polyvalent hydroxy biphenyl obtained by a production step including a regioselective cross-coupling reaction to react with epihalohydrin. (In the formula, k1 and l1 each represent an integer of 0 to 4, m and n each represent an integer of 1 to 5, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms which may have a substituent group, and R1 and R2 may be identical to each other or different from each other. (Provided that left and right phenyl structures of a biphenyl skeleton are different from each other.

Abstract: Provided are core-shell nanoparticles including a metal nanoparticle core and a shell layer composed of an oxide hybridized with a polyamine containing primary amino groups and/or secondary amino groups, core-shell metal nanoparticles prepared by removing the organic component from the shell layer and including a metal nanoparticle core and a shell layer based on silica, and simple and efficient methods for manufacturing such nanoparticles. Provided are a method for manufacturing a core-shell nanoparticle including performing a sol-gel reaction of an oxide source (C?) in the presence of a metal nanoparticle (A) having thereon a layer of a compound (B) containing a polyamine segment (b1) containing primary amino groups and/or secondary amino groups, a method for manufacturing a core-shell metal nanoparticle further including performing a sol-gel reaction of an organosilane to form a shell layer containing a polysilsesquioxane (D), and nanoparticles prepared by such methods.

Abstract: A metal tin-carbon composite having excellent properties required for various use applications, a method for producing the composite at low cost and in a simple manner, and use applications of a non-aqueous lithium secondary battery produced using the composite are provided. A metal tin-carbon composite comprising metal tin nanoparticles (B) contained in a sheet-like matrix (A) composed of carbon, wherein the metal tin-carbon composite contains the metal tin nanoparticle (B) having a particle size of a range of 0.2 nm to 5 nm and does not contain a coarse metal tin particle having a particle size of 1 ?m or more, a preferable method for producing the composite using a specific precursor, an anode active material for a non-aqueous lithium secondary battery comprising the composite, a negative electrode for non-aqueous lithium secondary battery using the anode active material, and a non-aqueous lithium secondary battery.

Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy compound which is 2,2?,7,7?-tetraglycidyloxy-1,1?-binaphthalene. Also, the present invention provides a method for producing [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol, the method including a step of bringing a crude product produced by dimerization reaction of naphthalene-2,7-diol or a naphthalene-2,7-diol derivative into contact with an aromatic solvent; a step of separating [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol dissolved in the aromatic solvent from insoluble substances; and a step of removing the solvent from a solution of [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol. The present invention also provides a method for producing an epoxy compound, the method including reacting [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol or [1,1?-binaphthalene]-2,2?,7,7?-tetraol monohydrate with epihalohydrin.

Abstract: A polymer modified pigment having a polymer (P-1) on the surface of a pigment (A), wherein the polymer (P-1) is obtained by copolymerizing a copolymer (B-1) of a polymerizable unsaturated monomer containing at least one polymerizable unsaturated group soluble in a non-aqueous solvent, and at least one kind of polymerizable unsaturated monomer (C), which is soluble in the non-aqueous solvent and either insoluble or poorly soluble following polymerization: and a polymer modified pigment having a polymer (P-2) on the surface of a pigment (A), wherein the polymer (P-2) is obtained by polymerizing at least one kind of polymerizable unsaturated monomer (C) soluble in the non-aqueous solvent and either insoluble or poorly soluble following polymerization, in the presence of an alkyd resin (B-2) soluble in a non-aqueous solvent.

Abstract: Provided are organic-inorganic hybrid silica nanoparticles having excellent monodispersity, an organic component (polymer) being introduced into a silica matrix, the whole of each particle being composed of a hybrid between the organic component and an inorganic component [silica], and the particle diameter being in the range of 5 to 100 nm; and a simple and efficient method for producing the silica nanoparticles. Organic-inorganic hybrid silica nanoparticles contain a copolymer (A) composed of an amorphous polyamine chain and a nonionic polymer chain, an acidic group-containing compound (B), and silica (C). A method for producing organic-inorganic hybrid silica nanoparticles includes the steps of allowing a copolymer (A) composed of an amorphous polyamine chain and a nonionic polymer chain to associate with an acidic group-containing compound (B) in a medium and then performing a sol-gel reaction of a silica source using the association product as a reaction field in the presence of water.

Abstract: A press machine includes a controller including a top-dead-center detector adapted to: rotate a main shaft in a predetermined direction selected from a normal rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction to place a slide at a first position displaced relative to a top dead center of the slide by a predetermined height; while outputting and counting pulses from an angle detector, rotate the main shaft in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction to move the slide to a second position located at the same height as the first position beyond the top dead center; and rotate the main shaft from the second position in the predetermined direction by an amount corresponding to a half of the counted pulses to detect the top dead center.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a monodisperse core-shell silica nanoparticle including a core layer based on a hydrophobic organic segment (a2) portion of a copolymer (A) containing an aliphatic polyamine chain (a1) containing primary amino groups and/or secondary amino groups and the hydrophobic organic segment (a2) and a shell layer composed of a hybrid based on the aliphatic polyamine chain (a1) portion and silica (B), and also relates to a method for manufacturing such a core-shell silica nanoparticle, a method for manufacturing a hollow silica nanoparticle from such a core-shell silica nanoparticle, and a hollow silica nanoparticle manufactured by this method of manufacture.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a simple and efficient method for manufacturing ?-alumina particles, main component particles of which each have a crystal face other than the face [001] as a main crystal face and a polyhedral shape other than a hexagonal bipyramidal shape. According to the method for manufacturing ?-alumina particles of the present invention, when an aluminum compound is calcined in the presence of a specific content of a metal compound, ?-alumina particles each having a particle diameter of 50 ?m or less, a degree of ? crystallization of 90% or more, and a polyhedral shape can be obtained.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a pigment composition which contains a polymer-treated pigment (D) containing an azo lake pigment (A) and an aqueous polymer (C) precipitated with a polyvalent metal salt (B) and also contains a polymer (F) obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable unsaturated monomer (E) in the presence of the polymer-treated pigment (D). The method includes: synthesizing an azo dye by coupling a coupler component with a diazo component obtained by diazotizing an aromatic amine; and preparing the polymer-treated pigment (D). The method also includes producing the polymer (F) by polymerizing the polymerizable unsaturated monomer (E) in the presence of the polymer-treated pigment (D) to coat the polymer-treated pigment (D) with the polymer (F).

Abstract: The composite pigment includes a pigment and a zinc oxide particle adhering to a surface of the pigment, and a recording liquid containing the composite pigment. Also, the composite pigment includes a polymer-coated pigment (D) and a zinc oxide particle adhering to a surface of the polymer-coated pigment. The polymer-coated pigment (D) includes a pigment (A) and a (co)polymer obtained either by mixing a (co)polymer (B) of a polymerizable unsaturated monomer with at least one polymerizable unsaturated monomer (C) that is soluble in a non-aqueous solvent and becomes either insoluble or slightly soluble after polymerization, or by copolymerizing a (co)polymer (B) of a polymerizable unsaturated monomer with at least one polymerizable unsaturated monomer (C) that is soluble in a non-aqueous solvent and becomes either insoluble or slightly soluble after polymerization, the (co)polymer being disposed on a surface of the pigment (A).

Abstract: A press machine includes a controller including a top-dead-center detector adapted to: rotate a main shaft in a predetermined direction selected from a normal rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction to place a slide at a first position displaced relative to a top dead center of the slide by a predetermined height; while outputting and counting pulses from an angle detector, rotate the main shaft in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction to move the slide to a second position located at the same height as the first position beyond the top dead center; and rotate the main shaft from the second position in the predetermined direction by an amount corresponding to a half of the counted pulses to detect the top dead center.

Abstract: A press machine includes a controller including a displacement calculator being adapted to calculate a slide displacement with a slide being kept at a waiting position displaced from a top dead center by an amount corresponding to a predetermined crank angle based on a measured value of a pre-adjustment die height provided for a height adjustment of the slide, a desired value of a post-adjustment die height, the crank angle, a distance between an upper surface of a bolster and a crank center of an eccentric portion, a crank radius of the eccentric portion, and a distance between a lower surface of the slide and a point center, thereby associating the slide displacement with a difference between the pre-adjustment die height and the post-adjustment die height.