Abstract: A novel photoelectric conversion device that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. A photoelectric conversion device (550S) includes a first electrode (551S), a second electrode (552S), and a unit (103S); the unit (103S) is interposed between the first electrode (551S) and the second electrode (552S); the unit (103S) includes a first layer (113) and a second layer (114S); and the first layer (113) is interposed between the second electrode (552S) and the second layer (114S). The first layer (113) contains a first organic compound ETM, the first organic compound ETM has an electron-transport property, and the first organic compound ETM has a LUMO level in a first level LUMO1. The second layer (114S) contains a second organic compound CTM, the second organic compound CTM emits delayed fluorescent light at room temperature, and the second organic compound CTM has a LUMO level in a second level LUMO2.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes a case, a piezoelectric element, and a filler. The case has a bottomed cylindrical shape including a bottom portion and a side wall portion. The piezoelectric element is attached to the bottom portion of the case. The filler fills at least a portion in the case adjacent to or in a vicinity of the bottom portion and covers the piezoelectric element. A cavity is provided in a portion of the side wall portion adjacent to or in a vicinity of the bottom portion. The filler includes a foamed silicone resin with a closed-cell foam structure. The cavity is sealed with the filler.

Abstract: A light-receiving device with a novel structure is provided. The provided light-receiving device includes a light-receiving layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-receiving layer includes an active layer. The active layer contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound. An absorption spectrum of the first organic compound has one or more peaks. At least one peak wavelength of the peaks is greater than or equal to 400 nm and less than or equal to 700 nm. The HOMO level of the second organic compound is higher than the HOMO level of the first organic compound. The difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is preferably higher than or equal to 0.2 eV and lower than or equal to 1.5 eV and further preferably higher than or equal to 0.4 eV and lower than or equal to 1.5 eV.

Abstract: A sodium ion secondary battery that has high discharge capacity, excellent cycling characteristics, and excellent storage characteristics is provided. The present disclosure includes a carbonaceous material for a sodium ion secondary battery negative electrode. The carbon source of the carbonaceous material is a plant, and the carbonaceous material has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or less.

Abstract: A sodium ion secondary battery that has high discharge capacity, excellent cycling characteristics, and excellent storage characteristics is provided. The present disclosure includes a carbonaceous material for a sodium ion secondary battery negative electrode. The carbon source of the carbonaceous material is a plant, and the carbonaceous material has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or less.

Abstract: To provide an electrode mixture that suppresses gelling of an electrode mixture slurry and maintains a high binding capacity between an electrode active material and a current collector even after an extended period of time has elapsed since an electrode mixture slurry was produced. The electrode mixture includes: a binder composition—containing a first copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and a polar group-containing compound; and a second copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and chlorotrifluoroethylene—; and an electrode active material of lithium oxide having a pH of water when extracted with water of not less than 10.5.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sodium ion secondary battery that has high discharge capacity, excellent cycling characteristics, and excellent storage characteristics. The present invention achieves said purpose by means of a carbonaceous material for a sodium ion secondary battery negative electrode. The carbon source of the carbonaceous material is a plant, and the carbonaceous material is characterized by having a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or less.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a carbonaceous material which is obtainable from plant-derived char and has a decreased specific surface area. Further, the object of the present invention is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent dedoping capacity, non-dedoping capacity, and charge-discharge efficiency. The object can be solved by a carbonaceous material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries characterized in that the carbonaceous material is obtained by heat-treating plant-derived char which is demineralized in gas-phase, and carbon precursor or volatile organic compound under a non-oxidizing gas atmosphere; and a specific surface area determined by a BET method is 10 m2/g or less.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carbonaceous material for a negative electrode for producing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of rapid charge and discharge and having excellent rate characteristics (output characteristics) while maintaining a large discharge capacity. The problem described above can be solved by a carbonaceous material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode of the present invention obtained by heat-treating a non-graphitizable carbon precursor which is pulverized and contains from 13 to 80 wt. % of a volatile component. With the present invention, it is possible to provide a carbonaceous material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode, whereby a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a large charge-discharge capacity and having excellent rate characteristics can be produced.

Abstract: To provide an electrode mixture that suppresses gelling of an electrode mixture slurry and maintains a high binding capacity between an electrode active material and a current collector even after an extended period of time has elapsed since an electrode mixture slurry was produced. The electrode mixture includes: a binder composition—containing a first copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and a polar group-containing compound; and a second copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and chlorotrifluoroethylene—; and an electrode active material of lithium oxide having a pH of water when extracted with water of not less than 10.5.

Abstract: Provided is a less hygroscopic carbonaceous material that is obtained from a plant-derived carbonaceous raw material and that, when used as a negative electrode material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, allows the battery to exhibit good battery characteristics. Provided is a carbonaceous material for negative electrodes of nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries. This carbonaceous material is a particulate carbonaceous material containing carbonaceous particles. The carbonaceous material has a BET specific surface area of 1 m2/g or more and less than 20 m2/g. Each of the carbonaceous particles of the carbonaceous material has a core and a skin covering the core. The core contains a calcined product of a plant-derived carbonaceous raw material. The skin is made of a material that has higher electron emission ability upon irradiation with an electron beam than a material of the core.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sodium ion secondary battery that has high discharge capacity, excellent cycling characteristics, and excellent storage characteristics. The present invention achieves said purpose by means of a carbonaceous material for a sodium ion secondary battery negative electrode. The carbon source of the carbonaceous material is a plant, and the carbonaceous material is characterized by having a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or less.

Abstract: To provide a binder composition having high adhesion, without producing a copolymer or an aggregate of a copolymer and an electrode active material. A binder composition according to the present invention contains: a first vinylidene fluoride polymer with an inherent viscosity of 1.7 dL/g or higher; and a second vinylidene fluoride polymer containing acrylic acid or methacrylic acid as a monomer unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high discharge capacity and high charge/discharge efficiency. The aforementioned problem can be resolved by a carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode, using a plant as a carbon source, where potassium element content is 0.10 wt. % or less, true density determined by a pycnometer method using butanol is from 1.35 to 1.50 g/cm3, lithium is electrochemically doped in the carbonaceous material, and in a case where an NMR spectrum of lithium nucleus is measured, a main resonance peak shifted 110 to 160 ppm to a lower magnetic field side is exhibited with regard to a resonance peak of LiCl as a reference substance.

Abstract: Provided is a carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode having high discharge capacity per unit volume and excellent storage characteristics. The carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode of the present invention has a true density (?Bt) determined by a pycnometer method using butanol of not less than 1.55 g/cm3 and less than 1.75 g/cm3 and a discharge capacity of an anode at 0.05 V to 1.5 V in terms of a lithium reference electrode standard of not less than 180 mAh/g. Furthermore, the slope 0.9/X (Vg/Ah) of a discharge curve calculated from a discharge capacity X (Ah/g) and a potential difference of 0.9 (V) corresponding to 0.2 V to 1.1 V in terms of a lithium reference electrode standard is not greater than 0.75 (Vg/Ah), and an absorbed moisture quantity after storage for 100 hours in a 25° C. 50% RH air atmosphere is not greater than 1.5 wt %.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a production method for suppressing the deformation of a negative electrode in the production of a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery using turbostratic carbon and a solid electrolyte. The problem described above can be solved by a production method for a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery comprising the steps of: (1) coating a carbonaceous material having a true density of from 1.30 g/cm3 to 2.10 g/cm3 determined by a butanol method with a solid electrolyte; and (2) pressure-molding the solid electrolyte-coated carbonaceous material.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carbonaceous molded body for a battery electrode having high charge/discharge capacity, high initial charge/discharge efficiency, and excellent cycle life. The aforementioned object can be achieved by a carbonaceous molded body for a battery electrode of the present invention, including: carbon fibers where lithium can be doped and dedoped; and a carbonaceous material; wherein the thickness is 1 mm or less, atomic ratio (H/C) between hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms based on elemental analysis is 0.1 or less, porosity determined from bulk density of the molded body and true density of butanol is from 25 to 80%, and volatile matter content is 5.0 wt. % or less.

Abstract: To provide a carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode that yields an anode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent input/output characteristics, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high discharge capacity per unit volume, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and a vehicle comprising this non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode. The carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode of the present invention has a number average particle size of from 0.1 to 2.0 ?m, a value of a number average particle size divided by a volume average particle size of not greater than 0.3, an average interlayer spacing d002 of an (002) plane determined by X-ray diffraction of from 0.340 to 0.390 nm, and an atomic ratio (H/C) of hydrogen and carbon of not greater than 0.10.

Abstract: A carbonaceous material for a negative electrode of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery with high energy density relative to volume and excellent cycle characteristics is provided. The negative electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes a carbon material mixture including, as an active material, a plurality of non-graphitic carbon materials. The carbon material mixture has a true density (?Bt) determined by a pycnometer method using butanol of 1.60 g/cm3 or greater and 2.05 g/cm3 or less, an atom ratio (H/C) of hydrogen atoms to carbon atoms determined by elemental analysis of 0.10 or less, and a discharge capacity at from 0 to 0.1 V based on a lithium reference electrode of 80 mAh/g or greater and 230 mAh/g or less.

Abstract: To provide a carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode that yields an anode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent input/output characteristics, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high discharge capacity per unit volume, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and a vehicle comprising this non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode. The carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode of the present invention has a number average particle size of from 0.1 to 2.0 ?m, a value of a number average particle size divided by a volume average particle size of not greater than 0.3, an average interlayer spacing d002 of an (002) plane determined by X-ray diffraction of from 0.340 to 0.390 nm, and an atomic ratio (H/C) of hydrogen and carbon of not greater than 0.10.