Abstract: Provided are a pellet including a thermoplastic resin and cellulose nanofibers that enables the production of a molded body which has a good appearance in which yellowing is suppressed, and a method for producing a molded body using the same. According to one aspect, there is provided a pellet including a thermoplastic resin and cellulose nanofibers, wherein the number of pore-containing pellets per 100 pellets is 10 or less. Further, according to another aspect, there is provided a method for producing a molded body, which includes a step of preparing the pellets, and a step of injection molding the pellets in a mold to obtain a molded body.

Abstract: Provided is a pellicle, including a frame on which a pellicle film is placed and a mask adhesive layer which is placed on the frame, wherein when an attachment portion S1 of the adhesive layer to a quartz mask is irradiated with xenon (Xe) excimer lamp light from a back surface of the mask for 2 minutes and the pellicle is then peeled off, a residual ratio (residual area of the adhesive layer on a quartz mask/area of the attachment portion S1 of the adhesive layer) of the adhesive layer is 0.001 to 5.0%.

Abstract: Provided are a method, performed by an electrical component-accommodating body comprising a container, for inhibiting condensation occurring inside the container. The electrical component-accommodating body further comprises, within the container, a cooling device and accommodated matter including an electrical component. The method comprises at least one of: raising, by the electrical component, the air temperature inside the container; and cooling, by the cooling device, the accommodated matter. The container is thermally insulating and has an accommodation ratio v of 60% or more as expressed by equation (A), shown below, v = ( Vf / Ve ) × 1 ? 0 ? 0 ( A ) where, in equation (A), Ve represents volume of internal space of the container in units of cm3 when nothing is accommodated inside the container and Vf represents volume of accommodated matter that includes the electrical component in units of cm3.

Abstract: Provided are a forward osmosis membrane, a forward osmosis membrane module, and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein a forward osmosis membrane, which achieves an extremely favorable reduction in the reverse diffusion of salt compared to the prior art and has a predetermined water permeability, is developed thereby bringing about: practicality in that a liquid-like raw material solution used in actual concentration operations can be concentrated with suppressed diffusion of an induction solution even when used multiple times; and durability in that the performance of the membrane can be maintained within a predetermined range even when a raw material solution having an osmotic pressure is concentrated multiple times.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to: a woven fabric which is constituted from a bare yarn (A yarn) of an elastic polyurethane yarn, and a non-elastic yarn or a composite yarn (B yarn) of a non-elastic yarn and an elastic polyurethane yarn, and which is characterized in that at an intersecting portion of a warp and a weft, a specific region is present where the warp and the weft are both the A yarn, the warp and the weft are bonded or melt bonded to each other in this specific region, and the ratio of the number of intersections between A yarns of warp and weft in the specific region relative to the total number of intersections between warp and weft in the entire structure of the woven fabric is 0.02-50%; a method for producing same; and a fiber product containing the woven fabric.

Abstract: A plate making system comprises a writing device, an exposure device, a developing device, a plate cutting device, a first transfer device, a second transfer device and a third transfer device in an integrated manner. The plate making system also comprises a control device that controls a series of plate making processes for a flexographic printing original plate performed by the writing device, the exposure device, the developing device and the plate cutting device.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a polyacetal resin composition that achieves a highly dispersed state of cellulose in a polyacetal resin, and that achieves, at a high level, both high temperature rigidity and toughness when being under a load; and a method for producing same. This polyacetal resin composition contains: 100 parts by mass of a polyacetal resin (a); 1-150 parts by mass of fine cellulose fibers (b) having a fiber diameter of 2-1000 nm; and 0.1-100 parts by mass of a polyethylene glycol (c). An ethylene ratio R (%) which is the ratio of the number of oxyethylene units in the polyacetal resin (a) with respect to the total number of oxymethylene units and oxyethylene units in the polyacetal resin (a), and an oxyethylene repeating unit number n of the polyethylene glycol (c) satisfy the relationship of formula: (R+0.5)/0.015?n?(R+10)/0.015.

Abstract: The present invention provides a planning apparatus for creating an operation plan for a hydrogen production system including a hydrogen generation apparatus, comprising: an acquisition portion for acquiring a demand response from a power operator; and an operation planning portion for creating the operation plan based on the demand response before a target period of the operation plan and at least one of a electricity price, a demand amount of hydrogen and an amount of stored hydrogen before the target period.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a flexographic printing plate, including a development step of subjecting a plate surface of a flexographic printing original plate including at least a support, a photosensitive resin composition layer, and an infrared ablation layer sequentially stacked to brushing with a brush while supplying an organic solvent-based developer to the plate surface, wherein the organic solvent-based developer includes 0.1% by mass or more and 10.0% by mass or less of a polymer gel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a porous polyimide or polyimide wet gel with excellent physical properties. One aspect provides a porous polyimide in which an average pore size (d) obtained by using small-angle x-ray scattering is 1.0 nm to 7.0 nm. One aspect provides a porous polyimide in which the minimum value of the differential coefficient when the logarithmic value log[I(q)] of the scattering intensity I(q) is differentiated by the logarithmic value log[q] of the scattering vector q is ?1.0 to 0.0 within a range in which the size of the scattering vector q in small-angle x-ray scattering is 0.025 nm?1 to 0.075 nm?1.

Abstract: An alkaline water electrolyzer includes at least two outer frames, a gasket, and a diaphragm. The at least two outer frames are stacked so as to overlap at least in part in a circumferential direction. The gasket is sandwiched between the two outer frames. The gasket can be in contact with the outer frames over the entire circumferential direction. In an inner peripheral surface of the gasket, a slit is formed along the circumferential direction. The gasket has a first protrusion portion. The first protrusion portion protrudes over the entire circumferential direction at a position overlapping the slit when viewed from a thickness direction of the slit. A diaphragm is caught in the slit of the gasket. A volume ratio of volume of the first protrusion portion, to volume between a bottom of the slit and an end of the diaphragm, is between 0.5 and 100 inclusive.

Abstract: The present invention provides fluorescent cellulose microparticles which are capable of reducing deployment failure by improving the deployability during deployment in immunochromatography, while maintaining sufficient color developability and dispersion stability if used for immunochromatography.

Abstract: A method for producing a polycarbonate diol, including a step of obtaining a polycarbonate diol with polycondensation by transesterification reaction of a dihydroxy compound and a carbonate ester as starting material monomers in the presence of a transesterification catalyst, in which the transesterification catalyst includes a transesterification catalyst A1 containing at least one metal (M1) selected from the group consisting of metals in Group 6, Group 7, Group 8, Group 9, Group 10 and Group 11 in the long-period type periodic table and a transesterification catalyst A2 containing at least one metal (M2) selected from the group consisting of metals in Group 1 and Group 4 in the long-period type periodic table.

Abstract: Provided are a negative photosensitive resin composition which exhibits satisfactory resolution even when shifts occur in focus depth, and which has satisfactory adhesion to a mold resin and exhibits a low dielectric constant; a method for producing a polyimide using the photosensitive resin composition; a method for producing a cured relief pattern; and a semiconductor device including the cured relief pattern. Disclosed is a negative photosensitive resin composition including a polyimide precursor having a structure represented by general formula (A1), (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and (C) a solvent.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene powder excellent in molding processability that can produce a homogenous gel in a short time, and can produce a gel having a high polymer concentration by drastically shortening a kneading time. The ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene powder has intrinsic viscosity IV of 1.0 dL/g or more and 38.0 dL/g or less, and has an average particle size D50 of 50 m or more and 400 m or less, wherein a dissolution time of a powder having a particle size D50 is 5 seconds or more and 80 seconds or less.

Abstract: Provided is artificial leather which has excellent flexible texture, wear resistance, and nubuck outer surface having a dense feeling. The present disclosure relates to napped artificial leather containing an entangled sheet, and a polymer elastomer filled into the entangled sheet, the napped artificial leather being characterized in that: the entangled sheet has a structure of two or more layers formed from a fiber layer (A) on the front surface side of the napped artificial leather, and a scrim in contact with the fiber layer (A); the average diameter of the fibers constituting the fiber layer (A) is 2.0-7.0 ?m; and when measuring porosity in the thickness direction and defining the minimum porosity in the fiber layer (A) as ?Amin(%), the minimum porosity in the scrim as ?Smin(%), and the maximum porosity from the position of the ?Amin(%) to the position of the ?Smin(%) as ?A-Smax(%), 40??Amin?70, 70??A-Smax?90, and ?Smin(%)<?A-Smax(%) are satisfied.

Abstract: Provided is a method for industrially producing high-purity diaryl carbonate, comprising: a first purification step of continuously introducing a mixture containing diaryl carbonate to a purifying column A having a side cut discharge port, and continuously separating by distillation the mixture into a column top component (At), a side cut component (As) containing diaryl carbonate, and a column bottom component (Ab) containing a catalyst; and a second purification step of continuously introducing the side cut component (As) to a diaryl carbonate purifying column B having a side cut discharge port, and continuously separating by distillation the component into three components, a column top component (Bt), a side cut component (Bs), and a column bottom component (Bb), thereby obtaining high-purity diaryl carbonate as the side cut component (Bs).

Abstract: A polyamide resin composition according to the present invention is characterized by comprising 100 parts by mass of a polyamide resin (A), 0.005-0.3 parts by mass of a copper compound (B), and 10-250 parts by mass of glass fibers (C), and is characterized in that the percentage content of boron elements in the glass fibers (C) is 1 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the glass fibers (C).

Abstract: A polyethylene powder having a viscosity-average molecular weight of 200,000 or more and 10,000,000 or less, wherein complex viscosity under predetermined conditions for measurement of slurry viscoelasticity satisfies the following formula (1): ?25.0×104? { ? "\[LeftBracketingBar]" ? * ? "\[RightBracketingBar]" ? ( T max ) - ? "\[LeftBracketingBar]" ? * ? "\[RightBracketingBar]" ? ( T min ) } / ( T max - T min ) ? - 5. × 10 4 ( 1 ) (|?*|(Tmax): an absolute value of complex viscosity (Pas) at Tmax, (Tmin): an absolute value of complex viscosity (Pas) at Tmin, Tmax: maximum temperature (° C.) within a range in which the formula (2) is satisfied, Tmin: minimum temperature (° C.) within a range in which the formula (2)) is satisfied: d(log|?*|)/dT ??0.1 (2) (|?*|: an absolute value of complex viscosity (Pas), T: temperature).

Abstract: A formed article obtained by performing laser welding on a transmitting resin member and an absorbing resin member, includes: a bonded part where the transmitting resin member and the absorbing resin member are bonded to each other by the laser welding, in which a molten pool is observed at the bonded part in a cross section that includes a normal to the transmitting resin member or the absorbing resin member and is orthogonal to a scanning direction of a laser beam, an area of the molten pool is 0.210 mm2 or more and 1.00 mm2 or less, the transmitting resin member and the absorbing resin member are each molded from a resin composition, the resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin, the thermoplastic resin contains at least a polyamide-based resin (A1), and a glass transition point temperature of the resin composition is 85° C. or higher.