Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Kureha Corporation

Makoto Imaji

Naohiro Sonobe

Yasuhiro Tada

Hideharu Iwasaki

Kenichi Koyakumaru

Kenta Aoki

Mayu Komatsu

Kayoko Okada

Hajime Komatsu

Taketoshi Okuno

Jiro Masuko

Kiyoto Otsuka

Shota Kobayashi

Junichi Arima

Shinya Tago

Kaori Kikuchi

Tatsuya Yaguchi

Yoshiharu Itoh

Akira Koshima

Kei Yamaguchi

Provided are a toxin separator and the like which are capable of selectively separating toxin present in a biological fluid by binding to protein, from the toxin and the protein. The toxin separator of the present invention also includes activated carbon of which a pore volume of pores having a pore diameter from 1.4 to 35 nm as measured by a nitrogen adsorption method is 0.06 cm/g or greater.

Toxin separator

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 m/g or less.

Carbon material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing same, and negative electrode using carbon material and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

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.

Carbonaceous material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode

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 m/g or more and less than 20 m/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.

Carbonaceous material for negative electrodes of nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries

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 (&#x3c1;) determined by a pycnometer method using butanol of not less than 1.55 g/cmand less than 1.75 g/cmand 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&#xb0; C. 50% RH air atmosphere is not greater than 1.5 wt %.

Carbonaceous material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and vehicle

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 &#x3bc;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 dof 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.

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Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Imaji