Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive composition which can suppress the generation of a development residue on the surface of an electrode and the corrosion of the electrode to form a black pixel division layer, and also can suppress the generation of off-pixel in an organic EL display device comprising the pixel division layer. Disclosed is a photosensitive composition comprising (a) a pigment, (b) a resin having two or more tertiary amino groups in the molecule, and (c) a photosensitive agent, wherein the component (b) contains a resin having a structure represented by the general formula (1).

Abstract: The invention aims to provide a tape-shaped prepreg including unidirectionally oriented reinforcing fibers and a thermoplastic resin composition and being high in handleability during molding and high in adhesiveness to other members. The tape-shaped prepreg includes unidirectionally oriented reinforcing fibers and a thermoplastic resin composition and has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 0.

Abstract: This invention relates to a flame retardant fiber-reinforced composite material based on an epoxy resin composition which includes at least one epoxy resin having an epoxy functionality of at least 2 as well as at least one organic phosphinic acid or derivative thereof (e.g., an organic phosphinic acid-modified epoxy resin), reinforced with a fiber having a thermal conductivity?3 W/m·K at room temperature, as well as a prepreg for making such a flame retardant fiber-reinforced composite material. More specifically, a composite material is provided that contains a combination of particular types of epoxy resins, curatives, and reinforcing fibers that provide sufficient flame retardance for thin-ply laminates when cured at 163° C. for 15 minutes. These cured composites are also suitable for a variety of applications requiring flame retardancy.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a molding film having excellent moldability during molding processing, in which the molding film includes a resin layer (X layer) on at least one surface of a polyester film, and the polyester film has a composition in which a layer (A layer) containing a thermoplastic resin A as a main component and a layer (B layer) containing a thermoplastic resin B different from the thermoplastic resin A as a main component are alternately laminated in a thickness direction in a total of 51 or more layers.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a kit or a device for the detection of breast cancer and a method for detecting breast cancer. The present invention provides a kit or a device for the detection of breast cancer, comprising nucleic acid(s) capable of specifically binding to a miRNA in a sample of a subject, and a method for detecting breast cancer, comprising measuring the miRNA in vitro.

Abstract: A synthetic leather has excellent flame retardance and an article covered with the synthetic. The synthetic leather includes a fiber base material layer formed of a non-woven fabric sheet, wherein the non-woven fabric sheet includes at least one flameproof layer formed of a web including a non-melting fiber A having a high-temperature shrinkage rate of 3% or less and a thermal conductivity, conforming to ISO22007-3 (2008), of 0.060 W/m·K or less and is formed by bonding the flameproof layer to a scrim layer including a carbonized heat-resistant fiber B having an LOI value, conforming to JIS K 7201-2 (2007), of 25 or more, and a resin layer is laminated on a surface of the scrim layer, and a covered article covered with the synthetic leather.

Abstract: A method of producing a precursor fiber for carbon fiber includes extruding a polyacrylonitrile copolymer solution from a spinneret into the air, immersing it in a coagulation bath liquid stored in a coagulation bath, redirecting traveling of the coagulating fiber bundle by a first guide immersed in the coagulation bath disposed below the spinneret, and pulling it out of the coagulation bath liquid into the air to prepare a coagulated fiber bundle, which is then subjected to at least a washing step in water, stretching step, oil agent applying step, and drying step, wherein the depth-directional coagulation bath immersion length, which means a distance between the starting point of the immersion of the spinning dope solution in the coagulation bath liquid and the first guide immersed in the coagulation bath where traveling of the coagulating fiber bundle is redirected, is 3 to 40 cm.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an active energy ray-curable lithographic printing ink set that is excellent in superimposition of inks, and a method for producing a printed material using the same. The present invention is an active energy ray-curable printing ink set including at least one ink of black or chromatic color including at least any one of a black pigment, a cyan pigment, a magenta pigment, and a yellow pigment, and a white ink including a white pigment, wherein at least one of the ink of black or chromatic color is the black/chromatic ink (1) having a tack value of 5.0 or more and 12.0 or less at 400 rpm measured with an inkometer at 38° C., and the white ink has a tack value of 1.0 or more and 5.0 or less at 400 rpm measured with an inkometer at 38° C.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced plastic composite containing a fiber-reinforced plastic part having a plate-like portion and a rib protruding from one surface of the plate-like portion, and a metal part, having an average thickness of 0.5-3.0 mm, laminated on part of or all of the plate-like portion of the fiber-reinforced plastic part, comprising: a lamination step for stacking a plurality of incised prepreg layers as a plurality of sheets of base material to form a base laminate, each prepreg layer containing unidirectionally oriented fibers and resin, and a plurality of incisions crossing the fibers, a base material heating step for heating the base laminate, and a molding step for integrating the base laminate and the metal part by pressing them between a rib molding member having a recessed portion for forming a rib and a skin molding member free of such a recessed portion in a pressing device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fiber-reinforced composite material achieving both lightweight properties and mechanical properties, a laminate thereof, and a prepreg capable of easily molding a sandwich structure thereof. The present invention is a prepreg comprising a reinforced fiber substrate (B) impregnated with a resin (A), wherein the reinforced fiber substrate (B) exists in a folded state having a plurality of folds with a fold angle of 0° or more and less than 90° in the prepreg.

Abstract: An intermediate base material is provided that is excellent in the conformity to three-dimensional shapes and that, when formed into a fiber reinforced plastic, develops good surface quality and high mechanical properties. According to one aspect, an incised prepreg is provided that has, in at least a partial region in a prepreg that contains unidirectionally oriented reinforcing fibers and a resin, a plurality of incisions that divide reinforcing fibers, wherein, in the case where a population is made up of the numbers of incisions contained in ten small circular regions of 10 mm in diameter randomly selected in the aforementioned region, a mean value for the population is 10 or greater and a coefficient of variation therefor is within 20%.

Abstract: A prepreg laminate is provided which includes: a woven fabric prepreg on at least one surface layer; and a discontinuous fiber prepreg; the woven fabric prepreg including reinforcing fibers R1 having a woven structure, and a thermosetting resin A, the discontinuous fiber prepreg including unidirectionally oriented discontinuous reinforcing fibers R2 and a thermosetting resin B, the thermosetting resin A and the thermosetting resin B satisfying the following calorific value condition: calorific value condition: when each of the thermosetting resin A and the thermosetting resin B is heated using a differential scanning calorimeter from 50° C. to 130° C. at 700° C./min under a nitrogen atmosphere followed by retention at 130° C.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a membrane-catalyst assembly including an electrolyte membrane and a catalyst layer bonded to the electrolyte membrane, the method including: a liquid application step of applying, in the atmosphere, a liquid to only a surface of the electrolyte membrane before bonding; and a thermocompression bonding step of bonding, to the catalyst layer, the electrolyte membrane to which the liquid is applied, by thermocompression bonding. Provided is a method of manufacturing a membrane-catalyst assembly including a polymer electrolyte membrane and a catalyst layer bonded to the polymer electrolyte membrane, in which the manufacturing method can achieve both the relaxation of thermocompression bonding conditions and the improvement of adhesion between the catalyst layer and the electrolyte membrane with high productivity.

Abstract: There is provided a nonwoven fabric for skin care products excellent in adhesion and wiping properties, and soft touch to the skin. The nonwoven fabric includes synthetic fibers and cellulose fibers. When a maximum length of a cross section of the synthetic fibers is denoted by A and a maximum width thereof is denoted by B, flatness expressed by the formula (1) is 1.0 to 1.5: flatness=A/B??(1) the synthetic fibers have recesses, a depth of which is 1.0% or more and 10.0% or less relative to a single fiber diameter of the synthetic fibers, a single fiber diameter of the synthetic fibers is 1 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, a content of the synthetic fibers is 30 to 70% by mass relative to the entire nonwoven fabric for skin care products, a content of the cellulose fibers is 70 to 30% by mass relative to the entire nonwoven fabric for skin care products, and an average single fiber diameter of all fibers constituting the nonwoven fabric for skin care products is 5 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less.

Abstract: A method produces a hairpin single-stranded RNA molecule capable of inhibiting expression of a target gene, the method including: (i) an annealing step of annealing a first single-stranded oligoRNA molecule and a second single-stranded oligoRNA molecule; and (ii) a ligation step of ligating 3? end of the first single-stranded oligoRNA molecule and 5? end of the second single-stranded oligoRNA molecule by an Rnl2 family ligase, wherein a sequence produced by ligating the first single-stranded oligoRNA molecule and the second single-stranded oligoRNA molecule includes a gene expression-inhibiting sequence for the target gene.

Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a prepreg and an integrally molded article, wherein the prepreg exhibits suitable flexibility and adhesiveness, excels in formability on a complicated mold face and adhesion to a mold face, causes no positional shift, and can be efficiently reinforced and stiffened at an intended position. A main object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg including (A) reinforcing fibers, (B) a thermosetting resin, and (C) a thermoplastic resin, wherein the (C) thermoplastic resin exists in at least a part of a face of the prepreg, and wherein the prepreg satisfies the condition [I], and satisfies the condition [II] or the condition [III]: [I]: the (B) thermosetting resin has a peak in the temperature range of more than 100° C. and 180° C.

Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a resin composition suitable for spinning, particularly electrospinning, and in addition, to provide a heat-resistant non-woven fabric having excellent strength and a method of producing the same. A main object of the present invention is: to provide a resin composition including: (a) at least one heat-resistant resin or a precursor thereof, the heat-resistant resin being selected from the group consisting of a heat-resistant resin containing a nitrogen atom and a heat-resistant resin containing, in the main chain, a group selected from the group consisting of ether group, ketone group, sulfone group, and sulfide group; (b) a solvent; and (c) a surfactant having a fluoroalkyl group; and to form a non-woven fabric using the resin composition by an electrospinning method.

Abstract: Provided is a scintillator panel with reduced deterioration in brightness due to irradiation and higher brightness. A scintillator panel including a substrate and a scintillator layer containing phosphors, in which the scintillator layer includes a binder resin having a ?-conjugated structure composed of seven or more atoms; in which the glass transition temperature of the binder resin is from 30 to 430° C.; and the thickness of the scintillator layer is from 50 to 800 ?m.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: an epoxy resin composition capable of giving cured resins which combine flexural modulus with flexural strain on a high level and have excellent heat resistance; a prepreg comprising the epoxy resin composition and reinforcing fibers; and a fiber-reinforced composite material obtained by curing the prepreg and excellent especially in terms of 0° and 90° bending strength. An embodiment of the epoxy resin composition of the present invention for achieving such purpose is an epoxy resin composition which comprises the following components [A], [B], and [C] and satisfies a specific requirement. Component [A]: a trifunctional amine type epoxy resin. Component [B]: a bisphenol F type epoxy resin which is solid at 25° C. Component [C]: an aromatic amine compound.

Abstract: An embodiment according to the present invention provides a kit or device for detection of bladder cancer, and a method for detecting bladder cancer. An embodiment according to the present invention relates to: a kit or device for detection of bladder cancer, including a nucleic acid(s) capable of specifically binding to an miRNA(s) or a complementary strand(s) thereof in a sample from a subject; and a method for detecting bladder cancer, including measuring the miRNA(s) in vitro.