Abstract: The present invention provides a method for efficiently producing monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and furfurals from biomass. A biomass is hydrolyzed under conditions under which monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and furfurals are produced while continuously supplying an aqueous suspension of the biomass from a supply port of a continuous primary hydrolysis device and moving the suspension through the device. A hydrolysis solution is continuously discharged from a discharge port of the continuous hydrolysis device, and a hydrolysis solution containing monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and furfurals are extracted from an intermediate extraction port provided at any position between the supply port and the discharge port of the continuous primary hydrolysis device. The extracted hydrolysis solution is then subjected to secondary hydrolysis.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for efficiently producing monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and furfurals from biomass. A biomass is hydrolyzed under conditions under which monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and furfurals are produced while continuously supplying an aqueous suspension of the biomass from a supply port of a continuous primary hydrolysis device and moving the suspension through the device. A hydrolysis solution is continuously discharged from a discharge port of the continuous hydrolysis device, and a hydrolysis solution containing monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and furfurals are extracted from an intermediate extraction port provided at any position between the supply port and the discharge port of the continuous primary hydrolysis device. The extracted hydrolysis solution is then subjected to secondary hydrolysis.

Abstract: The present invention provides a glossy ink-jet recording sheet comprising: a paper support; a solvent-absorbing layer comprising a pigment and an adhesive; and an ink-fixing layer comprising a pigment and an adhesive, the ink-fixing layer having a mirror-finished surface; or a glossy ink-jet recording sheet comprising: a paper support; a solvent-absorbing layer comprising a pigment and an adhesive; an ink-fixing layer comprising a pigment and an adhesive; and a glossy layer having a mirror-finished surface; characterized in that the adhesive of the solvent-absorbing layer comprises a ternary copolymer consisting of an alkyl(meth)acrylate, a N-methylolacrylamide, and a styrene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an ink jet recording sheet characterized by including: applying a coating liquid containing at least both a temperature-sensitive polymeric compound and a pigment the temperature-sensitive polymeric compound having a temperature region where hydrophobicity is exhibited and a temperature region where hydrophilicity is exhibited, the coating liquid becoming more viscous or gelating in the temperature region where hydrophilicity is exhibited, onto either an air-permeable support or at least one undercoating layer provided on an air-permeable support in the temperature region where hydrophobicity is exhibited, to form a coating layer of the coating liquid, bringing the temperature thereof to the temperature region where the temperature-sensitive polymeric compound exhibits hydrophilicity to increase the viscosity of the coating layer or gelate the coating layer, then applying a wetting liquid containing an ink fixing agent (and colloidal particles) onto the

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate and a recording layer thereon incorporating a colorless or light-colored basic dye and a color acceptor, the recording material being characterized in that, the basic dye comprises at least one black-forming fluoran derivative and at least one phenothiazine derivative such as 3,7-bis(dimethylaminophenyl)-10-benzoylphenothiazine in an amount of 5 to 100 wt. % based on the fluoran derivative, and the color acceptor comprises a diphenyl sulfone derivative such as 3,3'-diallyl-4,4'-dihydroxydiphenyl sulfone.