Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon membrane for fluid separation that can suppress the breakage of a carbon membrane installed in a separation module during a vacuum desorption step before permeation of a fluid or during permeation of a fluid. The present invention provides a carbon membrane for fluid separation including a porous carbon support and a dense carbon layer provided on the porous carbon support, wherein the porous carbon support has an Rs value of 1.0 or less, where the Rs value is an R value (peak intensity of D-band (1360 cm?1)/peak intensity of G-band (1580 cm?1)) calculated from a Raman spectrum.

Abstract: A carbon membrane for fluid separation, i.e., a fiber-form carbon membrane for fluid separation, has protrusions having a height difference of at least 1 ?m formed on the fiber surface. In the carbon membrane for fluid separation, adhesion between membranes is inhibited and clogging tends not to occur when a gas mixture containing water vapor is separated. A carbon membrane module for fluid separation that includes the fibrous carbon membrane for fluid separation is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fluid separation membrane that can maintain separation performance for a long period of time. The present invention provides a fluid separation membrane including a separation layer including a dense layer, wherein 2 to 10,000 ppm of a total of a monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic compound being liquid or solid at 16° C. under atmospheric pressure and 10 to 250,000 ppm of water are adsorbed.

Abstract: A fluid separation membrane has high compression strength in the fiber cross-section direction (direction orthogonal to the fiber axis). The fluid separation membrane is obtained by an organic polymer layer being formed on the surface of porous carbon fibers having a co-continuous porous structure. A fluid separation membrane module and porous carbon fibers having a fully co-continuous porous structure are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon membrane for fluid separation that can suppress the breakage of a carbon membrane installed in a separation module during a vacuum desorption step before permeation of a fluid or during permeation of a fluid. The present invention provides a carbon membrane for fluid separation including a porous carbon support and a dense carbon layer provided on the porous carbon support, wherein the porous carbon support has an Rs value of 1.0 or less, where the Rs value is an R value (peak intensity of D-band (1360 cm?1)/peak intensity of G-band (1580 cm?1)) calculated from a Raman spectrum.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate porous carbon material having a continuous porous structure, the particulate porous carbon material satisfying the following A to C: A: branch portions forming the continuous porous structure have an aspect ratio of 3 or higher; B: the branch portions have aggregated through joints interposed therebetween, the number of the aggregated branch portions (N) being 3 or larger; C: a ratio of the number of the aggregated branch portions (N) to the number of the joints (n), N/n, is 1.2 or larger.

Abstract: A carbon membrane for fluid separation, i.e., a fiber-form carbon membrane for fluid separation, has protrusions having a height difference of at least 1 ?m formed on the fiber surface. In the carbon membrane for fluid separation, adhesion between membranes is inhibited and clogging tends not to occur when a gas mixture containing water vapor is separated. A carbon membrane module for fluid separation that includes the fibrous carbon membrane for fluid separation is also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode material which has a co-continuous porous structure configured from a carbon skeleton and voids and which, by providing a large surface area, has excellent electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, etc. This electrode material includes a porous carbon material having a co-continuous structure portion in which a carbon skeleton and voids form a continuous structure, and in the porous carbon material, the specific surface area measured by the BET method is 1 to 4500 m2/g, and the pore volume measured by the BJH method is 0.01 to 2.0 cm3/g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous carbon material having a co-continuous structure forming portion in which carbon skeletons and voids form continuous structures, respectively and which has a structural period of 0.002 ?m to 3 ?m, having pores which have an average diameter of 0.01 to 10 nm on a surface thereof, and having a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode material for metal-air batteries which has a homogeneous co-continuous structure due to a carbon skeleton and voids and is excellent in terms of permeability to and diffusibility of ions, oxygen, electrolytes, and electrolytic solutions and which, due to the formation of the carbon network, can rapidly diffuse the heat generated by battery reactions and has satisfactory electrical conductivity. The electrode material for metal-air batteries includes a porous carbon material having a co-continuous structure portion in which a skeleton constituted of carbon and voids form a co-continuous structure and which has a structural period, as calculated by X-ray scattering method or X-ray CT method, of 0.002-10 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode material for an electrochemical capacitor having high surface utilization efficiency, composed of a porous carbon material capable of further contributing to higher electrostatic capacitance of the electrochemical capacitor and to development of high rate characteristics; the porous carbon material having a co-continuous structural portion in which a carbon skeleton and voids form respective continuous structures, the co-continuous structural portion having a structural period of 0.002 ?m to 20 ?m.

Abstract: A fluid separation membrane has high compression strength in the fiber cross-section direction (direction orthogonal to the fiber axis). The fluid separation membrane is obtained by an organic polymer layer being formed on the surface of porous carbon fibers having a co-continuous porous structure. A fluid separation membrane module and porous carbon fibers having a fully co-continuous porous structure are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon membrane for fluid separation with which a high-pressure fluid can be separated and purified and which has excellent pressure resistance and is less apt to be damaged. The present invention relates to a carbon membrane for fluid separation, including: a core layer which has a co-continuous porous structure; and a skin layer which has substantially no co-continuous porous structure and is formed around the core layer.

Abstract: A carbon material having a continuous porous structure oriented to the stretching axis is provided, which carbon material can be used as a structural material excellent in interfacial adhesion. The porous carbon material has a continuous porous structure in at least a portion thereof, in which the continuous porous structure has an orientation degree measured by a small-angle X-ray scattering method or an X-ray CT method of 1.10 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a porous carbon material which has excellent electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, pressure resistance, and strength against tension and compression. This porous carbon material at least partially includes a continuous porous structure, and exhibits excellent electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, pressure resistance, and strength against tension and compression by containing carbon crystal grains therein.

Abstract: A heat-resistant, chemical-resistant polyphenylene sulfide block copolymer containing polyphenylene sulfide units and aromatic polyester units, wherein the polyphenylene sulfide units have a number average molecular weight in the range of 6,000 to 100,000. Provided is a polyphenylene sulfide block copolymer that overcomes the disadvantages of block copolymers including a low-molecular-weight polyphenylene sulfide segment and having poor heat resistance and chemical resistance.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a porous carbon material which includes a portion having a continuous porous structure and a portion having no continuous porous structure and has even pore size and matrix size in the material center part thereof, thereby being easy to composite with other materials and being able to be used in various applications; a porous-carbon-material precursor; a process for producing the porous-carbon-material precursor; and a process for producing the porous carbon material. A porous carbon material of the invention is a porous carbon material which includes a portion having a continuous porous structure and a portion having substantially no continuous porous structure, in which the portion having the continuous porous structure has a structural period of 0.002 to 1 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode material for an electrochemical capacitor having high surface utilization efficiency, composed of a porous carbon material capable of further contributing to higher electrostatic capacitance of the electrochemical capacitor and to development of high rate characteristics; the porous carbon material having a co-continuous structural portion in which a carbon skeleton and voids form respective continuous structures, the co-continuous structural portion having a structural period of 0.002 ?m to 20 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides a metal composite carbon material that provides a large contact interface between a fluid and metal fine particles and that can exhibit high catalytic performance when used as a catalyst, having metal fine particles supported in a continuous porous structure in which a carbon skeleton and voids form respective continuous structures, the continuous porous structure having a structural period of larger than 2 nm and 10 ?m or smaller.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate porous carbon material having a continuous porous structure, the particulate porous carbon material satisfying the following A to C: A: branch portions forming the continuous porous structure have an aspect ratio of 3 or higher; B: the branch portions have aggregated through joints interposed therebetween, the number of the aggregated branch portions (N) being 3 or larger; C: a ratio of the number of the aggregated branch portions (N) to the number of the joints (n), N/n, is 1.2 or larger.