Abstract: Provided is an electrowetting device capable of performing bright and high-contrast color display. In addition, provided is an electrowetting device capable of performing high-quality display without unevenness. The electrowetting device is an electrowetting display in which each of a pair of substrate constituting one cell has a driving unit. A first substrate that stores a first hydrophobic liquid material in regions surrounded by a first pixel wall, and a second substrate that stores a second hydrophobic liquid material in regions surrounded by a second pixel wall are adhered to each other through a hydrophilic material.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a polymer molded article, which is capable of increasing crystallinity, heat resistance, and isotropic elastic modulus while maintaining the original shape of a polymer molded body and a polymer molded article obtained by the method and having a high crystallinity, high heat resistance, and a high isotropic elastic modulus. The method for producing a polymer molded article includes the steps of: preparing a polymer material mainly containing a crystalline polymer; and impregnating the polymer material with a first gas having solubility in the crystalline polymer in an atmosphere in which the pressure of the first gas is equal to or higher than atmospheric pressure at a temperature higher than (Tm?30)° C. but lower than (Tm?15)° C., where Tm represents the melting point of the crystalline polymer, to obtain a polymer molded article. The polymer molded article is obtained by such a production method.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a polypropylene material, which can improve the heat resistance of the polypropylene material. The method for producing a polypropylene material comprises: a melting step of melting a polypropylene material rolled in at least one direction, at a temperature that is higher than Tm+5° C. where Tm is a melting peak temperature of the polypropylene material not rolled yet as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, and is equal to or lower than Tm+60° C.; and a heat treatment step of heat-treating the polypropylene material melted in the melting step, at a temperature that is equal to or higher than Tm?20° C., and is lower than Tm?10° C.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a polymer material having a high degree of crystallization, a small variability in degree of crystallization, and a three-dimensionally isotropic crystallinity to thus give high thermal resistance, high isotropy of resin physical properties, and a small variability in resin physical properties; and the polymer material.

Abstract: A method of providing a layer of a first fluid and a layer of a second fluid on a first area of a support plate of an electrowetting device includes providing an emulsion of dispersed first fluid and continuous second fluid, the emulsion including an amount of the second fluid for forming the layer of the second fluid.

Abstract: A layer of a first fluid and a layer of a second fluid are provided on a first area of a support plate of an electrowetting device, the first fluid and the second fluid being immiscible and the first area having a higher wettability for the first fluid than for the second fluid. The method includes providing an emulsion of dispersed first fluid and continuous second fluid; bringing the first area and the emulsion in contact; the dispersed first fluid coalescing to form the layer of the first fluid on the first area. Also described are an emulsion for manufacturing an electrowetting device, a method for manufacturing an emulsion, a device, a non-ionic surfactant and a use of a non-ionic surfactant.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a carbonaceous material-polymer composite material in which a polymer can be easily grafted to a carbonaceous material and a carbonaceous material-polymer composite. A method for producing a carbonaceous material-polymer composite material; the method including the steps of: preparing a mixture containing a carbonaceous material and at least one polymer A of a polymer obtained by polymerizing a cyclic disulfide compound and a polymer obtained by polymerizing a cyclic disulfide compound and a radical polymerizable functional group-containing monomer; and heating the mixture at a temperature range of (D-75) ° C. or higher and a decomposition termination temperature or lower when a decomposition start temperature of the polymer A is defined as D° C., and a carbonaceous material-polymer composite material obtained by the production method wherein a monomer and/or a polymer derived from the polymer A is grafted to a carbonaceous material.

Abstract: Provided is a production method which can attain exfoliating treatment of graphite and a process of grafting a polymer onto exfoliated graphite simultaneously and thus makes it possible to easily obtain an exfoliated graphite-polymer composite material in a short time. A method for producing an exfoliated graphite-polymer composite material includes a step of mixing graphite or primary exfoliated graphite, a depolymerizable monomer of which the polymer is decomposed by heating to generate radicals and also to form a monomer or an oligomer, or the polymer A of the monomer, or a polymer B which forms radicals at a temperature close to its decomposition temperature to obtain a mixture; and a heating step of putting the mixture in a non-open container to heat the mixture to a first temperature range from the ceiling temperature or higher to the onset decomposition temperature or lower, or to a temperature higher than the first temperature range.

Abstract: A composite material in which a graphene-like carbon material has excellent adhesion to a substrate composed of resin, and a method for producing the same are provided. The composite material comprises a substrate composed of resin and a graphene-like carbon material layer provided so as to cover at least part of the surface of the substrate, wherein graphene-like carbon is closely attached to the surface of the substrate. The method for producing a composite material comprises bringing a graphene-like carbon material into contact with at least part of the surface of a substrate composed of resin and heating under the action of a supercritical or subcritical fluid.

Abstract: Provided is an electrowetting device capable of performing bright and high-contrast color display. In addition, provided is an electrowetting device capable of performing high-quality display without unevenness. The electrowetting device is an electrowetting display in which each of a pair of substrate constituting one cell has a driving unit. A first substrate that stores a first hydrophobic liquid material in regions surrounded by a first pixel wall, and a second substrate that stores a second hydrophobic liquid material in regions surrounded by a second pixel wall are adhered to each other through a hydrophilic material.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a polymer molded article, which is capable of increasing crystallinity, heat resistance, and isotropic elastic modulus while maintaining the original shape of a polymer molded body and a polymer molded article obtained by the method and having a high crystallinity, high heat resistance, and a high isotropic elastic modulus. The method for producing a polymer molded article includes the steps of: preparing a polymer material mainly containing a crystalline polymer; and impregnating the polymer material with a first gas having solubility in the crystalline polymer in an atmosphere in which the pressure of the first gas is equal to or higher than atmospheric pressure at a temperature higher than (Tm?30)° C. but lower than (Tm?15)° C., where Tm represents the melting point of the crystalline polymer, to obtain a polymer molded article. The polymer molded article is obtained by such a production method.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a polymer material having a high degree of crystallization, a small variability in degree of crystallization, and a three-dimensionally isotropic crystallinity to thus give high thermal resistance, high isotropy of resin physical properties, and a small variability in resin physical properties; and the polymer material.

Abstract: Provided are a polymer article excellent in mechanical strength, toughness, and stretchability and a production method of the polymer article. The polymer article of the present invention is formed of a polymer material and is a polymer blank or a formed polymer body. The polymer article of the present invention has a crystallinity of not less than 50% but less than 90% and a tensile strain at fracture of not less than 60%. A method for producing a polymer article of the present invention includes: a heating step of heating the polymer material to a temperature of not lower than (Tm?70)° C. but lower than Tm(° C.) where Tm is the melting point (° C.) of the polymer material; and a compression step of cooling the polymer material heated in the heating step and compressing the polymer material in the course of the cooling to obtain a polymer article having a crystallinity of not less than 50% but less than 90% and a tensile strain at fracture of not less than 60%.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a polymer alloy which can provide a polymer alloy that can be, for example, defoamed or molded while maintaining its micro phase-separated structure. The method for producing a polymer alloy of the present invention includes at least: a step 1 of mixing two or more resins with a solvent, the two or more resins being immiscible with each other at an ordinary temperature and an ordinary pressure, the solvent being liquid or gaseous at an ordinary temperature and an ordinary pressure; a step 2 of heating and pressurizing the solvent into a high-temperature, high-pressure fluid or a supercritical fluid, and mixing the solvent in this state with the resins; a step 3 of restoring the mixture obtained in the step 2 to an ordinary temperature and an ordinary pressure; and a step 4 of irradiating the mixture obtained in the step 3 with ionizing radiation.

Abstract: A sheet-form, curable pressure-sensitive adhesive is disclosed which includes a high molecular weight polymer (A) such as an acrylic polymer for constituting a pressure-sensitive adhesive component, a compound (B) containing an epoxy group, and a polymerization initiator (C) which is activated upon application of an activation energy such as a light to cause the compound (B) having an epoxy group to undergo a ring-opening polymerization.

Abstract: Acrylic copolymers are provided which have polymeric portions having different polarities or glass transition temperatures, which permit easy selection of combinations of such polymeric portions having different polarities or glass transition temperatures, which increase a design freedom and which are applicable for diverse uses. Acrylic copolymers including a polymeric backbone portion prepared via copolymerization of (a) an alkyl (meth)acrylate ester containing 1-14 carbon atoms in the alkyl, (b) an olefinic polymer or copolymer terminally modified by a free-radically polymerizable unsaturated double bond and (c) a polymer terminally modified by a free-radically polymerizable unsaturated double bond and having a number average molecular weight of 2,000-30,000 and a glass transition temperature of at least 30° C.

Abstract: A sheet-form, curable pressure-sensitive adhesive is disclosed which includes a high molecular weight polymer (A) such as an acrylic polymer for constituting a pressure-sensitive adhesive component, a compound (B) containing an epoxy group, and a polymerization initiator (C) which is activated upon application of an activation energy such as a light to cause the compound (B) having an epoxy group to undergo a ring-opening polymerization.

Abstract: A sheet-form, curable pressure-sensitive adhesive is disclosed which includes a high molecular weight polymer (A) such as an acrylic polymer for constituting a pressure-sensitive adhesive component, a compound (B) containing an epoxy group, and a polymerization initiator (C) which is activated upon application of an activation energy such as a light to cause the compound (B) having an epoxy group to undergo a ring-opening polymerization.