Abstract: A loading system includes one or more adjusting mechanisms configured to adjust a position of the container held by the container holder, a controller configured to control operation of the one or more adjusting mechanisms, a transfer mechanism configured to move a loadable object into a holding space of the container with the container held by the container holder to transfer the loadable object to the container, and one or more position detectors. The one or more position detectors are located to detect a relative position of a loadable object when the loadable object is held by the transfer mechanism and is in the holding space.

Abstract: Provided are a high refractive index film including a high refractive index layer including a binder and flat metal particles, in which a value obtained by dividing an average particle diameter of the flat metal particles by an average thickness is 3 or more, a main plane of the flat metal particles is plane-oriented in a range of 0° to 30° with respect to a surface of the high refractive index layer, a volume fraction of the flat metal particles of the high refractive index layer is 20 volume % or more, and the flat metal particles are stacked in two or more layers, and an optical interference film using the high refractive index film.

Abstract: Provided are a metal dispersion liquid which includes tabular metal particles A having an average aspect ratio of greater than 20, which is a ratio of an average equivalent circle diameter to an average thickness, and an average equivalent circle diameter of 50 nm to 1000 nm, metal particles B having an average aspect ratio of 1 to 15 and an average equivalent circle diameter of 1 nm to 150 nm, and water, in which an average equivalent circle diameter A1 of the tabular metal particles A and an average equivalent circle diameter B1 of the metal particles B satisfy Expression (1), and a content a of the tabular metal particles A and a content b of the metal particles B with respect to a total mass of the metal dispersion liquid satisfy Expression (2); and an application thereof. A1>B1??Expression (1) 0.0001?b/(a+b)?0.

Abstract: Provided are a metal dispersion liquid which includes tabular metal particles A having an average aspect ratio of greater than 20, which is a ratio of an average equivalent circle diameter to an average thickness, and an average equivalent circle diameter of 50 nm to 1000 nm, metal particles B having an average aspect ratio of 1 to 15 and an average equivalent circle diameter of 1 nm to 150 nm, and water, in which an average equivalent circle diameter A1 of the tabular metal particles A and an average equivalent circle diameter B1 of the metal particles B satisfy Expression (1), and a content a of the tabular metal particles A and a content b of the metal particles B with respect to a total mass of the metal dispersion liquid satisfy Expression (2); and an application thereof. A1>B1 ??Expression (1) 0.0001?b/(a+b)?0.

Abstract: Provided are a metal dispersion liquid including tabular metal particles, a water-soluble resin which contains at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a carboxy group, an amino group, and a thiol group, a polycarboxylic acid having a partial structure which connects carbon atoms in two carboxy groups to each other and has four or more linearly bonded atoms, or a salt thereof, and water; and applications thereof.

Abstract: Provided are a heat ray-screening material and an interlayer for laminated glass and laminated glass which have the heat ray-screening material. A first embodiment of the heat ray-screening material has at least a metal flat plate particle-containing layer A containing metal flat plate particles a having an aspect ratio equal to or higher than 10 and equal to or lower than 20. A second embodiment of the heat ray-screening material has at least a metal flat plate particle-containing layer A containing metal flat plate particles a and a metal flat plate particle-containing layer B containing metal flat plate particles b, in which an absolute value of a difference between a maximum reflection wavelength of the metal flat plate particle-containing layer A and a maximum reflection wavelength of the metal flat plate particle-containing layer B is equal to or higher than 220 nm.

Abstract: A loading system includes one or more adjusting mechanisms configured to adjust a position of the container held by the container holder, a controller configured to control operation of the one or more adjusting mechanisms, a transfer mechanism configured to move a loadable object into a holding space of the container with the container held by the container holder to transfer the loadable object to the container, and one or more position detectors. The one or more position detectors are located to detect a relative position of a loadable object when the loadable object is held by the transfer mechanism and is in the holding space.

Abstract: Provided are a high refractive index film including a high refractive index layer including a binder and flat metal particles, in which a value obtained by dividing an average particle diameter of the flat metal particles by an average thickness is 3 or more, a main plane of the flat metal particles is plane-oriented in a range of 0° to 30° with respect to a surface of the high refractive index layer, a volume fraction of the flat metal particles of the high refractive index layer is 20 volume % or more, and the flat metal particles are stacked in two or more layers, and an optical interference film using the high refractive index film.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, provided are an ink composition which is used for recording an image using an ink jet method, including tabular metal particles having an average aspect ratio of 3 to 100, a first resin having an anionic moiety, a second resin having at least one cationic moiety selected from an amino group, an amido group, an imino group, a phosphonium group, a salt of the amino group, a salt of the amido group, a salt of the imino group, or a salt of the phosphonium group, and water, in which a content of the first resin is in a range of 0.

Abstract: Provided are an ink jet ink composition including tabular metal nanoparticles having an average aspect ratio of 3 or greater, which is a ratio of an average equivalent circle diameter to an average thickness, a silicon compound, and water; a recorded material; and an image recording method.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane, the gas separation membrane module, and the gas separation device include a first separation layer, and a second separation layer, the first separation layer has an Si/C ratio of 0.3 or less, the Si/C ratio being a ratio of the number of silicon atoms to the number of carbon atoms at the interface of the first separation layer on the second separation layer side, the second separation layer has a maximum value of an F/C ratio of 0.20 or more, the F/C ratio being a ratio of the number of fluorine atoms to the number of carbon atoms, and an Si/C ratio of 0.3 or less in a portion where the F/C ratio is maximum.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane includes a gas separation layer containing a polyimide compound, and the polyimide compound has a repeating unit represented by Formula (I). The gas separation module, the gas separation device, and the gas separation method are obtained by using the gas separation membrane, Ra represents a specific tetravalent group, Rb represents a trivalent group having a specific ring, Xa represents a specific substituent, and Xb represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. A polyimide compound represented by Formula (I-b) or (I-c), Ra represents a specific tetravalent group, Rc represents a specific divalent group, Aa, Ab, Ac, and Xb represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and Xc and Xd represent a specific substituent.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane, the gas separation membrane module, and the gas separation device include a first separation layer, and a second separation layer, the first separation layer has an Si/C ratio of 0.3 or less, the Si/C ratio being a ratio of the number of silicon atoms to the number of carbon atoms at the interface of the first separation layer on the second separation layer side, the second separation layer has a maximum value of an F/C ratio of 0.20 or more, the F/C ratio being a ratio of the number of fluorine atoms to the number of carbon atoms, and an Si/C ratio of 0.3 or less in a portion where the F/C ratio is maximum.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane includes a gas separation layer that contains the polyimide compound having the structural portion represented by Formula (1). A gas separation module includes the gas separation membrane, a gas separator includes the gas separation module, and a gas separation method is performed using the gas separation membrane. A1 and A2 represent a linking site, a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a carboxy group, a carbamoyl group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, a sulfo group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an arylsulfinyl group, an alkylsulfonyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a non-fluorinated alkyl group, or an aryl group. Here, at least one of A1 or A2 represents a linking site.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane includes a gas separation layer containing a polyimide compound and the polyimide compound has a repeating unit represented by Formula (I). In Formula (I), Rf1, Rf4, Rf5, and Rf8 each independently represent an alkyl group. Rf2, Rf3, Rf6, Rf7, and Rf9 to Rf16 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and at least one of Rf2, Rf3, Rf6, Rf7, and Rf9, . . . , or Rf16 represents a specific polar group. A represents a single bond or a divalent linking group having a specific structure. R represents a mother nucleus having a specific structure.

Abstract: The gas separation membrane includes a separation layer containing a silsesquioxane compound, and a protective layer, in which a composition of the separation layer in a thickness direction is uniform.

Abstract: Provided are a functional polymer membrane including: a surface layer; and an anion exchange membrane or a cation exchange membrane, in which the surface layer contains a polymer which includes a cross-linked structure having, in a cross-linking unit, an ionic group with a charge opposite to a charge of an ionic group included in at least one of the anion exchange membrane or the cation exchange membrane; a production method thereof, and a stack or a device provided with a polymer functional membrane.

Abstract: Provided is a functional polymer membrane including a porous support; and a resin layer and an auxiliary layer which are supported by the porous support, in which both of the resin layer and the auxiliary layer contain an ion exchange polymer having one of an anion exchange group and a cation exchange group, a charge of the ion exchange group of the ion exchange polymer included in the resin layer is opposite to a charge of the ion exchange group of the ion exchange polymer included in the auxiliary layer, and both of the ion exchange polymers respectively included in the resin layer and the auxiliary layer are polymers having a unit obtained from an acryloyl group which may have an alkyl group at the ?-position; a stack or a device provided with a functional polymer membrane; and a method of producing, a functional polymer membrane.