Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion wherein both fluororesin particle and aluminum oxide particle uniformly float and disperse in an aqueous solvent. The fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion is obtained by mixing aqueous dispersion of fluororesin particle and aluminum oxide particle sol, wherein both the fluororesin particle and the aluminum oxide particle float and disperse, and wherein the dispersion state is stably maintained for three days or more. A solid product obtained by evaporation and scattering of the solvent from the above-described fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion has a heat resistance of not less than 330° C.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion wherein both fluororesin particle and aluminum oxide particle uniformly float and disperse in an aqueous solvent. The fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion is obtained by mixing aqueous dispersion of fluororesin particle and aluminum oxide particle sol, wherein both the fluororesin particle and the aluminum oxide particle float and disperse, and wherein the dispersion state is stably maintained for three days or more. A solid product obtained by evaporation and scattering of the solvent from the above-described fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion has a heat resistance of not less than 330° C.

Abstract: A fluororesin-metal oxide mixed dispersion (sol) with excellent operability and workability provided in a coating step is obtained by mixing aqueous dispersion of fluororesin particle, and particle sol of metal oxide with suitable pH value that is any one of titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, lanthanum oxide, neodymium oxide, cerium oxide, or tin oxide. Both the fluororesin particle and the metal oxide particle float and disperse without coagulation precipitation, gelation and solidification, and/or phase separation. The floating and dispersion state is stably maintained under room temperature storage for three days or more. Water contact angle of a solid product obtained by evaporation and scattering of a solvent from the fluororesin-metal oxide mixed dispersion is 130 degrees or less, and surface resistivity is 2.0×1012?/? (ohm/square) or less.

Abstract: To provide a composite that can find application to various uses in a wide spectrum of fields, for example, sealing members, such as a joint sheet, a gasket and a packing, for use in junction portions, etc. of pipings of power plant and chemical plant, radiation sheets, electromagnetic wave shielding members, soundproof sheets, etc., and provide a process for producing the composite; a gasket or packing based on the composite and a clay dispersion liquid used for the composite. There is provided a composite composed mainly of graphite and clay and having the structure of graphite laminated with and/or impregnated with clay. The composite is produced by subjecting an exfoliated graphite sheet or film or a molding therefrom to coating with and/or immersion in a clay dispersion liquid with clay particles dispersed therein, or by laminating together of an exfoliated graphite sheet and/or film and a sheet and/or film composed mainly of clay. Further, a gasket or packing is produced by molding the composite.

Abstract: A support for enzyme immobilization is described, which is for immobilizing enzymes of various molecular sizes and also for, due to the modification of the surface silanol groups of porous silica particles, for immobilizing various kinds of enzymes, and enables the design of an immobilized enzyme, which exhibits an activity equivalent to that of the corresponding non-immobilized enzyme and withstands repeated use. A method for producing the support is also described. The support includes porous silica particles having an interparticle void structure therein, characterized in that the porous silica particles have a specific average particle size, a specific surface area, a specific pore volume, a specific pore size distribution and a specific porosity and have a substituent containing an organic group or an amino group on the surface thereof. An immobilized protein obtained by immobilizing a protein on the above support is also described.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide: a protein refolding column filler, which is effective for the refolding, namely, the activation of the function, of an inactive protein with an as yet unformed higher order structure produced in Escherichia coli or the like, or a protein whose conformation has been changed due to a certain cause and which has become inactivated; and a column filled with the aforementioned column filler. The present invention provides a protein refolding column filler, which comprises zeolite with BEA structure (Zeolite Beta) that is granulated into a particle state.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel technology and a novel material having excellent pliability, gas barrier properties and water resistance, for the technical fields of packaging materials, sealing materials, electric insulating materials and the like, the present invention relates to a film of a material having a denatured clay as a main constituent thereof, wherein (1) the film comprises a denatured clay and an additive, (2) the weight ratio of the denatured clay is not less than 70% relative to total solids, (3) the film has gas barrier properties and water-vapor barrier properties, (4) the film has heat resistance, (5) the film has water resistance, (6) the film has sufficient mechanical strength to be used as a self-supporting film, and (7) the film can be formed on the surface of metals, plastics, rubber, paper and the like, and the present invention can provide a material comprising the denatured clay film in which denatured clay particles are highly oriented and which has excellent heat resistance

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a clay dispersion liquid which is capable of obtaining a clay film which realizes compatibility between heat resistance and water resistance, and a method for producing the same; a clay film and a transparent material, produced from the lay dispersion. The clay dispersion liquid of the present invention contains a liquid containing water as a main component, and a tetraphenylphosphonium-modified clay. The clay film and the transparent material of the present invention are obtained by applying the clay dispersion liquid on a surface of a supporting body to form a film.

Abstract: A method for producing a clay thin film, which is formed of clay alone or in combination with an additive and has a structure where oriented clay particles are laminated, the method including paste-making in which clay alone or in combination with an additive are dispersed in a dispersion medium formed of water, an organic solvent, or a mixed solvent of water and an organic solvent to prepare clay paste; coating in which a thin film is formed by coating the clay paste on a substrate; planarization in which the thin film is planarized; drying in which water, an organic solvent, or water and an organic solvent are removed from the thin film; and separation in which the thin film is separated from the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a clay film and a member thereof, having low moisture permeability and gas permeability, having mechanical strength enabling use as a self-supporting film, having high flexibility and high heat resistance, being an electrical insulator and having low thermal conductivity; a clay film comprising clay alone, clay and a small amount of a reinforcing material, or clay, a small amount of an additive and a small amount of a reinforcing material and subjected to surface treatment; a clay film comprising clay and a small amount of a reinforcing material, or clay, a small amount of an additive and a small amount of a fibrous reinforcing material, and having gas impermeability; a multilayer film comprising a fabric and clay and having a composite multilayer structure comprising a clay layer and a fabric; and, an adhesive clay film having clay for a main component thereof and a single layer or multilayer structure in which an adhesive layer is preset on the clay film.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a method for synthesizing a halogen-substituted saccharide from a leaving group-substituted saccharide in a short-time and continuously; a reaction composition; and a device for synthesis of same, i.e., the method being for synthesizing a halogen-substituted saccharide from a leaving group-substituted saccharide by a halogen-substituted saccharide synthesis reaction using a subcritical fluid or a supercritical fluid as the reaction solvent; the reaction composition of the same being an aqueous solution of halogen-substituted saccharide; and the device for synthesis being a device for producing the same, the method being for producing a halogen-substituted saccharide with a subcritical fluid or a supercritical fluid at a temperature of 100 to 400° C. and a pressure of 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel technology and a novel transparent material having high thermal stability, excellent pliability, surface smoothness, dimensional stability and gas barrier properties, for the technical fields of packaging materials, sealing materials and display materials, and the invention relates to an inorganic layered compound film having oriented inorganic layered compound particles, exhibiting high surface smoothness, high dimensional stability, high transparency, excellent pliability, excellent gas barrier properties and high heat resistance, that is obtained by dispersing an inorganic layered compound of high transparency and a small amount of water-soluble polymer of high transparency in water or a liquid having water as a main component thereof, to thereby obtain a homogenous dispersion containing no agglomerates, applying thereafter this dispersion onto a support having a flat and water-layered compound particles, and separating the liquid, as a dispersion medium, according to

Abstract: The present invention provides a porous alumina self-supporting film which has a sufficient strength to be used as a self-supporting film, is flexible and has a high transparency; an alumina sol that is composed of fibrous or needle-like boehmite particles dispersed in a solution and that has a high storage stability; and methods for producing such a film and such an alumina sol. More specifically, the invention provides a porous alumina self-supporting film which is composed of a collection of fibrous or needle-like alumina hydrate particles or alumina particles having an average breadth of 1 to 10 nm, an average aspect ratio (length/breadth) of 30 to 5,000 and an average length of 100 to 10,000 nm, has an orientation, has a pore distribution with a pore diameter dpeak of 0.

Abstract: There are provided a carbon fiber reinforced prepreg of gas barrier properties comprising a sheet-like carbon fiber reinforcement and a matrix resin including therein a gas barrier layer having a clay mineral with a plate-like crystal structure unidirectionally aligned and densely laminated, and a carbon fiber reinforced plastic produced from the carbon fiber reinforced prepreg. Such prepreg is obtained by disposing a film material of gas barrier properties having a clay mineral with a plate-like crystal structure unidirectionally aligned and densely laminated, in at least one interlayer of a laminate of a carbon fiber reinforced prepreg comprising a sheet form carbon fiber reinforcement and a matrix resin; and then heating and/or pressurizing the laminate. The carbon fiber-reinforced composite material of the invention exhibits high gas barrier properties, and particularly hydrogen gas barrier properties.

Abstract: A clay thin film substrate including a clay thin film having a structure, in which oriented clay particles are laminated; and at least a gas barrier inorganic layer which is laminated on at least one surface of the clay thin film.

Abstract: A separator includes: a sandwiching unit which sandwiches an electrolyte/electrode assembly and has a fuel gas channel and an oxidizing gas channel which are arranged separately; a fuel gas supply unit having a fuel gas supply communication hole formed in the layering direction for supplying the fuel gas into the fuel gas channel; and a seal member arranged at an outer periphery of the fuel gas supply communication hole. The seal member has a clay film formed from a clay mineral and an organic polymer.

Abstract: There are provided a carbon fiber reinforced prepreg of gas barrier properties comprising a sheet-like carbon fiber reinforcement and a matrix resin including therein a gas barrier layer having a clay mineral with a plate-like crystal structure unidirectionally aligned and densely laminated, and a carbon fiber reinforced plastic produced from the carbon fiber reinforced prepreg. Such prepreg is obtained by disposing a film material of gas barrier properties having a clay mineral with a plate-like crystal structure unidirectionally aligned and densely laminated, in at least one interlayer of a laminate of a carbon fiber reinforced prepreg comprising a sheet form carbon fiber reinforcement and a matrix resin; and then heating and/or pressurizing the laminate. The carbon fiber-reinforced composite material of the invention exhibits high gas barrier properties, and particularly hydrogen gas barrier properties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a clay film with excellent flexibility, whose main component is natural clay or synthetic clay, and in which there is uniform orientation in the clay particle layer, and relates to a novel clay film that has enough mechanical strength to be used as a self-supporting film, and has a structure in which layers of clay particles are highly oriented, and in which the main constituent component of the clay film is mica, vermiculite, montmorillonite, iron montmorillonite, beidellite, saponite, hectorite, stevensite, or nontronite, and which has excellent flexibility, undergoes no structural change at high temperatures of 250° C. and up to 600° C., contains no pinholes, and has a gas permeation coefficient of less than 3.2×10?11 cm2s?1cmHg?1 at room temperature for helium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, or air.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide: a protein refolding column filler, which is effective for the refolding, namely, the activation of the function, of an inactive protein with an as yet unformed higher order structure produced in Escherichia coli or the like, or a protein whose conformation has been changed due to a certain cause and which has become inactivated; and a column filled with the aforementioned column filler. The present invention provides a protein refolding column filler, which comprises zeolite with BEA structure (Zeolite Beta) that is granulated into a particle state.

Abstract: An enzyme electrode having excellent sensitivity, excellent stability, and a longer operating life, and an enzyme sensor using the enzyme electrode are provided. The enzyme electrode includes an electrode 2, a mesoporous silica material 3 formed on the electrode 2, and enzyme 4 immobilized in a small cavity of the mesoporous silica material 3. The size of the small cavity of the mesoporous silica material 3 is set to be 0.5 to 2.0 times the size of the enzyme 4.