Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition for molding having excellent thermal meltability and capable of providing a molded article that is less likely to crack from a resin weld during use and has excellent surface gloss, and a molded article including the resin composition for molding. Provided is a resin composition for molding, containing: a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin; a polyvinyl chloride resin; and a melt additive, the resin composition having an area ratio of a peak B observed in a range of 0.6 to 1.0 ppm to a peak A observed in a range of 9.5 to 10 ppm (Area of peak B/Area of peak A) of 1 to 1,000 when a 1H NMR spectrum is measured by solution NMR.

Abstract: A multilayer tube is provided which suppresses the amount of calcium and organic component leaching to a low level and which can be realized as a tube that has mechanical properties at 60° C. This multilayer tube includes a first polyolefin resin layer configuring the innermost layer, and a second polyolefin resin layer arranged outside of the first polyolefin resin layer; the amount of calcium leaching, measured in accordance with SEMI F-57, of the material of the first polyolefin resin layer is less than 30 ?g/m2; the ratio of the thickness of the first polyolefin resin layer to the total thickness of the first polyolefin resin layer and the second polyolefin resin layer is 0.011-0.17. By means of this configuration, it is possible to suppress the amount of leaching of calcium and organic substances to a low level, and to realize a pipe having a strength that takes into account a 60° C. use environment.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that can improve characteristics such as electrostatic capacitance and rate characteristics of the power storage device. A carbon material used for an electrode material of a power storage device, the carbon material having a graphene layered structure, and in a small-angle X-ray scattering spectrum of the carbon material, a slope of a straight line connecting a point indicating a scattering intensity when a natural logarithm LN (q) of a scattering vector is ?1.5 and a point indicating a natural logarithm of a scattering intensity when the natural logarithm LN (q) of the scattering vector is 1.4 being ?1.5 or less.

Abstract: A positive electrode (1) for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, including a collector (11) and an active material layer (12), wherein a spreading resistance distribution of the layer (12) shows a profile with a sum of frequencies of resistance values 4.0 to 6.0 (log ?) accounting for 0.0 to 5.0% relative to a total, 100%, of frequencies of resistance values 4.0 to 12.5 (log ?). A positive electrode (1) for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, including a collector (11) and an active material layer (12), wherein the layer (12) includes an active material and a conductive carbon material, and an amount of a low-resistance conductive carbon material having a resistivity of 0.10 ?·cm or less is 0.5% by mass or less, based on a total mass of the layer (12).

Abstract: Provided is a sulfur-carbon material composite body which, when used for an electrode of a secondary battery, is unlikely to degrade cycle characteristics at the time of charging and discharging of the secondary battery. Disclosed is a sulfur-carbon material composite body including a first carbon material having a graphene layered structure; a spacer at least partially disposed between graphene layers of the first carbon material or at an end of the first carbon material; and sulfur or a sulfur-containing compound at least partially disposed between the graphene layers of the first carbon material or at the end of the first carbon material.

Abstract: Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of suppressing the change in sound insulating property of laminated glass in a relatively high temperature region. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is an interlayer film for laminated glass having a one-layer structure or a two or more-layer structure, and when the interlayer film is sandwiched between two sheets of green glass having a thickness of 2 mm to obtain a laminated glass X with a size of 25 mm long x 300 mm wide, an absolute value of difference between a secondary resonance frequency of the laminated glass X before irradiation with xenon light and a secondary resonance frequency of the laminated glass X after irradiation with xenon light determined by a specific xenon light irradiation test is 70 Hz or less, a loss factor at 20° C. of the laminated glass X is 0.24 or more, and a solar transmittance of the laminated glass X is 50 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode material for a secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics due to charge and discharge of the secondary battery. A negative electrode material for a secondary battery includes a negative electrode active material containing a particle 1 and a first carbon material capable of occluding and releasing alkali metal ions or alkaline earth metal ions; and a conductive aid containing a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, in which the particle 1 has a mother particle 2 including a metal or a metal compound, a covering layer 3 covering at least a portion of a surface 2a of the mother particle 2 and including amorphous carbon, and a conductive material 4 attached directly or indirectly to the surface 2a of the mother particle 2 and having conductivity higher than that of the amorphous carbon.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive paste which leaves less fine undissolved matter when dissolved in an organic solvent and thus can be easily filtrated, which has excellent printability, and which can exhibit excellent surface smoothness after printing. Provided is a conductive paste used for forming an electrode of a multilayer ceramic capacitor, the conductive paste containing: a polyvinyl acetal resin; an organic solvent; and a conductive powder, the polyvinyl acetal resin having a wave number A (cm?1) of a peak within a range of 3,100 to 3,700 cm?1 in an IR absorption spectrum measured using an infrared spectrophotometer; and a hydroxy group content (mol %), the wavenumber A of the peak and the hydroxy group content satisfying relations of the following formulas (1) and (2): [(3,470?A)/Hydroxy group content]?5.

Abstract: The method of the present invention for producing 1,3-butadiene includes: vaporizing an ethanol feedstock in a vaporizer (104), supplying the feedstock to two or more parallel first reactors (108) to convert ethanol into acetaldehyde in the presence of a first catalyst; supplying a resulting intermediate gas to a second reactor (110) to convert ethanol and acetaldehyde into 1,3-butadiene in the presence of a second catalyst; purifying a resulting crude gas containing 1,3-butadiene by a gas-liquid separator (112), a first distillation column (114), a fourth reactor (116), and a second distillation column (118); and supplying an oxygen-containing gas to at least one of the two or more parallel first reactors (108) under specific conditions, while discharging a carbon dioxide-containing gas from the first reactor (108), to thereby regenerate the first catalyst, while continuing the conversion reaction.

Abstract: A light-modulating material of which the light transmittance can be controlled over a wide region from visible light to infrared light by voltage application is provided. The light-modulating material comprises a graphene-like carbon material having an aspect ratio of 3 or more and 330 or less.

Abstract: A solid junction-type photoelectric conversion element (10) including a first conductive layer (2), an electric power generation layer (4), and a second conductive layer (6), which are laminated in this order, wherein the electric power generation layer (4) comprises: a perovskite compound represented by a composition formula ABX3, formed of an organic cation A, a metal cation B and a halide anion X, and a compound Z having no perovskite structure.

Abstract: An interlayer film for laminated glass is an interlayer film for laminated glass, the interlayer film having a structure of one or two or more layers, and comprising a first layer comprising a thermoplastic resin and a silica particle, in which the silica particle has an average secondary particle size (d50) of 0.01 ?m or more and 2.2 ?m or less and a maximum particle size peak value of 20 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a method for determining origin of carbon source of chemical substance, which makes it possible to determine whether resource-recycled carbon is used as a carbon raw material from a chemical substance in various goods. The method for determining origin of carbon source of chemical substance includes: a step S1 of acquiring a carbon-14 content rate R1 of a standard chemical substance having carbon element in which carbon has been recycled as a resource; a step S2 of acquiring a carbon-14 content rate R2 of a chemical substance to be identified; a step S3 of calculating a ratio (R2/R1) of the content rate R2 to the content rate R1; and a step S4 of determining that a carbon raw material in the chemical substance to be identified contains resource-recycled carbon based on the ratio (R2/R1).

Abstract: Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of enhancing the sound insulating property of laminated glass over a wide resonance frequency region. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a one-layer or two or more-layer structure, and when the interlayer film is arranged between two sheets of clear float glass having a width of 25 mm, a length of 300 mm and a thickness of 2 mm to obtain a laminated glass X, a loss factor at a second resonance frequency, a loss factor at a third resonance frequency, and a loss factor at a fourth resonance frequency measured by a central exciting method at 20° C. in mechanical impedance measurement in accordance with ISO16940 of the laminated glass X are respectively 0.4 or more.

Abstract: A strip member that can be made into a spiral pipe with an enlarged perimeter by being spirally wound. A first fitting portion (93) is disposed in one end portion of a cross-section orthogonal to an extending direction of a strip member (90) and a second fitting portion (94) is disposed in the other end portion of the cross-section. A spiral pipe (9) is made by spirally winding the strip member (90) and fitting the second fitting portion (94) with the first fitting portion (93) preceding by one turn. The strip member (90) has a cross-sectional configuration in which a reference width direction W9 connecting the first fitting portion (93) and the second fitting portion (94) on the cross-section is inclinable to an outer surface side toward the first fitting portion side when the strip member is wound.

Abstract: In the method of the present invention, 1,3-butadiene is produced by vaporizing an ethanol feedstock in a vaporizer (104), feeding the resulting into two or more parallel first reactors (108) to convert the ethanol to acetaldehyde in the presence of a first catalyst, supplying the resulting intermediate gas to a second reactor (110) to convert the ethanol and acetaldehyde to 1,3-butadiene in the presence of a second catalyst, purifying the resulting crude gas containing 1,3-butadiene by a gas-liquid separator (112), a first distillation column (114), a fourth reactor (116), a second distillation column (118), and mixing one of both of a part of the ethanol-containing gas and an acetaldehyde-containing gas obtained in the second distillation column (118) are mixed with the intermediate gas, thereby adjusting an ethanol/acetaldehyde molar ratio in the intermediate gas to 1 to 100.

Abstract: Provided is a cell culture scaffold material having excellent extensibility of pseudopodia and excellent cell proliferation. The cell culture scaffold material according to the present invention contains a peptide-conjugated polyvinyl alcohol derivative having a polyvinyl alcohol derivative portion and a peptide portion, and has a hydroxyl value of 1,100 mgKOH/g or less.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a foam that is less likely to deflate even after prolonged or repeated load application, has low density, and has good appearance quality, and a method for producing the foam. Provided is a foam including cells dispersed in an elastomer resin, the cells having an average diameter of 40 to 60 ?m and an average circularity of 0.990 or greater.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a foam that is less likely to deflate even after prolonged or repeated load application, has low density, and has good appearance quality, and a method for producing the foam. Provided is a foam including cells dispersed in an elastomer resin, the foam having a thickness of 300 ?m or greater, the foam having a surface layer that is a portion from a surface to a depth of 100 ?m and a center portion that is a portion other than the surface layer, the cells in the surface layer having an average circularity of 0.980 or greater, the cells in the center portion having an average circularity of 0.990 or greater, the cells having an average diameter of 70 ?m or greater.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst including: a porous carrier including at least one element X selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to Groups 13 and 14 of the periodic table; an oxide of at least one metal element A selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to Groups 3 to 6 of the periodic table; and at least one oxide of a metal element B selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to Group 2 and Groups 7 to 12 of the periodic table, wherein at least a part of the oxide of the metal element A is bonded to the porous carrier.