Abstract: A power storage material is made by using a fiber material of cellulose molecules obtained from wood, plant fibers (pulp), and the like, and capable of storing electric power of direct current and alternating current, and an ultra power storage body has the power storage material. A power storage material includes a fiber mainly including a fiber derived from at least any one of wood, plant fibers (pulp), animals, algae, microorganisms, and microbial products, and having a large number of recesses and protrusions on a surface. The fiber is preferably crystallized/amorphous fibers, is preferably an amorphous fiber having an atomic vacancy, and preferably has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or more. Preferably, the large number of recesses and protrusions have a diameter of 1 nm to 500 nm. Preferably, the electric resistance is 100 M? or more, and the electric capacity is 5 mF/cm2 or more.

Abstract: An object is to provide an adsorbent using activated carbon fiber, the adsorbent being suitable for motor vehicle canisters and enabling reduction in pressure loss. An activated carbon fiber sheet for a motor vehicle canister fulfils the following conditions (1) to (4). (1) The sheet has a specific surface area ranging from 1100 to 2300 m2/g. (2) The sheet has a density ranging from 0.010 to 0.200 g/cm3 or less. (3) The sheet has a thickness ranging from 0.1 to 100.00 mm. (4) The sheet has a fiber size of 13.0 ?m or larger.

Abstract: A rubber composition containing a rubber component and cellulose fibers may exhibit favorable strength. Such a rubber composition may include a component A: a rubber component, a component B: a cellulose-based filler, and a component C: a cross-linkable compound that has a thiosulfuric acid group or an ?,?-unsaturated carbonyl group, and an amino group. Such a rubber composition may be produced by a method including mixing and kneading the components A to C. The component B may include at least one of pulp fibers, a powdered cellulose, and fine cellulose fibers. The component C may be, e.g., S-(3-aminopropyl)thiosulfuric acid.

Abstract: A resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin and cellulose fibers, in which a raw material of a main component of the cellulose fibers is a low basis weight paper that has been subjected to a drying step and that has a basis weight of 100 g/m2 or less.

Abstract: A paper container includes a body front panel (5), a body left side panel (6), a body right side panel (8), and a body back panel (7), which are contiguous through body vertical folding lines. A vertical direction sealing panel (25) is configured to form a quadrangular tubular body (26). A top portion (28) has an inclined surface (S) which is lower on the body front panel side and higher on the body back panel side. The inclined surface has an opening, and a spout is provided at the opening. The body vertical folding line through which the body front panel and the body right side panel are contiguous with each other and the body vertical folding line through which the body front panel and the body left side panel are contiguous with each other are approximately symmetrical bent lines bent toward a center of the body front panel.

Abstract: Provided is a thermosensitive recording medium being excellent in oil resistance among various performances required for the thermosensitive recording medium, and being further excellent in heat resistance, plasticizer resistance, and printing (recording) run-ability. That is a thermosensitive recording medium having a thermosensitive recording layer comprising a colorless or pale colored electron donating leuco dye and an electron accepting color developing agent on a substrate, wherein the thermosensitive recording layer contains at least two kinds of urea compounds. The two kinds of urea compounds comprise the first urea compound being represented by the following general formula 1, and the second urea compound being represented by the following general formula 2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard coating film having excellent optical characteristics and adhesion of a hard coating layer, and having excellent adhesion to a laminated film formed on the hard coating film.

Abstract: An organic expander for a lead storage battery includes sulfomethylated kraft lignin, wherein an organic S content contained in the sulfomethylated kraft lignin is more than 3.8 mass % and 5.1 mass % or less.

Abstract: A carboxymethyl cellulose and/or a salt thereof which are used for a binder for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrodes, in which a degree of carboxymethyl substitution per anhydroglucose unit is 0.5 to 1.2, a dispersibility as determined using a powder tester is 20 to 60%, or a dispersibility (BS) in methanol as determined by turbinscan is 3 to 10%.

Abstract: A hard coat film excellent in initial adhesion and light-resistance adhesion between an easy-bonding layer and a hard coat layer on a cycloolefin polymer-based film. The hard coat film includes a hard coat layer containing an ultraviolet curable resin, an ultraviolet absorbing agent, and dye being stacked on at least one surface of a cycloolefin polymer-based film via an easy-bonding layer including ultraviolet curable resin containing inorganic fine particles, and has: a thickness of the easy-bonding layer is 0.1 to 2.0 ?m; a thickness of the hard coat layer 1.0 to 10 ?m; residual rates of the hard coat layer and the easy-bonding layer, measured by a crosscut method of JIS-K5600-5-6, are 100%, and residual rates of the hard coat layer and the easy-bonding layer, after ultraviolet radiation (a light resistance test) for 100 hours in an environment at a temperature of 63° C., at a relative humidity of 50%, and with irradiance of 500 W/m2, are 100%.

Abstract: Provided is a fibrillated chemically modified cellulose fiber, which has a type-I cellulose crystallinity of at least 50%, an anionic charge density of 0.10-2.00 meq/g, and an average fiber diameter of greater than 500 nm. Also, provided is a fibrillated chemically modified cellulose fiber, wherein the value (A/B) obtained by dividing the viscosity A measured at a shear rate of 0.01/sec by the viscosity B measured at a shear rate of 1000/sec in an aqueous dispersion having a solid content of 1 mass % is at least 100. These fibers have high water retention and high thixotropy.

Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a new form of adsorbent suitable for a motor vehicle canister. An activated carbon fiber sheet satisfies one or two or more of conditions for indices, such as a specific surface area, a pore volume of pores having a given pore diameter, and a sheet density. An embodiment, for example, may have: a specific surface area ranging from 1400 to 2300 m2/g; a pore volume ranging from 0.20 to 0.70 cm3/g for pores having pore diameters of more than 0.7 nm and 2.0 nm or less; an abundance ratio R0.7/2.0, which is a ratio of a pore volume of micropores having pore diameters of 0.7 nm or less occupied in a pore volume of micropores having pore diameters of 2.0 nm or less, ranging from 5% to less than 25%, and a sheet density ranging from 0.030 to 0.200 g/cm3.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard coat film having high heat resistance and dimensional stability and being excellent in optical properties. A hard coat film of the present invention is a hard coat film including hard coat layers on both surfaces of a base material film, each hard coat layer containing an ionizing radiation curable resin composition, the hard coat film satisfying the following conditions (I) and (II), and having a maximum value of a heat shrinkage rate of 1.2% or less after the hard coat film is heat-treated at 150° C. to 200° C. for 1 minute to 30 minutes: condition (I): the ionizing radiation curable resin composition contains an acrylic resin including a (meth)acryloyl group; and condition (II): the ionizing radiation curable resin composition contains inorganic fine particles or organic fine particles.

Abstract: Dry solids of anionically modified cellulose nanofibers with good redispersion are provided by incorporating 5 to 300% by mass of a water-soluble polymer relative to the anionically modified cellulose nanofibers during the preparation of the dry solids of anionically modified cellulose nanofibers.

Abstract: An object is to provide a new form of adsorbent suitable for a high performance canister. An adsorbent including activated carbon is used as the adsorbent for the canister and satisfies the following conditions. P0.2/100 expressed by Equation 1: P0.2/100=X÷Y×100??(Equation 1) is 18% or more, in Equation 1, X represents an amount of adsorbed n-butane gas per 100 parts by weight of the adsorbent at 25° C. under an atmosphere where a gas pressure of n-butane gas is 0.2 kPa, and Y represents an amount of adsorbed n-butane gas per 100 parts by weight of the adsorbent at 25° C. under an atmosphere where a gas pressure of n-butane gas is 100 kPa.

Abstract: Carboxymethylated cellulose nanofibers in which the degree of carboxymethyl substitution is higher than 0.30 and no more than 0.60, the cellulose type I crystallinity is 60% or higher, and the transmittance of light having a wavelength of 660 nm when the carboxymethylated celluose nanofibers are made into an aqueous dispersion having a solids fraction of 1% (w/v) is 60% or higher.

Abstract: From the viewpoint of a decrease in environmental impact in recent years, an object of the present invention is to effectively utilize lignin as a circulative biomass resource having high effect of reducing environmental impact. Specifically, the object is to provide a lignin derivative that can improve the dispersibility of various substances to be dispersed regardless of uses of cements, dyes, oil field drilling mud, and the like. The present invention provides a lignin derivative compound that is a reaction product of a lignin sulfonic acid-based compound with an aromatic water-soluble compound, and a dispersant containing the same. The lignin derivative compound preferably has an anionic functional group and/or a polyalkylene oxide chain.

Abstract: A problem is to provide a formed adsorber having excellent adsorption and desorption performance for fuel vapor (in particular, n-butane) of a wide concentration range from a low concentration to a high concentration. A formed product including activated carbon fiber, granular activated carbon, and a binder is prepared. A weight ratio of the activated carbon fiber to the granular activated carbon is 5 to 95 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber to 95 to 5 parts by weight of the granular activated carbon, in a total weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, a content ratio of the binder in the formed adsorber is 0.3 to 20 parts by weight of the binder to 100 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, the granular activated carbon has a total pore volume ranging from 0.90 to 2.50 cm3/g, and the activated carbon fiber has a total pore volume ranging from 0.50 to 1.20 cm3/g.

Abstract: This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell electrode binder includes at least: a carboxymethyl cellulose which has a carboxymethyl substitution degree per anhydroglucose unit of 0.5-1.2, and a 1 mass % aqueous solution viscosity, measured by a B-type viscometer (30 rpm) at 25° C., of 1,000-20,000 Pa·s and/or a salt thereof; and a borate. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell electrode binder preferably includes the borate in the range of 0.1-20 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the solid content of the carboxymethyl cellulose or salt thereof.

Abstract: An organic expander for lead storage batteries contains sulfomethylated kraft lignin. The sulfomethylated kraft lignin has an organic S content of 1.5 to 3.8% by mass.