Abstract: Dispersible surface-modified carbon black that is surface-modified by causing a functional group on the surface of the carbon black to be bonded to a diol-modified end-containing polymer through a triisocyanate compound exhibits excellent dispersibility in a non-polar solvent, a low-polar solvent, and a resin. The dispersible surface-modified carbon black is characterized in that a surface functional group of the carbon black is bonded to one isocyanate end group of a triisocyanate compound having three isocyanate end groups, and the remaining two isocyanate end groups are respectively bonded to hydroxyl groups of a diol-modified end-containing polymer.

Abstract: A carbon black aqueous dispersion exhibits excellent dispersibility in an aqueous medium and exhibits excellent rubbing resistance (quick-drying properties), discharge stability, and the like as an aqueous black ink for an inkjet printer or the like. The carbon black aqueous dispersion includes an aqueous medium and carbon black dispersed in the aqueous medium, acidic groups produced on the surface of the carbon black by liquid-phase oxidation being neutralized with a basic amino acid and a basic compound other than the basic amino acid, and hydrogen atoms of the acidic groups being replaced by the basic amino acid and the basic compound.

Abstract: A carbon black aqueous dispersion which has excellent dispersibility in an aqueous medium and is suitable as an aqueous black ink, such as an inkjet printer ink and a method of producing the same. The carbon black aqueous dispersion includes an aqueous medium and a carbon black pigment dispersed in the aqueous medium, wherein some or all of the hydrogen atoms of the acidic groups produced by liquid-phase oxidation of the carbon black are replaced with a basic amino acid salt group by neutralization with a basic amino acid. The method of producing a carbon black aqueous dispersion includes subjecting carbon black to liquid-phase oxidation, removing reduced salts from the resulting slurry, neutralizing the slurry with a basic amino acid to replace some or all of the hydrogen atoms of the acidic groups with a basic amino acid salt group to form a basic amino acid salt compound, and purifying the resulting product.

Abstract: To provide a nonaqueous secondary battery ensuring that a charge-discharge irreversible capacity at an initial cycle is sufficiently small even when an active material layer comprising a negative electrode active material on a current collector is increased in a density for obtaining a high capacity. This object is attained by a graphite composite particle for a nonaqueous secondary battery, which satisfies the requirements (1) and (2): (1) DL/DS is more than 1 and 2 or less, wherein DL ?m means a volume-based median size measured by a laser diffraction/scattering-type particle size distribution measuring apparatus, and DS ?m means an average circle-equivalent particle size which is determined from a measured area S of particles each having a contour not overlapped with a contour of another particle in a SEM; and (2) a Raman R value is 0.04 or more and 0.

Abstract: A surface-modified carbon black pigment suitable as electronic paper black particles, a silicone oil dispersion of the carbon black pigment, and a process for producing the carbon black pigment are disclosed. The carbon black pigment includes surface-modified carbon black, a diphenylmethane group that is bonded to the carbon black via a urethane bond through a functional group on the surface of the carbon black being bonded to a polysiloxane group. The carbon black dispersion includes a silicone oil and the carbon black pigment, the carbon black pigment being dispersed in the silicone oil at a concentration of 1 to 20 wt %.

Abstract: A carbon black aqueous dispersion that is suitable as an aqueous black ink for inkjet printers, and a method of producing the same are disclosed. A surface-treated carbon black aqueous dispersion includes an aqueous medium and surface-treated carbon black that is dispersed in the aqueous medium, the surface-treated carbon black having been chemically modified by causing a hydrophilic surface functional group of the carbon black and an amino group-containing compound to undergo a dehydration-condensation reaction in the presence of a triazine condensing agent to form an amide bond.

Abstract: A hollow carbon nanoballoon structure having a relatively large closed space, and a method of producing a carbon nanoballoon structure capable of easily and stably producing such a structure. The carbon nanoballoon structure is obtained by heating soot prepared by an arc discharge using carbon electrodes, soot prepared by vaporizing carbon by laser irradiation, or carbon black having a specific surface area of 1000 m2/g or more and a primary particle diameter of 20 nm or more at a high temperature in an inert gas atmosphere, and includes graphite sheets linked to form a curved surface.

Abstract: A separator material suitable for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell and a method of producing the same. The separator material exhibiting gas impermeability, strength, dimensional stability during long-term use, and only a small degree of dissolution of organic substances which hinder the cell reaction. The separator material includes a graphite/cured resin molded product produced by binding a graphite powder using a mixed resin prepared by mixing an epoxy resin with a specific epoxy equivalent and a phenolic resin with a specific hydroxyl equivalent at a specific equivalent ratio and adding an imidazole compound without an amino group as a curing accelerator. The graphite/cured resin molded product has, when immersed in hot water at 90° C., a water absorption elongation percentage after 500 hours of immersion of a specific value or less and an amount of ammonium ions dissolved and an amount of TOC dissolved after 50 hours of immersion of specific values or less.

Abstract: A carbon black aqueous dispersion which exhibits excellent dispersibility in an aqueous medium, a small amount of feathering, excellent rubbing resistance (quick-drying properties), excellent discharge stability, and the like, and is suitable as an ink for inkjet printers and the like, and a method of producing the same are disclosed.

Abstract: A negative electrode material for a nonaqueous secondary battery capable of realizing a nonaqueous secondary battery having a small charging/discharging irreversible capacity at an initial cycle, exhibiting an excellent high-rate charging/discharging characteristics and an excellent cycle performances, and having no electrodeposition problem is provided. The main component of the material is graphite particles. The median diameter of the graphite particles is 5 ?m or more, and 40 ?m or less in the volume-basis particle size distribution based on the laser diffraction/scattering particle size distribution measurement. The tapping density of the negative electrode material is 0.7 g/cm3 or more. The specific surface area measured by a BET method is 0.2 m2/g or more, and 8 m2/g or less.

Abstract: To provide a nonaqueous secondary battery ensuring that a charge-discharge irreversible capacity at an initial cycle is sufficiently small even when an active material layer comprising a negative electrode active material on a current collector is increased in a density for obtaining a high capacity. This object is attained by a graphite composite particle for a nonaqueous secondary battery, which satisfies the requirements (1) and (2): (1) DL/DS is more than 1 and 2 or less, wherein DL ?m means a volume-based median size measured by a laser diffraction/scattering-type particle size distribution measuring apparatus, and DS ?m means an average circle-equivalent particle size which is determined from a measured area S of particles each having a contour not overlapped with a contour of another particle in a SEM; and (2) a Raman R value is 0.04 or more and 0.

Abstract: A carbon black aqueous dispersion exhibits excellent dispersibility in an aqueous medium and exhibits excellent rubbing resistance (quick-drying properties), discharge stability, and the like as an aqueous black ink for an inkjet printer or the like. The carbon black aqueous dispersion includes an aqueous medium and carbon black dispersed in the aqueous medium, acidic groups produced on the surface of the carbon black by liquid-phase oxidation being neutralized with a basic amino acid and a basic compound other than the basic amino acid, and hydrogen atoms of the acidic groups being replaced by the basic amino acid and the basic compound.

Abstract: A negative electrode material for a nonaqueous secondary battery capable of realizing a nonaqueous secondary battery having a small charging/discharging irreversible capacity at an initial cycle and exhibiting an excellent high-rate charging/discharging characteristics and an excellent cycle performances is provided. The main component of the material is graphite particles. The median diameter is 5 ?m or more, and 40 ?m or less in the volume-basis particle size distribution based on the laser diffraction/scattering particle size distribution measurement. The tapping density is 0.7 g/cm3 or more. The specific surface area measured by a BET method is 0.2 m2/g or more, and 8 m2/g or less. The average circularity is 0.83 or more, and 1.00 or less. When an electrode is produced by a predetermined method for manufacturing an electrode and, the resulting electrode is subjected to X-ray diffraction, the graphite crystal orientation ratio I110/I004 on the electrode is 0.

Abstract: A carbon black aqueous dispersion which has excellent dispersibility and ink performance and is suitable as an aqueous black ink for an inkjet printer or the like, and a method of producing the same. The carbon black aqueous dispersion is obtained by spraying a slurry including carbon black, a surface chemical modifier, and an aqueous medium under pressure from a nozzle to cause collision between sprayed streams or between sprayed streams and a wall surface. The carbon black agglomerates have a maximum particle diameter of 1 ?m or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a low electric conductivity, high heat radiation polymeric composition which includes a polymeric material and a carbon-based filler compounded with the polymeric material, wherein the carbon-based filler has an electron withdrawing agent grafted onto a surface of the carbon-based filler.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon black for coloring cement excelling in dispersibility in cement slurry, exhibiting superior adhesion to a cement matrix, and excelling in coloring characteristics and strength, and a method for coloring a cement-formed product using the carbon black. The carbon black for coloring cement is a carbon black in which humic acids are adsorbed on the surface by a surface treatment using an aqueous solution in which the humic acids are dissolved. The carbon black is preferably a carbon black on which humic acids are adsorbed by wet-granulation and drying using an aqueous solution in which the humic acids are dissolved as granulation water. The coloring method includes adding and mixing a water suspension in which carbon black, on which the humic acids are adsorbed, is dispersed in water with cement slurry, or directly adding and mixing carbon black on which the humic acids are adsorbed with the cement slurry, thereby coloring a cement-formed product.

Abstract: A graphite cathode and a graphite anode are placed opposite each other through an insulating plate having a notch. A voltage is applied between both of the electrodes to generate arc discharge at the notch of the insulating plate. A given area of the graphite anode is evaporated from an electrode point of the arc discharge, and simultaneously an arc jet is generated from the notch. Thereby, a carbon nanoparticle comprising soot of carbon nanomaterial containing carbon nanohorn is generated. The soot is deposited on a recovering plate for recovery.

Abstract: A method manufactures an electrode plate for a plasma processing device in which a semiconductor wafer is processed to form a highly integrated circuit. The method includes a curing step of heat-curing a liquid thermosetting resin to prepare a resin forming material one or two backing steps of carbonizing the heat-cured resin forming material by heating under a non-oxidizing atmosphere to prepare a baking material composed of glass-like carbon and a polishing step of polishing one face of the baking material, which is exposed to plasma, to a depth of 20 .mu.m to 1.25 mm.

Abstract: A process for producing a preform having a buffer layer for use in compositing a metal matrix composite where the buffer layer is provided at a boundary between a composited portion and a non-composited portion of a metallic material in the metal matrix composite. The process includes subjecting a first dispersion including a liquid medium and a ceramic whisker homogeneously dispersed in the liquid medium to filtration under pressure to form a primary processed preform having a volume fraction of 12 to 30%, depositing on the primary processed preform a second dispersion including a liquid medium and, homogeneously dispersed therein, a binder and at least one member selected from the group consisting of a short fiber and a ceramic whisker, and drying the primary processed preform to form a buffer layer having a volume fraction lower than the volume fraction of the primary processed preform and in a range from 2 to 10%.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising: 100 parts by weight of a rubber component and 35 to 100 parts by weight of a furnace carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area (N.sub.2 SA) of from 60 to 100 m.sup.2 /g, a dibutyl phthalate absorption (DBP) of from 90 to 150 ml/100 g, a .DELTA.DBP (DBP24M4DBP) of from 15 to 40 ml/100 g, an aggregate size distribution (.DELTA.Dst) of from 50 to 150 nm, and an intraaggregate pore mode diameter (D.sub.P) which satisfies the following formula:D.sub.P .ltoreq.1.543Dst-55.0wherein D.sub.P represents the mode diameter of the maximum frequency in a carbon black intraaggregate pore diameter distribution determined using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and Dst represents the mode Stokes diameter of carbon black aggregates determined using a disk centrifuge (DCF).