Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I) or an N-oxide compound thereof is provided with excellent control efficacies against harmful arthropods, wherein A1 represents a nitrogen atom or a CR4; R4 represents a hydrogen atom, a OR27, a NR27R28, a cyano group, a nitro group, or a halogen atom; hereinafter referred to as “Het”, represents Het-1, Het-2, Het-3, or Het-4: wherein #1 represents the binding position of Het and T, and #2 represents the binding position of Het and T represents T-1, T-2, T-3, T-4, T-5, T-6, or T-7: R1 represents a C1-C10 chain hydrocarbon group having one or more halogen atoms or the like; and R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms or the like.

Abstract: A sputtering target comprising: a backing plate; and a target material bonded via a bonding material to a bonding region of the backing plate, wherein a bonding area of a bonding portion between the target material and the backing plate accounts for 97% or more of the area of the bonding region, and wherein a maximum defect area of portions without the bonding material present between the target material and the backing plate accounts for 0.6% or less of the area of the bonding region. The sputtering target enables manufacturing of the sputtering target in which the target material is hardly peeled off during sputtering.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic photoelectric conversion material such that an increase in the solution viscosity can be suppressed even after long-term storage. This organic photoelectric conversion material comprises Pd, wherein the average number of Pd clusters in a scanning transmission electron microscopic image of a thin film made of the organic photoelectric conversion material is 1500 counts/?m3 or less. It is preferable that the Pd clusters each have a particle diameter of from 1 nm to 20 nm. It is preferable that the organic photoelectric conversion material is a polymer for organic photoelectric conversion material; and it is more preferable that the polymer for organic photoelectric conversion material is a D-A type ?-conjugated polymer. It is preferable that the polymer for organic photoelectric conversion material has a thiophene ring.

Abstract: There are provided a resin pellet having high transportability in a solid state in a feeder and a method of producing the same. A resin pellet has a recess, and when a height of the resin pellet in a case in which the resin pellet is disposed on a horizontal plane in such a manner that the recess faces the horizontal plane is defined as T1, and a maximum diameter of the resin pellet as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane is defined as L, an aspect ratio defined by L/T1 is 1.2 to 1.8.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal polyester composition comprising a liquid crystal polyester and a specific carbon black, wherein primary particles of the carbon black have an average particle diameter of 50 nm or more and less than 70 nm, and the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of less than 40 m2/g.

Abstract: Disclosed is alumina powder having a relative standard deviation of a volume-based crystallite diameter distribution of 0.25 to 0.80, as determined by analyzing an X-ray diffraction peak by a fundamental parameter method.

Abstract: Provided is an ethylene-based modifier with which a film having good slipperiness and relatively less fish eyes can be formed. The ethylene-based modifier has a strain-hardening exponent of 0.27 or more and 0.53 or less as determined by the LAOS method.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition comprising a fluorescent particle containing a perovskite compound, wherein the curable composition exhibits a good quantum yield by itself; a film formed by curing the curable composition; and a laminated body and a display apparatus comprising the film. Provided are a curable composition comprising a fluorescent particle (A) containing a perovskite compound, a photopolymerizable compound (B), and a photopolymerization initiator (C), wherein the photopolymerizable compound (B) includes a (meth)acrylic compound having a log P value of 0.2 or more and 8.2 or less; a film formed by curing the curable composition; and a laminated body and a display apparatus comprising the film.

Abstract: A powder storage apparatus 41 includes: a container 42 having a powder inlet 18A, a powder outlet 10A, and a gas outlet 18B; and a tube 70 connected to the powder inlet 18A. If AS [m2] is a cross-sectional area of a cross section perpendicular to an axis of the tube 70 at a bottom end 70b of the tube 70 and AB [m2] is a cross-sectional area of the gas outlet 18B, the following expression is satisfied. AS/AB<4.

Abstract: Provided are a resin composition comprising a semiconductor particle (A) and a resin (B), wherein a content of a polymerizable compound (C) and a content of a polymerization initiator (D) are each 0.01% by mass or less based on a total amount of a solid content of the resin composition, and a ratio of the content of the semiconductor particle (A) to that of the resin (B) is 0.90 or less in terms of mass ratio; a resin film formed from the resin composition; and a display device comprising the resin film.

Abstract: Provided is a resin film comprising a semiconductor particle (A), wherein the resin film has a first emission intensity retention rate R1 of 95% or more when a first light exposure test is conducted; in first light exposure test, the resin film is exposed to light in air in a condition of a light exposure of 200 mJ/cm2 (in terms of irradiation wavelength of 365 nm); and R1 is represented by the equation: first emission intensity retention rate R1(%)=100×(emission intensity after first light exposure test)/(emission intensity before first light exposure test); and a display device including the resin film.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer that has both favorable ion permeability and favorable peeling strength. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes: a resin; and a filler, the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer having a thickness of less than 8.0 ?m, the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer having a surface roughness (Ra) of not more than 0.15 ?m.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition comprising a fluorescent particle containing a perovskite compound and a photopolymerizable compound, with a good dispersibility of the above semiconductor particle to the above photopolymerizable compound; a film formed by curing the curable composition; and a laminated body and a display apparatus comprising the film. Provided are a curable composition comprising a fluorescent particle (A) containing a perovskite compound, a photopolymerizable compound (B), and a dispersing agent (C), wherein the dispersing agent (C) includes at least one kind of compound selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid compounds, carboxylic acid compounds, sulfonic acid compounds, primary to tertiary amine compounds, quaternary ammonium compounds, and thiol compounds; a film formed by curing the curable composition; and a laminated body and a display apparatus comprising the film.

Abstract: This powder satisfies requirements 1 and 2. Requirement 1: |dA(T)/dT| satisfies 10 ppm/° C. or more at at least one temperature T1 in a range of ?200° C. to 1200° C. A is (a-axis (shorter axis) lattice constant) of a crystal in the powder)/(c-axis (longer axis) lattice constant of the crystal in the powder), and each of the lattice constants is obtained by X-ray diffractometry of the powder. Requirement 2: a particle diameter D50 at a cumulative frequency of 50%, a particle diameter D10 at a cumulative frequency of 10%, and a particle diameter D90 at a cumulative frequency of 90% in a volume-based cumulative particle diameter distribution curve obtained by a laser diffraction scattering method satisfy conditions (I) and (II): (I) D10/D50 is 0.05 or more and 0.45 or less; and (II) D90 is 0.5 ?m or more and 70 ?m or less.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, containing a lithium metal composite oxide and an Li—X compound containing Li and an element X, in which the Li—X compound is a lithium-ion conductive oxide, the lithium metal composite oxide contains secondary particles, which are aggregates of primary particles, the secondary particles have gaps among the primary particles, the Li—X compound is present at least in the gap, the element X is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Nb, W, and Mo, and the positive electrode active material for the lithium secondary battery satisfies (A). 4.

Abstract: A light-emitting marker particle having a light-emitting particle core containing a light-emitting material and first and second surface groups bound to the light-emitting particle core. The first surface group contains a polar group and is an inert group which does not bind to a biomolecule. The second surface group contains a biomolecule binding group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having an excellent control effect against harmful arthropods, which is represented by formula (I) [wherein A1 represents CR1b etc., A2 represents CR1c etc., T represents a C1-C10 chain hydrocarbon group which is substituted with one or more halogen atoms etc., Q represents an oxygen atom etc., R1a, R1b and R1c are identical to or different from each other, and each represents a C1-C6 alkyl group etc., R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group etc., R3 represents a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group etc., n is 0, 1 or 2, and q is 0, 1, 2 or 3.], as well as a composition for controlling harmful arthropod comprising the same compound, and a method for controlling harmful arthropod comprising applying the same compound.

Abstract: A process for preparing a glycoside compound represented by formula (3), which includes reacting a glycoside compound represented by formula (1) with an ether compound represented by formula (2) in the presence of an oxidizing agent and an acid to prepare a glycoside compound represented by formula (3), where the oxidizing agent is added to a reaction system, followed by adding an acid thereto, where Ba represents a cytosine group which may be optionally substituted with acyl group, or an uracil group, R1 represents a C1 to C6 alkyl group or a phenyl group, and n is 0 or 1, where an oxidizing agent is selected from N-halogenated succinimide and N-halogenated hydantoin, and an acid is selected from perfluoroalkylcarboxylic acid, alkylsulfonic acid, arylsulfonic acid, periluoroalkylsulfonic acid, and salts thereof, and any combinations thereof, which can provide a synthesis of a desired compound with high purity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a salt represented by formula (I): wherein, in formula (I), Q1 and Q2 each independently represent a fluorine atom or the like, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or the like, zi represents an integer of 0 to 6, and when zi is 2 or more, a plurality of R1 and R2 may be the same or different from each other, X1 represents *—CO—O—, *—O—CO— or the like (* represents a bonding site to C(R1)(R2) or C(Q1)(Q2)), L1 represents a single bond or a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 28 carbon atoms or the like, R3 and R4 each independently represent a cyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 18 carbon atoms which may have a substituent or the like, and Z+ represents an organic cation.

Abstract: To provide a solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization having a small amount of fine powder. A solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization containing a titanium atom, a magnesium atom, a halogen atom, and an internal electron donor. The solid catalyst component has an absolute difference in binding energy of 73.50 to 75.35 eV between a peak (1) with the binding energy of 457.00 to 459.00 eV and a peak (2) with the binding energy of 532.50 to 534.50 eV. The peak (1) and the peak (2) are within peak components measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the peak (1) is obtained by waveform separation of peaks assigned to the 2p orbitals of the titanium atom, and the peak (2) is obtained by waveform separation of peaks assigned to the is orbital of an oxygen atom.