Abstract: A metallic fine particle-containing ink, including metallic fine particles A dispersed with a polymer B, a carboxylic acid C, and an amine D. The polymer B has at least one selected from the group consisting of an organic acid group and an organic base group, the carboxylic acid C has 1 or more and 6 or less carbon atoms, the amine D has 1 or more and 6 or less carbon atoms, and the metallic fine particle-containing ink has a content of the carboxylic acid C of 0.7% by mass or more and 15% by mass or less, and a content of the amine D of 0.7% by mass or more and 20% by mass or less.

Abstract: A method for treating a textile product including, treating the textile product with a treatment liquid and thereafter rinsing the textile product with water, the treatment liquid being obtained by mixing the following components (a) and (b) with water containing a hardness component, provided that the treatment liquid does not include a total of 100 ppm or more of a dicarboxylic acid with 14 or more and 16 or less carbons and a salt thereof, component (a): a sulfosuccinic acid ester having a hydrocarbon group with a predetermined number of carbons or a salt thereof, and component (b): one or more surfactants selected from the following components (b1) and (b2), component (b1): an anionic surfactant (excluding component (a)), and component (b2): a predetermined nonionic surfactant, wherein the treatment liquid satisfies any of the following requirements (1) and (2), requirement (1): content proportion (a)/[(a)+(b1)] is more than 0 mass % and 50 mass % or less, and requirement (2): content proportion (a)/[(

Abstract: A fragrance composition including a cis isomer and a trans isomer. The cis isomer includes a compound represented by formula (Ia), a compound represented by formula (Ib), a compound represented by formula (IIa), and a compound represented by formula (IIb), the trans isomer includes a compound represented by formula (IIIa), a compound represented by formula (IIIb), a compound represented by formula (IVa), and a compound represented by formula (IVb), and a mass ratio of the cis isomer to the trans isomer [cis isomer:trans isomer] is 65:35 or more and 95:5 or less. In the formulae (Ia), (Ib), (IIa), (IIb), (IIIa), (IIIb), (IVa), and (IVb), R1 is an alkyl group having 1 or more and 5 or less of carbon atoms, and R2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 or more and 4 or less of carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention is a friction reducing agent for fibers containing the following components (a) and (b), and further, a detergent composition for fibers containing the following components (a) and (b), wherein a proportion of a content of component (b) to a total content of components (a) and (b) is 20 mass % or more and less than 100 mass %, component (a): an internal olefin sulfonate with 17 or more and 24 or less carbons, and component (b): a sulfosuccinic acid ester or a salt thereof having a hydrocarbon group with 5 or more and 18 or less carbons.

Abstract: Provided is a beverage composition, including: non-polymer catechins; and caffeine, the beverage composition satisfying the following requirements (A), (B), and (C): (A) a mass ratio of caffeine/non-polymer catechins is 0.180 or less; (B) particles contained in the beverage composition have an average particle size of 3 ?m or less; and (C) a turbidity is 30 NTU or more.

Abstract: A method for producing a silica microcapsule having a shell containing silica as a constituent component and a core containing one or more organic compounds inside the shell. The method includes subjecting an emulsified liquid obtained by emulsifying an aqueous phase component containing a cationic surfactant and an oil phase component containing one or more organic compounds and a silica source to a sol-gel reaction in the presence of one or more sulfur-containing ions selected from the group consisting of a sulfate ion, a sulfite ion, and a sulfonate ion to form the silica microcapsule.

Abstract: A method of producing a composite material containing a substrate and a metal film formed on the substrate, the method including coating a metallic fine particle-containing ink on the substrate to form the metal film on the substrate. The substrate has a heat resisting temperature of 130° C. or less. The metallic fine particle-containing ink includes metallic fine particles A dispersed with a polymer B, the metallic fine particles A having a volume average particle diameter DA of 10 nm or more and 60 nm or less. The metal film has a cross-sectional porosity of 2% by area or more and 30% by area or less, and the metal film has a content of a metal of 90% by mass or more.

Abstract: A method for producing a microbial microcapsule, including, mixing a (A) hydrophobic component having a surface tension above 33.6 mN/m at 25° C. and a microorganism (B) for 3 hours or more. The mixing is carried out under a condition that a mass ratio of the (A) hydrophobic component to a dry mass of the microorganism (B), [(A)/(B)], is above 2.

Abstract: The present invention is a detergent composition for fibers that contains components (a) and (b) described below and satisfies at least one requirement of the following: requirement (1) a proportion of a content of component (a) to a total content of components (a) and (b1) is 35 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less; and requirement (2) a proportion of the content of component (a) to a total content of components (a) and (b2) is 50 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less. Component (a) is a sulfosuccinic acid ester or a salt thereof having a branched hydrocarbon group with 5 or more and 18 or less carbons, and component (b) is one or more surfactants selected from the following components (b1) and (b2): component (b1) an anionic surfactant (excluding component (a)); and component (b2) one or more nonionic surfactants selected from an aliphatic alcohol alkoxylate and an ester alkoxylate.

Abstract: A microcapsule, including a shell containing an inorganic substance as a constituent component and a core containing one or more organic compounds inside the shell. The organic compound includes the following component (A): a functional oil agent, and component (B1): one or more selected from the group consisting of a higher aliphatic alcohol having 6 or more carbon atoms, a higher fatty acid having 6 or more carbon atoms, a monoalkyl glyceryl ether having an alkyl group having 6 or more carbon atoms, and an amide compound having an alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms, other than the component (A).

Abstract: A fiber-treating agent, where the fiber-treating agent is a one part fiber-treating agent including a single composition or a multiple-part fiber-treating agent including a plurality of compositions. The fiber-treating agent contains the following components (A) to (C) in a total composition thereof, and where, for the one-part fiber-treating agent, a part or all of the components (A) and (B) is optionally a condensate formed from the components: (A): a compound having a structure wherein a methylol group is bonded to each of two nitrogen atoms in the compound, (B): a phenolic compound having an electron donating group on at least one of meta-positions and a hydrogen atom on at least one of ortho-positions and a para-position, wherein the electron donating group on the meta-position optionally forms, together with adjacent carbon atoms, a benzene ring optionally substituted with a hydroxy group, and (C): water.

Abstract: A W/O emulsion composition having excellent storage stability under temperature cycle conditions is provided. A W/O emulsion composition including the following components (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E): (A) a glycerol monofatty acid ester having 12 to 26 carbon atoms; (B) a higher alcohol having 10 to 22 carbon atoms; (C) a ceramide; (D) one or more selected from the group consisting of sphingosine, a salt thereof and an ionic surfactant; and (E) a nonionic surfactant including the following (e1) and (e2): (e1) one or more selected from the group consisting of a crosslinked polyether-modified silicone and a crosslinked polyglycerol-modified silicone and (e2) one or more selected from the group consisting of a polyether-modified silicone, a polyglycerol-modified silicone and a polyglycerol fatty acid ester.

Abstract: The invention relates to a toner for development of electrostatic images excellent in fusing property on polypropylene films and excellent in rubfastness of printed images, and a resin composition for a toner for development of electrostatic images.

Abstract: Provided are a polypeptide having a glycine-glycine bond-degrading activity and an improved microbicidal activity, and a method for using the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resin film material produced from a resin material that includes a laminate that includes a resin layer with an evaporated metal layer, the resin film material containing a metal in the evaporated metal layer in the form of particles, wherein the metal particles are dispersed in the resin film material, and the number of metal particles with an area-equivalent diameter of 200 ?m or more present per cm2 of the resin film material is 1 or less. It is preferable that the resin film material is produced from a resin material that is made of a laminate group that includes the laminate that includes a resin layer with an evaporated metal layer and a laminate that includes a metal layer-free resin layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersant for a positive electrode of a power storage device. The dispersant is a copolymer that contains a constitutional unit A represented by the following general formula (1) and at least one constitutional unit B selected from the group consisting of a constitutional unit B1 represented by the following general formula (2) and a constitutional unit B2 represented by the following general formula (3). The total content of the constitutional unit A and the constitutional unit B in the copolymer is 80% by mass or more. The content of the constitutional unit A in all constitutional units of the copolymer is 35% by mass or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal fine particle-containing ink containing metal fine particles (a) dispersed therein with a polymer B, in which the ink contains an ink solvent S; a difference ?SP (|SP(S)?SP(B)|) between solubility parameters of the solvent S and the polymer B is not more than 1.5 (cal/cm3)0.5 wherein SP(S) and SP(B) are a solubility parameter of the ink solvent S and a solubility parameter of the polymer B, respectively, as measured by a Fedors method; and the SP(B) is not less than 9.5 (cal/cm3)0.5 and not more than 10.5 (cal/cm3)0.5, as well as a method for producing a printed material, which includes the step of applying the metal fine particle-containing ink to a printing substrate to form a metal coating film of the ink on the printing substrate under ordinary-temperature environments, thereby obtaining the printed material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersant composition for carbon nanotubes, containing: a copolymer that includes a structural unit A represented by the following general formula (1) and a structural unit B represented by the following general formula (2); and a solvent, wherein the content of the structural unit B in all structural units of the copolymer is 20 mass % or more. In the following formulae, R1, R2, R3, R5, R6, and R7 are the same or different from each other and are each a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group, R4 is a hydrocarbon group having 16 to 30 carbon atoms, R8 is a linear or branched alkylene group having 2 to 3 carbon atoms, X1 is on oxygen atom or NH, X2 is an oxygen atom, p is the number of 1 to 8, and R9 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group.

Abstract: Provided is a detergent having a high detergency against corneum-derived stains and a method for evaluating the ability of an enzyme to degrade corneum-derived stains. The detergent a M23A subfamily protease as an active ingredient. The method for evaluating the ability of the enzyme to degrade corneum-derived stains comprises obtaining the degrading activities of the test enzyme on a reference peptide and one or more substrate peptides and evaluating the ability of the test enzyme to degrade corneum-derived stains based on the degrading activities of the test enzyme on the reference peptide and the substrate peptide, wherein the reference peptide is GGGGG or GGGG, the one or more substrate peptides are selected from the group consisting of GGGXG, GXGGG, GGXG, and GXGG, and X is any amino acid residue other than glycine.

Abstract: A method for producing a Guerbet alcohol, including reacting a raw material alcohol having 8 or more and 22 or less carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst (A) containing a first component and a second component below, having a molar ratio of the second component with respect to the first component (second component/first component) of 0.0001 or more and 0.005 or less: first component: copper, and second component: one kind selected from the group consisting of elements that are elements belonging to Groups 9 to 13 in the fourth to sixth periods of the periodic table, except copper.