Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Chemical Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.

Inter-university Research Institute Corporation National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Denso Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nippon Steel Corporation

Kazuhiko Mizuuchi

Takashi Iijima

Masataka Hiyoshi

Hiroyuki Hayashida

Katsumasa Matsumoto

Takumi Kouno

Kenichiro Tadokoro

Shinya Furukawa

Hironobu Kawasato

Nobuyuki Nishi

Masakazu Katayama

Masahiko Takeuchi

Masakazu Higuchi

Yutaka Arai

Masashi Ito

Noriyuki Negi

Manabu Yamada

Takumi Nishimoto

Koichi Fujishiro

Norikazu Adachi

Takashi Kyotani

Tomoko Komura

Shinji Inaba

Kenichiro Kami

Ken Kobayashi

Kunio Miura

Yasuyuki Ooba

Shigenori Numao

Li-Xiang Li

Yasuo Nagata

Hiroyuki Tadokoro

Ken Judai

Junichi Nishijo

Hirotomo Nishihara

Peng-Xiang Hou

Koji Nakamura

Kyohei Hada

A support for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell catalyst satisfying the following requirements (A), (B), (C), and (D), and a producing method thereof, as well as a catalyst layer for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell and a fuel cell: (A) a specific surface area according to a BET analysis of a nitrogen adsorption isotherm is from 450 to 1500 m/g. (B) a nitrogen adsorption and desorption isotherm forms a hysteresis loop in a range of relative pressure P/Pof more than 0.47 but not more than 0.90, and a hysteresis loop area &#x394;Sis from 1 to 35 mL/g; (C) a relative pressure P/Pat which the hysteresis loop closes is more than 0.47 but not more than 0.70; and (D) a half-width of a G band detected by Raman spectrometry in a range of from 1500 to 1700 cmis from 45 to 75 cm.

Support for polymer electrolyte fuel cell catalyst, method of producing support for polymer electrolyte fuel cell catalyst, catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cell, and fuel cell

A carbon material for catalyst carrier use excellent in both durability and power generation performance under operating conditions at the time of low humidity, in particular both durability of a carbon material for catalyst carrier use with respect to repeated load fluctuations due to startup and shutdown and power generation performance under operating conditions at the time of low humidity, and a catalyst for solid-polymer fuel cell use prepared using the same etc. are provided. To solve this technical problem, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a carbon material for catalyst carrier use satisfying the following (A) to (D):

Catalyst-carrier carbon material, solid-polymer fuel cell catalyst, solid-polymer fuel cell, and method for manufacturing catalyst-carrier carbon material

Provided are: a supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell, said supporting carbon material making it possible to produce a high-performance solid polymer fuel cell in which there is little decrease in power generation performance as a result of repeated battery load fluctuation that inevitably occurs during operation of the solid polymer fuel cell; and a catalyst metal particle-supporting carbon material. The present invention relates to: a supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell, said supporting carbon material being a porous carbon material in which the specific surface area of mesopores having a pore diameter of 2-50 nm according to nitrogen adsorption measurement is 600-1,600 m/g, the relative intensity ratio (IG'/IG) of the peak intensity (IG&#x2032;) of the G-band 2,650-2,700 cmrange to the peak intensity (IG) of the G-band 1,550-1,650 cmrange in the Raman spectrum is 0.8-2.2, and the peak position of the G&#x2032;-band is 2,660-2,670 cm; and a catalyst metal particle-supporting carbon material.

Supporting carbon material for solid polymer fuel cell and catalyst metal particle-supporting carbon material

Provided are a supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell and a metal-catalyst-particle-supporting carbon material that, when used as a carrier for a solid polymer fuel cell catalyst, have excellent power generation performance in high-humidity conditions, which are conditions in which solid polymer fuel cells are operated. A supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell and a metal-catalyst-particle-supporting carbon material characterized in being a porous carbon material, the hydrogen content being 0.004-0.010% by mass, the nitrogen adsorption BET specific surface area being 600 m/g-1500 m/g, and the relative intensity ratio (I/I) between the peak intensity (I) in the range of 1200-1400 cmknown as the D-band and the peak intensity (I) in the range of 1500-1700 cmknown as the G-band, obtained from the Raman spectrum, being 1.0-2.0.

Carbon support material for solid polymer type fuel cell use and metal catalyst particle- supporting carbon material and methods of production of same

This invention provides a metal encapsulated dendritic carbon nanostructure comprising a dendritic carbon nanostructure comprising a branched carbon-containing rod-shaped or annular material and a metallic body capsulated in the carbon nanostructure. There is also provided a dendritic carbon nanostructure comprising a branched carbon-containing rod-shaped or annular material.

Metal encapsulated dendritic carbon nanostructure, carbon nanostructure, process for producing metal encapsulated dendritic carbon nanostructure, process for producing carbon nanostructure, and capacitor

This invention provides a carbon nanostructure including: carbon containing rod-shaped materials and/or carbon containing sheet-shaped materials which are bound three-dimensionally; and graphene multilayer membrane walls which are formed in the rod-shaped materials and/or the sheet-shaped materials; wherein air-sac-like pores, which are defined by the graphene multilayer membrane walls, are formed in the rod-shaped materials and/or the sheet-shaped materials.

Carbon nanostructure, metal-supported carbon nanostructure, lithium-ion secondary battery, method for producing carbon nanostructure, and method for producing metal-supported carbon nanostructure

The present invention provides a microporous carbon material capable of expressing functions that supported metal has while maintaining pore functions that the microporous carbon material inherently possesses. The microporous carbon materialincludes: a three-dimensional long-range ordered structure within a range from 0.7 nm or more to 2 nm or less; and micropores, wherein a transition metalis supported on surfaces of the micropores. The microporous carbon material is obtained by a method including: introducing an organic compound on a surface of and inside the micropores of a porous material containing transition metal, and obtaining a composite of the microporous carbon material containing the transition metal and the porous material by carbonizing the organic compound by a chemical vapor deposition method; and removing the porous material. Alternatively, the microporous carbon material is obtained by a method including: introducing an organic compound on a surface of a porous material and obtaining a microporous carbon material by a chemical vapor deposition method; and supporting the transition metal on a surface of the microporous carbon material by immersing and impregnating the microporous carbon material in a transition metal salt solution.

Microporous carbon material, manufacturing method thereof, and hydrogen storage method using microporous carbon material

This invention relates to an insulating resin composition which exhibits high impact resistance and heat resistance and good adhesiveness to the plating metal, is selectively etchable by a permanganate salt commonly used in a plating operation and suited for an insulating layer in multilayer wiring boards. The insulating resin composition is a photo-polymerizable or thermally polymerizable resin composition comprising 3-10 parts by weight of a crosslinked elastic polymer per 100 parts by weight of a resin component (excluding the crosslinked elastic poly and including monomers) and said crosslinked elastic polymer has carboxyl groups and is dispersed with an average secondary particle diameter in the range of 0.5-2 &mgr;m.

Insulating resin composition and laminate obtained therefrom

This invention relates to a photo- or heat-curable resin composition which yields a cured product with minimal cracking and high reliability. The resin composition of this invention comprises 100 parts by weight of the resin-forming component containing a photo- or heat-polymerizable unsaturated compound and 0.01-5 parts by weight of an inorganic filler such as silica sol with its average particle diameter controlled in the range 5 nm-0.5 &mgr;m. The composition exhibits high heat resistance and good microfabrication quality and is useful as a peripheral material of electronic parts such as semiconductor devices by the build-up process, for example, as a material for forming insulation layers in multilayer printed wiring boards.

Photo-or heat-curable resin composition and multilayer printed wiring board

This invention relates to a photo- or heat-curable resin composition which yields a cured product with minimal cracking and high reliability. The resin composition of this invention comprises 100 parts by weight of (A) photo- or heat-polymerizable unsaturated compound composed of a polycarboxylic acid adduct of bisphenol-epoxy (meth)acrylate, 10-100 parts by weight of (B) alkylene oxide-modified product of (meth)acrylate or oligomers thereof, 0-50 parts by weight of (C) compound containing epoxy group and 0-50 parts by weight of (D) photopolymerization initiator or sensitizer. The composition exhibits high heat resistance and good microfabrication quality and is useful as a peripheral material of electronic parts such as semiconductor devices by the build-up process, for example, as a material for forming insulation layers in multilayer printed wiring boards.

Photo- or heat-curable resin composition and multilayer printed wiring board

A bundle of pitch-based carbon fibers which is composed of 1000 to 100,000 continuous fiber filaments having an average diameter of 4 to 8 .mu.m, a filament tensile strength of at least 3.0 GPa, and a modulus of at least 600 GPa, and also a method for producing a fine diameter pitch-based carbon fiber wherein use is made of a spinning nozzle with a single nozzle plate which has at least 1000 capillary holes, has the capillaries arranged concentrically and circularly in 3 to 20 rows, has the capillaries positioned to be divided into at least two blocks, has a columnar projection protruding at least 20 mm from the surface of the nozzle plate at the center of the nozzle plate, and has capillaries of a diameter of 50 to 110 .mu.m.

Small diameter pitch-based carbon fiber bundle and production method

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Kitakyushu, Japan

Kazuhiko Mizuuchi