Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Toyoshi Shimada

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinji Inagaki

Yoshiaki Fukushima

Akane Okada

Kazuyuki Kuroda

Yasutomo Goto

Osami Kamigaito

Masaya Kawasumi

Norihiro Mizoshita

Yuri Yamada

Takashi Ohta

Arimitsu Usuki

Tatsumi Hioki

Toshio Kurauchi

Chuzo Kato

Kazuhiro Fukumoto

Shigetoshi Sugiyama

Masataka Ohashi

Shiyou Guan

Masao Aoki

Ken-ichi Yamanaka

Kiyotaka Nakajima

Noriaki Sugimoto

Shigeru Morita

Masayasu Tomoda

Hiroaki Hayashi

Naoki Hasegawa

Tetsuo Nagami

Yasuo Takada

Masaru Ichikawa

Hiroaki Wakayama

Yu Morimoto

Yuji Sakakibara

Narihito Tatsuda

Yoshitsugu Ogura

Hiroshi Okamoto

Kenichirou Suzuki

Junji Furukawa

Yoshitsugu Kojima

Masahiko Ogai

Etsuo Minamino

Kazuo Higuchi

Norihiko Setoyama

Shin-ichi Ogata

Megumi Sasaki

Eisuke Yamada

Shinji Matsuura

Kyoko Tsusaka

Masanobu Hasatani

Fujio Watanabe

Kouji Banno

Yuri Sasaki

Asim Bhaumik

Kohji Miyazawa

Yukimura Yamada

Kiyotaka Hayashi

Akane Okata

Makoto Ogawa

An organic silica thin film including: organic silica having a light absorbable organic group in a skeleton, wherein the organic group has a local maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 200 to 1200 nm, a content ratio of silicon and the organic group which constitute the organic silica is in a range of 0.05 to 0.50 based on a ratio of a mass of the silicon to a mass of the organic group ([mass of the silicon]/[mass of the organic group]), the thin film has a textured structure, and an axis direction of the textured structure is a direction substantially perpendicular to a surface opposite to a surface of the organic silica thin film having the textured structure formed therein.

Organic silica thin film, method for producing the same, laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometric substrate using the same, and laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometric method

A method of transferring electrons with a light energy conversion material is described. The material includes a silica porous material having silicon atoms chemically bonded with an organic group that is an electron donor in a skeleton thereof, and an electron acceptor disposed in at least one portion among a pore, the skeleton and the outer circumference of the porous material. The method includes absorbing light energy by the organic group and transferring electrons excited by the light energy to the electron acceptor.

Light energy conversion material

A light energy conversion material that includes

Provided is an organosilane compound expressed by any one of the following general formulae (1) to (7): (wherein: Ar represents a phenylene group or the like; Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or the like; Rto Reach represent a methyl group or the like; n represents an integer in a range from 0 to 2; m represents an integer of 1 or 2; L represents a single bond or the like; X represents a hydrogen atom or the like; and Y represents a hydrogen atom or the like).

Organosilane compound and organosilica obtained therefrom

The membrane electrode assemblyhas an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte membranedisposed between the anode and cathode; the anode and cathode are gas diffusion electrodes; the electrolyte membrane contains a solid electrolyte in which a plurality of pores with mean pore diameters of 1 to 30 nm are formed; and the solid electrolyte has a backbone comprising organic groups having one or more metal atoms, oxygen atoms bonded to the metal atoms, and carbon atoms bonded to the metal atoms or oxygen atoms, and also has functional groups with ion-exchange capabilities that are bonded to the organic groups in the pores.

Polymer electrolyte membrane with an inorganic backbone

Provided is an organosilane compound expressed by the following general formula (1): where: Ar represents a divalent aromatic organic group, such as a phenylene group; Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or the like; Rto R, which may be the same or different from each other, each represent a hydrogen atom or the like; and X represents a reactive substituent, such as a halogen atom.

Organosilane compound and organosilica obtain therefrom

The solid electrolyte of the present invention is composed of an organic/inorganic composite material having pores with a mean pore diameter of 1 to 30 nm and having a skeleton comprising a metal atom, an oxygen atom bonded to the metal atom, and an organic group having at least one carbon atom bonded to the metal atom or the oxygen atom, and a functional group having an ion exchange function and bonded to the organic group inside the pores. As a result, even if the relative pressure of the water vapor in the atmosphere is less than 1.0, it is still possible to achieve a solid electrolyte with a sufficiently high ion conductivity at a lower temperature than with a conventional solid electrolyte such as stabilized zirconia.

Solid electrolyte

A photocatalyst comprising a porous material, wherein the porous material comprises a compound with a basic framework having metal atoms bonded to phosphorus atoms by way of oxygen atoms, the metal atoms is selected from the group consisting of titanium atoms and zirconium atoms.

Photocatalyst and process for producing the same

Porous solid for gas adsorption separation and gas adsorption separation process employing it

Composite material with high mechanical strength and excellent high-temperature characteristics comprising a polymer matrix containing polyamide and layers of a silicate uniformly dispersed in the order of molecules in the polymer matrix, each of said silicate layers being 7 to 12 &angst; thick and the interlayer distance being at least 20 &angst;; and a process for manufacturing such composite material.

Composite material and process for manufacturing same

Organic/inorganic complex porous materials are disclosed having a main skeletal chain containing metal atoms, oxygen atoms, and organic groups. Preferably, the metal atoms, oxygen atoms and organic groups are bound by ionic bonds and/or covalent bonds, and the organic group is bound to at least two metal atoms in the main chain of the skeleton of the porous material. More preferably, 60% or more of the total pore volume in the porous material has a pore diameter in a range of &plusmn;40% of the pore diameter, as determined from the maximum peak in a pore size distribution curve. Alternatively, at least one peak is present at a diffraction angle that preferably corresponds to a d value of at least 1 nm in an x-ray diffraction pattern. Method of making such organic/inorganic complex materials are also disclosed.

Organic/inorganic complex porous materials

A coated material comprising a substrate which has micropores and a reaction product coated thereon along the surface configuration of the substrate and an inner wall of the micropores thereof. The coated material is preferably produced by performing a supercritical coating step wherein a reaction precursor is dissolved in a supercritical fluid to form a precursor fluid and then the precursor fluid is brought into contact with a substrate in the presence with a reaction initiator to allow a reaction between the reaction precursor and the reaction initiator, thereby coating a reaction product onto the substrate.

Coated object and process for producing the same

The present cluster-included material characterized by utilizing a porous host material for clusters having a pore larger in size than that of zeolite. The cluster-included material is obtained by forming a cluster in a pore of a mesoporous material having a pore size of 1.3 to 10 nm. When the mesoporous material is particularly a mesoporous material having a pore volume of not less than 60% of a total pore volume within a pore size range of -40 to +40% of a pore size which shows a maximum peak in a pore size distribution curve, a granular cluster having a uniform particle size or a fine-linear cluster having a uniform diameter is obtained. The cluster-included material performs the various quantum effects.

Cluster-included material

Provided is a mesopore material and the manufacturing method thereof characterized by having uniform diameter of each pore as well as a high crystallographic regularity, comprising primary particles having a small axe with uniformity, allowing for synthesizing the primary particles with the size freely controlled, and allowing for simple manufacturing at a reduced cost. The mesopore material comprising: pores having a diameter in a range of 2 to 10 nm; and a primary particle having a major axe in a range of 10 nm to 1 .mu.m. The diameter range is defined at a maximum peak in a pore distribution curve, and 75% or more of the pores is in a diameter range of -40% to +40% of the pore diameter at the maximum peak. Further provided is a laminar silicic acid composed of the uninvertible tetrahedral sheet and has a uniform shape and size. Also provided is a laminar silicic acid salt composed of the uninvertible tetrahedral sheet and has a uniform shape and size. The laminar silicic acid comprising a laminar silicon dioxide having a laminar six-membered ring skeleton and having a crystallographic regularity. A skeleton of a clay mineral having a 1:1 laminar structure or a 2:1 laminar structure consisting of an uninvertible tetrahedral sheet of a silicon dioxide and an octahedral sheet of an oxide of a metal remains in the laminar silicic acid. Acid acts on the clay mineral to form the laminar silicic acid.

Mesopore material, laminar silicic acid, and method of manufacturing

The method for producing a bulk silica porous material is presented. The obtained material has a large crystal size serving to reduce light scattering, and uniform and adjustable pore size. This can be utilized for optical and electronic functional materials. The method comprises the steps of:

Transparent bulk silica porous material with uniform pore size and

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