Abstract: A laminated film comprising a porous semiconductor layer, a transparent conductive layer and a transparent plastic film, wherein the porous semiconductor layer comprises crystalline titanium oxide fibers and crystalline titanium oxide fine particles, the crystalline titanium oxide fibers and the crystalline titanium oxide fine particles are substantially composed of an anatase phase and a rutile phase, the anatase phase content ratio calculated from the integral intensity ratio of X-ray diffraction is between 1.00 and 0.32, and the laminated film is used in an electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells, and the electrode and a dye-sensitized solar cell comprising the same.

Abstract: A laminate for dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a plastic film of which the thermal shrinkage in the machine direction thereof when heat-treated at 200° C. for 10 minutes is from ?1.5 to +0.5%, and a transparent conductive layer provided on the film, which comprises essentially indium oxide with zinc oxide added thereto and has a surface resistivity of at most 40 ?/square, may give a highly-durable and flexible, dye-sensitized solar cells having high photovoltaic power generation efficiency.

Abstract: It is to provide a base material for a solar cell, constituted by a stretched film of a composition containing a thermoplastic crystalline resin and inert particles, in which the base material for a solar cell has, on at least one side, a surface that has a center plane average surface roughness Ra of 30 to 500 nm and an average interval between local crests S on the surface of 40 to 5,000 nm, by which the base material for a solar cell provided has a surface capable of providing a light trapping effect and is useful for producing a solar cell exhibiting an excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency upon using as a base material of a thin film solar cell.

Abstract: A light stabilized film containing a resin film, a first light stabilized layer being formed on the resin film and containing an organic ultraviolet ray absorbent, and a second light stabilized layer being formed on the first light stabilized layer and containing a metallic oxide having ultraviolet ray absorbability, thereby maintaining good light stability under light irradiation for a prolonged period of time while containing an organic ultraviolet ray absorbent.

Abstract: A multi-layer film for use as a solar cell substrate, consisting of a supporting layer (s) and a scattering layer (s), wherein the supporting layer comprises a thermoplastic crystalline resin, the scattering layer comprises a thermoplastic crystalline resin and particles having a different refractive index from the refractive index of the thermoplastic crystalline resin, the content of the particles in the scattering layer is 0.05 to 20 vol % based on the volume of the scattering layer, the absolute value of the difference between the refractive index of the particles contained in the scattering layer and the refractive index of the thermoplastic crystalline resin in the scattering layer is 0.01 to 1.00, the both surfaces of the multi-layer film have a center line average surface roughness Ra of not more than 50 nm, and the multi-layer film has a total light transmittance Tt of not less than 80% and a haze ratio of not less than 8%.

Abstract: A laminated film comprising a porous semiconductor layer, a transparent conductive layer and a transparent plastic film, wherein the porous semiconductor layer comprises crystalline titanium oxide fibers and crystalline titanium oxide fine particles, the crystalline titanium oxide fibers and the crystalline titanium oxide fine particles are substantially composed of an anatase phase and a rutile phase, the anatase phase content ratio calculated from the integral intensity ratio of X-ray diffraction is between 1.00 and 0.32, and the laminated film is used in an electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells, and the electrode and a dye-sensitized solar cell comprising the same.

Abstract: A laminate for dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a plastic film of which the thermal shrinkage in the machine direction thereof when heat-treated at 200° C. for 10 minutes is from ?1.5 to +0.5%, and a transparent conductive layer provided on the film, which comprises essentially indium oxide with zinc oxide added thereto and has a surface resistivity of at most 40 ?/square, may give a highly-durable and flexible, dye-sensitized solar cells having high photovoltaic power generation efficiency.

Abstract: A polyester resin composition which is a resin composition comprising a polyester and a laminar silicate that is 60-100% modified by organic phosphonium ion, wherein the content of the laminar silicate is 0.01-20 wt % as inorganic ash and the terminal OH group content is 0.1-45 eq/ton, as well as a process for its production and molded articles comprising it.

Abstract: There is provided a polyester composition which can be suitably used as a molding material for fibers, films or resins having an enhanced elastic modulus and softening points. The thermoplastic resin composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (A) and 0.01-10 parts by weight of a fibrous aluminum oxide filler (B) composed of a compound represented by the following formula (I): AlxOyHz??(I) (where x, y and z are numbers of 0-3, and x=(2y?z)/3 is satisfied), wherein the primary particles of the fibrous aluminum oxide filler have a mean fiber length of 10-1000 nm, a mean fiber diameter of 0.5-7 nm and a mean aspect ratio of 2000-5. The fibrous aluminum oxide filler (B) is preferably surface-coated with a silane coupling agent.

Abstract: An oriented polyimide film of high strength and a production process therefor. The process basically comprises stretching a gelled film and then imidating the film. The gelled film is formed by introducing a polyamic acid solution into a condensation agent solution. The gelled film is swollen with a solvent at the time of stretching.

Abstract: An oriented polyimide film of high strength and a production process therefor. The process basically comprises stretching a gelled film and then imidating the film. The gelled film is formed by introducing a polyamic acid solution into a condensation agent solution. The gelled film is swollen with a solvent at the time of stretching.