Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a dispersant for a positive electrode of a power storage device, the dispersant being a copolymer containing a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1), a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (2), and a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (3). Also, an aspect of the present disclosure relates to a dispersant composition, a conductive material slurry for a battery and a method for producing the conductive material slurry a positive electrode paste for a battery or a positive electrode for a battery, each of which contains the dispersant for a positive electrode of a power storage device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an asphalt composition containing asphalt and a polyester, wherein the polyester includes an alcohol component-derived structural unit including an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A and an alkylene glycol compound having 3 or more carbon atoms (exclusive of the alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A).

Abstract: A method of inhibiting corrosion of metal in contact with a corrosive mixture in an oil or gas field environment involving introducing a corrosion inhibitor composition into the corrosive mixture, the corrosion inhibitor composition including a nitrogen-containing compound having an alkyl amine group or an alkyl quaternary ammonium salt group, and at least one sulfur-containing compound selected from the group consisting of mercaptobenzothiazole, mercaptobenzoimidazole, a thioglycol compound, and a thiourea compound.

Abstract: A method for producing a resin for recycling including separating a resin A for recycling including subjecting a resin composition containing the resin A for recycling and a resin B having a melting point higher than that of the resin A for recycling to a filtration treatment, wherein the resin A for recycling and the resin B are thermoplastic resins, and wherein the temperature of the resin composition to be subjected to the filtration treatment is equal to or higher than the melting point of the resin A for recycling and lower than the melting point of the resin B, and wherein the opening size of the filter used in the filtration treatment is a size that inhibits passing of the resin B, the method further including increasing a size of a dispersed particle size of the resin B prior to the separating step.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for improving dispersibility of a crystalline resin having a hydrophilic group into neutral water, the method comprising an amorphization step of amorphizing a crystalline resin having a hydrophilic group. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a method for improving dispersibility of a water-soluble resin having excellent moisture resistance into neutral water.

Abstract: A warming device containing a topsheet to be located close to a skin of a user, a backsheet to be located far from the skin of the user, and a heat generating element interposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The heat generating element contains an oxidizable metal, a carbon material, an electrolyte, and water, the heat generating element is configured to generate vapor from the heat generating element itself as heat is generated, the topsheet includes a breathable fiber sheet including fibers containing at least a polyethylene terephthalate resin, and the topsheet contains first fibers having a fiber diameter of more than 15 ?m in plan view as measured by observation under a scanning electron microscope.

Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable diaper including a pair of leak-proof cuffs (6) provided respectively to both lateral sides of an absorbent assembly (5) along the longitudinal direction. Each leak-proof cuff (6) includes: an inwardly-oriented portion (63) wherein a leak-proof-cuff-forming sheet material (61) is arranged from a lateral side edge (43) of an absorbent core toward the absorbent member's inner side in the width direction; a fold-back portion (64) where the sheet material (61) is folded back toward the absorbent member's outer side in the width direction, the fold-back portion being located above the absorbent member (4); and an outwardly-folded portion (65) ranging from the fold-back portion (64) to a free end (6b) of the leak-proof cuff. The outwardly-folded portion (65) has a length, in the width direction, that is longer than the length of the inwardly-oriented portion (63), and a plurality of elastic members (62) are fixed in a stretched state to the outwardly-folded portion.

Abstract: A hair cosmetic containing the following components (A) to (C): (A) one or more carboxylic acids selected from the group consisting of a hydroxycarboxylic acid and a polyvalent carboxylic acid having no hydroxy group, or salts thereof; (B) an aromatic sulfonic acid or a salt thereof; and (C) a diethylene glycol monoalkyl ether, in which, a content of the component (A) is 0.8% by mass or more and 10.0% by mass or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet material container being made of a sheet material and including a body portion and a bottom portion that is to be disposed on a placement surface, and the sheet material including a plurality of film layers. A body portion sheet that constitutes the body portion includes a bonding portion where peripheral edge portions of the sheet materials are bonded. In a bottom surface sheet that constitutes the bottom portion, a non-adhesive region is provided in the plurality of film layers. The non-adhesive region forms a bottom filler-filled portion. The bottom filler-filled portion extends annularly around a non-filled portion, and includes at least three protruding leg portions that are to be placed on the placement surface so as to allow the container to stand by itself. The protruding leg portions protrude toward the placement surface past other portions in the bottom filler-filled portion due a leg forming portion.

Abstract: A sheet member container configured to include one or more sheet members including a bag-body forming sheet member including an outer film layer and an inner film layer that are stacked on each other. The sheet member container includes a container main body, an extending piece extending from the container main body, a containing portion that is formed continuously over an interior of the container main body and an interior of the extending piece, the containing portion storing contents, a filling port that communicates between a portion of the interior of the container main body in the containing portion and an external space of the sheet member container, and a bag body that is made out of the bag-body forming sheet member, the bag body surrounding the containing portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a method for producing an epoxyalkane capable of obtaining an epoxide in a high yield while attaining a high olefin conversion rate and a high selectivity for epoxides even when an olefin includes a long carbon chain, and a solid oxidation catalyst used in the method. The method for producing an epoxyalkane of the present invention comprises reacting an olefin with an oxidant in the presence of a solid oxidation catalyst, wherein the solid oxidation catalyst comprises a transition metal and a carrier that supports the transition metal, and the carrier is a metal oxide having a silyl group represented by the following general formula (1): R1R2R3Si—??(1) wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently a single bond, a hydrocarbon group, a halogenated hydrocarbon group, an alkoxy group, or a halogen, and at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is a hydrocarbon group having 3 or more carbon atoms or a halogenated hydrocarbon group having 3 or more carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a compound that has a low melting point and is capable of forming a film of high hydrophobicity, and a composition containing this compound. The compound of the present invention is represented by chemical formula (1). (In the formula, R1 and R2 are each a C1-C33 aliphatic hydrocarbon group, the total number of carbons of in R1 and R2 is 14-34, X is a single bond or a C1-C5 aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and A is —O—CH2—CH(OH)—CH2OH or —O—CH(—CH2—OH)2).

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive sheet for affixation to the body which is excellent in enhancement and persistence of the blood circulation promoting action, has high affixability and conformability as a sheet, and is easily and widely applicable to the body in any use situation. That is, the present invention relates to an adhesive sheet for affixation to the body housed in a container, containing the following components (A) and (B): (A) bubbles containing carbon dioxide gas in a bubble fraction of 10% or more and 40% or less, and (B) water, wherein the total area occupied by bubbles having an imaginary diameter of 5 mm or more is 10% or less, in 100% of the surface area of the adhesive sheet for affixation to the body, a content of carbon dioxide gas in the total amount of the adhesive sheet for affixation to the body is from 100 to 20,000 ppm, and the adhesive sheet for affixation to the body is sealed in a low gas-permeable container.

Abstract: In one aspect, provided is a method for producing a semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion. This method allows semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes to be separated from a single-walled carbon nanotube mixture containing semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes and metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes in an aqueous medium, and yet requires only an easily available separation agent and a simple operation. One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for producing a semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion.

Abstract: Provided is an oral composition, including the following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) non-polymer catechins; (B) rutin; and (C) astragalin, wherein a content of the component (A) in solids is from 2 mass % to 50 mass %, wherein a mass ratio between the component (A) and the component (B), [(B)/(A)], is from 0.05×10?2 to 50×10?2, and wherein a mass ratio between the component (A) and the component (C), [(C)/(A)], is from 1.0×10?3 to 50×10?3.

Abstract: The present invention is a hydrophilization treatment agent composition containing (A) a branched anionic surfactant, (B) a di-long chain hydrocarbon cationic surfactant, and water, wherein a molar ratio of (B) to a total of (A) and (B), (B)/[(A)+(B)], is 0.1 or more and 0.8 or less.

Abstract: A hair cosmetic containing the following components (A) to (D): (A) an anionic polymer, (B) an anionic surfactant, (C) a cationic polymer having a cellulose backbone, and (D) a cross-linked cationic vinyl polymer. A hair treatment method including applying the hair cosmetic to a hair and rinsing the hair in which the hair cosmetic is applied with water.

Abstract: Provided is a brush head for cleaning a surface of skin of a face. Tip-end-curved bristle bundles and tapered bristle bundles are implanted in a plurality of implantation holes of an implantation base portion so that the tip-end-curved bristle bundles and the plurality of tapered bristle bundles have the same height. The tip-end-curved bristle bundles are implanted in implantation holes at an outermost peripheral part of the implantation base portion, and form an outer-peripheral tip-end-curved-bristle bundle group. The tapered bristle bundles are implanted in implantation holes in an inner region relative to the outer-peripheral tip-end-curved-bristle bundle group, and form an inner tapered-bristle bundle group.

Abstract: An asphalt composition containing asphalt (A) and a composite resin (B), wherein the composite resin (B) contains a polyester resin (b1) unit and a vinyl-based polymer (b2) unit bonded via a covalent bond, wherein the polyester resin (b1) unit contains a structural unit derived from an alcohol component and a structural unit derived from a carboxylic acid component, and the vinyl-based polymer (b2) unit contains a structural unit derived from styrene.

Abstract: A leak-proof cuff (28) is divided into a lower region (40) and a upper region (41). The upper region (41) includes a first region (41A) located at the side of a free edge (28B) relative to the center in the width direction (Y) and a second region (41B) located at the side of a folding line (42). In each of the first region (41A) and the second region (41B), at least one elastic member (29) extending along the longitudinal direction (X) is provided in a stretched state. In a case where the elongation of the upper region (41) in a natural state is 0, and the elongation in a maximum stretched state is 100, the stress ?1 of the first region (41A) is larger than the stress ?2 of the second region (41B) at an elongation of 5, and the stress ?2 of the second region (41B) is larger than the stress ?1 of the first region (41A) at an elongation of 100.