Abstract: A synthetic adsorbent, where a maximum value of a differential pore volume under a pressure condition of 0.5 to 30.0 psia is greater than 0.05 mL/g. A method of measuring the differential pore volume includes reducing a pressure in a sample container where the synthetic adsorbent that has been dried is placed to 10 Pa or less, mercury is degassed by reducing the pressure to 10 Pa or less, and the sample container is filled with the mercury at a pressure of 0.5 psia, measuring a mercury intrusion amount when the pressure in the sample container filled with the mercury is increased from 0.5 to 30.0 psia, and calculating the differential pore volume by dividing an amount of an increase in the mercury intrusion amount when a first-stage pressure calculated based on the mercury intrusion amount measured in the measuring is increased, by a measured amount of the synthetic adsorbent.

Abstract: An acrylic resin powder soluble in acetone, including a multi-stage polymer (M) that includes a polymer (B) obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (b) containing methyl methacrylate and an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (mb) in the presence of a polymer dispersion that contains a polymer (A) obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (a) containing an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (ma), in which an alkyl group in the alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (ma) has 4 to 8 carbon atoms, an alkyl group in the alkyl (meth)acrylate ester (mb) has 4 to 8 carbon atoms, a glass transition temperature of the polymer (A) is 20° C. or lower, a glass transition temperature of the polymer (B) obtained by polymerizing the monomer mixture (b) is 55° C. or higher, and a mass average molecular weight of the multi-stage polymer (M) is 10,000 or more and 300,000 or less.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a scintillator which has a short fluorescence decay time, whose fluorescence intensity after a period of time following radiation irradiation is low, and which shows largely improved light-transmittance. A scintillator represented by the following General Formula (1), the scintillator including Zr, having a Zr content of not less than 1500 ppm by mass therein, and being a block of a sintered body. QxMyO3z:A . . . (1) (wherein in General Formula (1), Q includes at least one or more kinds of divalent metallic elements; M includes at least Hf; and x, y, and z independently satisfy 0.5?x?1.5, 0.5?y?1.5, and 0.7?z?1.5, respectively).

Abstract: A diverting agent and method for temporarily filling fractures. The diverting agent contains a powder-like polyvinyl alcohol-based resin (P1) and a pellet-like polyvinyl alcohol-based resin (P2), and has an adsorption coefficient kc of 0.01 or more and 1 or less.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte solution, which contains a compound represented by the following general formula (A), and (1) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a nitrile compound, an isocyanate compound, a difluorophosphate, a fluorosulfonate, a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide and a compound represented by the following general formula (B), or (2) a cyclic carbonate compound having a fluorine atom in an amount of 0.01% by mass to 50.0% by mass based on the total amount of the nonaqueous electrolyte solution. (In formula (A), R1 to R3 may be mutually the same or different and represent optionally substituted organic groups having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.) (In formula (B), R4, R5 and R6 respectively and independently represent an alkyl group, alkenyl group or alkynyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms that may be substituted with a halogen atom, and n represents an integer of 0 to 6.

Abstract: Provided are: a highly durable polymer having a high hole-injection/transport capacity; and a composition for an organic electroluminescent element, which contains the polymer.

Abstract: A polyvinyl alcohol film is provided, which is highly transparent, and excellent in antistatic property and cold-water solubility. The polyvinyl alcohol film contains: (A) a polyvinyl alcohol resin; and (B) an ester of a C2 to C4 fatty acid (b1) and a polyhydric alcohol (b2); wherein the ester (B) is present in an amount of 1 to 4,000 ppm.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer including a constituent unit (1) based on a monomer represented by Formula (1), in which a content of a constituent unit based on a monomer having a polycyclic structure is 35 mol % or less. In Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A1 represents a linking group including an ester bond, or a single bond, where A1 has no tertiary carbon atom, and Z1 represents an atomic group forming a sulfur-containing cyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, which includes a carbon atom bonded to A1, and —SO2—.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an amide compound from a nitrile compound in the presence of a biocatalyst having nitrile hydratase activity, wherein the amide compound is efficiently produced by suppressing a deactivation of the biocatalyst, and improving the rate of conversion reaction from the nitrile compound to the amide compound.

Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide beneficial improvements relating to a method for producing a fiber reinforced plastic product, the method including curing while pressurizing a prepreg preform by using a core having a fusible part as means for pressurizing.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for a sound insulating sheet member, a sound insulating sheet member, and a sound insulating structure body with excellent sound insulating performance. A sound insulating structure body including: a plurality of convex-shaped rubber-elastic resonant portions; and a sheet-like support that supports the resonant portions, wherein the resonant portions have a storage modulus G? obtained from a composite curve of dynamic viscoelasticity according to ISO 6721-4 of 100 MPa or less at 25° C. and 10 kHz, and the areal density of the support is 1.0 kg/m2 or less.

Abstract: A carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a graphite capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and having a cumulative pore volume at pore diameters in a range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m of 0.08 mL/g or more, a roundness, as determined by flow-type particle image analysis, of 0.88 or greater, and a pore diameter to particle diameter ratio (PD/d50 (%)) of 1.8 or less, the ratio being given by equation (1A): PD/d50 (%)=mode pore diameter (PD) in a pore diameter range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion/volume-based average particle diameter (d50)×100 is provided.

Abstract: Provided is a monomer composition containing methyl methacrylate, and at least one compound of methyl pyruvate and methyl 2-methylbutyrate.

Abstract: Provided is a monomer composition containing methyl methacrylate and methyl propionate, in which the methyl propionate content is more than 200 ppm by mass and 50,000 ppm by mass or less relative to the total mass of the monomer composition.

Abstract: A filling member is interposed between pouch cells of a battery pack, the filling member has a first surface orthogonal to a thickness direction thereof and a second surface opposite to the first surface, ?d1 and ?d2 defined below satisfy formulas (1) and (2) below, respectively, ?p satisfies formula (3) below, and ?d1>?d2 holds: (1) ?d1?3.0×10?3 (m2·K)/W, (2) ?d2?8.0×10?3 (m2·K)/W, (3) 0.5 K/W??p1?1000 K/W, and (4) 0.5 K/W??p2?1000 K/W. ?d1 is heat transfer resistance when the average temperature of one of the first and second surfaces exceeds 180° C., ?d2 is heat transfer resistance when the average temperatures of the first and second surfaces both do not exceed 80° C., ?p1 is heat transfer resistance when the average temperature exceeds 180° C., ?p2 is heat transfer resistance when the average temperatures do not exceed 80° C.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced polybutylene terephthalate resin composition contain 40-90 mass % of a polybutylene terephthalate resin, 10-60 mass % of a reinforcing fiber, and 0-35 mass % of other polymer or additive by using a twin-screw extruder, the method includes using polybutylene terephthalate resin pellets (avg. weight of 16-29 mg) as a raw material for the resin by: (1) kneading the resin and the fiber with a first kneading part; (2) adding the fiber at a part downstream of the first kneading part and performing kneading with a second kneading part; and (3) reducing pressure of a vent at a part downstream of the second kneading part and performing devolatilization, where the first kneading part has a length of 5.0-9.0 D and a specific screw configuration, the second kneading part contains a specific screw configuration, and the production is carried out with a screw shaft torque density of 11.5-19 Nm/cm3.

Abstract: Disclosed is a biaxially stretched film containing two or more kinds of polyesters, in which at least one of the polyesters is a polybutylene naphthalate resin (A), and a dielectric tangent at 28 GHz is 0.0040 or less. There can be provided a biaxially stretched film having excellent low-dielectric properties.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin molding material by which, when the fiber-reinforced resin molding material is manufactured, separated fiber bundles can be supplied to a cutting machine in stable condition while avoiding the influence of meandering of the fiber bundles or slanting or meandering of filaments occurring in the fiber bundles. A method for manufacturing a sheet-shaped fiber-reinforced resin molding material in which spaces between filaments of cut-out fiber bundles (CF) are impregnated with resin includes, so that a condition of the following expression (1) is satisfied, intermittently separating fibers of the continuous fiber bundles (CF) in a longitudinal direction by a rotational blade (18) serving as a fiber separating part and cutting out the fiber bundles with an interval therebetween in a longitudinal direction of a cutting machine (13A) to obtain the cut-out fiber bundles (CF).

Abstract: An excellent method of manufacturing a patterned substrate which is capable of easily patterning an insulation layer to provide a patterned substrate even when a difficult-to-etch material is used for the insulation layer, a patterned substrate obtained thereby, and a patterned substrate intermediate thereof are provided. The method of manufacturing a patterned substrate with the insulation layer and an electrode layer stacked in this order on a substrate comprising: forming an organic resist material layer; irradiating the organic resist material layer with radiation or an electromagnetic wave of a wavelength of 10 to 780 nm and developing the organic resist material layer to form a first patterning layer; and removing the first patterning layer.

Abstract: A partition member has two surfaces in a thickness direction, and separates single cells that make up an assembled battery. When the average temperature of one of the two surfaces exceeds 180° C., a thermal resistance per unit area (?1) in the thickness direction satisfies Expression 1 below, and when the average temperatures of both of the two surfaces do not exceed 80° C., a thermal resistance per unit area (?2) in the thickness direction satisfies Expression 2 below. ?1?5.0×10?3(m2·K/W)??(Expression 1), and ?2?4.0×10?3(m2·K/W)??(Expression 2).