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 are an intermetallic compound having high stability and high activity, and a catalyst using the same. A hydrogen storage/release material containing an intermetallic compound represented by formula (1): RTX . . . (1) wherein R represents a lanthanoid element, T represents a transition metal in period 4 or period 5 in the periodic table, and X represents Si, Al or Ge.

Abstract: A quantum gate device includes a first superconducting circuit which resonates at a first resonance frequency, second superconducting circuit which resonates at a second resonance frequency, and connector which connects these circuits. The first superconducting circuit includes a single first Josephson device, second Josephson device group, and first capacitor. The second Josephson device group includes n Josephson devices connected by a line made of a superconductor. The Josephson energy possessed by each of the n Josephson devices is greater than n times that of the first Josephson device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a genetic modification non-human organism in which an expression level of Cas9 is high and a plurality of different genes or a plurality of different locations in the same gene can be edited at the same time with high efficiency. The genetic modification non-human organism of the present invention includes a nuclear genome having at least 3 copies of genes that code for Cas9 (CRISPR-associated 9). Egg cells of the present invention are derived from the genetic modification non-human organism having the nuclear genome into which at least 3 copies of genes that code for the Cas9 are introduced. Fertilized eggs of the present invention are obtained by fertilizing the egg cells and sperm derived from the same species of the organism. A method for modifying target genes of the present invention includes a step of introducing a guide RNA into cells derived from the genetic modification non-human organism, the egg cells, or the fertilized eggs.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of producing a metal oxyhydride, capable of synthesizing the metal oxyhydride under reaction conditions close to atmospheric pressure, and excellent in productivity and cost. The method of producing a metal oxyhydride of the present invention includes reacting an oxide with a metal hydride in a hydrogen atmosphere. A non-oxygen element constituting the oxide comprises only one kind of non-oxygen element. A pressure condition of the reaction is 0.1 to 0.9 MPa, and a temperature of the reaction is 500 to 1000° C.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a metal organic framework nanosheet, including forming a metal organic framework in a sheet form between two monolayers constituting a single bilayer membrane in a case where the bilayer membranes form a hyper-swollen lamellar phase in a solvent. The present disclosure relates to a metal organic framework nanosheet including a metal organic framework disposed, in a sheet form, between two monolayers constituting a single bilayer membrane, wherein a plurality of the bilayer membranes forms a hyper-swollen lamellar phase in a solvent.

Abstract: Provided is an easy-to-process thermoelectric conversion device whose shape can be freely changed. The device is provided containing electrodes and an ionic solid, wherein the ionic solid has: an anionic heterometal complex aggregated to form a crystal lattice; and a cationic species present in interstices of the crystal lattice, and wherein the anionic heterometal complex includes: a metal M1 selected from the group consisting of the elements of Groups 8, 9 and 10 of the Periodic Table and Cr and Mn; a metal M2 selected from the group consisting of the elements of Groups 11 and 12 of the Periodic Table; and a ligand.

Abstract: A monomolecular transistor including a first electrode including a first electrode layer and a first metal particle arranged at one end of the first electrode layer, a second electrode including a first electrode layer and a first metal particle arranged at one end of the first electrode layer, a third electrode insulated from the first electrode and the second electrode, a ?-conjugated molecule having a ?-conjugated skeleton. The first metal particle and the second metal particle face each other. The third electrode is arranged adjacent to the gap in which the first metal particle and the second metal particle face each other, and is spaced from the first metal particle and the second metal particle, the ?-conjugated molecule is arranged in a gap between the first metal particle and the second metal particle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion material having a considerably increased Seebeck coefficient, and a thermoelectric conversion device, a thermo-electrochemical cell and a thermoelectric sensor which include the material. The thermoelectric conversion material of the present invention includes a redox pair and a capture compound which captures only one of the redox pair selectively at low temperature and releases at high temperature.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide: a method for producing a novel hexagonal boron nitride thin film suitable for industrial use such as application to electronics, in which a hexagonal boron nitride thin film having a large area, a uniform thickness of 1 nm or more, with few grain boundaries can be produced inexpensively; and a hexagonal boron nitride thin film. The hexagonal boron nitride thin film according to the present invention is characterized by having a thickness of 1 nm or more, and an average value of the full width at half maximum of the E2g peak obtained from Raman spectrum of 9 to 20 cm?1.

Abstract: Provided is a novel method for producing 4-aminocinnamic acid from 4-nitrophenylalanine. This method comprises: converting 4-nitrophenylalanine into 4-nitrocinnamic acid; and converting 4-nitrocinnamic acid into 4-aminocinnamic acid.

Abstract: The Present invention is a measuring system including a measuring device 10 that is attached to a living body, the measuring device 10 being configured to store information about an amount of electric power generated using sugars in a body fluid or bodily secretion of a living body, and a container device 15 for storing the measuring device 10, the container device 15 receiving the information about the amount of electric power generated, which is stored in the measuring device 10, using a near-field wireless communication method when the measuring device 10 is stored in the container device 15.

Abstract: A composite material containing a porous body having pores inside the porous body and a porous coordination polymer compound (PCP), in which the porous body has a network structure of Si—O bonds obtained by copolymerizing a dialkoxysilane and a trialkoxysilane, and the porous coordination polymer compound is carried in the pores of the porous body. Also, a method for producing a composite material containing a porous body having pores inside the porous body and a porous coordination polymer compound, in which the porous body has a network structure of Si—O bonds obtained by copolymerizing a dialkoxysilane and a trialkoxysilane, and the porous coordination polymer compound is carried in the pores of the porous body via a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device, method, and program for detection of a biomarker candidate that may be used in a diagnosis of a pre-disease state indicating a transition from a healthy state to a disease state. Biological samples are collected from a subject to be measured at different times. Statistical data is obtained by aggregating measurement data obtained in measurement on collected biological samples. Thereafter, a process of obtaining high-throughput data (s1), a process of choosing differential biological molecules (s2), a process of clustering (s3), a process of choosing a DNB candidate (s4), and a process of identifying a DNB by significance analysis (s5) are carried out.

Abstract: Provided is an ionic solid having pores for incorporating a substance therein.

Abstract: Describes herein are a microscope optical module, a microscope, a control device for the microscope optical module, and multiphoton excitation microscope, which can switch the observation field of view at high speed and observe a large field of view. The microscope optical module includes an optical-axis-shifting optical system having an optical element, an optical-axis-shifting optical system support for positioning the optical-axis-shifting optical system with respect to the objective light flux of the microscope, and a rotator arranged on the optical-axis-shifting optical system support, the rotator rotatably supporting the optical-axis-shifting optical system with respect to the optical axis of the objective light flux, wherein the microscope optical module is added to an objective light flux side of a microscope.

Abstract: The output voltage of an MRAM is increased by means of an Fe(001)/MgO(001)/Fe(001) MTJ device, which is formed by microfabrication of a sample prepared as follows: A single-crystalline MgO (001) substrate is prepared. An epitaxial Fe(001) lower electrode (a first electrode) is grown on a MgO(001) seed layer at room temperature, followed by annealing under ultrahigh vacuum. A MgO(001) barrier layer is epitaxially formed on the Fe(001) lower electrode (the first electrode) at room temperature, using a MgO electron-beam evaporation. A Fe(001) upper electrode (a second electrode) is then formed on the MgO(001) barrier layer at room temperature. This is successively followed by the deposition of a Co layer on the Fe(001) upper electrode (the second electrode). The Co layer is provided so as to increase the coercive force of the upper electrode in order to realize an antiparallel magnetization alignment.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer that are laminated in this order. The first layer is formed of a plurality of particles including an inorganic semiconductor as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including an inorganic semiconductor as a main component. The second layer is provided on a surface of each of the particles or the aggregate and is formed of a plurality of particles including a perovskite structure as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including a perovskite structure as a main component. The third layer is formed of a plurality of particles including an organic metal complex as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including an organic metal complex as a main component.

Abstract: This fiber net includes a fiber net having an electrode part, in which a fiber constituting the electrode part includes a core material, a relaxation layer which covers at least a part of a surface of the core material and contains a material having a higher Young's modulus than a material forming the core material, and a conductive layer which covers a surface of the relaxation layer on a side opposite to the core material side.

Abstract: The purpose is to provide a tactile information conversion device, a tactile information conversion method, and a tactile information conversion program, which are usable for general purposes by presenting or sensing an arbitrary tactile feeling. In order to provide tactile information to an output unit capable of outputting physical quantities including electricity, force, temperature, vibration, and/or time and space, at least two or more of the physical quantities are selected according to a tactile feeling to be presented, tactile information for presenting the predetermined tactile feeling is generated based on the physical quantities that have been selected, and the tactile information that has been generated is output to the output unit.