Abstract: In accordance with one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery which includes a silicon-carbon composite that includes a carbon-based material and a first silicon-based nano-coating layer formed on the carbon-based material; silicon carbide; silicon nitride; and second silicon-based particles.

Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a circuit layer disposed on the substrate; and an element layer disposed on the circuit layer. The circuit layer includes light emitting pixel drivers; gate lines extending in a first direction, and arranged in a second direction in the display area; a gate driving circuit including stages disposed in a portion of the non-display area, arranged in the first direction, and electrically connected to the gate lines; data lines extending in the second direction; first auxiliary lines extending in the first direction; and second auxiliary lines extending in the second direction and adjacent to the data lines in the first direction. The second auxiliary lines include gate bypass auxiliary lines electrically connected between the gate lines and the stages.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a positive electrode active material for a sodium secondary battery, including P2-type layered oxide particles and O3-type layered oxide particles, wherein in SEM-EDS mapping analysis, an atomic ratio (S3/S2) of a surface Na content (at %) (S3) of the O3-type layered oxide particles to a surface Na content (at %) (S2) of the P2-type layered oxide particles is 0.4 to 1.6.

Abstract: A fluid heating device capable of reducing the amount of the generated greenhouse gases while improving the yield of target compounds (ethylene, propylene and hydrogen, etc.) in a cracking process by controlling inflow heat fluxes themselves, respectively, in accordance with the progress degree of pyrolysis. The fluid heating device reduces a phenomenon that coke is generated by controlling inflow heat fluxes themselves, respectively, in accordance with the progress degree of pyrolysis in consideration of physical and/or chemical characteristics of various targets of pyrolysis, and reducing the amount of production of compounds (methane, ethane, benzene and fuel oil, etc.) other than the target compounds. A method of using the fluid heating device is also provided.

Abstract: A platform system includes a station including a moving portion and a guide configured to guide movement of the moving portion, and a manipulator configured to pick up an object from the moving portion or to place the object on the moving portion, where the moving portion is configured to move in response to the manipulator picking up the object from the moving portion or placing the object on the moving portion.

Abstract: A display device includes a scan line extending in a first direction. A plurality of data lines cross the scan line. A driving voltage line crosses the scan line. An active pattern includes a plurality of channel regions and a plurality of conductive regions. A control line is connected to the plurality of data lines and the driving voltage line. The active pattern includes a shielding part overlapping at least one data line of the plurality of data lines. The control line includes a plurality of main line parts each extending in the first direction, and a detour part connecting two adjacent main line parts of the plurality of main line parts to each other. The detour part extends along a periphery of the active pattern and crosses the at least one data line of the plurality of data lines.

Abstract: present disclosure A positive electrode material includes a first lithium transition metal oxide and a second lithium transition metal oxide having a smaller average particle diameter (D50) than the first lithium transition metal oxide. The particle strength of the first lithium transition metal oxide is 100 MPa or more, and the particle strength of the second lithium transition metal oxide is twice or more than the particle strength of the first lithium transition metal oxide. A positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same are also provided.

Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels substantially in a matrix form including a plurality of pixel columns in a first direction and a plurality of pixel rows in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a plurality of data lines connected to the pixel columns, respectively; a plurality of scan lines extending in the second direction; and a power line which supplies a driving power voltage to the pixels. Each of the data lines includes a first sub-data line disposed at a side of a corresponding pixel column, and a second sub-data line disposed at an opposite side of the corresponding pixel column, and each of the pixels includes a first transistor and a display element connected to the first transistor, where the power line overlaps with at least a portion of the first transistor.

Abstract: A method of operating an information processing apparatus may include collecting gait information of a walking assistance apparatus; determining a gait feature of a user of the walking assistance apparatus based on the collected gait information; and controlling the walking assistance apparatus by determining a gait group of the user based on the determined gait feature.

Abstract: There are provided a negative electrode active materials including a silicon/carbon (Si/C) composite in which a silicon-based coating layer is formed on carbon-based particles, wherein the Si/C composite has a peak area ratio A2/A1 of 0.2 to 3.0 as determined by X-ray diffraction analysis, and a method of preparing a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, which includes a pretreatment step of heat treating carbon-based particles; and a microwave sintering step of mixing silicon-based particles with the heat-treated carbon-based particles and irradiating the resulting mixture with microwaves.

Abstract: An oral pouch packaging material, an oral pouch manufactured using the oral pouch packaging material, and a method of preparing an oral pouch packaging material are provided. The oral pouch packaging material includes 0% by weight (wt %) to 40 wt % of a cellulose-based staple fiber, 20 wt % to 80 wt % of a pulp fiber, 20 wt % to 60 wt % of a thermoplastic resin fiber, and 0 wt % to 5 wt % of a binder, and is prepared by a wet method.

Abstract: Provided is a nicotine pouch filler including nicotine, a release control excipient including at least one or more selected from a group consisting of cellulose and sugar alcohol, a binder, a pH adjuster, and a flavoring agent, in which the release control excipient includes cellulose and sugar alcohol, the cellulose and the sugar alcohol are mixed at a weight ratio of 1:9 to 5:5, the cellulose includes one or more of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and methyl cellulose, and the sugar alcohol includes at least one or more selected from a group consisting of erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, maltitol, and isomaltol.

Abstract: Provided are a filler for an oral pouch including specific types and specific content of sugar alcohol, and an oral pouch including the filler.

Abstract: A method of packaging a nicotine pouch by forming a longitudinal seal and a cross seal of a packaging material is provided. The packaging material may include pulp and a thermoplastic resin fiber, the longitudinal seal and the cross seal may have a width of 2 millimeters (mm) to 5 mm, and a scaling temperature at which the longitudinal seal and the cross seal are formed may range from 110° C. to 160° C.

Abstract: Provided is a nicotine pouch filler including nicotine, a release control excipient, a binder, a pH adjuster, a solvent, and a flavoring agent, wherein the solvent includes one or more of water and ethanol, and the water and the ethanol are mixed at a weight ratio of 4:6 to 0:10.

Abstract: Provided is a nicotine pouch including a filler, and a packaging material that wraps the filler, in which the filler includes nicotine, a release control excipient including at least one or more selected from a group consisting of cellulose and sugar alcohol, a binder, a pH adjuster, and a flavoring agent, a content of the nicotine in the filler is 2.5 to 10 wt % with respect to a weight of total solid contents of the filler, a content of the release control excipient in the filler is 5.5 to 36 times the content of nicotine, and the packaging material includes at least two or more selected from a group consisting of pulp, a cellulosic staple fiber, and a thermoplastic fiber.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nicotine inhaler including: a body including a housing and a venturi tube disposed in the housing; a liquid nicotine storage; and a liquid supplying tube that supplies the liquid nicotine into the venturi tube, wherein the venturi tube includes an inlet pipe section communicating with an air intake port at one end of the housing, a central pipe section having a liquid injection hole on a wall thereof, and an outlet pipe section communicating with an inhalation port at the other end of the housing, and the liquid supplying tube is disposed to communicate with the liquid nicotine storage and the liquid injection hole of the central pipe section.

Abstract: Provided are a filler for an oral pouch with excellent elution characteristics of an active material, and an oral pouch including the filler.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium composite oxide including a coating layer having a boron-containing oxide and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a lithium composite oxide improved in lifetime and capacity characteristics by inducing a predetermined correlation between the molar ratio of nickel in a lithium composite oxide including a coating layer having a boron-containing oxide and a full width at half-maximum (FWHM; deg., 2?) of a (104) peak among XRD peaks defined by the hexagonal lattice with an R-3m space group, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.

Abstract: Provided is a nicotine pouch filler including nicotine, a release control excipient including at least one or more selected from a group consisting of cellulose and sugar alcohol, a binder, a pH adjuster, and a flavoring agent, wherein a content of the nicotine is 2.5 to 10 wt % with respect to a weight of total solid contents of the nicotine pouch filler, and a content of the release control excipient is 5.5 to 36 times the content of the nicotine.