Abstract: The electrochemical device includes: a case including a recessed container having a bottom and a side wall, and a cap that covers the opening of the recessed container; a power generation element having a laminate with an electrode layer, an electrode layer and a solid electrolyte layer laminated together and housed in the interior space of the case such that the bottom and electrode layer face each other; and a conductive plate positioned adjacent to the opening of the recessed container and between the electrode layer and cap. The recessed container includes a plurality of supports on the inner peripheral surface of the side wall. The conductive plate includes a plurality of supported portions located on its edges and corresponding in position to the supports. With each supported portion, the power generation element is pushed by a spring piece of the conductive plate toward the bottom of the recessed container.

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery having excellent load characteristics, and an electrode for an all-solid-state battery for forming the all-solid-state battery are provided. It relates to Goals 12, 3, 7, and 11 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The electrode for an all-solid-state battery includes a molded body of a mixture containing an active material-containing electrode material, a solid electrolyte, and a conductive assistant. The electrode material is in the form of a composite particle having a layer containing a solid electrolyte A1 or solid electrolyte A2 that contains certain elements on its surface. The mixture molded body includes a solid electrolyte B1 or solid electrolyte B2 that contains certain elements between the composite particles. The compositions of the solid electrolyte A1 and the solid electrolyte B1 satisfy a certain relationship, or the composition of the solid electrolyte A2 and the composition of the solid electrolyte B2 satisfy a certain relationship.

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery having excellent load characteristics, and an electrode for an all-solid-state battery for forming the all-solid-state battery are provided. It relates to Goals 12, 3, 7, and 11 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The electrode for an all-solid-state battery includes a molded body of a mixture containing an active material-containing electrode material, a solid electrolyte, and a conductive assistant. The electrode material is in the form of a composite particle having a layer containing a solid electrolyte A1 or solid electrolyte A2 that contains certain elements on its surface. The mixture molded body includes a solid electrolyte B1 or solid electrolyte B2 that contains certain elements between the composite particles. The compositions of the solid electrolyte A1 and the solid electrolyte B1 satisfy a certain relationship, or the composition of the solid electrolyte A2 and the composition of the solid electrolyte B2 satisfy a certain relationship.

Abstract: A method for producing a capsule, including cooling a suspension so as to gel a thermoresponsive polymer including a core 8 formed from a gel of an ionically-bonded polymer and form a shell (17) of a hydrogel, the suspension being obtained by suspending, in oil (10), a sol (9) of the thermoresponsive polymer, and then using a chelating agent to solate the core so as to hollow out the inside.

Abstract: There is provided a positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having a high-density and a high folding strength. There is also provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has a high folding strength when it is used in a battery with a high current density, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has an electrode body having formed a folded portion at least at one part of the positive electrode. With respect to a cross-section of the positive electrode composition layer, a domain A extends from a central part to a surface side of a thickness direction, and a domain B extends from the central part to the current collector. The distribution of the binder in domain A and domain B are specified.

Abstract: The inventive negative electrode for the electrochemical element includes a negative electrode composition layer provided on at least one surface of a current collector made of a metal foil; in which the negative electrode composition layer includes material S comprising Si and a hardly-graphitizable carbon material as a negative electrode active material; in which assuming that the whole amount of the negative electrode active material contained in the negative electrode composition layer is 100 mass %, a ratio of the material S is 50 to 90 mass % and a ratio of the hardly-graphitizable carbon materials is 10 to 50 mass %. The inventive lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and a nonaqueous electrolyte liquid, and the negative electrode is constituted by the negative electrode for the electrochemical element of the present invention.

Abstract: There is provided a positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having a high-density and a high folding strength. There is also provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has a high folding strength when it is used in a battery with a high current density, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has an electrode body having formed a folded portion at least at one part of the positive electrode. With respect to a cross-section of the positive electrode composition layer, a domain A extends from a central part to a surface side of a thickness direction, and a domain B extends from the central part to the current collector. The distribution of the binder in domain A and domain B are specified.

Abstract: There is provided a positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having a high-density and a high folding strength. There is also provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has a high folding strength when it is used in a battery with a high current density, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has an electrode body having formed a folded portion at least at one part of the positive electrode. With respect to a cross-section of the positive electrode composition layer, a domain A extends from a central part to a surface side of a thickness direction, and a domain B extends from the central part to the current collector. The distribution of the binder in domain A and domain B are specified.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tool that can analyze a target in a sample with simple operations and can be downsized, and an analysis method using the same. The analysis cell of the present invention includes: a main substrate: a sample inlet cover member; and a gas outlet cover member. The main substrate includes a flow path, an inlet for a sample, and a gas outlet, and the inlet and the gas outlet communicate with an outside. The inlet communicates with an upstream end portion of the flow path and the gas outlet communicates with a downstream end portion of the flow path. The flow path has a shape that expands from an upstream side toward a downstream side of the flow path. The sample inlet cover member is a liquid-tight member and can be fixed to the inlet when the sample inlet cover member is in use. The gas outlet cover member is a liquid-tight and gas-permeable member and can be fixed to the gas outlet when the gas outlet cover member is in use.

Abstract: There is provided a positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having a high-density and a high folding strength. There is also provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has a high folding strength when it is used in a battery with a high current density, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having such a positive electrode. The positive electrode has an electrode body having formed a folded portion at least at one part of the positive electrode. With respect to a cross-section of the positive electrode composition layer, a domain A extends from a central part to a surface side of a thickness direction, and a domain B extends from the central part to the current collector. The distribution of the binder in domain A and domain B are specified.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for estimating an amount of immobilized probes, including the successive steps of: providing a sample on a substrate to form one or more spots of the sample on the substrate, the sample containing particulate substances and probes in a predetermined ratio, the probes being reactive with a predetermined target; measuring the number of the particulate substances contained in at least one of the spots; and estimating the amount of the probes contained in the at least one of the spots from the thus measured number of the particulate substances.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a method for ultrafast and precise measurement and analysis of biomolecules using a small sample was established, and moreover, a compact and simple micro fluid device for implementing the method was provided. Using the method and the micro fluid device of the present invention, the ultrafast, instant, and precise analysis of biomolecules is possible, and there is a great deal of potential for application in the research field, manufacturing field or medical field, environmental monitoring and the like.

Abstract: Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing methods capable of maintaining etching characteristics and to prevent degradation of a lower electrode even when the focus ring is severely eroded by the plasma are disclosed. According to an exemplary embodiment, a side-surface protecting ring formed of a ceramic material having an erosion rate by the plasma lower than an erosion rate of the material of the focus ring is provided to cover the side surface of the lower electrode. As a result, it becomes possible to prevent the side surface of the lower electrode from being exposed to the plasma and maintain the etching characteristics even after the focus ring is severely eroded. Further, degradation of the lower electrode is decreased.

Abstract: This invention provides a method to monitor a microorganism that causes infectious disease of a laboratory animal by using a micro flow channel chip immobilized with a molecular to be tested such as an antigen or an antibody of the microorganism that causes infectious disease, the method comprises flowing serum or body fluid taken from the laboratory animal through the minute flow channel of the micro flow channel chip and detecting the antigen antibody reaction on the chip. The method of this invention enabled medical inspection of an infectious disease of a laboratory animal and microorganism monitoring of a laboratory animal, by using minute amount of animal serum or body fluid in a closed system rapidly and sensitively.

Abstract: Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing methods capable of maintaining acceptable etching characteristics and to prevent degradation of a lower electrode even when the focus ring is severely eroded by the plasma, while leaving the plasma discharge conditions used in the conventional apparatus and methods substantially unchanged, are disclosed. According to an exemplary embodiment, a side-surface protecting ring formed of a ceramic material is provided to cover the side surface of the lower electrode such that an outer perimeter of the side-surface protecting ring is approximately aligned with, or inside, an outer perimeter of the substrate to be processed. As a result, the side-surface protecting ring does not influence the plasma characteristic.