Abstract: Provided is a treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating that can simultaneously achieve excellent moisture absorption resistance and a high iron loss reduction effect obtained by imparting sufficient tension, by using an inexpensive Ti source instead of expensive Ti chelate. The treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating contains: one or more of phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in an amount of 50 parts by mass to 120 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of SiO2; Ti source in an amount of 30 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of TiO2; and H3PO4, and the number of moles of metallic elements in the phosphate and of phosphorus in the treatment solution satisfy: 0.20?([Mg]+[Ca]+[Ba]+[Sr]+[Zn]+[Mn]+1.5[Al])/[P]?0.45??(1).

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon material and a material for a battery electrode which is suitable for use as an electrode material for an aqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, which material comprises optical structures having a specific shape, and in which material the ratio IG/ID (R value) between the peak intensity (ID) of a peak in a range of 1300 to 1400 cm?1 and the peak intensity (IG) of a peak in a range of 1580 to 1620 cm?1 measured by Raman spectroscopy spectra when particles of the carbon material are measured with Raman microspectrometer is 0.38 or more and 1.2 or less and the average interplanar spacing d002 of plane (002) by the X-ray diffraction method is 0.335 nm or more and 0.338 nm or less; and a secondary battery excellent in charge/discharge cycle characteristics and large current load characteristics.

Abstract: Provided is a treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating that can simultaneously achieve excellent moisture absorption resistance and a high iron loss reduction effect obtained by imparting sufficient tension, by using an inexpensive Ti source instead of expensive Ti chelate. The treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating contains: one or more of phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in an amount of 50 parts by mass to 120 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of SiO2; Ti source in an amount of 30 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of TiO2; and H3PO4, and the number of moles of metallic elements in the phosphate and of phosphorus in the treatment solution satisfy: 0.20?([Mg]+[Ca]+[Ba]+[Sr]+[Zn]+[Mn]+1.5[Al])/[P]?0.45??(1).

Abstract: Provided is an insulative coating processing liquid with which an insulative coating can be obtained. The insulative coating processing liquid contains: at least one phosphate selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; and two or more types of colloidal silicas having different mean particle diameters, wherein the total contained amount of the colloidal silicas in terms of the SiO2 solid content is 50-120 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the solid content of the phosphate, a mean particle diameter ratio expressed as ri+1/ri is not lower than 1.5 when the mean particle diameters of the colloidal silicas are represented in an ascending order, and a mass ratio expressed as wi+1/(wi+1+wi) is 0.30-0.90 when the masses of the colloidal silicas in terms of the SiO2 solid content are represented in an ascending order of the respective mean particle diameters.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for continuously nitriding a strip continuously being fed after cold rolling and before secondary recrystallization annealing in a production line of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, comprising: a nitriding zone for nitriding the strip; a cooling zone for cooling the strip; and an optional heating zone provided upstream of the nitriding zone for heating the strip, wherein, the nitriding zone is provided with glow discharge electrodes, and by plasma nitriding the strip by glow discharge with the glow discharge electrodes functioning as positive electrodes and the strip functioning as a negative electrode, inhibitor forming elements are uniformly dispersed over the full length and full width of the strip and a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties with no variation is obtained.

Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a coating on a surface thereof. The coating has a composite elastic modulus of 60 GPa to 95 GPa and a film thickness of 1.0 ?m or more, and a tension applied to the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by the coating is 6.0 MPa or more, and an amount of iron loss degradation between before and after roll reduction when the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is roll-reduced at a linear pressure of 68.6 N/cm is 0.010 W/kg or less in W17/50.

Abstract: A carbon material for negative electrodes in lithium ion secondary battery, wherein a specific surface area is not less than 1.5 m2/g and not more than 6.5 m2/g, a tap density is not less than 0.5 g/cm3 and not more than 1.3 g/cm3, a Raman R value is not less than 0.1 and not more than 0.4, no diffraction peak is present in a range of diffraction angle of 42.7° to 43.7° in X-ray diffraction analysis, d002 is not more than 0.337 nm, and at most one peak is present in a range of not less than 500° C. and less than 1000° C. in thermogravimetric-differential thermal analysis.

Abstract: A method for producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheets includes subjecting a steel slab to hot rolling to obtain a hot rolled sheet, the steel slab having a composition consisting of, by mass % or mass ppm, C: 0.08% or less, Si: 2.0% to 4.5% and Mn: 0.5% or less, S, Se, and O: less than 50 ppm each, sol.Al: less than 100 ppm, N: 80 ppm or less, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and satisfying the relation of sol.Al (ppm)?N (ppm)×(26.98/14.00)?30 ppm; then subjecting the hot rolled sheet to annealing and rolling to obtain a cold rolled sheet; then subjecting the cold rolled sheet to nitriding treatment, under specific condition, before, during or after primary recrystallization annealing; then applying an annealing separator on the cold rolled sheet; and subjecting the cold rolled sheet to secondary recrystallization annealing.

Abstract: Provided are an insulation-coated oriented magnetic steel sheet having an insulating coat with excellent heat resistance; and a method for manufacturing the same. This insulation-coated oriented magnetic steel sheet has an oriented magnetic steel sheet, and an insulating coat arranged on the surface of the oriented magnetic steel sheet, the insulating coat containing Si, P, O, and Cr, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn. The XPS spectrum of the outermost surface of the insulating coat has peaks observed at Cr2p1/2 and Cr2p3/2.

Abstract: Provided are an insulating-coated oriented magnetic steel sheet having an insulating coating of excellent heat resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same. This insulating-coated oriented magnetic steel sheet has an oriented magnetic steel sheet, and an insulating coating arranged on the surface of the oriented magnetic steel sheet. The insulating coating contains Si, P, and O, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn, the K-absorption edge of the P in the insulating coating having an XAFS spectrum that exhibits three absorption peaks from 2156 eV to 2180 eV.

Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.0% to 4.5%, and Mn: 0.5% or less, and also containing Sb and P in respective ranges satisfying 0.01%?[% Sb]?0.20% and 0.02%?[% P]?2.0×[% Sb], with a balance being Fe and incidental impurities, wherein when the steel sheet is excited to 1.0 T at 50 Hz in a rolling transverse direction, a magnetizing force (TD-H10) and an iron loss (TD-W10) are respectively (TD-H10)?200 A/m and (TD-W10)?1.60 W/kg. Thus, a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent transformer core loss can be obtained industrially stably at low cost.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with which it is possible to achieve both good iron loss and high productivity. In groove formation for magnetic domain refinement, a resist containing a photosensitive resin is applied, photoexposed, and developed to form an exposed steel substrate portion having a linear shape. Subsequently, electrolytic etching is performed at current density ?=I/S of 7.5 A/cm2 or more with respect to the exposed steel substrate portion, where I represents current supplied to an electrode and S represents surface area of the exposed steel substrate portion in a steel sheet surface of equal surface area to the electrode.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a graphite powder for a negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery, which includes a process of pulverizing a graphite precursor, and subjecting a mixture of the pulverized graphite precursor and an alkaline compound to graphitization treatment by heating the mixture at 2,800 to 3,500° C. Also disclosed is a graphite powder obtained by the manufacturing method, a negative electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery containing the graphite powder and a lithium-ion battery provided with the negative electrode.

Abstract: A non-flaky carbon material having specific optical structures, wherein the ratio between the peak intensity I110 of (110) plane and the peak intensity I004 of (004) plane of a graphite crystal determined by the powder XRD measurement, I110/I004, is 0.10 or more and 0.35 or less; an average circularity is 0.80 or more and 0.95 or less; d002 is 0.337 nm or less; and the total pore volume of pores having a diameter of 0.4 ?m or less measured by the nitrogen gas adsorption method is 25.0 ?l/g or more and 40.0 ?l/g or less. Also disclosed is a method for producing the carbon material, a carbon material for a battery electrode, a paste for an electrode incorporating the carbon material for a battery electrode, an electrode for a lithium battery incorporating a formed body of the paste for an electrode, a lithium-ion secondary battery including the electrode and a method for producing the electrode.

Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet is subjected to a temperature holding treatment at a temperature T of 250-600° C. for 1-10 seconds in the primary recrystallization annealing and heated from temperature T to 700° C. at not less than 80° C./s and from 700° C. to a soaking temperature at not more than 15° C./s, wherein an oxygen potential from 700° C. to the soaking temperature is 0.2-0.4 and an oxygen potential during the soaking is 0.3-0.5 and an area ratio of secondary recrystallized grains is not less than 90% when an angle ? deviated from {110}<001> ideal orientation is less than 6.5° and an area ratio is not less than 75% when a deviation angle is less than 2.5° and an average length [L] in the rolling direction is not more than 20 mm and an average value [?] of the angle ? is 15.63×[?]+[L]<44.06.

Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet, wherein a total area percentage of defective parts scattered on the forsterite film is less than 1.5% relative to a surface area of the forsterite film when viewed from above the surface, and methods for evaluating a grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet.

Abstract: By using a treatment solution for chromium-free insulating coating containing one or more of a Mg phosphate, Ca phosphate, Ba phosphate, Sr phosphate, Zn phosphate, Al phosphate, and Mn phosphate, wherein colloidal silica is contained in an amount of 50 to 120 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of SiO2, and a water-soluble metal salt of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn is contained to adjust the molar ratio between M2+(=Mg,Ca,Ba,Sr,Zn,Mn) and/or M3+(=Al) which are metallic elements contained in the treatment solution and P to a range of 0.6?(M2++1.5×M3+)/P?1.0, chromium-free insulating coating that provides excellent moisture absorption resistance for a long period and has a sufficient iron loss reduction effect can be obtained at low cost while minimizing the amount of expensive Ti such as Ti chelate used or without using such expensive Ti at all.

Abstract: A method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by subjecting a slab of an inhibitor-less ingredient system containing C: 0.002-0.10 mass %, Si: 2.5-6.0 mass %, Mn: 0.010-0.8 mass % and extremely decreased Al, N, Se and S to hot rolling, hot band annealing, cold rolling, decarburization annealing, application of an annealing separator and finish annealing, when a certain temperature within range of 700-800° C. in a heating process of decarburization annealing is T1 and a certain temperature as a soaking temperature within a range of 820-900° C. is T2, a heating rate R1 between 500° C. and T1 is set to not less than 100° C./s and heating rate R2 between T1 and T2 is set to not more than 15° C./s, whereby grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent iron loss property and coating peeling resistance is obtained in the inhibitor-less ingredient system while ensuring decarburization property even when rapid heating is performed during decarburization annealing.

Abstract: In a method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by subjecting a slab containing C: 0.002-0.10 mass %, Si: 2.5-6.0 mass %, Mn: 0.01-0.8 mass % and further containing Al and N, or S and/or Se, or Al, N, S and/or Se as inhibitor ingredients to hot rolling, hot band annealing, cold rolling, decarburization annealing, application of an annealing separator and finish annealing, when a certain temperature within a range of 700-800° C. in a heating process of the decarburization annealing is T1 and a certain temperature as a soaking temperature within a range of 820-900° C. is T2, a heating rate R1 between 500° C. and T1 is set to not less than 80° C./s and a heating rate R2 between T1 and T2 is set to not more than 15° C./s, whereby a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent magnetic properties and peeling resistance of forsterite coating is obtained while ensuring decarburization property.

Abstract: Provided is a treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating that can simultaneously achieve excellent moisture absorption resistance and a high iron loss reduction effect obtained by imparting sufficient tension, by using an inexpensive Ti source instead of expensive Ti chelate. The treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating contains: one or more of phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in an amount of 50 parts by mass to 120 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of Ti source in an amount of 30 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of TiO2; and H3PO4, and the number of moles of metallic elements in the phosphate and of phosphorus in the treatment solution satisfy: 0.20?[Mg]+[Ca+[Ba]+Sr]+[Zn]+[Mn]+1.5[Al])/[P]?0.45??(1).