Abstract: To provide an RFID tag including therein a lightweight, thin, reusable by charging, and foldable power source. In an RFID tag including an IC module 2, an antenna 3, and a power source and with a thickness of 0.9 mm or less, there is included an organic radical battery with a thickness of 0.7 mm or less as the power source.

Abstract: There are here disclosed a photoresist material for lithography using a light of 220 nm or less which comprises at least a polymer represented by the following formula (2) and a photo-acid generator for generating an acid by exposure: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R5 are each a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R4 is an acid-labile group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has an acid labile group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has a carboxyl group, or a hydrocarbon group having 3 to 13 carbon atoms, which has an epoxy group; R6 is a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has a carboxyl group; x, y and z are optional values which meet x+y+z=1, 0<x?1, 0?y<1 and 0?z<1; and a weight-average molecular weight of the polymer is in the range of 2000 to 200000, and a resin having a (meth)acrylate unit of an alicyclic lactone structure represented by the

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power storage device with low internal resistance, employing a cathode containing a nitroxyl polymer. To attain the object in the present invention, in the power storage device employing a cathode comprising a nitroxyl polymer, a cathode collector having a conductive auxiliary layer comprising carbon as a main component formed and integrated on an aluminum electrode is used.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power storage device with excellent cycle property, employing a cathode containing a nitroxyl polymer. To attain the object in the present invention, in the power storage device employing a cathode comprising a nitroxyl polymer, a lithium or lithium alloy anode is used as an anode active material and the cathode is in direct contact with the anode.

Abstract: In order to provide a positive electrode for a secondary battery having a low electric resistance and a large mechanical strength, and a secondary battery capable of charge and discharge using a large current and having a large capacity and excellent in storage characteristics, there is used a positive electrode for a secondary battery comprising an active material layer at least comprising a radical compound and a carbon fiber in which a graphite structure has an average value of interlayer distances d002 in the range of not less than 0.335 nm and not more than 0.340 nm. Such a carbon fiber having the interlayer distance has a modulus of elongation in the range of not less than 200 GPa and not more than 800 GPa. Particularly the carbon fiber preferably has a volume resistivity in the range of not less than 200??·cm and not more than 2000??·cm. The carbon fiber is preferably a vapor-grown carbon fiber or a graphitized carbon fiber derived from a mesophase pitch as a precursor.

Abstract: In the present invention, in order to provide an electrode active material that has a high capacity density and from which a large current can be extracted and to provide a battery that has a high energy density and produces a large output, in a battery comprising at least a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte, a polyradical compound having a partial structure represented by the following general formula (2) is used as an electrode active material for at least one of the cathode and the anode, wherein, in the formula (2), R1 to R3 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and R4 to R7 independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A secondary battery, that has an excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics, with a larger capacity, is provided. The secondary battery having a positive electrode, negative electrode and electrolyte, includes a polymer having a repeating unit represented by a formula (1) as an active material of at least one of positive electrode and negative electrode. According to formula (1), R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represents hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbons, substituted or unsubstituted hetroaromatic groups, halogen atom, or alkylene group that may be coupled to the ring form either one or both of R1 and R3, R2 and R4.

Abstract: There are here disclosed a photoresist material for lithography using a light of 220 nm or less which comprises at least a polymer represented by the following formula (2) and a photo-acid generator for generating an acid by exposure: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R5 are each a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R4 is an acid-labile group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has an acid labile group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has a carboxyl group, or a hydrocarbon group having 3 to 13 carbon atoms, which has an epoxy group; R6 is a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has a carboxyl group; x, y and z are optional values which meet x+y+z=1, 0<x?1, 0?y<1 and 0?z<1; and a weight-average molecular weight of the polymer is in the range of 2000 to 200000, and a resin having a (meth)acrylate unit of an alicyclic lactone structure represented by the

Abstract: A charge storage device such as a battery, wherein a positive electrode comprises a nitroxyl compound having a structure of a nitroxyl cation moiety represented by formula (I) in an oxidized state while having a structure of a nitroxyl radical moiety represented by formula (II) in a reduced state and a reaction represented by reaction formula (A) in which an electron is transferred between these states is used as a positive electrode reaction. The charge storage device can have a higher energy density and can be used at a large current.

Abstract: There are here disclosed a photoresist material for lithography using a light of 220 nm or less which comprises at least a polymer represented by the following formula (2) and a photo-acid generator for generating an acid by exposure: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R5 are each a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R4 is an acid-labile group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has an acid labile group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has a carboxyl group, or a hydrocarbon group having 3 to 13 carbon atoms, which has an epoxy group; R6 is a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 13 carbon atoms, which has a carboxyl group; x, y and z are optional values which meet x+y+z=1, 0<x?1, 0?y<1 and 0?z<1; and a weight-average molecular weight of the polymer is in the range of 2000 to 200000, and a resin having a (meth)acrylate unit of an alicyclic lactone structure represented by the

Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery comprising at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte as composing elements, wherein the positive electrode and/or the negative electrode comprise an active material of nitroxyl radical compound represented by the following general formula (1) as a starting material or a reaction product of at least a discharge reaction of electrode reactions: wherein Ar represents substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group containing nitrogen wherein one endocyclic nitrogen atom or at least one of plural endocyclic nitrogen atoms exists as N-oxide; the substituent R1 represents hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxyl group, nitro group, nitroso group, cyano group, carboxyl group, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, substituted or

Abstract: In a secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte therebetween, active material of one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes a compound having boron radicals or sulfur radicals.

Abstract: An electrode including a compound acting as an electrode active material and represented by a general formula (1) having a diazine N,N?-dioxide structure. A novel battery with the higher specific density and the excellent charge and discharge stability can be provided by incorporating the electrode having the compound represented by the general formula (1).

Abstract: A secondary battery, that has an excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics, with a larger capacity, is provided. The secondary battery having a positive electrode, negative electrode and electrolyte, includes a polymer having a repeating unit represented by a formula (1) as an active material of at least one of positive electrode and negative electrode. According to formula (1), R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represents hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbons, substituted or unsubstituted hetroaromatic groups, halogen atom, or alkylene group that may be coupled to the ring form either one or both of R1 and R3, R2 and R4.

Abstract: A radical compound may be used as an active material for an anode layer 2 to provide a novel stable secondary battery with a higher energy density and a larger capacity. The radical compound used has, for example, a spin concentration of 1021 spins/g or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a resist resin having an acid-decomposable group, which gives rise to decomposition of the acid-decomposable group to show an increased solubility to an aqueous alkali solution by the action of an acid, wherein the resist resin has, in the main chain, an alicyclic lactone structure represented by the following general formula (1). According to the present invention, a positive-type chemically amplified resist can be obtained which has high transparency to a far-ultraviolet light having a wavelength of about 220 nm or less, excellent etching resistance, and excellent adhesion to substrate; and a fine pattern required in production of semiconductor device can be formed. (wherein Z is an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having a lactone structure).

Abstract: A battery includes active material containing neutral carbon radical compound at one of or both of the electrodes, and the neutral carbon radicals participate in electrode reaction for generating current; the battery is light, because any heavy metal is not required for the active material, and the battery achieves large capacity without sacrifice of stability, because the unpaired electrons are localized at the carbon atoms in the neutral carbon radical compound.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a battery which is high in capacity density and superior in stability. An electrode containing a compound having a diazine-N,N?-dioxide structure shown by a general formula (1) described below as an electrode active material is used, where x, y, x?, and y? independently shows integer numbers of 0 or more respectively, and the order of condensation of diazine rings and benzene rings may be alternate or random. One of substituents R1, R2, R3, R4, Ra, Rb, Rc, and Rd shows a part of main chain or side chain of oligomer or polymer, and the other independently shows hydrogen atom, halogen atom, or a specific group.

Abstract: A radical compound may be used as an active material for an anode layer 2 to provide a novel stable secondary battery with a higher energy density and a larger capacity. The radical compound used has, for example, a spin concentration of 1021 spins/g or more.

Abstract: Photoacid generators comprising sulfonium salt compounds represented by the following general formula (2) wherein R1 and R2 represent each an alkyl group optionally having oxo, or R1 and R2 may be cyclized together to form an alkylene group optionally having oxo; R3, R4 and R5 represent each hydrogen or a linear, branched, monocyclic, polycyclic or crosslinked cyclic alkyl group; and Y? represents a counter ion.