Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector which is suitably used for electrodes for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and electrodes for capacitors, an electrode and a capacitor each using the same. The three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector of the present invention is a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector used for electrodes, and the aluminum porous body has been made to have an average cell diameter of 50 ?m or more and 1000 ?m or less in order to enhance the filling performance of an active material slurry.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector which is suitably used for electrodes for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and electrodes for capacitors, an electrode and a capacitor each using the same. In such a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, the aluminum porous body has been made to have a compressive strength in a thickness direction of 0.2 MPa or more in order to efficiently fill an active material into the sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body.

Abstract: Provided is an electrochemical device which is easy to produce and which has excellent characteristics. An electrochemical device includes a first electrode including an aluminum porous body having interconnecting pores and an active material filled into the pores of the aluminum porous body, a separator, and a second electrode, the first electrode, the separator, and the second electrode being stacked, in which a plurality of electrode bodies each including the first electrode, the separator, and the second electrode are stacked without being wound.

Abstract: Provided is electrochemical device, such as a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, which has excellent discharge characteristics and the like by forming a thick electrode using a metal porous body, such as an aluminum porous body, as a current collector. An electrode for an electrochemical device includes a metal porous body filled with an active material, in which the metal porous body is sheet-like and is a stacked porous body in which a plurality of single-layer metal porous bodies are stacked and electrically connected to each other. The metal porous body may be an aluminum porous body having a three-dimensional network structure.

Abstract: A porous metal body containing continuous pores and having a low oxygen content is provided by decomposing a porous resin body that contains continuous pores and has a layer of a metal thereon by heating the porous resin body at a temperature equal to or less than the melting point of the metal while the porous resin body is immersed in a first molten salt and a negative potential is applied to the metal layer; and a method for producing the porous metal body is provided.

Abstract: A porous metal body containing continuous pores and having a low oxygen content is provided by decomposing a porous resin body that contains continuous pores and has a layer of a metal thereon by heating the porous resin body at a temperature equal to or less than the melting point of the metal while the porous resin body is immersed in a first molten salt and a negative potential is applied to the metal layer; and a method for producing the porous metal body is provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel genes and methods for the screening of therapeutics useful for treating impaired glucose tolerance conditions, as well as diagnostics and therapeutic compositions for identifying or treating such conditions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel genes and methods for the screening of therapeutics useful for treating impaired glucose tolerance conditions, as well as diagnostics and therapeutic compositions for identifying or treating such conditions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel genes and methods for the screening of therapeutics useful for treating impaired glucose tolerance conditions, as well as diagnostics and therapeutic compositions for identifying or treating such conditions.