Abstract: Provided is a phosphor represented by a composition of the following formula (1), (Sra,Bab,Cac,Eux,M1d,M2e)SiOf.gMgO??formula (1) (here, M1 represents at least one group 3 element selected from Lu and Sc, M2 represents an alkali metal element selected from Li, Na, and K, and 0<a?2, 0<b?2, 0?c?2, 0.0015?d?0.045, 0?e?0.06, 0<x?0.1, 3.7?f?4.1, and 0?g?1 are satisfied). In addition, provided is a light-emitting device including the phosphor and a light source for irradiating the phosphor with excitation light to cause the phosphor to emit light.

Abstract: This invention provides producing having an objective ketone and/or alcohol by decomposing of a hydrocarbon compound rapidly and selectively having a same number of carbon atoms as a hydrocarbon compound by decomposing a hydroperoxide in a reaction solution obtained from oxidizing the hydrocarbon compound using molecular oxygen of this invention involves, a hydroperoxide decomposition step for decomposing the hydroperoxide into the ketone and/or alcohol by contacting the reaction solution with an aqueous solution containing a carbonate of an alkaline earth metal or a carbonate of an alkali metal and a transition metal compound, a separation step for separating into an oil phase comprising the ketone and/or alcohol, and a water phase comprising the carbonate of an alkaline earth metal or carbonate of an alkali metal and the transition metal compound, a recovery step for recovering the carbonate of an alkali metal or carbonate of an alkaline earth metal and the transition metal compound by combusting the water

Abstract: An oxynitride phosphor powder is an ?-SiAlON phosphor having a dominant wavelength of 565-577 nm and fluorescence intensity and external quantum efficiency that are high enough for practical use. The oxynitride phosphor powder comprises an ?-SiAlON represented by the compositional formula: Cax1Eux2Ybx3Si12?(y+z)Al(y+z)OzN16?z (wherein 0.0<x1?2.0, 0.0000<x2?0.0100, 0.0000<x3?0.0100, 0.4?x2/x3?1.4, 1.0?y?4.0, 0.5?z?2.0).

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a nonaqueous electrolytic solution having an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, the nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing a compound represented by the following general formula (X), in which a polar group (X) is bound to a phosphorus atom (P), and capable of improving electrochemical characteristics in a broad temperature range; an energy storage device using the same; and a novel compound.

Abstract: An oxynitride phosphor powder contains ?-SiAlON and aluminum nitride, obtained by mixing a silicon source, an aluminum source, a calcium source, and a europium source to produce a composition represented by a compositional formula: Cax1Eux2Si12?(y+z)Al(y+z)OzN16?z (wherein x1, x2, y and z are 0<x1?3.40, 0.05?x2?0.20, 4.0?y?7.0, and 0?z?1), and firing the mixture.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorescent material having a composition represented by the following Formula (1). (Sra,Bab,Eux,M11,M2e)SiOf·cMgO . . . Formula (1) (In the formula, M1 is at least one tertiary group element selected from Y and Tb; M2 is an alkali metal selected from Li, Na, and K; and 0<a<2, 0<b<2, 0?c<1, 0.001?d?0.06, 0?e?0.06, 0<x<0.1, and 3.7?f?4.1 are set.) Further, there is provided a light-emitting device including: the fluorescent material; and a light source irradiating the fluorescent material with excitation light to cause the fluorescent material to emit light.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion member including a polycrystalline ceramics includes mixing a substance serving as a silicon source, a substance serving as an aluminum source, a substance serving as a calcium source, and a substance serving as a europium source; firing the obtained mixture to obtain an oxynitride phosphor powder; then sintering the oxynitride phosphor powder in an inert atmosphere to obtain the polycrystalline ceramics, characterized in that the sintered oxynitride phosphor powder has a composition (excluding oxygen) represented by the Formula: Cax1Eux2Si12-(y+z)Al(y+z)OzN16-z (in the Formula, x1, x2, y, and z are values such that 0<x1?3.40, 0.05?x2?0.20, 3.5?y?7.0, 0?z?1).

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material, which can produce, at a high yield, an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material with fewer defects, and with an end part and a central part equivalent to each other in microstructure and mechanical properties, and also makes it possible to increase the ceramic material in size. The method for producing an inorganic fiber-bonded ceramic material is characterized in that it includes: a first pressing step of setting, in a carbon die, a laminate to be surrounded by a ceramic powder, the laminate obtained by stacking a coated inorganic fiber shaped product including an inorganic fiber part of inorganic fibers that have a pyrolysis initiation temperature of 1900° C. or lower, and a surface layer of an inorganic substance for bonding the inorganic fibers to each other, and pressing the laminate at a temperature of 1000 to 1800° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrode by forming an electrode mixture layer on a surface of a current collector using an electrode mixture composition containing an aqueous polyimide precursor solution composition and a specific crosslinking agent, the aqueous polyimide precursor solution composition being obtained by dissolving a specific polyamide acid in an aqueous solvent together with a specific imidazole, and subsequently performing heat treatment to remove the solvent and perform an imidization reaction of the polyamide acid. It is preferable that the imidazole is an imidazole selected from the group consisting of 1,2-dimethylimidazole, 2-ethyl-4-methylimidazole, 4-ethyl-2-methylimidazole, and 1-methyl-4-ethylimidazole.

Abstract: A method manufactures diethyl carbonate by reaction distillation where transesterification and distillation are simultaneously performed in a multistage reaction distillation column provided with a catalyst introduction port and a raw material introduction port located below the catalyst introduction port, wherein: (a) the reaction is performed in a countercurrent flow format in which contact is brought about between a transesterification catalyst, dimethyl carbonate, and ethanol; (e) 1 to 250 mmol of catalyst is used per mole of dimethyl carbonate; (f) the ratio of the volume of air in the catalyst introduction port and the raw material introduction port regarding the volume of air in the reaction distillation part is 0.1 to 0.9; (g) the recirculation ratio in the reaction distillation column is 0.5 to 10; and (h) the temperature of the top part of the column and the reaction distillation part is 60 to 100° C.

Abstract: A ceramic composite for light conversion, which can make the fluorescence dominant wavelength longer up to 580 nm, further arbitrarily adjust the wavelength in the range of 570 to 580 nm, and undergoes no decrease in fluorescence intensity even when the fluorescence dominant wavelength is made longer, with luminescence unevenness suppressed. A light-emitting device comprising ceramic composite mentioned above. The ceramic composite for light conversion is a solidified body including a composition expressed by the following formula (1), where the composition has a structure where at least two oxide phases of a first phase and a second phase are continuously and three-dimensionally entangled mutually, and the ceramic composite for light conversion is characterized in that the first phase is a (Tb, Y)3Al5O12 phase activated with Ce for producing fluorescence, whereas the second phase is an Al2O3 phase.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a ceramic composite material for light conversion which exhibit s excellent heat resistance, durability, and the like as a light converting member of an optical device such as a white light emitting diode, easily controls the ratio of light from a light source and fluorescence, can reduce color unevenness and variance of emitted light, and has high internal quantum efficiency and fluorescence intensity, a method for producing the same, and a light emitting device which includes the same and has high light conversion efficiency. Provided is a ceramic composite material for light conversion including: a fluorescence phase; and a light transmitting phase, the fluorescence phase being a phase containing Ln3Al5O12:Ce (Ln is at least one element selected from Y, Lu, and Tb, and Ce is an activation element), and the light transmitting phase being a phase containing LaAl11O18.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution prepared by dissolving an electrolyte salt in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution contains at least one kind of an isocyanate compound having an ester structure represented by the following general formula (I): (wherein R represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a C6 to C12 aryl group, an alkyloxy group, an alkenyloxy group, an isocyanatoalkyloxy group, or an aryloxy group in which at least one of the hydrogen atom may be substituted with a halogen atom. X represents a linear or branched alkylene group in which at least one of the hydrogen atom may be substituted with a halogen atom, or a bivalent linking group comprising at least one ether bond).

Abstract: A ceramic composite for light conversion comprising a solidified body in which crystalline phases of oxides are three-dimensionally entangled and a method for manufacture thereof. A manufacture method of a ceramic composite for light conversion is characterized in that a polishing step is provided in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process applied to the surface of a solidified body with a structure in which an Al2O3 phase and other phases are three-dimensionally entangled.

Abstract: A method for forming a conductor layer, including subjecting a surface of a polyimide film where a polyimide layer (a) is formed to polyimide etching treatment, to remove at least part of the polyimide layer (a), the polyimide film having the polyimide layer (a) formed on one surface or both surfaces of a polyimide layer (b); and then forming a conductor layer on the surface, such that the polyimide etching treatment time T (min), which is represented using t (min) defined by the formula as described below, is within the range of 0.2t?T?5t.

Abstract: A method for producing nitrous acid ester in which nitric oxide, oxygen, and an alcohol are reacted, thereby generating nitrous acid ester includes a step of generating nitrous acid ester by supplying a bottom liquid from a bottom part of the reaction column, and nitric oxide and/or carbon monoxide, a step of supplying nitrous acid ester to the reaction column; a step of supplying a reaction liquid containing water, nitric acid, and the alcohol to a nitric acid condensing column from the reactor; and a step of separating a low-boiling point component by distillation from the reaction liquid under control of a concentration of the alcohol in a condensed liquid being generated at a bottom part of the nitric acid condensing column to be less than 4.0% by weight so as to introduce the condensed liquid into the reactor from the nitric acid condensing column.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorescent material having a composition represented by the following Formula (1). (Sra, Bab, Eux, M11, M2e) SiOf.cMgO . . . Formula (1) (In the formula, M1 is at least one tertiary group element selected from Y and Tb; M2 is an alkali metal selected from Li, Na, and K; and 0<a<2, 0<b<2, 0?c<1, 0.001?d?0.06, 0?e?0.06, 0<x<0.1, and 3.7?f?4.1 are set.) Further, there is provided a light-emitting device including: the fluorescent material; and a light source irradiating the fluorescent material with excitation light to cause the fluorescent material to emit light.

Abstract: An Li-containing ?-sialon-based phosphor represented by the formula (1): LixEuySi12?(m+n)Al(m+n)On+?N16?n?? (wherein assuming that average valence of Eu is a, x+ya+?=m; 0.45?x<1.2, 0.001?y?0.2, 0.9?m?2.5, 0.5?n?2.4, and ?>0).

Abstract: A solid light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting semiconductor element and a phosphor dispersed in a sealant, in which the phosphor is exited by the light emitted by the semiconductor element to emit a visible light of a wavelength differing from that of the light emitted by the semiconductor element and is a silicate phosphor or a phosphor having a hydroxyl group on its surface, and the sealant is a condensation product of a prepolymer produced by condensation of polydimethyl-siloxane having a silanol group at both ends and an oligomer of an alkoxide of a metal or a semimetal or its derivative.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer tube for transporting a fuel, a chemical liquid or a gas, which is based on a thermoplastic resin, in particular a polyamide resin, wherein its inner layer comprises an electroconductive thermoplastic resin in which a fine carbon fiber has been blended as an agent imparting an electroconductivity, and it excels in a molding processability, a fuel oil resistance and an antistatic property.