Abstract: This optical cell for sedimentation analysis has a pair of opposing surfaces through which light is transmitted, and two polarizing plates, in which each of the two polarizing plates is disposed in a crossed Nicols state on each of the inner surfaces of the pair of opposing surfaces.

Abstract: A heat pump system includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a refrigerant flow path included in a heat medium heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a heat source side heat exchanger are connected, the heat medium heat exchanger including the refrigerant flow path and a heat medium flow path; a heat medium feed path connected to the heat medium flow path included in the heat medium heat exchanger; an indoor unit connected to the heat medium feed path and configured to condition air inside a room; a room temperature sensor configured to detect an indoor temperature in the room; a heat medium temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of a heat medium that flows into the indoor unit; and a controller configured to control the refrigerant circuit or the indoor unit by using a set temperature in the room.

Abstract: The present method for evaluating an orientation of silver nanowires is a method for measuring an orientation of silver nanowires included in a polyvinyl alcohol film, the method including measuring, using linearly polarized near-infrared light, a first transmittance T1 for polarized light perpendicular to an orientation direction of silver nanowires and a second transmittance T0 for polarized light parallel to the orientation direction of the silver nanowires in a polyvinyl alcohol film including the silver nanowires, and determining an orientation to be high in a case where a ratio (T1/T0) of the first transmittance T1 to the second transmittance T0 is greater than 1, and determining the orientation to be low in a case where the ratio is close to 1.

Abstract: An acceleration sensor is provided in which a sensitive color plate is provided between two polarizing plates that are in a crossed Nicol disposition, and a silver nanowire dispersion is disposed between the sensitive color plate and one of the polarizing plates.

Abstract: An acceleration sensor is provided in which a sensitive color plate is provided between two polarizing plates that are in a crossed Nicol disposition, and a silver nanowire dispersion is disposed between the sensitive color plate and one of the polarizing plates.

Abstract: In a method for producing a high-molecular-weight polymer sheet, when a monomer composition including silver nanowires is polymerized, the monomer composition is allowed to stand in a state in which a thickness direction of the obtained high-molecular-weight polymer sheet before the polymerization is a vertical direction, and the silver nanowires in the monomer composition are oriented in the vertical direction and polymerized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of a polymerized polymer containing a silver nanowire, including a preparation step of preparing a monomer composition containing the silver nanowire, a polymerization step of performing polymerization of the monomer composition containing the silver nanowire, and a standing step of leaving the monomer composition to stand which is performed between the preparation step and the polymerization step, in which a start of the polymerization step is determined in the standing step based on an orientation state in a vertical direction of the silver nanowire in the monomer composition as an index.

Abstract: An evaluation method includes a step of disposing a sensitive color plate between two polarization plates disposed in a crossed Nicols shape, a step of disposing a measurement material that is a transparent material containing a nanowire between any of one polarization plate or the other polarization plate of the polarization plates and the sensitive color plate, a step of making white light incident from a side of one of the disposed polarization plates, a step of observing a color of the measurement material from a side of the other polarization plate, and a step of evaluating an orientation direction of the nanowire from the color of the measurement material obtained by observation.

Abstract: The invention provides a transparent composite material comprising a cured product of a three-dimensionally crosslinkable resin composition containing tabular inorganic substance having a number-average particle size of 10 to 300 nm and an aspect ratio of 10 to 300 dispersed therein, which material has a small coefficient of thermal expansion against surrounding temperature changes and can be suitably applicable as substrate for display devices, to thereby overcome disadvantages in substrate for display devices using conventional materials that differences in thermal shrinkage between a substrate and an transparent electrode cause cracks in the transparent electrode, resulting in increasing resistance and causing disconnection, and further can provide a display device with high durability.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a cured film, which comprises a first step of applying a curable resin composition onto a surface of a first substrate and a surface of a second substrate respectively; a second step of bonding the curable resin composition layers provided on each surface of the first and second substrates to each other; and a third step of curing the curable resin composition layer between the first and the second substrates. The present invention enables production of a cured film in which the amount of thermal deformation such as warpage upon heating/cooling is suppressed, and the film can be suitably used as a plastic substrate for a display such as a liquid crystal display device and an organic EL display device, a substrate for a display, such as a substrate for electronic paper and the like, and a substrate for a solar cell.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a transparent composite material comprising a first step of subjecting a synthetic smectite having a number average particle diameter of from 10 to 300 nm and an aspect ratio of from 10 to 300 to organizing treatment with an organic quaternary ammonium salt and/or an organic quaternary phosphonium salt; a second step of mixing the synthetic smectite subjected to organizing treatment and a curable resin to prepare a resin composition containing the synthetic smectite in an amount of 10 to 40 mass %; a third step of curing the resin composition to obtain a cured product; and a forth step of removing the organic volatile components remaining in the cured product. According to the method, a transparent composite material which is flexible and has a low coefficient of thermal expansion can be obtained which is reduced in outgassing at high temperature under vacuum as in vapor deposition of a conductive thin film.

Abstract: A transparent conductive substrate using allyl ester heat-curable resin, including a compound having a group represented by formula (2) as terminus and a group represented by formula (3) as repeating unit, where R3, A2, and A3 in the formulae have the same meanings as defined in the specification.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a cured film, which comprises a first step of applying a curable resin composition onto a surface of a first substrate and a surface of a second substrate respectively; a second step of bonding the curable resin composition layers provided on each surface of the first and second substrates to each other; and a third step of curing the curable resin composition layer between the first and the second substrates. The present invention enables production of a cured film in which the amount of thermal deformation such as warpage upon heating/cooling is suppressed, and the film can be suitably used as a plastic substrate for a display such as a liquid crystal display device and an organic EL display device, a substrate for a display, such as a substrate for electronic paper and the like, and a substrate for a solar cell.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a transparent composite material comprising a first step of subjecting a synthetic smectite having a number average particle diameter of from 10 to 300 nm and an aspect ratio of from 10 to 300 to organizing treatment with an organic quaternary ammonium salt and/or an organic quaternary phosphonium salt; a second step of mixing the synthetic smectite subjected to organizing treatment and a curable resin to prepare a resin composition containing the synthetic smectite in an amount of 10 to 40 mass %; a third step of curing the resin composition to obtain a cured product; and a forth step of removing the organic volatile components remaining in the cured product. According to the method, a transparent composite material which is flexible and has a low coefficient of thermal expansion can be obtained which is reduced in outgassing at high temperature under vacuum as in vapor deposition of a conductive thin film.

Abstract: The present invention reacts an allyl alcohol with an alcohol compound in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of elements of the group III, lanthanoid elements and actinoid elements of the Periodic Table, as depicted in the following reaction and provides a method for efficiently producing 3-alkoxy-1-propanol in a single step using an alcohol as a starting material.

Abstract: The invention provides a transparent composite material comprising a cured product of a three-dimensionally crosslinkable resin composition containing tabular inorganic substance having a number-average particle size of 10 to 300 nm and an aspect ratio of 10 to 300 dispersed therein, which material has a small coefficient of thermal expansion against surrounding temperature changes and can be suitably applicable as substrate for display devices, to thereby overcome disadvantages in substrate for display devices using conventional materials that differences in thermal shrinkage between a substrate and an transparent electrode cause cracks in the transparent electrode, resulting in increasing resistance and causing disconnection, and further can provide a display device with high durability.

Abstract: The invention provides a transparent conductive substrate using allyl ester heat-curable resin, comprising a compound having a group represented by formula (2) as terminus and a group represented by formula (3) as repeating unit, (In the formulae, R3 A2 and A3 have the same meanings as defined in the Description). The transparent conductive substrate is useful as a plastic substrate for display device, characterized by excellent heat resistance and chemical resistance, a low average linear expansion coefficient and high transparency, where warpage, deformation, crack of wiring are hard to occur in a process of thin film device formation.

Abstract: In the presence of a catalyst containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of elements of the group III, lanthanoid elements and actinoid elements of the Periodic Table, an allyl alcohol is reacted with an alcohol compound. A method for efficiently producing 3-alkoxy-1-propanol in a single step using an alcohol as a starting material is provided.

Abstract: A process for producing a both end-hydroxyl group-terminated diol, wherein an epoxy alcohol represented by the general formula (1) is subjected to a hydrogenolysis reaction in the presence of a catalyst for producing both end-hydroxyl group terminated diols, which catalyst contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of Group V elements, Group VI elements, Group VII elements, Group VIII elements, Group IX elements, Group X elements, and Group XI elements in the periodic table, in the presence of at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of ethers, esters, aromatic hydrocarbon compounds, alicyclic hydrocarbon compounds and aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds, to thereby obtain a both end-hydroxyl group-terminated diol represented by general formula (2). General formula (1) and (2) are as described in the specification.

Abstract: This invention is to provide a polymerizable composition having excellent curability and surface hardness, and a cured product thereof. A novel fumarate derivative having two or more fumarate groups within one molecule and ensuring copolymerizability with the terminal alkenyloxy group, a method for producing the derivative, a polymerizable composition containing the derivative, and a cured product thereof are provided.