Showa Denko K.k.

Masatoshi Ichikawa

Kenzo Hanawa

Keizo Iseki

Gaku Oriji

Sho Tonegawa

Irwansyah

This collector plate includes a peripheral edge wall that surrounds a predetermined region, and is provided on at least one surface of the collector plate, in which a surface roughness (Ra) of a first surface which is an exposed surface of the peripheral edge wall on the side of one surface, which is measured along a direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the peripheral edge wall is greater than a surface roughness (Ra) of the first surface which is measured along the extension direction of the peripheral edge wall.

Collector plate and redox flow battery

A redox flow electrode according to one aspect of the present invention is a redox flow battery electrode disposed between an ion exchange membrane and a bipolar plate, wherein the electrode includes a conductive sheet containing carbon nanotubes having an average fiber diameter of 1 &#x3bc;m or less, and a porous sheet that is laminated to the conductive sheet and is formed from fibers having an average fiber diameter of greater than 1 &#x3bc;m.

Redox flow battery electrode, and redox flow battery

A redox flow battery is provided, including an ion-exchange membrane, a current collector plate, and an electrode that is disposed between the ion-exchange membrane and the current collector plate. The electrode includes a main electrode layer in which an electrolytic solution flows from a surface on the current collector plate side to a surface on the ion-exchange membrane side, and the main electrode layer includes a plurality of main electrode pieces which are arranged in parallel in a plane direction.

Redox flow battery

An electrode material including a conductive sheet containing carbon nanotubes having an average fiber diameter of 1 &#x3bc;m or less; a liquid inflow member that is formed on a first surface of the conductive sheet such that an electrolyte solution that is passed therethrough flows into the conductive sheet; and a liquid outflow member that is formed on a second surface of the conductive sheet and out of which flows the electrolyte solution that has passed through the conductive sheet; wherein, when using a sheet surface of the conductive sheet as a reference plane, the Darcy permeability, in an in-plane direction, inside the liquid inflow member, is at least 100 times the Darcy permeability, in a normal direction, through the conductive sheet.

Electrode material, electrode of redox flow battery, and redox flow battery

According to the present invention, there is provided a recording medium comprising a substrate, a platinum layer formed on the substrate and having a (111) plane preferentially oriented, and a fullerene single crystal thin film formed on the platinum layer, and configured to be a recording layer, wherein an average value of average surface roughness Ra's with respect to four or more visual fields measured by using an atomic force microscope in a surface of the fullerene thin film is 0.5 nm or less.

Recording medium, method of manufacturing fullerene thin film, recording reproducing apparatus, information recording method, and information reading method

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Chiba, Japan

Masatoshi Ichikawa