Abstract: A molding material is a molding material including linear alkyl-based polyester, highly polar polyester, cellulose fibers, and a flame retardant, in which a total content of the linear alkyl-based polyester and the highly polar polyester is less than or equal to a content of the cellulose fibers, the flame retardant has a phosphazene skeleton or a phosphoric acid ester skeleton in a molecular structure, and a content of the flame retardant is 1% by mass or greater and 10% by mass or less with respect to the total content of the linear alkyl-based polyester, the highly polar polyester, and the cellulose fibers.

Abstract: A molding material is a molding material including linear alkyl-based polyester, highly polar polyester, and cellulose fibers, in which a content of the linear alkyl-based polyester is greater than a content of the highly polar polyester, and a total content of the linear alkyl-based polyester and the highly polar polyester is less than or equal to a content of the cellulose fibers.

Abstract: A molding material includes a resin and cellulose fibers, in which the content of the cellulose fibers is 50% by mass or more based on the total mass of the molding material, the resin has a Hansen solubility parameter HSP of 20.0 or more and 32.0 or less in total, a hydrogen bonding term ?H of 4.0 or more and 15.0 or less in total, and a polarity term ?P of 8.5 or more and 17.0 or less in total, and when a molded body obtained by using the molding material is fractured, the resin present on the cellulose fibers accounts for 30% or more of an area of 1 mm square of the fracture surface of the molded body.

Abstract: A molded-material manufacturing apparatus includes a deposition section configured to deposit a material containing fibers in air to form a web, a first heating section of a noncontact type configured to heat the web, and a second heating section of a contact type configured to heat and pressurize the web heated in the first heating section to form a molded material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a compact includes a mixing step of mixing a fiber and a powder of a binder to obtain a mixture; an accumulating step of accumulating the mixture to form a web; a humidifying step of adding water to the web; and a forming step of heating and pressurizing the water-added web to obtain a compact. The binder binds between fiber molecules by the addition of water. The powder has an average particle diameter (D50) of 20.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a compact includes a mixing step of mixing a fiber and a powder of a binder to obtain a mixture; an accumulating step of accumulating the mixture to form a web; a humidifying step of adding water to the web; and a forming step of heating and pressurizing the water-added web to obtain a compact. The binder binds between fiber molecules by the addition of water. The powder has a specific surface area of 0.2 m2/g or more.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a compact includes a mixing step of mixing a fiber and a powder of a binder to obtain a mixture; an accumulating step of accumulating the mixture to form a web; a humidifying step of adding water to the web; and a forming step of heating and pressurizing the water-added web to obtain a compact. The binder binds between fiber molecules by the addition of water. The powder has an average particle diameter (D50) of 20.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: A composite includes a fiber and a dextrin, wherein at least part of the dextrin adheres to the fiber, the molecular weight distribution curve of the dextrin has a first maximum and a second maximum, the weight average molecular weight value based on a peak belonging to the first maximum is less than 6000, and the weight average molecular weight value based on a peak belonging to the second maximum is 6000 or more.

Abstract: A composite includes a fiber and a dextrin, wherein at least part of the dextrin adheres to the fiber, and the dextrin has a DE value of 0.25 or more and 3.60 or less.

Abstract: A liquid absorber includes a plurality of small chips. Individual ones of the small chips include a first substrate containing fibers, a second substrate containing fibers, and an absorbent resin supported between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate contains an ion scavenger.

Abstract: A composite of the present disclosure, which is used as a raw material for dry molding, includes a cellulose fiber, and a starch, in which at least a part of the starch is fused to the cellulose fiber, and a content of the starch is 30.0% by mass or more and 50.0% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the composite.

Abstract: A composite of the present disclosure contains a fiber and a thermoplastic starch fused to the fiber. A method for producing a molded product of the present disclosure includes a molding raw material preparing step of preparing a molding raw material containing a fiber and a thermoplastic starch, and a molding step of molding the molding raw material into a predetermined shape by heating and pressurizing the molding raw material.

Abstract: A composite of the present disclosure includes a fiber, and starch, in which at least a part of the starch is fused to the fiber, and a weight-average molecular weight of the starch is 40,000 or higher and 400,000 or lower. A method for producing a molded product of the present disclosure includes a molding raw material preparing step of preparing a molding raw material containing a fiber and a starch that has a weight-average molecular weight of 40,000 or higher and 400,000 or lower, a humidifying step of humidifying the molding raw material, and a molding step of molding the molding raw material into a predetermined shape by heating and pressurizing the molding raw material.

Abstract: A fiber body manufacturing method includes: a dispersing step of dispersing a mixture containing a defibrated material which includes fibers and a binding agent which exhibits a binding property by moisture absorption, the mixture having a moisture content of 10 to 30 percent by weight; a depositing step of depositing the mixture dispersed in the dispersing step; a humidifying step of imparting moisture by water vapor or mist to the binding agent in a deposit deposited in the depositing step so as to exhibit the binding property; and a forming step of forming the deposit humidified in the humidifying step into a fiber body.

Abstract: A liquid absorber includes a plurality of small chips. Individual ones of the small chips include a first substrate containing fibers, a second substrate containing fibers, an absorbent resin supported between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an ion exchange resin supported between the first substrate and the second substrate. At least one of the absorbent resin and the ion exchange resin is exposed at an end face of the small chips.

Abstract: A fiber assembly-forming method includes providing a first feedstock containing fibers with a binding material bonding the fibers to each other, forming disintegrated matter by disintegrating the first feedstock provided with the binding material, depositing the disintegrated matter, and heating the deposited disintegrated matter.

Abstract: A fiber structural body includes fibers and a fibroin which binds the fibers, and when the fibers are represented by A, and the fibroin is represented by B, the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied. 0.03?volume average particle diameter of B/average width of A in short direction?4.00??(1) 0.01?dry mass of B with respect to total mass of fiber structural body/(dry mass of A with respect to total mass of fiber structural body+dry mass of B with respect to total mass of fiber structural body)?0.

Abstract: A liquid absorber includes a plurality of small chips. Individual ones of the small chips include a first substrate containing fibers, a second substrate containing fibers, an absorbent resin supported between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an ion exchange resin supported between the first substrate and the second substrate. At least one of the absorbent resin and the ion exchange resin is exposed at an end face of the small chips.

Abstract: A liquid absorber includes a plurality of small chips. Individual ones of the small chips include a first substrate containing fibers, a second substrate containing fibers, and an absorbent resin supported between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate contains an ion scavenger.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle), a first compound, a second compound, and a third compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer having a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer, and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound includes a non-polar group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group. The third compound includes a charging group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.