Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a positive electrode active material for an alkali ion secondary battery, the positive electrode active material containing a large amount of a transition metal and enabling operation of the battery. In the method for producing a positive electrode active material for an alkali ion secondary battery, in which the positive electrode active material contains 34 mol % or more of CrO+FeO+MnO+CoO+NiO, the method includes: a step of preparing a positive electrode active material precursor containing crystals; and a step of irradiating the positive electrode active material precursor with light to melt the crystals and amorphize at least a portion of the positive electrode active material precursor.

Abstract: A non-cyanide gold plating bath 1 contains gold ions and a compound represented by the following chemical formula (chem 1):

Abstract: An electroless plating method of an embodiment includes: a step of preparing a catalyst solution containing titanium alkoxide, a copper ion, a naphthoquinonediazide esterification product, and methoxyethoxyacetic acid; a step of coating a substrate with the catalyst solution; a step of patterning the coating film; a step of converting the coating film to a catalyst precursor film; a step of immersing the catalyst precursor film in a reducing agent-containing aqueous solution to reduce the copper ion to metal; and a step of forming an electroless copper plating film.

Abstract: A battery having high output voltage, high energy density and excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics is achieved through the use of one of the following negative electrode base members as a negative electrode base member for lithium ion secondary batteries: a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having an organic film; such a negative electrode base member where the surface layer of the organic film is covered with a metal oxide film; a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having a composite film formed from a composite film-forming material containing an organic component and an inorganic component; and a negative electrode base member where a silica coating is formed, on a support having a photoresist pattern, from a silica film-forming coating liquid and a metal film is formed on the support after removing the photoresist pattern.

Abstract: A non-cyanide gold plating bath 1 contains gold ions and a compound represented by the following chemical formula (chem 1):

Abstract: A battery having high output voltage, high energy density and excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics is achieved through the use of one of the following negative electrode base members as a negative electrode base member for lithium ion secondary batteries: a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having an organic film; such a negative electrode base member where the surface layer of the organic film is covered with a metal oxide film; a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having a composite film formed from a composite film-forming material containing an organic component and an inorganic component; and a negative electrode base member where a silica coating is formed, on a support having a photoresist pattern, from a silica film-forming coating liquid and a metal film is formed on the support after removing the photoresist pattern.

Abstract: An anode substrate which enables achievement of a battery having a high output voltage and a high energy density, and being superior in charge and discharge cycle characteristics; a secondary cell in which the anode substrate is used; a resin composition for use in forming the anode substrate; and a method for producing the anode substrate are provided. According to anode substrate 10 including metal film 13 formed on support 11 provided with patterned organic film 12 molded by a thermal imprint process or a photoimprint process, a battery having a high output voltage and a high energy density, and being superior in charge and discharge cycle characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention aims to realize a battery having high output voltage, high energy density and excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics through a constitution different from those of conventional batteries.

Abstract: A battery having high output voltage, high energy density and excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics is achieved through the use of one of the following negative electrode base members as a negative electrode base member for lithium ion secondary batteries: a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having an organic film; such a negative electrode base member where the surface layer of the organic film is covered with a metal oxide film; a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having a composite film formed from a composite film-forming material containing an organic component and an inorganic component; and a negative electrode base member where a silica coating is formed, on a support having a photoresist pattern, from a silica film-forming coating liquid and a metal film is formed on the support after removing the photoresist pattern.

Abstract: A battery having high output voltage, high energy density and excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics is achieved through the use of one of the following negative electrode base members as a negative electrode base member for lithium ion secondary batteries: a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having an organic film; such a negative electrode base member where the surface layer of the organic film is covered with a metal oxide film; a negative electrode base member where a metal film is formed on a support having a composite film formed from a composite film-forming material containing an organic component and an inorganic component; and a negative electrode base member where a silica coating is formed, on a support having a photoresist pattern, from a silica film-forming coating liquid and a metal film is formed on the support after removing the photoresist pattern.

Abstract: A laminate including a resin layer and a metal layer, the resin layer being obtained by modifying at least part of the surface of a resin film including a thermoplastic cyclic olefin resin by ionizing irradiation, and the metal layer being formed on the modified area of the surface of the resin film by plating, a method of producing the same, and an electronic circuit board including a circuit formed by etching the metal layer of the laminate by photolithography, are disclosed. The laminate ensures that the insulating resin layer (flat surface) exhibits high adhesion to the conductor layer.

Abstract: A negative electrode element for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes: a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode layer that includes an alloying active material layer formed on the negative electrode current collector and a resin layer formed on a surface of the alloying active material layer so as to have an opening that exposes part of the alloying active material layer to a surface of the negative electrode layer. The surface of the alloying active material layer, exposed to the opening, and a surface of the resin layer form a step so that the surface of the resin layer is farther from a surface of the negative electrode current collector than the exposed surface of the alloying active material layer.

Abstract: The present invention aims to realize a battery having high output voltage, high energy density and excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics through a constitution different from those of conventional batteries.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a crystal silicon element emitting a desired visible light at high efficiency, by markedly enhancing the crystallinity of the nano Si. A p-type single crystal silicon substrate 10, a thick silicon oxide film 17a and a thin silicon oxide film 17b are disposed on the one surface of the silicon substrate 10. On the thin silicon oxide film 17b, plural nano Si 15 having the same crystal axis as the silicon substrate 10 are formed. In addition, a thin silicon oxide film 16 that is disposed in a manner that the thin silicon film 16 covers the upper and side faces of the nano Si 15, and a transparent electrode (for example ITO) 19 that is disposed in a manner that the transparent electrode 19 covers at least the upper face of the nano Si 15 are formed. Further, a metal electrode 18 (for example, aluminum) is formed in a manner that the metal electrode 18 has an ohmic contact with the other surface of the silicon substrate 10.

Abstract: A cathode substrate which enables achievement of a battery having a high output voltage and a high energy density, and being superior in charge and discharge cycle characteristics; a secondary cell in which the cathode substrate is used; a resin composition for use in forming the cathode substrate; and a method for producing the cathode substrate are provided. According to cathode substrate 10 including metal film 13 formed on support 11 provided with patterned organic film 12 molded by a thermal imprint process or a photoimprint process, a battery having a high output voltage and a high energy density, and being superior in charge and discharge cycle characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: A process for production of nickel oxyhydroxide by electrolytic oxidation of nickel hydroxide in the presence of an alkali metal halide. The nickel oxyhydroxide is produced by adding nickel hydroxide particles to an aqueous solution of an alkali metal halide and stirring the mixture to prepare a nickel hydroxide slurry, and then converting a portion of the nickel hydroxide to nickel oxyhydroxide by electrolytic oxidation in the presence of the alkali metal halide.

Abstract: A nonconductor product is soaked in a solution suspending a semiconducting powder and is subjected to light irradiation in the solution so that polar group is formed on the surface of the nonconductor product, and then electroless plating is performed on the surface on which the polar group is formed. A resin product is subjected to electroless plating after ultraviolet treatment in which ultraviolet rays are irradiated through water or a solution is performed. Further, electroless plating or electroplating with a different or the same kind of metal is performed on the electroless-plated layer formed by electroless plating.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus in which the amount of data bits for each of plural block units is controlled to be the same for all block units, so as to facilitate location of each block unit in coded image data without necessarily decoding the entire image. Pixel image data which is formable into plural block units is input for each block unit, and the input image data is orthogonally transformed. The orthogonally-transformed image data is quantized, and variable-length coding is performed on the quantized image data so as to generate variable-length code. The amount of variable length code in each block unit is controlled to be no more than a predetermined amount of data bits, with the predetermined amount being the same for each block unit.

Abstract: An output control method and an apparatus are provided, by which even in the case where aspect ratios of a thumbnail image and a main image are different, an image with the aspect ratio of the main image can properly be displayed. The apparatus has a TV display control part for displaying image data imaged by a digital camera on a TV, and the TV display control part compares aspect ratios of a thumbnail image and a main image in the image data, and performs control so that the thumbnail image is used as display data to be displayed on the TV when they are the same, and that the main image is used as the display data when they are different.

Abstract: A nonconductor product is soaked in a solution suspending semiconducting powder and is subjected to light irradiation in the solution so that the polar group is formed on the surface of the nonconductor product, and then electroless plating is performed on the surface on which the polar group is formed. A resin product is subjected to electroless plating after ultraviolet treatment in which ultraviolet rays are irradiated through water or a solution is performed. Further, electroless plating or electroplating with a different or the same kind of metal is performed on the electroless-plated layer formed by electroless plating.