Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pellet. In an embodiment, the pellet includes a body having a first end and an opposing second end. The body is composed of a polymeric material. The body has a length and a diameter (body diameter). A channel having a diameter (channel diameter), extends through the body from the first end to the second end. The pellet has a channel diameter-to-body diameter ratio from 0.05 to 0.45. The present disclosure also provides a process for soaking the pellet in a liquid additive and forming a loaded pellet with the additive in the pellet body.

Abstract: A magnetic material is formed of an aggregate of magnetic particles. When a magnetic particle is rotated by 360/n degrees (n is an any integer equal to or greater than 6) around a gravity center position of the magnetic particle in a planar region, an area of the magnetic particle after the rotation overlaps with an area of the magnetic particle before the rotation by 90% or more. In the planar region, gravity center positions of from nine to eleven magnetic particles are on a band portion in a rectangular shape. For the magnetic particles in the planar region, when a number-based 50% cumulative frequency distribution of maximum lengths in a direction passing through respective gravity center positions is defined as ?, a 10% cumulative frequency distribution is equal to or greater than 0.6?, and a 90% cumulative frequency distribution is equal to or less than 1.4?.

Abstract: Provided are a ferrite powder that suppresses decreases in saturation magnetization and decreases in filler filling ratio and also suppresses inhibition of resin curing, and a method for producing the same. A ferrite powder composed of spherical ferrite particles, wherein the ferrite powder contains iron (Fe) 54.0-70.0 mass % and manganese (Mn) 3.5-18.5 mass %, has an average volume particle size of 2.0-20.0 ?m, and has a carbon content of 0.100 mass % or lower.

Abstract: A molybdenum sulfide powder according to the invention contains molybdenum disulfide having a 3R crystal structure. A heavy-metal adsorbent according to the invention contains molybdenum sulfide particles, and the molybdenum sulfide particles have a median diameter D50 of 10 nm to 1,000 nm obtained by a dynamic light scattering type particle diameter distribution measuring device. A photothermal conversion material according to the invention contains a material containing molybdenum sulfide particles and generates heat by absorbing light energy.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide resin particles that have excellent heat resistance and that, when used as base particles of conductive particles, are applicable to mounting by thermocompression bonding at low pressure to produce a connection structure having excellent connection reliability. The present invention also aims to provide conductive particles, a conductive material, and a connection structure each including the resin particles. Provided are resin particles having a 5% weight loss temperature of 350° C. or higher, a 10% K value at 25° C. of 100 N/mm2 or more and 2,500 N/mm2 or less, and a 30% K value at 25° C. of 100 N/mm2 or more and 1,500 N/mm2 or less.

Abstract: Provided are a ferrite powder capable of maintaining a high withstand voltage even when used in a resin composition having high magnetic properties and electrical resistivity and a high filling ratio, and a method for producing the same. A ferrite powder composed of spherical ferrite particles, wherein the ferrite powder contains iron (Fe): 55.0-70.0 mass % and manganese (Mn): 3.5-18.5 mass %, the ferrite powder containing more than 0.0 mass % to 7.5 mass % ?-Fe2O3, and the ferrite powder has a volume average particle size (D50) of 15.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: The present invention is a low dielectric silica powder, which has an average particle size of 0.1 to 30 ?m and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0005 or less at 10 GHz. An object is to provide: a silica powder with an extremely small dielectric loss tangent; a resin composition containing the same; and a method for manufacturing a silica powder with a low dielectric loss tangent and strong adhesion at the interface to resin.

Abstract: There is provided a soft magnetic powder containing soft magnetic metal particles satisfying the following formulas (A) (B), and (C), S=k{6/(d·?)}??(A) 1.0?k?4.0??(B) 1.0?d?10.0??(C) in which S [m2/g] indicates a specific surface area, d [?m] indicates an average particle diameter, and ? [g/cm3] indicates a true specific gravity.

Abstract: Ruggedized luminescent nanoparticle tracers have luminescent nanoparticle cores coupled to a luminescent substrate. The substrate is a large-particle size phosphor, while the nanoparticles are photoluminescent quantum dots (QDs) whose emission spectra can be tuned based on their chemical composition, size, and fabrication (e.g., dopants). The QDs are encapsulated by a protective layer to form a nanoparticle core. The protective layer can shield the QDs from external environments that would otherwise damage the delicate QDs. The substrate is also encapsulated by a protective layer, and the protective layer of the nanoparticle core is coupled to the protective layer of the substrate via a molecular linker to form a tracer particle complex. The tracer particle complexes can be disposed in a silicate suspension for subsequent use.

Abstract: An artificial graphite satisfies: PD5t/PD0.5t?1.35, where PD5t is a compacted density of the artificial graphite measured under a pressure of 5 ton, and PD0.5t is a compacted density of the artificial graphite measured under a pressure of 0.5 ton.

Abstract: A gallium oxide single crystal particle according to the present invention is an ?-Ga2O3 single crystal particle and has a diameter and a height that exceed 100 ?m.

Abstract: A substrate with a tetrafluoroethylene polymer and an inorganic filler, wherein the proportion of the total volume of the tetrafluoroethylene polymer and the inorganic filler to the total volume of the present substrate is at least 80 vol %, and the substrate has a rate of change in dielectric loss tangent at 10 GHz before and after 72 hours of unsaturated pressure cooker test at 120° C. under 85% RH on a 127-?m thick specimen cut out from the substrate is at most 30%.

Abstract: Improved silica based matting agents are disclosed. The matting agents are useful in waterborne coatings composition to provide exceptional properties to a wood based substrate. Films resulting on the coated substrate unexpectedly provide improved chemical resistance, thermal stress resistance, weather resistance, and/or film clarity to the surface of a wood substrate. Methods of making and using the matting agents are also disclosed.

Abstract: A powder for coating or sintering has a peak assigned to cubic Y3Al5O12 and a peak assigned to orthorhombic YAlO3 exhibited in X-ray diffractometry, and the intensity ratio of the peak assigned to the (112) plane of the orthorhombic YAlO3 to the peak assigned to the (420) plane of the cubic Y3Al5O12 is at least 0.01 and less than 1. Alternatively, a powder for coating or sintering includes a composite oxide of yttrium and aluminum, and the volume of pores with a pore size of from 0.1 to 1 ?m of the powder is at least 0.16 mL/g. It is preferable that, in X-ray diffractometry using CuK? radiation with a scan range of 2?=20° to 60°, a peak assigned to the cubic Y3Al5O12 is a peak that shows the highest peak intensity.

Abstract: An aqueous hydrophobic silica dispersion includes a hydrophilic particulate silica, a hydrophobic particulate silica having a methanol number of at least 60, and a dispersant having at least one cationic or cationizable group and an HLB ratio of 2 to 20.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fine silicon powder and the like including fine silicon particles having a microscopically measured particle diameter of 1 ?m or more and an average circularity determined in accordance with Formula (1) of 0.93 or more, in which an average particle diameter based on volume, which is measured by a laser diffraction scattering method, is in a range of 0.8 ?m or more and 8.0 ?m or less, an average particle diameter based on number, which is measured by the laser diffraction scattering method, is in a range of 0.100 ?m or more and 0.150 ?m or less, and a specific surface area, which is measured by a BET method, is in a range of 4.0 m2/g or more and 10 m2/g or less. Circularity=(4×?×projected area of particle)1/2/peripheral length of particle (1).

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that is large in specific surface area, and moreover, capable of easily forming an electrode film even when any binder is substantially not contained. Provided is a carbon material that has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more, with the weight of the carbon material remaining on a sieve after shaking being 90% by weight or more with respect to 100% by weight of the carbon material put in the sieve, when 0.2 g of the carbon material packed in a cylindrical syringe of 2 cm in diameter is compressed at a pressure of 16 kN, the whole of the compressed carbon material is taken out from the syringe and put in the sieve with an aperture of 4.75 mm, and the sieve is shaken for 1 minute.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hollow sulfide microsphere with enriched sulfur vacancies, which is prepared by a method comprising the steps of: dissolving cobalt nitrate and nickel nitrate in a mixed solution of N, N-dimethylformamide and acetone with an equal volume; then adding a chelating agent thereto, subjecting a resulting mixture to a solvothermal reaction to obtain a coordination polymer microsphere; dissolving the coordination polymer microsphere and a sulfurization agent in an organic solvent, and reacting to obtain a hollow sulfide microsphere; and subjecting the hollow sulfide microsphere to reduction treatment with sodium borohydride, centrifuging, washing and drying to obtain the hollow sulfide microsphere with enriched sulfur vacancies having a particle size of 1-2.5 ?m, a shell thickness of 15-30 nm and a specific capacity of the material of 763.4 C g?1 (current density is 1 A g?1).

Abstract: A cemented carbide including tungsten carbide grains and a binder phase, in which a total content of the tungsten carbide grains and the binder phase in the cemented carbide is no less than 80 vol %, a content of the binder phase in the cemented carbide is no less than 0.1 vol % and no more than 20 vol %, in a histogram showing distribution of orientation differences between adjacent pairs each consisting of two of the tungsten carbide grains adjacent to each other in the cemented carbide, a first peak is present in a class of the orientation differences of no less than 29.5° and less than 30.5°.

Abstract: A polymeric film, sheet, or extrusion coating is formed as a multilayered structure having at least one A layer and at least one B layer. The polymeric film, sheet, or extrusion coating is able to include at least 30% recycled content resin while also exhibiting improved stiffness and strength relative to films with purely virgin polymers. One embodiment of the present invention further presents improved oxygen barrier properties relative to existing films, sheets, or extrusion coatings. Due to the strong structural properties, the polymeric film, sheet, or extrusion coating allows for the inclusion of recycled content into applications where recycled content has previously not been able to be included, such as flexible food, pharmaceutical, or cosmetics packaging.