Kao Corporation

Hiroji Hosokawa

Kazuo Oki

Mikio Sakaguchi

Hitoshi Takaya

Hiroshi Kitagaito

Kazuo Taguchi

Shu Yamaguchi

Toshihiro Yano

Takuya Sawada

Masaki Komatsu

Kimihiro Mizusawa

Yohei Shiraishi

Jun Yoshida

Kouji Kinuta

Akinori Okonogi

The present invention pertains to a light absorption layer for forming a solar cell and a photoelectric conversion element having excellent durability and photoelectric conversion efficiency in the near infrared region, and a solar cell and a photoelectric conversion element having the light absorption layer. This light absorption layer contains a perovskite compound having a band gap energy of 1.7-4.0 eV, and a quantum dot having a band gap energy equal to or higher than 0.2 eV and equal to or lower than the band gap energy of the perovskite compound.

Light absorption layer, dispersion, photoelectric conversion element, solar cell, and method for manufacturing light absorption layer

The present invention relates to a method for producing mesoporous silica particles including a silica-containing outer shell portion with a mesoporous structure. The method includes the steps of: (I) pressurizing a mixed solution containing a hydrophobic organic compound, a surfactant, and an aqueous solvent by a high-pressure emulsification method so as to form an emulsion that includes emulsion droplets containing the hydrophobic organic compound; (II) adding a silica source to the emulsion so as to form a silica-containing outer shell portion with a mesoporous structure on a surface of the emulsion droplets, and precipitating composite silica particles including the outer shell portion and the emulsion droplets on an inner side relative to the outer shell portion; and (III) removing the emulsion droplets from the composite silica particles. According to the production method of the present invention, it is possible to produce easily mesoporous silica particles that have a small average particle size and include fewer coarse particles. Thus, the mesoporous silica particles produced by this method are useful in fields that handle a paint composition for an antireflection film and a coating film.

Method for producing mesoporous silica particles

The present invention relates to (1) a transparent coating film containing a layered titanate containing an organic cation derived from amines having a boiling point of 300&#xb0; C. or lower as measured under an ambient pressure, and having an atomic ratio of nitrogen to titanium of 0.01 to 0.3; and (2) a process for producing a transparent coating film having an atomic ratio of nitrogen to titanium of 0.01 to 0.3, containing the steps of applying a solution containing an organic cation derived from amines having a boiling point of 300&#xb0; C. or lower as measured under an ambient pressure, and a layered titanate onto a substrate; and heat-treating the thus applied solution at a temperature less than 450&#xb0;C. The coating film exhibits a high hardness, an excellent transparency, a low photocatalytic activity and an excellent stability as well as a good adhesion property to a substrate.

Transparent coating films

A process for efficiently preparing fine zeolite particles comprising synthesizing zeolite in the presence of an alkaline earth metal-containing compound and/or with controlling the preparation process of zeolite, thereby giving fine zeolite particles being composed of crystalline aluminosilicate, the fine zeolite particles having a fine average primary particle size, being excellent in the cationic exchange properties and the oil-absorbing ability, having a fine average aggregate particle size, and being excellent in the dispersibility; fine zeolite particles obtainable by the above process; and a detergent composition comprising the fine zeolite particles, the detergent composition being excellent in the detergency.

Process for preparing fine zeolite particles

Base particles for supporting a surfactant, obtainable by a step of spray-drying a slurry comprising (A) a zeolite having an average aggregate particle diameter of 15 &#x3bc;m or less and a variation coefficient of a distribution of an aggregate particle diameter of 29% or less, (B) a water-soluble polymer; (C) a water-soluble salt, and (D) a surfactant in an amount of 5% by weight or less of the slurry; detergent particles comprising the base particles; and a zeolite for a laundry detergent, wherein the zeolite has an average aggregate particle diameter of 15 &#x3bc;m or less and a variation coefficient of a distribution of an aggregate particle diameter of 29% or less; and a process for preparing base particles for supporting a surfactant, comprising a step of spray-drying a slurry comprising a zeolite (A) having an average aggregate particle diameter of 15 &#x3bc;m or less and a variation coefficient of a distribution of an aggregate particle diameter of 29% or less, a water-soluble polymer (B), a water-soluble salt (C), and optionally a surfactant (D) so as to give base particles comprising 1 to 90% by weight of the zeolite (A), 2 to 25% by weight of the water-soluble polymer (B), 5 to 75% by weight of the water-soluble salt (C), and optionally 0 to 5% by weight of the surfactant (D).

Base particles and detergent particles

Process for preparing fine alkaline earth metal zeolite particles

A fine A-type zeolite particle having an average primary particle size of 0.1 &mgr;m or less and a variation coefficient of 90% or less, wherein a ratio of a peak area above a background level to all peak are in the range of 2&thgr;&equals;20&deg; to 40&deg; in a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum of said fine A-type zeolite particle is 30% or more; a process for preparing the fine A-type zeolite particle, comprising reacting a silica source with an aluminum source in the presence of an organic compound having an oxygen-containing functional group and a molecular weight of 100 or more; and a detergent composition comprising a surfactant and the fine A-type zeolite particle. The fine zeolite particle is suitably used for detergent builders, water treatment agents, fillers for paper, resin fillers, oxygen-nitrogen separating agents, adsorbents, catalyst carriers, soil improvers for gardening, polishing agents, and the like.

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Wakayama, Japan

Hiroji Hosokawa