Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition that has tensile strength at break and tensile elongation superior to a rubber composition produced without mixing a cellulose nanofiber and to provide a latex immersion liquid that is a raw material for the rubber composition and is used at a latex immersion step. Namely, the present invention provides a latex immersion liquid that includes (1) a rubber latex, (2) a modified cellulose nanofiber having an average fiber length of 200-400 nm, and (3) a defoaming agent and also provides a rubber composition produced through a latex immersion step using the obtained latex immersion liquid.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition including a rubber component and cellulose-based fibers and having excellent strength. Namely, the present invention provides a rubber composition including Component (A): a modified cellulose nanofiber, Component (B): a surfactant, Component (C): a polyvalent metal, and Component (D): a rubber component and a method for producing the same. Component (A) preferably includes a carboxy group-containing cellulose nanofiber such as an oxidized cellulose nanofiber and a carboxymethylated cellulose nanofiber.

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: 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 aims to provide cellulose fibers covered by inorganic particles on the fiber surface. According to the present invention, complexes of a cellulose fiber and inorganic particles wherein 15% or more of the surface of the cellulose fiber is covered by the inorganic particles can be obtained.

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: The present invention provides a method for reducing web break caused in preparing, by continuous paper making, a fiber sheet containing a high content of functional inorganic substance. The composite fiber sheet manufacturing method includes: generating composite fibers composed of cellulosic fibers and inorganic particles by synthesizing the inorganic particles in slurry containing the cellulosic fibers; and continuously generating a sheet by supplying composite-fiber-containing slurry including the composite fibers to a continuous paper machine. In the composite fiber generating step, at least one of (i) slurry containing cellulosic fibers having a length of 1.2 mm to 2.0 mm in an amount of 16% or more in terms of length-weighted fiber length distribution (%) and (ii) slurry containing cellulosic fibers having a length of 1.2 mm to 3.2 mm in an amount of 30% or more in terms of length-weighted fiber length distribution (%) is used.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a rubber composition having sufficient reinforcement and fatigue resistance even when a large strain is applied thereto, and the present invention is to provide a substituted carboxy group-containing modified cellulose nanofiber wherein at least part thereof has at least any one of a substituent represented by Formula (a): —CONH—R1 and a substituent represented by Formula (b): —COO—R1 (in Formulae (a) and (b), R1 is independently a C3-30 hydrocarbon having at least one unsaturated bond), and a rubber composition including the same.

Abstract: An organic expander for a lead storage battery, the organic expander containing lignin in which the methoxy group content relative to the solid content is 3 to 20 mass %, wherein the organic expander contains an organic acid in an amount of 0.0001 to 5 mass % relative to the solid content of the organic expander. It is possible to improve charge acceptance while maintaining the discharge characteristics of the lead storage battery.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed to provide carboxymethylcellulose or a salt thereof for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, an electrode composition containing the same for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, an electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, with a small reduction in the capacity even when charging and discharging are repeated, and with high durability. The carboxymethylcellulose or the salt thereof is used as a binder for an electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, in which the degree of substitution with carboxymethyl of the carboxymethylcellulose or the salt thereof is 0.5 to 1.5, and a thermal rate of change T that is a difference (WB?WA) between a thermal weight reduction rate WA at a thermal decomposition start point and a thermal weight reduction rate WB at a thermal decomposition end point measured by a thermogravimetric-differential thermal analyzer is 45% or lower.

Abstract: A modified polyolefin resin may be capable of obtaining an intended adhesion strength regardless of a kind of a base resin thereof even when graft modification is carried out by using an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative having a cyclic structure. Such a modified polyolefin resin may be a modified product of a polyolefin resin and satisfying (A) and (B): (A): a modifying component includes an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative having a cyclic structure; and (B): a ring-opening degree expressed by formula (1) is 40 or more. Ring-opening degree=modification degree K×ring-opening rate R??(1): wherein, in formula (1), the modification degree K is a grafting weight (% by weight) of the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative, and the ring-opening rate R is a ring-opening rate (%) of the cyclic structure in the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative.

Abstract: A modified polyolefin resin having an intended adhesion strength to various substrates even when graft modification may be carried out by using an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative having a cyclic structure. The modified polyolefin resin may be a modified product of a polyolefin resin and satisfies conditions (A) to (C): condition (A)—a modifying component includes an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative having a cyclic structure; condition (B)—a ring-opening degree expressed by formula (1) is 40 or more; and condition (C)—the polyolefin resin includes an ethylene structural unit, ring-opening degree=modification degree K×ring-opening rate R??(1) wherein, in the formula (1), the modification degree K is a grafting weight (wt. %) of the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative, and the ring-opening rate R is a ring-opening rate (%) of the cyclic structure in the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is cellulose acetate fibers that have an excellent affinity for resins and is capable of reinforcing resins. The cellulose acetate fibers have a cellulose triacetate I crystal structure and a number-average fiber diameter of 2 nm or more but 400 nm or less.

Abstract: There is provided a filling packaging machine which does not cause poor sealing between a sealing tape and the inner surface of a tubular packaging material in a laterally sealed portion as formed by ultrasonic sealing. A filling packaging machine includes a tape attachment device, a vertical sealing device and a lateral sealing device. The tape attachment device attaches a predetermined-width portion of a sealing tape to one end of one surface of a web-like packaging material in such a manner that a first edge of both edges of the sealing tape, which is to be located on an overlapping portion side of a tubular packaging material when viewed from an inner step of an overlapping portion, will be disposed at a position displaced from an outer step of the overlapping portion when viewed in the thickness direction of the tubular packaging material.

Abstract: Provided is a resin composition having a large proportion of polyolefin components, allowing preparation of a solution having a high solid content, having a good solution property after long-term storage, having good pigment dispersibility, and including a modified product of component (A): polyolefin resin with component (B): (meth)acrylic acid and/or (meth)acrylic acid ester, in which the weight ratio of the component (A) to the component (B) ((A)/(B)) is 90/10 to 30/70, and the component (B) contains 20% by weight or more of component (B1): an alkoxy (poly)alkylene glycol mono(meth)acrylic acid ester.

Abstract: A composition in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes: composite fibers composed of inorganic particles and fibers; and at least one of (i) different-type inorganic particles which are different in type from the inorganic particles, (ii) different-type fibers which are different in type from the fibers, and (iii) organic particles.

Abstract: An object is to provide a cosmetic composition that: has a high soft focus effect, a high skin beautifying effect, and a high moisture retaining effect; is safe; and enables reduction in environmental impact. Yeast cell wall particles retaining shapes of yeast cell walls and having an average particle diameter ranging from 1 to 25 ?m are prepared and blended in a cosmetic composition.

Abstract: A resin composition according to the present invention contains: at least one resin that is selected from among an epoxy resin, a urethane resin, a fluorine resin, a silicone resin, an acrylic resin and a vinyl resin; and anion-modified cellulose nanofibers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard coat film having excellent adhesion to a hard coat layer when a cycloolefin polymer film is used as a base material. The hard coat film of the present invention comprises a hard coat layer containing an ionizing radiation curable resin laminated on at least one surface of a cycloolefin polymer base film through a primer layer. This primer layer contains a modified polyolefin resin in which a polyolefin resin is graft-modified with an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, and a (meth)acrylic acid ester. In this modified polyolefin resin, the graft weight of the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivative thereof is 0.4 to 7 wt. % when the amount of the modified polyolefin resin is taken as 100 wt. %.

Abstract: A barrier paper includes a paper base material and a barrier layer containing cellulose fibers formed on the paper base material, in which an integrated value from 10.0 ?m to 500.0 ?m, obtained from a volume-based particle size distribution diagram when a dispersion containing the cellulose fibers is measured by laser diffraction, is 30% or more.