Abstract: In an embodiment, a film retainer 200 includes a base member 210 fixed to a tenter chain and a pin plate 220 supported on the base member 210 to be movable in the movement direction of the tenter chain. The pin plate 220 is provided with a plurality of protruding pins 230 that are stuck into the film for holding the film. The film retainer for a tenter apparatus is capable of suppressing a bowing phenomenon without significant modifications to an existing manufacture facility and being applicable under arbitrary manufacture conditions.

Abstract: An oxynitride phosphor power has a fluorescence peak wavelength of 580 to 605 nm, the oxynitride phosphor having a higher external quantum efficiency than ever before. The oxynitride phosphor powder is an oxynitride phosphor powder containing ?-SiAlON and aluminum nitride, represented by composition formula: Cax1Eux2Si12?(y+z)Al(y+z)OzN16?z wherein x1, x2, y and z are 0<x1?2.50, 0.01?x2?0.20, 0<y?2.3 and 1.5?z?3.5, or x1, x2, y and z are 0<x1?2.70, 0.05?x2?0.20, 2.3?y?5.5 and 1?z?2.5.

Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic composite for light conversion including first step of forming the step level difference such that an oxide crystal phase other than Al2O3 phase of a surface of a solidified body is in a convex shape relative to an Al2O3 phase by subjecting the surface of the solidified body having a structure in which the Al2O3 phase and the oxide crystal phase other than Al2O3 phase are continuously and three-dimensionally entangled with each other to dry etching, and a second step of reducing the step level difference by subjecting the solidified body subjected to the dry etching to CMP or MP.

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: There is disclosed a conductive resin composition, comprising: (a) a resin component, and (b) a fine carbon fiber dispersed in the resin component, wherein a graphite-net plane consisting solely of carbon atoms forms a temple-bell-shaped structural unit comprising closed head-top part and body-part with open lower-end, 2 to 30 of the temple-bell-shaped structural units are stacked sharing a common central axis to form an aggregate, and the aggregates are connected in head-to-tail style with a distance to form the fiber. The resin composition has high conductivity while maintaining the original physical properties of the resin.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyimide film prepared from an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid component and an aromatic diamine component, which has a dimensional change from 25° C. to 500° C. within a range of from ?0.3% to +0.6% based on the initial dimension at 25° C. The polyimide film may be used as a substrate for a CIS solar cell.

Abstract: There is provided an electroconductive polyamide resin composition comprising: (a) a polyamide resin component obtained from a dicarboxylic acid component comprising oxalic acid and a diamine component comprising a diamine having 4 to 12 carbon atoms, and (b) a fine carbon fiber dispersed in the resin component, wherein a graphite-net plane consisting solely of carbon atoms forms a temple-bell-shaped structural unit comprising closed head-top part and body-part with open lower-end, 2 to 30 of the temple-bell-shaped structural units are stacked sharing a common central axis to form an aggregate, and the aggregates are connected in head-to-tail style with a distance to form the fiber.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane module, comprising: a hollow fiber element having a hollow fiber bundle consisting of a number of hollow fiber membranes and a tube sheet provided at an end of the hollow fiber bundle for binding the hollow fiber membranes; a vessel having an opening through which the hollow fiber element is inserted or removed; a lid member having a gas outlet formed therein and attached to cover the opening of the vessel; and a perforated plate having a plurality of through holes for forming gas channels formed therein, the perforated plate being mounted between the tube sheet and the lid member, the gas separation membrane module performing gas separation by supplying mixed gas to the hollow fiber membranes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tris(dialkylamide)aluminum compound, and a method for producing an aluminum-containing thin film using the aluminum compound, the tris(dialkylamide)aluminum compound being represented by the formula (1): wherein R represents a linear alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and R1, R2 and R3 may be the same as, or different from each other, and each independently represents hydrogen atom, or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or R1, R2 and R3 may be joined together to form a ring, with the proviso that the compounds in which two or more of R1, R2 and R3 are hydrogen atoms are excluded, and three dialkylamide ligands may be the same as, or different from each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode material for a secondary battery wherein the inside and the surface of a lithium-titanium complex oxide is composited with a fine carbon fiber as a network.

Abstract: A process for producing a polyimide film laminate includes a substrate and a polyimide film, which includes forming a coating film including a polyamic acid solution composition on the surface of a substrate to produce a laminate composed of the substrate and the polyamic acid solution composition, heating the laminate composed of the substrate and the polyamic acid solution composition at a temperature ranging from at least 150 to 200° C. for 10 minutes or longer, and then heating the heated laminate at a temperature up to 400 to 550° C.

Abstract: In a first step, a diamine is reacted with a molar excess of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride in a solvent containing more than ? mole of water per mole of the tetracarboxylic dianhydride, whereby preparing a polyamic acid solution. Subsequently, in a second step, a diamine and/or a tetracarboxylic dianhydride are added to the polyamic acid solution obtained in the first step so that the molar amount of the diamine component is substantially equal to the molar amount of the tetracarboxylic acid component, and then the diamine and the tetracarboxylic dianhydride are reacted, whereby preparing a polyamic acid solution. By this process, a polyamic acid solution having a high concentration and a low viscosity may be reproducibly and reliably produced, while controlling the molecular weight of the polyamic acid to a predetermined low level.

Abstract: Industrial methods for producing arylsulfur pentafluorides are disclosed. Methods include reacting arylsulfur halotetrafluoride with hydrogen fluoride in the absence or presence of one or more additives selected from a group of fluoride salts, non-fluoride salts, and unsaturated organic compounds to form arylsulfur pentafluorides.

Abstract: A gas separation membrane module in which deformation of a tube sheet such as swelling and shrinkage can be prevented in gas separation. The gas separation membrane module includes a hollow fiber bundle provided by bundling multiple hollow fiber membranes, a module vessel in which the hollow fiber bundle is placed, and a tube sheet fixing the plurality of hollow fiber membranes at an end portion of hollow fiber bundle. The cross section of the tube sheet includes a hollow fiber membrane embedded portion in which the hollow fiber membranes are embedded and a solid portion in which no hollow fiber membrane is embedded, and the solid potion is located outside the hollow fiber membrane embedded portion. At least some of the hollow fiber membranes are wound with reinforcing fiber cloth at least within the hollow fiber membrane embedded portion.

Abstract: To provide a method for producing a polyoxamide resin by one-step polymerization without performing a pre-polycondensation step in a solvent, which is necessary in the conventional production of a polyoxamide resin. A method of mixing an oxalic acid diester and a diamine in a pressure-resistant vessel and subjecting the mixture to polymerization under pressure in the presence of an alcohol produced by a polycondensation reaction and then to melt polymerization at a temperature not lower than the melting point of the produced polymer preferably while extracting the alcohol, thereby producing a polyoxamide resin by one-step polymerization without using a solvent except for an alcohol that is produced by polycondensation of raw materials in the production process.

Abstract: A method of producing a silicon nitride powder includes heating an amorphous Si—N(—H)-based compound in which assuming that the specific surface area is RS (m2/g) and the oxygen content ratio is RO (mass %), RS/RO is 500 or more, at a temperature rising rate of 12 to 100° C./min in a temperature range from 1,000 to 1,400° C. while flowing the compound by a continuous firing furnace.

Abstract: A ceramic composite for light conversion, and method of producing same and a light emitting device including the same. The ceramic composite for light conversion of the present invention is a solidified body having a structure in which at least two oxide phases including a first phase and a second phase are continuously and three-dimensionally intertwined with one another, and characterized in that the first phase is a Y3Al5O12 phase including Ba or Sr and activated with fluorescent Ce, the second phase is an Al2O3 phase, and the Sr or Ba in the solidified body are contained in an amount of 0.01 to 1.00 part by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the solidified body, in terms of the oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed are a nonaqueous electrolytic solution of an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, which contains a sulfonate compound having a specific structure in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by mass of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution, and an electrochemical device containing the nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution is excellent in the effect of improving the storage property of primary batteries and improving the cycle property of secondary batteries in use thereof at high temperatures and the low-temperature property thereof after high-temperature cycles.

Abstract: A novel binuclear metal complex containing a biimidazole as a bridging ligand. The binuclear metal complex can be used as a material for an organic electroluminescence element.

Abstract: A polycrystalline silicon ingot casting mold, and method for producing same. Mold release material being obtained by blending a silicon nitride powder (A) having an average particle diameter along the short axis of 0.6 to 13 ?m with a silicon nitride powder (B) having an average particle diameter along the short axis of 0.1 to 0.3 ?m at a weight ratio of 5:5 to 9:1; coating the mold surface with the slurry; and a heating the mold at 800 to 1200° C. in an atmosphere containing oxygen.