Abstract: The invention is related to a layered double hydroxide electride which can be produced without high-temperature treatment, and a production method of which cost can be reduced. The layered double hydroxide electride contains electrons between layers and has an electron density of 2.0×1018 cm?3 or more. The method of producing the layered double hydroxide electride includes a step of mixing a starting layered double hydroxide with an electron exchanger for exchanging anions existing between layers of the starting layered double hydroxide for electrons to produce the layered double hydroxide electride.

Abstract: A ?-modified phosphoric acid compound precursor that inhibits the progress of a phosphorylation reaction having a partial structure represented by where A1 represents —SR1, —S—S—R1, —SeR1, or —X, where X is a halogen selected from fluoro, chloro, bromo, and iodo; R1 represents hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like; L1 represents hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like; L2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like; L1 and L2 may be linked to each other to form a 4 to 6-membered ring structure; L1 and L2 may each have a substituent; and the symbol * represents a bond to be bonded to a phosphate group by phosphorylation. Further, provided are a reaction inhibitor and a medicine, each of which includes the ?-modified phosphoric acid compound precursor.

Abstract: There are provided a new type of crystal laminate of an alkaline earth metal titanate having improved catalytic activity, and a method for producing the same. The crystal laminate is provided having a crystal of the alkaline earth metal titanate as a constitutional unit, wherein the crystal being the constitutional unit is a cubic crystal, a tetragonal crystal or an orthorhombic crystal; the crystal being the constitutional unit has a primary particle diameter of 500 nm or less; and the crystal is layered with an orientation in a {100} plane direction thereof.

Abstract: A nano-fluidic device includes: a first substrate that has a nanoscale groove on one surface; and a second substrate that is integrally provided with the first substrate by bonding one surface of the second substrate to the one surface of the first substrate and forms a nanochannel with the groove of the first substrate, in which either the first substrate or the second substrate includes at least a thin portion in a part of a position overlapping the nanochannel in plan view, and the thin portion is deformed by pressing to open and close the nanochannel.

Abstract: Provided is a compound having higher fluorescence quantum yield and higher optical stability than a conventional FLAP and a polymer compound containing the compound. A: seven or eight-membered ring structure, Y1, Y2, Y3: halogen atom or the like, a1: number of Y1, a2: number of Y2, B: number of Y3, 0?m and n?3: when 1?m?3, Y1 may be substituted with a structure portion defined by m, when 1?n?3, Y2 may be substituted with a structure portion defined by n, and B1, B2: Formulas (2-1) to (2-3). C1, C2, C3: structure containing a cyclic hydrocarbon compound, D1, D2, D3: substructure that inhibits aggregation, E1, E2, E3: polymerizable substructure, Z1: hydrogen atom or the like, c: number of substituent groups Z1, Z2, Z3: hydrogen atom or the like, and may form a ring with C2.

Abstract: A compound semiconductor has a high electron concentration of 5×1019 cm?3 or higher, exhibits an electron mobility of 46 cm2/V·s or higher, and exhibits a low electric resistance, and thus is usable to produce a high performance semiconductor device. The present invention provides a group 13 nitride semiconductor of n-type conductivity that may be formed as a film on a substrate having a large area size at a temperature of room temperature to 700° C.

Abstract: An electronic functional member according to the present embodiment includes a substrate; a fiber mesh comprising a fibrous resin composition that extends onto and is connected to the substrate; and a patterned conductive coating portion that coats one surface of a portion of the fiber mesh and that also extends onto the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for selectively reducing, using electrical energy, CO2 to carbon monoxide or formic acid, a catalyst for use in the method, and an electrochemical reduction system.

Abstract: A bistable circuit includes a pair of inverter circuits each including a first FET being connected between a power supply line and an intermediate node and having a gate coupled to an input node and a first conductivity type channel, a second FET being connected between the intermediate node and an output node and having a gate coupled to the input node and the first conductivity type channel, a third FET being connected between the intermediate node and a bias node, a fourth FET being connected between the output node and a control line and having a gate coupled to a word line and a second conductivity type channel, wherein the pair of inverter circuits are connected in a loop shape, and gates of the third FETs of the pair of inverter circuits are coupled to one of the input and output nodes of the pair of inverter circuits.

Abstract: A heteroepitaxial structure includes a first metal portion having a polycrystalline structure, a second metal portion on the first metal portion, the second metal portion has an island-shaped structure on the first metal portion, the second metal portion is provided corresponding to at least one crystalline grain exposed to a surface of the first metal portion, and the second metal portion and the at least one crystalline grain have a heteroepitaxial interface.

Abstract: A current sensor includes an element that is in a high-resistance state when an absolute value of a current flowing between a first terminal and a second terminal is within a first range, and changes to a low-resistance state in which a resistance value is lower than that in the high-resistance state when the absolute value of the current exceeds the first range, and a circuit that supplies a current to be measured to the element, and senses a value of the current to be measured based on at least one of voltages of the first terminal and the second terminal.

Abstract: Provided are a hydrophilic polyamide and polyimide retaining characteristics particular to polyamides and polyimides, such as heat resistance. A polymeric compound is provided having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1): wherein M1 and M2 each independently represent any one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a monovalent metal atom, an alkaline earth metal atom and an ammonium ion, provided that M1 and M2 are not a hydrogen atom at the same time; X1 and X2 represent an organic group; m and n each independently represent the number of substituents; Z1 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted carbonyl group; Z2 represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group; Z3 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted carbonyl group; and when Z1 or Z3 is an optionally substituted carbonyl group, they optionally form a ring structure together with Z2, each independently.

Abstract: A spike generation circuit includes a first CMOS inverter connected between a first power supply and a second power supply, an output node of the first CMOS inverter being coupled to a first node that is an intermediate node coupled to an input terminal to which an input signal is input, a switch connected in series with the first CMOS inverter, between the first power supply and the second power supply, a first inverting circuit that outputs an inversion signal of a signal of the first node to a control terminal of the switch, and a delay circuit that delays the signal of the first node, outputs a delayed signal to an input node of the first CMOS inverter, and outputs an isolated output spike signal to an output terminal.

Abstract: A spike generation circuit includes a first CMOS inverter connected between a first power supply and a second power supply, an output node of the first CMOS inverter being coupled to a first node that is an intermediate node coupled to an input terminal to which an input signal is input, a switch connected in series with the first CMOS inverter, between the first power supply and the second power supply, a first inverting circuit that outputs an inversion signal of a signal of the first node to a control terminal of the switch, and a delay circuit that delays the signal of the first node, outputs a delayed signal to an input node of the first CMOS inverter, and outputs an isolated output spike signal to an output terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a resin for nanoimprinting, which is capable of preventing removal of a transfer-receiving resin from a substrate when a mold is separated during nanoimprinting, and which is also capable of transferring a pattern on a mold to a transfer-receiving resin with high accuracy during thermal nanoimprinting, while improving the throughput. A resin for nanoimprinting, which is represented by formula (1). (In the formula, each of R1-R5 independently represents —H or —OH, and at least one of the R1-R5 moieties represents —OH; R6 represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6-20 carbon atoms or an aralkyl group having 7-20 carbon atoms; X represents an amide or an ester; Y may be absent, or represents an amide or an ester; P represents an integer of 1-10; and each of m and n represents an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing sheet-like particles of zeolite that cannot be obtained by a top-down method, and provides sheet-like particles of zeolite having an 8-membered oxygen ring structure obtained by the method. A thickness of the sheet-like particles is 1 nm to 100 nm, and an aspect ratio (maximum width/thickness in particles) of the sheet-like particles is 100 or more.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for selectively reducing, using electrical energy, CO2 to carbon monoxide, a catalyst for use in the method, and an electrochemical reduction system.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for selectively reducing, using electrical energy, CO2 to formic acid, a catalyst for use in the method, and an electrochemical reduction system.

Abstract: Provided is a silicon bulk thermoelectric conversion material in which thermoelectric performance is improved by reducing the thermal conductivity as compared with the prior art. In the silicon bulk thermoelectric conversion material, the ZT is greater than 0.2 at room temperature with the elemental silicon. In the silicon bulk thermoelectric conversion material, a plurality of silicon grains have an average of 1 nm or more and 300 nm or less, a first hole have an average of 1 nm or more and 30 nm or less present in the plurality of silicon grains and surfaces of the silicon grains, and a second hole have an average of 100 nm or more and 300 nm or less present between the plurality of silicon grains, wherein the aspect ratio of a crystalline silicon grain is less than 10.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an agent for promoting undifferentiation that dissolves a drug, as DMSO or the like does, but is capable of promoting undifferentiation without inducing cell differentiation when added to a medium. The agent for promoting undifferentiation of the present invention has an aprotic zwitterion represented by the following formula (1) wherein A is an anion selected from the group consisting of SO3?, —COO?, —OP?O(H)O?, —OP?O(CH3)O? and —OP?O(OR3)O?, R1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms and optionally containing one or two oxygen atoms in the molecular chain, R2 is an alkylene group having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, and R3 is hydrogen or an alkyl group optionally having a heteroatom in the molecular chain.