Abstract: An electric pulse decomposition method for separating a composite material by an electric pulse, the composite material being obtained by bonding or joining a plurality of conductors to each other with an insulating member, the electric pulse decomposition method including a protrusion formation step for forming a protrusion in a specific site, on a side on which the composite material is arranged, of at least one of the plurality of conductors, and a separation step for separating the plurality of conductors in the composite material 1 by respectively bringing electrodes into contact with surfaces of the plurality of conductors and applying an electric pulse between the electrodes to destroy the insulating member. This makes it possible to separate the plurality of conductors from the composite material by making a shock wave caused by a current of the dielectric breakdown functioning as an adhesive to effectively destroy the insulating member.

Abstract: A hardware trojan detection method is provided including an input and output updating step of updating input and output values of all logic cells by performing computations according to logical expressions of all logic cells included in a netlist to be verified and a detection step of performing hardware trojan detection based on a comparison result of the updated input and output values and a threshold.

Abstract: A chemical looping system includes repeating: a generation process of reacting a reduced form of a material for the chemical looping system, which contains a first element selected from the group consisting of Co and Ni and a second element selected from the group consisting of In and Ga, with carbon dioxide so as to generate an oxidized form of the material for the chemical looping system, in which the second element is oxidized by the reaction, and carbon monoxide, and a reduction treatment of reacting the oxidized form with a reducing agent and thus reducing the second element having been oxidized in the generation process so as to thereby convert the oxidized form back into the reduced form.

Abstract: Provided are a carbon nanotube production device and production method capable of realizing high-temperature heating of a catalyst raw material in a floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD) method, and improving the quality and yield of carbon nanotubes synthesized. A carbon nanotube production device 1 includes a synthesis furnace 2 for synthesizing carbon nanotubes; a catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 for supplying a catalyst raw material used to synthesize carbon nanotubes to the synthesis furnace 2; and a nozzle temperature adjusting unit 6 capable of setting a temperature of an inner portion 4 of the catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 higher than a temperature of a reaction field 5 of the synthesis furnace 2.

Abstract: A secondary battery negative electrode according to the invention includes: a three-dimensional current collector formed of a self-supporting sponge-like structure of carbon nanotubes; a metal active material contained inside the three-dimensional current collector; and a plurality of seed particles contained inside the three-dimensional current collector and made of a material different from the metal active material, in which the secondary battery negative electrode does not include a foil of the metal active material.

Abstract: A satisfaction calculation device (10) calculates satisfaction with an air quality expressing an air environment of a space. A specific enthalpy calculation unit (110) acquires a temperature and a humidity of the space and calculates a specific enthalpy of the space. An air quality satisfaction calculation unit (120) acquires a carbon dioxide concentration of the space, decides a constant that takes a different value in accordance with the carbon dioxide concentration, and calculates satisfaction with the air quality as an air quality satisfaction (31) by using the specific enthalpy and the constant. The air quality satisfaction calculation unit (120) calculates, as the air quality satisfaction (31), a value obtained by adding a second constant to a value obtained by multiplying the specific enthalpy by a first constant.

Abstract: The first conductor plate has a groove portion that has a rectangular cross section and is formed in parallel with a first main surface such that the longitudinal direction becomes a first direction, and a first vertical tube portion formed in a direction away from the second conductor plate in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the first main surface, with a branch position in the groove as a starting point. The second conductor plate includes a reflection portion that is inserted into the groove portion in a manner protruding from a second main surface, which is a flat surface of the second conductor plate in contact with the first main surface, and has a reflection surface that reflects the radio wave, propagated along the groove portion, toward the first vertical tube portion.

Abstract: Provided are a structure for producing a high-quality single crystal diamond, and a method for manufacturing the structure for producing diamond. A structure for producing a diamond is composed of a base substrate and an Ir thin film formed on the base substrate. The thermal expansion coefficient of the base substrate is 5 times or less of the thermal expansion coefficient of diamond and the melting point of the base substrate is 700° C. or higher. The peak angle in the X-ray diffraction pattern of the Ir thin film is different from the peak angle in the X-ray diffraction pattern of the base substrate.

Abstract: A synthesis system includes a first flow-path portion, a second flow-path portion, a third flow-path portion and a switcher. The first flow-path portion is connected to a first container in which a liquid raw material is containable. The second flow-path portion is connected to a second container in which a liquid raw material is containable. The third flow-path portion connects the first container and the second container to each other. To the third flow-path portion, a synthesis reaction device that produces a reactant from a liquid raw material is connected. The switcher is switchable between a flow-path state in which gas supplied by a gas supplier is guided to the first flow-path portion and a flow-path state in which gas supplied by the gas supplier is guided to the second flow-path portion.

Abstract: An electric field emission device includes a vacuum vessel configured to include a vacuum chamber; an emitter positioned on one side in an axial direction of the chamber and including an electron generation portion facing another side in the axial direction; a target positioned on the other side of the chamber and facing the emitter; a guard electrode that is a cylindrical body, is fixed to the vacuum vessel, and has an opening portion; a support to move the emitter in the axial direction on an inner side of the guard electrode; and an electric field shield body formed of a conductor connected to the guard electrode. The electric field shield body partially overlaps the opening portion on a projection plane in the axial direction, and is formed in a shape partitioning the opening portion into a plurality of areas.

Abstract: To provide a foreign-object system which uses a plurality of radars, and which can detect a foreign object that is present on a runway or the like and which can suppress interference between radars. A foreign-object detection system including a first radar 11, a second radar 21 connected to the first radar via a network 33, and a signal source 31 for transmitting a synchronization signal to the first radar and the second radar via the network, said foreign-object detection system wherein interference generated due to a radar signal outputted from the second radar being reflected by a reflective body and inputted to the first radar is prevented by controlling a delay time that corresponds to |?1i??2j|, where ?1i is the time taken for the synchronization signal to be transmitted from the signal source to the first radar, and ?2j is the time taken for the synchronization signal to be transmitted from the signal source to the second radar.

Abstract: Provided are a carbon nanotube production device and production method capable of realizing high-temperature heating of a catalyst raw material in a floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD) method, and improving the quality and yield of carbon nanotubes synthesized. A carbon nanotube production device 1 includes a synthesis furnace 2 for synthesizing carbon nanotubes; a catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 for supplying a catalyst raw material used to synthesize carbon nanotubes to the synthesis furnace 2; and a nozzle temperature adjusting unit 6 capable of setting a temperature of an inner portion 4 of the catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 higher than a temperature of a reaction field 5 of the synthesis furnace 2.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a cell culture substrate, which is suitable for the fabrication of an in vitro biological tissue model of a biological tissue having an air-liquid interface and which enables temporal and real-time observation under an optical microscope, and a method for manufacturing the same; and a biological tissue model fabricated by using the cell culture substrate and a method for fabricating the same. A cellulose derivative membrane that is light-permeable under a wet condition by an aqueous medium is made porous to thereby impart water absorption properties suitable for a culture substrate thereto. This porous cellulose derivative membrane is combined with polymer microfibers to give a transparent dual-layer substrate as a cell culture substrate. Further, cells are cultured at an air-liquid interface using the transparent dual-layer substrate to give an in vitro biological tissue model having characteristics similar to a biological tissue.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode material which is suitable for use as a material for forming electrodes for use in lithium ion secondary batteries, etc. and which makes it possible to heighten the rate characteristics of batteries. The electrode material is characterized by comprising a polymer having, in a side chain, a fluoflavin skeleton such as that shown by the formula and an inorganic active material, the polymer being contained in an amount of 1 mass % or less with respect to the solid components.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anion exchange resin which is capable of producing an electrolyte membrane with excellent chemical property, electrical property, and mechanical property, and an electrolyte membrane formed from the anion exchange resin. In an anion exchange resin of the present invention, a hydrophobic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups which comprises a bisphenol residue represented by formula (1); a hydrophobic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups which comprises a bisphenol residue represented by formula (2); and a hydrophilic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups, which is composed of a plurality of aromatic rings connected to each other via a divalent hydrocarbon group and/or via carbon-carbon bond, and which is connected to an anion exchange group via a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group with a carbon number of 2 or more, are connected to each other via carbon-carbon bond.

Abstract: The invention is to provide an underwater communication device and an underwater communication method that can be applied to mobile communication in water. An underwater communication device 10 includes: a transmitter 12 configured to transmit an electric signal; and a receiver 14 arranged away from the transmitter 12 via water and configured to receive the electric signal, in which the receiver 14 includes an field effect transistor 23 having a channel region 39 provided at a position in contact with the water, and a drive circuit 26 configured to generate a potential difference between a source region 31 and a drain region 33 of the field effect transistor 23.

Abstract: A sensor system includes a reader side resonant circuit (10) and a sensor side resonant circuit (20). The reader side resonant circuit (10) is an LCR parallel resonant circuit and a gain circuit. The sensor side resonant circuit (20) is an LCR parallel resonant circuit and a loss circuit having, as a resistance portion, a sensor element whose resistance value changes according to an object to be sensed. The reader side resonant circuit (10) and the sensor side resonant circuit (20) are wirelessly connected to each other through magnetic field resonant coupling to constitute a gain-loss coupling circuit, and the reader side resonant circuit (10) and the sensor side resonant circuit (20) are formed such that the gain-loss coupling circuit has parity-time symmetry.

Abstract: Provided is a conductive material that is capable of achieving a high-electric conductivity, long-term stability under an atmospheric environment, heat and humidity stabilities, as well as a conductive film and a solar cell using the same. The conductive material includes a mixture of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and polystyrene sulfonic acid (PSS acid). The element ratio (S/C ratio) of sulfur (S) to carbon (C) in the mixture may be from 0.001 to 0.1 in terms of the number of atoms. CNTs and PSS acid may make up a content percentage of 10 wt % or more in the mixture. These conductive films comprised of the conductive material 6 may have a weight per unit area of the CNTs in the range from 1 mg/m2 to 10000 mg/m2. The solar cell may include the conductive film 7, wherein the film is on the surface of a semiconductor.

Abstract: A satisfaction level calculation device (10) acquires environmental data detected by each of a plurality of environment sensors (20). The satisfaction level calculation device (10) sets each of a plurality of indexes about a space environment as a target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the environmental data acquired by measuring the target index, an individual satisfaction level, which is a satisfaction level of the target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the individual satisfaction level about each of the plurality of indexes, an overall satisfaction level, which is an overall satisfaction level about the space environment.

Abstract: A laser light source includes: a resonance unit with a light emitter; and an optical negative feedback unit. The resonance unit includes: a first waveguide; a first reflector to input the reflected light to the first waveguide; a second waveguide; a second reflector connected to the second waveguide; and a ring resonator between the first waveguide and the second waveguide. The light from the first reflector is blocked from the ring resonator and partially transmitted to a first end of the first waveguide opposite to a second end connected to the light emitter and the first reflector. The optical negative feedback unit includes: a third waveguide to which the light transmitted to the first end of the first waveguide is inputted; and a third reflector connected to the third waveguide. The light from the third reflector is inputted to the first waveguide via the third waveguide.