Abstract: A titanium oxide photocatalyst that is capable of improving a decomposition rate, and a method for producing the same are provided. The titanium oxide photocatalyst of the present invention is a titanium oxide photocatalyst containing at least an anatase-type titanium oxide and fluorine, wherein a content of the fluorine is 2.5 wt % to 3.5 wt %, and 90 wt % or more of the fluorine is chemically bonded to the anatase-type titanium oxide.

Abstract: The invention is to provide a process for industrially advantageously producing InP fine particles having a nano-meter size efficiently in a short period of time and an InP fine particle dispersion, and there are provided a process for the production of InP fine particles by reacting an In raw material containing two or more In compounds with a P raw material containing at least one P compound in a solvent wherein the process uses, as said two or more In compounds, at least one first In compound having a group that reacts with a functional group of P compound having a P atom adjacent to an In atom to be eliminated with the functional group in the formation of an In-P bond and at least one second In compound having a lower electron density of In atom in the compound than said first In compound and Lewis base solvent as said solvent, and InP fine particles obtained by the process.

Abstract: Surface-modified metal oxide nanoparticles each having a core-shell structure and having an organic functional group on a surface, characterized in that the refractive index thereof is controlled by selecting at least one element constituting the metal oxide as a core from elements of the groups 4 and 5 of the periodic table, and a nanoparticles-dispersed resin comprising a matrix resin and the above metal oxide nanoparticles dispersed therein, the metal oxide nanoparticles being those which can be homogeneously dispersed in the matrix resin without causing secondary aggregation and which have a high refractive index and are colorless, the nanoparticles-dispersed resin being that which is obtained by homogeneously dispersing the above metal oxide nanoparticles in the matrix resin and which has a high refractive index and is excellent in colorless transparency.

Abstract: A method for producing fine particles having in their molecules at least one element “X” selected from P, As and Sb and at least one element “Y” selected from Ga, In, Zn, Cd, Si, Ge and Sn, the method comprising the steps of (a) mixing a raw material for said element X and a raw material for said element Y in a solvent to prepare a raw material mixture solution, and (b) increasing the temperature of said raw material mixture solution to a predetermined reaction temperature on the basis of a predetermined interrelationship between a reaction temperature and an average particle diameter of fine particles to be generated, and a method for producing indium organocarboxylate, which comprises reacting an indium alkoxide and an organic carboxylic anhydride.

Abstract: The invention is to provide a process for industrially advantageously producing InP fine particles having a nano-meter size efficiently in a short period of time and an InP fine particle dispersion, and there are provided a process for the production of InP fine particles by reacting an In raw material containing two or more In compounds with a P raw material containing at least one P compound in a solvent wherein the process uses, as said two or more In compounds, at least one first In compound having a group that reacts with a functional group of P compound having a P atom adjacent to an In atom to be eliminated with the functional group in the formation of an In—P bond and at least one second In compound having a lower electron density of In atom in the compound than said first In compound and Lewis base solvent as said solvent, and InP fine particles obtained by the process.

Abstract: A steam iron of the present invention is aimed at spraying a stable steam by repressing deposit of scale when producing the steam, and at reducing the scale that adheres to clothes by miniaturizing the scale particles. The steam iron includes a scale deposit repressing device for repressing the deposit of scale by dissolving phosphatic compound into water in a water tank that stores the water for supply to a vaporization chamber.