Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a porous carbon structure that has a high micropore volume and can be self-contained; a manufacturing method therefor; a positive electrode material using the same; and a battery (particularly an air battery) using the same. The present invention is a porous carbon structure that is for a positive electrode for an air battery and has voids and a skeleton formed by incorporating carbon, the porous carbon structure satisfying all of the following conditions (a) to (d). (a) The t-plot external specific surface area is within the range of 300 m2/g to 1600 m2/g; (b) the total volume of micropores having a diameter of 1 nm to 200 nm is within the range of 1.2 cm3/g to 7.0 cm3/g; (c) the total volume of micropores having a diameter of 1 nm to 1000 nm is within the range of 2.3 cm3/g to 10.0 cm3/g; and (d) the overall porosity is within the range of 80% to 99%.

Abstract: The invention provides a nitrogenous gas sustained releasing agent that is capable of sustainably releasing off nitrogenous gases in the air at normal temperature and safe to handle and a nitrogenous gas sustained releaser composed of the same as well as a nitrogenous gas sustained releasing method, respiratory equipment, a package and a nitrogenous gas sustained releasing apparatus using said sustained releaser. The nitrogenous gas sustained releasing agent contains a layered double hydroxide having nitrite ions (NO2?) and/or nitrate ions (NO3?) included between layers. The nitrogenous gas sustained releaser composed of the sustained releasing agent is exposed to a gas containing carbon dioxide and water vapor to induce any one or more processes of sustained release of nitrous acid, self-decomposition of nitrous acid, oxidization/reduction of nitrous acid, and reduction of nitrite ions/nitrate ions thereby sustainably releasing off nitrogenous gases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-emitting device having at least one or more light emission colors having a specific correlated color temperature, which includes a light-emitting element including a first luminescent material and a second luminescent material, in which the second luminescent material contains at least one or more phosphors and one or more other phosphors each having an emission peak in a different wavelength region; in at least one of the light emission colors having the specific correlated color temperature, when an emission intensity at a wavelength ?1 where an emission intensity of an emission spectrum is maximum at 600 nm or more and 700 nm or less is A, and an emission intensity at 700 nm is C, C/A is 0.25 or less; and the one or more other phosphors include at least a phosphor containing a crystal phase having a specified composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-emitting device including a first luminescent material and a second luminescent material which emits visible light by irradiation with light from the first luminescent material, in which the second luminescent material contains at least a red phosphor which satisfies the following (A) and (B): (A) An emission spectrum has at least one emission peak having a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 20 nm or more and 65 nm or less, and (B) Chromaticity coordinates of a light emission color are present between two straight lines represented by the following equation (a) and equation (b) based on coordinates represented by (x, y) in a CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system: (a) y=0.992?x, (b) y=1.000?x, and 0.290?y?0.350, an illumination device, an image display device, and an indicator lamp for a vehicle.

Abstract: A non-woven fabric including fibers including an aliphatic polyester that has at least two maximum values in a molecular weight distribution thereof, wherein the fibers have a fiber diameter falling within the range of 100 to 3000 nm. The non-woven fabric of the present invention has excellent biodegradability.

Abstract: The invention provides a constituent that is used with a novel method for preventing and/or treating skin wounds and ensures stable delivery of low-concentration hydrogen sulfide to a wound site. The skin wound-preventing and/or treating constituent includes a sustained hydrogen sulfide releasing agent that is preferably a layered double hydroxide having HS— and/or Sk2- between layers where k is a positive integer.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a multilayer film structure which has high crystallinity and planarity; and a method for producing this multilayer film structure. This multilayer film structure is provided with: an Si (111) substrate; a first thin film that is arranged on the Si (111) substrate, while being formed of a nitride material and/or aluminum; and a second thin film that is arranged on the first thin film, while being formed of a nitride material. An amorphous layer having a thickness of 0 nm or more but less than 1.0 nm are present on the Si (111) substrate; and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a rocking curve of the (0002) plane at the surface of this multilayer film structure is 1.50° or less.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element (100) of the present invention includes a first electrode (105) which has one side joined to a first surface (101a) of an n-type semiconductor via an n-side junction layer (102), and the other side joined to a first surface (103a) of a p-type semiconductor via a p-side junction layer (104), and a second electrode (106) which is joined to each of a second surface (101b) of the n-type semiconductor and a second surface (103b) of the p-type semiconductor via the n-side junction layer (102) and the p-side junction layer (104). Each of the n-type semiconductor (101) and the p-type semiconductor (103) has a composition represented by Formulas (1) and (2) below, and the n-side junction layer (102) and the p-side junction layer (104) include Al. Mg2SiaSn1-a+A??(1) MgmSixSnyGez+B??(2).

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention, relating to lanthanide boride, which is known as a low work function material, is to provide a novel low work function material with low chemical reactivity, in particular a low work function material of which the material surface, after being exposed to atmospheric gases, can be cleaned at a heating temperature lower than in the prior art. The present invention is a laminate containing a lanthanide boride film formed on a substrate, the surface of said film being covered by a thin film, wherein the thin film is a monatomic layer of a hexagonal boron nitride thin film.

Abstract: This hot-deformed R—Fe—B magnet for a variable-magnetic-force motor is an R2—Fe14—B (R is at least one rare earth element selected from among Nd, La, Ce, and Y)-based hot-deformed magnet, including, in atom %, 12.2% or more and 14.5% or less of R2(Nd1-x-y-zLaxCeyYz), where (0.0?x?0.2, 0.0?y+z?0.3), 5% or more and 6.5% or less of B, 0.0% or more and 5.0 or less of Co, and 0.0% or more and 1.0 or less of Ga, with the balance being made up of Fe and inevitable impurities.

Abstract: Provided are a new phosphor having emission characteristics different from the conventional nitride or oxynitride phosphor, a manufacturing method, and a light-emitting device. In an embodiment, the phosphor may include inorganic substance having crystal represented by A26(D, E)51X86 including at least A, D, X (A is at least one kind of element selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba; and D is Si, and X is at least one kind of element selected from O, N, and F); and further includes, if necessary, E (E is at least one kind of element selected from B, Al, Ga, and In) wherein the crystal further includes M (M is at least one kind of element selected from Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, and Yb). Upon irradiation of excitation source, the maximum value of emission peak in a wavelength range from 630 nm to 850 nm may occur.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a niobium-aluminum precursor wire having properties such as expression of flexibility and ensuring a large single-wire length, as well as a twisted wire, a superconducting wire, and a superconducting twisted wire formed of the niobium-aluminum precursor wire. The present invention provides a niobium-aluminum precursor wire and a twisted wire using the same, the niobium-aluminum precursor wire including: a rod-like winding core (5) formed of a stabilized copper, or a stabilized copper and an unstabilized copper; a laminated body (3) that is wound around the winding core (5) and that is formed of an aluminum foil and a niobium foil laminated one on the other; and a covering body (1) that covers the circumference of the laminated body and that is formed of a stabilized copper, or a stabilized copper and an unstabilized copper. The volume ratio of the stabilized copper with respect to the unstabilized copper contained in the precursor wire is 0.5-2.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an angiogenesis promoter capable of exerting an excellent angiogenesis promoting effect without containing any growth factor. The present invention also addresses the problem of providing a therapeutic method. An angiogenesis promoter that comprises as an active ingredient at least one member selected from the group consisting of a gelatin derivative represented by formula 1 and a crosslinked product of the gelatin derivative: In formula 1: Gltn represents a gelatin residue; L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; and R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom, provided that at least one of R1 and R2 represents the aforesaid hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention, relating to lanthanide boride, which is known as a low work function material, is to provide a novel low work function material with low chemical reactivity, in particular a low work function material of which the material surface, after being exposed to atmospheric gases, can be cleaned at a heating temperature lower than in the prior art. The present invention is a laminate containing a lanthanide boride film formed on a substrate, the surface of said film being covered by a thin film, wherein the thin film is a monatomic layer of a hexagonal boron nitride thin film.

Abstract: A phosphor includes a crystal phase having a composition represented by RexMAaMBbMCcDdXe, in which MA includes at least one of Ca, Sr, Ba, Na, K, Y, Gd, or La, MB includes at least one of Li, Mg, or Zn, MC includes at least one of Al, Si, Ga, In, or Sc, D is N (nitrogen) and/or O (oxygen), X includes at least one of F, Cl, Br, or I, Re includes at least one of Eu, Ce, Pr, Tb, or Dy, and a, b, c, d, e, and x satisfy the specific expressions, respectively. In the phosphor, when a content of B (boron) is designated as b (mass ppm), a value of Log10(b) is 3.5 or less.

Abstract: A phosphor contains a crystal phase having a composition represented by RexMAaMBbMCcDdXe, and an element Z, in which a content of the element Z is 1,000 mass ppm or less, and the element Z includes at least one of Mo, W, Nb, Ta, Ni, Pt, or Ir. Regarding the composition, MA includes at least one of Ca, Sr, Ba, Na, K, Y, Gd, or La, MB includes at least one of Li, Mg, or Zn, MC includes at least one of Al, Si, Ga, In, or Sc, D is N (nitrogen) and/or O (oxygen), X includes at least one of F, Cl, Br, or I, and Re includes at least one of Eu, Ce, Pr, Tb, or Dy, and a, b, c, d, e, and x satisfy the specific expressions, respectively.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes: an electrode formation unit that is brought into contact with an object to form an electrode; a detection unit that constitutes an electrode pair with the electrode; a measurement unit that measures a current flowing between the electrode and the detection unit; and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of an abnormality related to bacteria attached to the object according to the current measured by the measurement unit.

Abstract: A joined body (10) includes an optical material (11) and a cooling material (12) that are capable of transmitting light and are joined together. At a joining interface between the optical material (11) and the cooling material (12), the joined body (10) is capable of transmitting light, and also an atom contained in the optical material (11) diffusively enters the cooling material (12) in such a degree that an interference fringe is not generated in the joined body (10). A diffusive entry length of an atom contained in the optical material (11) into the cooling material (12) may be in a range from approximately 1.0 nm to approximately 10 ?m.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to detect ammonia with high sensitivity and high selectivity using a nanomechanical sensor with a structure that is as simple as possible. A method for detecting ammonia according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises supplying a sample gas possibly containing ammonia to a nanomechanical sensor that detects a stress or a displacement using poly(methyl vinyl ether-alt-maleic anhydride) as a material of a receptor layer, and detecting presence or absence of ammonia or a content of ammonia in the sample gas based on an output signal from the nanomechanical sensor, in which the sample gas is a humidified sample gas with controlled relative humidity.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electron source according to the present disclosure includes steps of: (A) cutting out a chip from a block of an electron emission material, (B) fixing a first end portion of the chip to a distal end of a support needle, and (C) sharpening a second end portion of the chip. The step (A) includes forming first and second grooves which constitute first and second surfaces of the chip in the block by irradiating a surface of the block with an ion beam. The first end portion of the chip includes the first surface and the second surface with the surfaces forming an angle ? of 10 to 90°. The step (B) includes forming a joint between the distal end of the support needle and the first end portion of the chip.