Abstract: A coating agent for preventing the adsorption of extracellular vesicles represented by exosomes to a tool has been developed. Adsorption of extracellular vesicles to a tool can be prevented by using a coating agent which contains a hydrophilic polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 or more and 1,000,000 or less, wherein a coated layer formed by the coating agent has a contact angle of 0 degree or more and 30 degrees or less.

Abstract: A tubular structure has succeeded in achieving excellent puncture resistance as well as maintenance of flexibility in a base by covering the base with a cover having excellent flexibility. The tubular structure includes a tubular base and a cover which covers the base, wherein the cover includes a copolymer containing a silicone monomer and a polymerizable monomer having a fluoroalkyl group(s) as monomer units.

Abstract: There are provided a setting process configured to set in a chamber an aluminum nitride substrate in which a semiconductor layer is formed on a first principal plane, and an oxide film forming process configured to heat an inside of the chamber with a water molecule (H2O) being introduced in the chamber and to form an oxide film including an amorphous oxide film and/or a crystalline oxide film on a second principal plane located on an opposite side to the first principal plane of the aluminum nitride substrate.

Abstract: Provided are a rubber composition for pneumatic tires with excellent fluidity and excellent degradation resistance, and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for pneumatic tires containing a rubber component including a halogenated butyl rubber, and an organic peroxide.

Abstract: An object is to provide a method of manufacturing a vessel for embryoid body formation excellent in formability of an embryoid body and suitable for optical observation.

Abstract: Provided are a rubber composition for pneumatic tires which is excellent in adhesion, sealing performance, fluidity, and processability, and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for pneumatic tires containing, per 100 parts by mass of a rubber component including a butyl-based rubber: 100 to 400 parts by mass of a liquid polymer; 1 to 40 parts by mass of an organic peroxide; and 1 to 40 parts by mass of a crosslinking activator.

Abstract: A precombustion chamber gas engine includes a main-chamber forming portion forming a main combustion chamber, a precombustion-chamber forming portion forming a precombustion chamber communicating with the main combustion chamber via nozzle holes, and an ignition device disposed in the precombustion chamber and having an ignition portion spaced from the main chamber central axis at a predetermined distance. In a plan view, the precombustion chamber has a near-ignition region including the ignition portion and a far-ignition region opposite to the near-ignition region separated by a borderline passing through the precombustion chamber central axis and perpendicular to a straight line passing through the precombustion chamber central axis and the ignition portion. The cross-sectional area of a specific near nozzle hole which is at least one nozzle hole in the near-ignition region is smaller than the cross-sectional area of a specific far nozzle hole which is at least one nozzle hole in the far-ignition region.

Abstract: Provided is a lubricity-imparting agent that can impart durable lubricity (in particular, lubricity at the time of wetting) to a substrate. It has been found that a lubricity-imparting agent including a copolymer containing a constitutional unit (A) based on 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine and a constitutional unit (B) based on a photoreactive functional group-containing monomer, or a copolymer containing a constitutional unit (A) based on 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine, a constitutional unit (B) based on a photoreactive functional group-containing monomer, and a constitutional unit (C) based on a hydrophobic group-containing monomer can impart durable lubricity to a substrate surface through a simple approach called photoirradiation.

Abstract: A pipe erroneous assembly preventing structure includes a pipe and a case. The pipe includes a stay in which a stay-side abutting portion and a stay claw portion intersect with each other in an L shape. The case includes a hole forming portion; a first protrusion portion provided in the hole forming portion; a case-side abutting portion which is recessed in the first protrusion portion and to which the stay-side abutting portion of the stay abuts, and a second protrusion portion protruding from the case wall surface. In a case where a length of the stay claw portion in the insertion direction is set to Ls, a distance from the case wall surface to the case-side abutting portion is set to Lg, and a distance from the case wall surface to the second protrusion portion is set to Lp, Lg?Lp<Ls?Lg is satisfied.

Abstract: A rectifier circuit including a switch element, controls connection and disconnection of an AC input voltage using the switch element to generate an output voltage. The switch element includes an n-channel MOS transistor. The rectifier circuit further includes a booster circuit and a control signal generation unit, and establishes connection to the switch element at a peak portion of the input voltage. The booster circuit is configured to generate and apply a gate control signal including a voltage higher than a threshold voltage of the n-channel MOS transistor to a gate of the n-channel MOS transistor. The control signal generation unit is configured to generate and output a control signal for controlling connection and disconnection of the n-channel MOS transistor to the booster circuit.

Abstract: There is provided an internal combustion engine in which respective combustion states of cylinders can be uniformized with a simple configuration. A central axis (CL1) of a connecting part (7) of one of air supply ports (5) inclines with a predetermined inclination angle in a direction away from an air supply inlet (3) with respect to a y direction orthogonal to an x direction in which an air supply manifold 1 extends, and an inclination angle of the connecting part (7) of the one of the air supply ports (5) is larger than an inclination angle of the connecting part (7) of other air supply ports (5) located on a side closer to the air supply inlet (3) than the one of the air supply ports (5).

Abstract: Provided are: a fouling inhibitor that is capable of effectively inhibiting fouling of porous filtration membranes use as water purification membranes or the like, that has resistance to chemicals, such as alkali used when the membrane is fouled, and that is capable of maintaining such effects sufficiently even after chemical wash; a filtration membrane provided with the inhibitor; and a method for producing the same. The inhibitor contains: (A) a copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 10000 to 300000 and contains a MPC unit (a1) and a BMA unit (a2), wherein the ratio of (a1) to (a2) ((a1)/(a2)) by mole is 10/90 to 70/30; and (B) PVA having a saponification degree of 72 to 93 mol % and a polymerization degree of 300 to 1000, wherein the ratio of component (A) to component (B) ((A)/(B)) by mass is 25/75 to 75/25.

Abstract: Provided is a barrier film including a resin film and a barrier layer provided on the resin film. Also provided is an electroconductive film including a resin film and an electroconductive layer provided on the resin film. The resin film is formed of a resin containing an alicyclic structure-containing polymer having crystallizability. An absolute value of a thermal size change ratio when the resin film is heated at 150° C. for 1 hour is 1% or less in any in-plane direction of the resin film.

Abstract: Provided are a copolymer having enough biocompatibility to be used in a medical material application, and a method of forming a crosslinked body, which involves modifying a substrate surface with the copolymer so that the surface may be biocompatible. More specifically, a protein adsorption-suppressing effect and a cell adhesion-suppressing effect, which are features of a phosphorylcholine group, are imparted to the substrate surface. It has been found that the object is achieved by a copolymer containing a phosphorylcholine constitutional unit, a hydrophobic constitutional unit, and a photoreactive constitutional unit at a specific ratio.

Abstract: A heat-sealable insulating film for installation in a secondary battery including a positive electrode member and a negative electrode member being formed from a collector foil and an active material layer formed to cover one end on the collector foil, wherein an adhesive layer is adhered by heat-sealing to cover at least a boundary of an exposed part of the collector foil and the active material layer of the positive electrode member or the negative electrode member, a peripheral edge of the positive electrode member or the negative electrode member has a cross-sectional surface including the collector foil and the insulating film, and the insulating film consists of at least two layers of a base material layer made of a polyolefin resin and the adhesive layer made of a polyolefin resin modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: Provided are a copolymer having biocompatibility sufficient for use in medical material applications, and a method of forming a crosslinked body, the method including imparting biocompatibility to a substrate surface through the use of the copolymer. More specifically, a protein adsorption-suppressing effect and a cell adhesion-suppressing effect, which are features of a phosphorylcholine group, are imparted to the substrate surface. It has been found that a copolymer containing a phosphorylcholine constitutional unit and a photoreactive constitutional unit, or a copolymer containing a phosphorylcholine constitutional unit, a photoreactive constitutional unit, and a hydrophobic constitutional unit can impart a protein adsorption-suppressing effect and a cell adhesion-suppressing effect to a substrate surface through a simple approach called photoirradiation.

Abstract: Provided is a resin film having excellent size stability in a high-temperature environment. A resin film formed of a resin containing an alicyclic structure-containing polymer having crystallizability, wherein an absolute value of a thermal size change ratio when the film is heated at 150° C. for 1 hour is 1% or less in any in-plane direction of the film. The alicyclic structure-containing polymer may preferably be a hydrogenated product of a ring-opened polymer of dicyclopentadiene. Also provided is a method for producing the resin film including a step of relaxing strain of the crystallized film while the crystallized. film is kept flat.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing a stretched film comprising stretching an unstretched film that is formed using a hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer at a temperature of 95 to 135° C. and a stretching ratio of 1.2 to 10, followed by heating at a temperature of 150 to 220° C. Since the thus-obtained stretched film has excellent transparency and low coefficient of linear expansion, the stretched film is suitable for not only use in optical applications but also use for electronic materials.

Abstract: An artificial blood vessel is composed of a cylindrical multiple-woven fabric structure allowing only a small amount of blood leakage and can achieve both antithrombogenicity and cellular affinity. The artificial blood vessel includes a cylindrical fabric structure in which a cylindrical fabric whose inside contacts blood is arranged, wherein the cylindrical fabric is a fabric prepared by interlacing a plurality of warp yarns and a plurality of weft yarns with each other into a cylindrical shape; the warp yarns and the weft yarns constituting the cylindrical fabric include a multifilament yarn having a single yarn fineness of not more than 0.50 dtex, and are bound to an antithrombogenic material; the antithrombogenic material forms an antithrombogenic material layer having a thickness of 1 to 600 nm inside the cylindrical fabric; and the water permeability under conditions where a pressure of 16 kPa is applied to the inner surface is less than 300 mL/cm2/min.

Abstract: With a view to providing an accessory preparation toy which can prepare accessories of various sizes, colors, patterns and shapes easily and simply with joy, a storage container includes a main material storage portion, an auxiliary material storage portion and a mixing chamber. A main material and an auxiliary material which make up a mixed curable resin material are stored separately in the main material storage portion and the auxiliary material storage portion. Opening portions of the main material storage portion and the auxiliary material storage portion are formed so as to be opened by pressing the main material or the auxiliary material stored therein with fingers. Lamé flakes which represent a decorative material are mixed into the main material.