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Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Nobuo Kimizuka

Kazuhiro Kagawa

Takuya Nakashima

Teppei Yamada

Hiroshi Yokobayashi

Hongyao Zhou

Noriyuki Matsumoto

The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion material having a considerably increased Seebeck coefficient, and a thermoelectric conversion device, a thermo-electrochemical cell and a thermoelectric sensor which include the material. The thermoelectric conversion material of the present invention includes a redox pair and a capture compound which captures only one of the redox pair selectively at low temperature and releases at high temperature.

Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion device having the same, thermo-electrochemical cell and thermoelectric sensor

A molecular-oriented polymer gel and its cast film obtained by self-assembly of a self-organizable amphiphilic compound and a monomer interacting with the amphiphilic compound, and then polymerizing the monomer, and their production methods.

Molecular oriented polymer gel and cast film with self-organizable amphiphilic compound as template, and their production methods

A ferrocene-containing, organic gelling compound represented by the following general formula (I): wherein Rand Rrepresent the same or different alkyl groups having 2 or more carbon atoms or alkyl groups containing at least one ether bond, X and Y independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and n represents an integer of 1 or 2, and a gel and a cast film using the compound.

Ferrocene-containing, organic gelling compound, and gel and cast film using the same

A hydrogel formed by adding an anion having a molecular weight of 90 or more to an aqueous dispersion of a cationic amphiphile comprising a linear or branched alkyl group having 10 or less carbon atoms in a hydrophobic moiety. The hydrogel has a network having a bilayer-membrane, nano-fiber structure and undergoes a reversible gel-sol transformation.

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Fukuoka, Japan

Nobuo Kimizuka