Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide magnesium oxide for an annealing separator which is useful for obtaining grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets with excellent magnetic properties and insulating properties. To resolve the above object, an aspect of the present invention resides in magnesium oxide for an annealing separator which has a BET specific surface area of 12.0×103 to 25.0×103 m2·kg?1 and a Blaine specific surface area of 2.0×103 to 7.0×103 m2·kg?1.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin composite sheet of the present invention contains: a polyamide resin film containing a dicarboxylic acid component (a) and a diamine component (b); and a plurality of reinforcing fibers laminated in a state of being oriented in the same direction on the polyamide resin film, the reinforcing fibers being obtained by opening a reinforcing fiber bundle. The dicarboxylic acid component (a) contains 60 mol % or more and 100 mol % or less of terephthalic acid. The diamine component (b) contains 60 mol % or more and 100 mol % or less of 1,9-nonanediamine and 2-methyl-1,8 octanediamine. The fiber-reinforced resin composite sheet has a volume content rate Vf of the reinforcing fibers of 20% or more and 70% or less and a thickness of 20 ?m or more and 70 ?m or less.

Abstract: Disclosed are a pulverized coal preprocessing method and a pulverized coal gasifying method. The pulverized coal preprocessing method comprises the following steps: (1) performing pore broadening on pulverized coal to obtain preprocessed pulverized coal; (2) loading alkali metal ions into the preprocessed pulverized coal under an ion exchange condition to obtain alkali metal loaded pulverized coal. The method further comprises loading a chrome complex into the alkali metal loaded pulverized coal obtained in described step (2). In gasification, the pulverized coal loaded with alkali metal potassium and chrome catalysts obtained by the method has the advantages of high sulphur removal rate, high carbon conversion rate, short gasifying reaction time and high methane production.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an artificial leather and a method for producing the same. The artificial leather includes a substrate, a thermoplastic polyurethane fiber adhesive layer, a thermoplastic polyurethane fiber layer, a paste layer, and a surface layer. The paste layer has a thermosetting paste or a high solid-content paste, and the paste has a specific adhesive temperature. A bonding can be performed at low temperature in the method for producing the same, and the artificial leather made by the method for producing the same has excellent hand feeling and/or smoothness.

Abstract: Provided is a mold release agent composition containing a polymer ester, the composition exerting a good mold releasability even when the temperature of mold increases, and a die casting method using the composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermoplastic polyurethane fiber and a method for producing the same. A thermoplastic polyurethane material is firstly provided and subjected to a molten extruding process to form a fiber material. Next, an extension process is performed to the fiber material to obtain the thermoplastic polyurethane fiber of the present invention. The thermoplastic polyurethane fiber has a lower thermal shrinking property, thereby meeting requirements of the application.

Abstract: The present invention provides industrially preferable processes for producing a sulfone derivative useful as a herbicide and an intermediate thereof. Provided are a process for producing a compound of the formula (4), comprising the following step ii: (step ii) a step of reacting a compound of the formula (2) with a compound of the formula (3) in the presence of a base to produce the compound of the formula (4), and a process for producing a compound of the formula (5), comprising the following step iii: (step iii) a step of reacting the compound of the formula (4) with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a metal catalyst to produce the compound of the formula (5).

Abstract: One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide silicone fine particles which do not aggregate in a thermosetting resin while having softness derived from silicone rubber and have excellent adhesion with the thermosetting resin. The other purpose is to provide a method for preparing the same. The other purpose is to provide a thermosetting resin composition and an encapsulating material, each comprising the fine particles. The present invention provides an epoxy-modified silicone fine particle composed of (A) a spherical silicone rubber fine particle coated with (B) polyorganosilsesquioxane, wherein the spherical silicone rubber fine particle (A) has an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 100 ?m and the polyorganosilsesquioxane (B) has an epoxy group-containing organic group.

Abstract: There are provided a dispersion composition containing: (A) from 85 to 99.89% by weight of a dispersant (except for the following (B) and (C)); (B) from 0.01 to 5% by weight of an acetylene glycol and/or an acetylene glycol ethoxylate; and (C) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of one or two or more types selected from polyoxy (ethylene-propylene) block polymers having a weight average molecular weight of from 1,500 to 20,000, a content of ethylene oxide of from 20 to 90% by weight, and a content of propylene oxide of from 10 to 80% by weight: a dispersion and an ink composition using the same, and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: A laser-welded body includes at least three of resin members, which contain a thermoplastic resin including: a first resin member which is a laser-irradiated subject, has an absorbance a1 of 0.01 to 0.12; a second resin member which has an absorbance a2 of 0.1 to 0.9 and includes a butted part where ends of one or more resin members are brought into contact with each other; and a third resin member which has an absorbance a3 of 0.2 to 3.8, and the absorbances a2, a3 exhibited by the second resin member and the third resin member are attributed to the inclusion of nigrosine as a laser beam absorbent therein, and the resin members are overlapped in the above mentioned to form contacted parts at these interfaces, at least a part of the butted part and/or the contacted parts are laser-welded.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing a weed control method and a mixed agrochemical composition for soil treatment, which, in a soil treatment of farmland with pyroxasulfone, not only can inhibit or reduce crop injury caused by absorption into cultivated crops, without being influenced by heavy rainfall, soil type, seeding depth and the like, but also are effective against a wide range of weed species. The weed control method includes a soil treatment step of performing a soil treatment on farmland with an agrochemical composition for soil treatment, which contains pyroxasulfone, and with a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor, simultaneously or sequentially, the method being characterized in that the agrochemical composition for soil treatment further contains a masking substance that masks the pyroxasulfone, and the pyroxasulfone is microencapsulated in or coated with the masking substance.

Abstract: The invention provides an air electrode material powder for solid oxide fuel cells, comprising particles of a perovskite composite oxide represented by the general formula ABO3, and comprising La and Sr as the A-site elements, and Co and Fe as the B-site elements.

Abstract: There are provided a dispersion composition containing: (A) from 85 to 99.89% by weight of a dispersant (except for the following (B) and (C)); (B) from 0.01 to 5% by weight of an acetylene glycol and/or an acetylene glycol ethoxylate; and (C) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of one or two or more types selected from polyoxy (ethylene-propylene) block polymers having a weight average molecular weight of from 1,500 to 20,000, a content of ethylene oxide of from 20 to 90% by weight, and a content of propylene oxide of from 10 to 80% by weight: a dispersion and an ink composition using the same, and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: Disclosed are a heat-expandable polyvinylidene chloride microsphere and its preparation method.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing: an agrochemical composition for soil treatment which, in a soil treatment of farmland with pyroxasulfone, not only can inhibit or reduce crop injury caused by absorption into cultivated crops, without being influenced by heavy rainfall, soil type, seeding depth and the like, but also is highly safe and has a broad herbicidal spectrum; and a pest control method using the agrochemical composition. The agrochemical composition for soil treatment contains pyroxasulfone and a masking substance that masks the pyroxasulfone, in which the pyroxasulfone is microencapsulated in or coated with the masking substance.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin molded article is produced by pressing a plurality of thermoplastic base material sheets, each of which contains a plurality of reinforcing fibers, in a stacked state where the base material sheets are stacked so that the fiber directions (orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers) are alternated. Each base material sheet is provided with a cut including: a plurality of lengthwise cut lines extending parallel to the fiber direction; and a plurality of crosswise cut lines extending parallel to a direction that is perpendicular to the fiber direction. A plurality of cut interruption parts for interrupting the lengthwise cut lines in the fiber direction are formed. The cut interruption parts are arranged in a staggered manner so as to be displaced from each other in the fiber direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure is relates to an artificial leather. The artificial leather includes multi-layer thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) mesh layers. Fiber fineness of the TPU mesh layers ranges from 5 ?m to 30 ?m, and peeling strength of the TPU mesh layers is greater than 2.5 Kg/cm.

Abstract: Provided is a hollow particle, including silica, having a DSL of primary particles that satisfies the following expression (1), and having a breaking strength of 10 MPa or more: 1?DSL?1.5 . . . (1) where DSL=D75L/D25L, and D25L and D75L represent a 25th value and a 75th value, respectively, when long diameters of 100 randomly selected primary particles are measured in observation with a scanning electron microscope and sorted in order of increasing size.

Abstract: A transparent resin substrate composed of a light-transmitting resin base sheet, and an underlying layer, a hard coat layer, and an antireflection coating formed sequentially on the base sheet. The antireflection coating includes a medium refractive index layer on the hard coat layer, and a low refractive index layer on the medium refractive index layer. The underlying layer is a cured product of a hexa- or higher functional urethane acrylate monomer. The hard coat layer is a cured product of a hard coat layer composition containing a polymerizable monomer containing 50% by mass or more of a tri- or lower functional urethane acrylate monomer, silica particles, a silane coupling agent, and a metal chelate compound. The medium refractive index layer is a cured product of a medium refractive index layer composition. The low refractive index layer is a particle-free cured product of a low refractive index layer composition.

Abstract: Provided is a novel defibration method different from defibration by physical/mechanical pulverization and different from defibration by chemical modification. Provided is a defibration method and a production apparatus each capable of obtaining an intended, fine CNF without chemically modifying the CNF itself and by a treatment for a short time. A method for producing a cellulose nanofiber, the method being a method for continuously obtaining a cellulose nanofiber from raw material cellulose without performing chemical defibration and without performing physical/mechanical defibration in a post-treatment, and comprising mixing subcritical water in a high-temperature/high-pressure state, the subcritical water having a temperature of 180° C. or higher and lower than 370° C. and having a pressure of 5 MPa to 35 MPa, and the raw material cellulose, thereby defibrating the raw material cellulose to obtain a cellulose nanofiber dispersed in water, and a production apparatus for obtaining the cellulose nanofiber.