Abstract: A device for manufacturing a carbon nanotube composite sheet includes: a dispersion liquid production unit for producing a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid; a coating unit for coating the dispersion liquid; a dehydration unit for dehydrating the coated dispersion liquid; and a finishing unit for cutting a sheet dehydrated in the dehydration unit, wherein the dispersion liquid production unit includes a mixing tank provided with a wet-type jet mill, the coating unit includes a coating device provided with a base unit and a dispersion liquid supply unit for supplying the dispersion liquid produced by the dispersion liquid production unit to the base unit, and the dehydration unit is provided with a compression unit for compressing a wet carbon nanotube composite sheet obtained in the coating unit, and a dehydration device for dehydrating the compressed wet carbon nanotube composite sheet.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium is provided. An orientation control layer is deposited on a non-magnetic substrate to control an orientation of a layer located directly thereon, and a perpendicular magnetic layer whose easy axis of magnetization is mainly oriented perpendicular to the non-magnetic substrate is deposited thereon. In depositing the orientation control layer, a first granular structure layer containing Ru or a material mainly made of Ru and a first oxide having a melting point of 1000 degrees C. or lower are deposited by sputtering. In depositing the perpendicular magnetic layer, a second granular structure layer containing magnetic particles and a second oxide having a melting point of 1000 degrees C. or lower are deposited by sputtering, and the magnetic particles are grown so as to form a columnar crystal continuing in a thickness direction. The columnar crystal includes crystal grains constituting the orientation control layer.

Abstract: A separating material superior to conventional separating materials, and a separation method are provided, with which 1,3-butadiene is selectively separated and recovered from a mixed gas including 1,3-butadiene and C4 hydrocarbons other than 1,3-butadiene. A metal complex, which comprises a dicarboxylic acid compound (I) (see (I) below) represented by general formula (I), an ion of a metal such as beryllium, and a dipyridyl compound (II) represented by general formula (II), namely L-Z-L (II) (see L below), is characterized by including, as the dipyridyl compound (II), at least two different dipyridyl compounds (II). The metal complex is used as a 1,3-butadiene separating material. Formula (I) L is represented by any of the compounds below.

Abstract: Disclosed is a solid electrolytic capacitor element including a dielectric layer, a first conductive polymer semiconductor layer, a second conductive polymer semiconductor layer and a conductor layer, formed in that order, on a tungsten anode body having an externally protruding lead wire, and the thickness of the thickest portion of the second conductive polymer semiconductor layer on the lower surface opposite the upper surface from which the lead wire protrudes is thinner than the thickness of the thickest portion of the second conductive polymer semiconductor layer on the side surfaces, and the thickness of the second conductive polymer semiconductor layer on the lower surface is greater than 2 ?m and less than 15 ?m.

Abstract: Cracking in a thermoelectric element made of a filled-skutterudite-type alloy is suppressed. A p-type thermoelectric element includes: a p-type thermoelectric conversion layer made of an alloy having a filled-skutterudite structure containing antimony; a p-side first metal layer that contains titanium simple substances and iron simple substances, and is laminated on the p-type thermoelectric conversion layer; and a p-side second metal layer that contains titanium simple substances, and is laminated on the p-side first metal layer.

Abstract: A surface machining method for a single crystal SiC substrate, including: a step of mounting a grinding plate which includes a soft pad and a hard pad sequentially attached onto a base metal having a flat surface, a step of generating an oxidation product by using the grinding plate, and a step of grinding the surface while removing the oxidation product, wherein abrasive grains made of at least one metallic oxide that is softer than single crystal SiC and has a bandgap are fixed to the surface of the hard pad.

Abstract: A composition for rubber, including a chloroprene-based polymer latex (A), a metal oxide (B), an antioxidant (C), a surfactant (D) and a pH adjuster (E), and being free of a vulcanization accelerator, in which a tetrahydrofuran (THT) insoluble matter content in a chloroprene-based polymer in the (A) is from 50 mass % to 85 mass %, and in which contents of the (B), the (C), the (D), and the (E) with respect to 100 parts by mass of a solid content of the (A) are from 1 part by mass to 10 parts by mass, from 0.1 part by mass to 5 parts by mass, from 0.1 part by mass to 10 parts by mass, and from 0.01 part by mass to 5 parts by mass, respectively.

Abstract: Provided is a packing material for liquid chromatography, including a gel obtained by polymerizing monomers including 40% by mass or more of a crosslinkable monomer having a (meth)acryloyloxy group.

Abstract: A binder composition for nonaqueous battery electrodes is prepared by adding a small amount of an acetylene glycol compound to an aqueous polymer emulsion obtained by emulsion polymerization of a monomer mixture comprising from 15 to 70% by mass of styrene (a), from 20 to 80% by mass of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylate (b), from 1 to 10% by mass of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid (c), from 0.1 to 5% by mass of a crosslinkable ethylenically unsaturated monomer (d), and from 0 to 20% by mass of another monoethylenically unsaturated monomer (e). When the above binder composition is used, an active material is not peeled off in the step of cutting a collector even when a small amount of the binder is used, and a nonaqueous battery excellent in a charge-discharge cycle property can be produced.

Abstract: A catalyst carrier, an electrode catalyst, an electrode including the catalyst, a membrane electrode assembly including the electrode, and a fuel cell including the membrane electrode assembly. The catalyst carrier includes a carbon material having a chain structure including a chain of carbon particles and an alumina-carbon composite particle in which a carbon particle encloses an alumina particle, the alumina-carbon composite particle is contained in the carbon material, and the catalyst carrier has a BET specific surface area of 450 to 1100 m2/g.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a platinum alloy-containing fuel cell electrode catalyst with high activity which is suited for its industrial mass-production. The method for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst includes a step of preparing a dispersion in which particles of a fuel cell electrode catalyst precursor including a platinum alloy is dispersed in an electrolyte solution, and a step of alternately subjecting the dispersion to bubbling with an oxidizing gas and to bubbling with an inert gas or a reducing gas.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an oxygen reduction catalyst comprising composite particles in which primary particles of a titanium compound is dispersed into a carbon structure, wherein the composite particles have titanium, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen as constituent elements, and with regard to a ratio of number of atoms of each of the elements when titanium is taken as 1, a ratio of carbon is larger than 2 and 5 or less, a ratio of nitrogen is larger than 0 and 1 or less, and a ratio of oxygen is 1 or more and 3 or less, and an intensity ratio (D/G ratio) of D band peak intensity to G band peak intensity in a Raman spectrum is in the range of 0.4 to 1.0. The oxygen reduction catalyst according to the present invention has satisfactory initial performance and excellent start-stop durability.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, multiple underlayers formed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer formed on the multiple underlayers. A main component of the magnetic layer is an alloy having a L10 structure. At least one of the multiple underlayers is a crystalline underlayer containing W. The W is a main component of the crystalline underlayer. The crystalline underlayer further contains 1 mol % or more to 20 mol % or less of one or more kinds of elements selected from B, Si, and C. A barrier layer including a material having a NaCl structure is formed between the crystalline underlayer and the magnetic layer.

Abstract: A tocopherol phosphoric acid ester salt in which the tocopherol phosphoric acid ester salt is represented by Formula (1), and in the Formula (1), “R1”, “R2”, and “R3” each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, “M” represents an alkali metal, and “a” is 1.10 or more and 2.00 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a method of removing a protein aggregate which can obtain a useful protein monomer in a high yield and a high purity as a raw material of a pharmaceutical product or the like. The method of removing a protein aggregate includes: a step of making the monomer of a protein and the aggregate of proteins adsorb to the column by making a solution containing a monomer of a protein and an aggregate of proteins pass through a column containing a hard porous polymer self-supporting structure to which a strong cation exchange group is fixed; and a step of making a mobile phase consisting of a mixed solution of a buffer solution and an ionic buffer solution pass through the column to which the monomer of a protein and the aggregate of proteins are adsorbed, to selectively elute the monomer of a protein.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion device includes: a thermoelectric conversion unit that includes thermoelectric conversion elements converting heat caused by temperature difference between a high-temperature side and a low-temperature side into electricity; a base unit that is loaded with the thermoelectric conversion unit to face the low-temperature side of the thermoelectric conversion unit; a lid unit that covers the thermoelectric conversion unit to face the high-temperature side of the thermoelectric conversion unit; a press ring that is provided over an entire circumference of outside of periphery of the thermoelectric conversion unit and sandwiches the brim portion of the lid unit between thereof and the base unit; and plural screws that position the lid unit with respect to the base unit and the thermoelectric conversion unit between the base unit and the lid unit by fixing the press ring to the base unit via the brim portion of the lid unit.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor element which comprises an anode body, a dielectric layer placed so as to cover the anode body, a semiconductor layer placed on the dielectric layer, an insulator layer placed on the semiconductor layer, a carbon layer placed on the insulator layer, and a silver layer placed on the carbon layer, wherein the insulator layer has a part having a thickness of 10 to 100 nm accounting for not less than ? of the whole insulator layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a graphite powder for a negative electrode of a lithium ion secondary battery, including a process of graphitizing a mixture of a carbon raw material powder and a silicon carbide powder, wherein a 90% particle diameter in a volume-based cumulative particle size distribution by laser diffraction method, D90, is 1 to 40 ?m, a silicon carbide content in a total mass of a carbon raw material and silicon carbide (mass of silicon carbide/total mass of the carbon raw material and silicon carbide) is 1 to 35 mass %, the ratio of a 50% particle diameter in a volume-based cumulative particle size distribution by laser diffraction method, D50, of the carbon raw material powder to D50 of silicon carbide powder (D50 of the carbon raw material powder/D50 of silicon carbide powder) is 0.40 to 4.0.

Abstract: A composite electrode material consisting of a carbon coated complex oxide, fibrous carbon and a binder. Said material is prepared by a method which includes co-grinding an active electrode material and fibrous carbon, and adding a binder to the co-grinded mixture to lower the viscosity of the mixture. The fibrous carbon is preferably vapor grown carbon fibers.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is obtained by a method which includes dissolving a polymerizable material for being converted into a conductive polymer in a water-soluble organic solvent to obtain a solution, adding the solution to water while homogenizing the solution to obtain a sol, immersing an anode body having a dielectric layer in the surface of the anode body in the sol, and applying voltage using the anode body as a positive electrode and a counter electrode as a negative electrode placed in the sol to electropolymerize the polymerizable material. An electropolymerizable liquid for producing a conductive polymer, the liquid composed of a sol comprising water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a polymerizable material for being converted into the conductive polymer.