Sony Corporation

Rengo Co., Ltd.

Sony Corpotation

Tsutomu Noguchi

Yasuhito Inagaki

Haruo Watanabe

Hiroyuki Mori

Shinichiro Yamada

Noritaka Sato

Miyuki Kuromiya

Yuko Fujihira

Seiichiro Tabata

Masayoshi Kanno

Takeshi Horie

Mayumi Miyashita

Hidemi Tomita

Miyuki Kamei

Keiichi Nito

Hironori Iida

Shun Yamanoi

Junetsu Seto

Hiraku Sugiki

Ritsuko Inoue

Kazuki Satake

Minoru Matsushima

Yasuhiro Hirafune

Hiroshi Ohki

Masaru Uryu

Kunihiko Tokura

Yuya Aoki

Hiromu Ikeda

Katsumi Kohno

Kazutoshi Mahama

Tohru Nagai

Masaru Tan

Sunao Suzuki

Harou Watanabe

Mitoshi Kawano

A porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. The porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material; and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm3/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.

Porous carbon material composites and their production process, adsorbents, cosmetics, purification agents, and composite photocatalyst materials

A porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. The porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material; and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.

A carbon-polymer complex is provided and includes a porous carbon material and a binder, wherein the porous carbon material includes a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including rice husk, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a specific surface area of at least 10 m/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the porous carbon material includes mesopores having pore sizes from 2 nm to 50 nm and obtained from the alkali treatment of the raw material after carbonization, the porous carbon material further includes macropores and micropores.

Carbon-polymer complex

A porous carbon material is provided. The porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by a nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by a BJH method and a MP method, and a R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the R value is expressed as R=B/A, wherein A is an intensity at an intersection between a baseline of a diffraction peak of a (002) plane as obtained based on powdery X-ray diffractometry of the porous carbon material and a perpendicular line downwardly drawn from the diffraction peak of the (002) plane, and wherein B is an intensity of the diffraction peak of the (002) plane.

Porous Carbon Material

By a process for producing a porous carbon material from a plant-derived material as a raw material, said process including carbonizing the plant-derived material at 800&#xb0; C. to 1,400&#xb0; C. and then applying a treatment with an acid or alkali, a porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a silicon content of at most 1 wt % and a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm/g is obtainable from a plant-derived material, which has a silicon content of at least 10 wt %, as a raw material. Also provided is a process for producing a porous carbon material equipped with excellent functionality so that the porous carbon material can be used, for example, as an anode material for batteries, an adsorbent, masks, adsorbing sheets, or carriers.

Porous carbon materials and production process thereof, and adsorbents, masks, adsorbing sheets and carriers

A light emitting element, includes: a luminescent material which is obtained from a plant-derived material as a raw material, and which contains therein a silicon oxide containing therein silicon having a content rate of 40 wt. % or more, and oxygen having a content rate of 40 wt. % or more as a principal component; a fluorescent substance adsorbed on a surface of the luminescent material; and an energy source for exciting the luminescent material and the fluorescent substance.

Luminescent material, luminescent material complex and method of manufacturing the same, fluorescent labeling reagent and method of manufacturing the same, and light emitting element

A resin composition includes a polyester capable of forming a crystal structure, and a substance represented by the following general structural formula (1), the substance represented by the following general structural formula (1) has a dehydration-condensed structure of two molecules of natural product-derived &#x3b1;-amino acids or a substitution structure thereof, and the two molecules of &#x3b1;-amino acids are not simultaneously glycine.  In the above general structural formula, R1, R2, R3, and R4 indicate groups or substituent groups thereof bonded to the &#x3b1; carbons of the &#x3b1;-amino acids.

Resin composition and resin molded product

A resin composition includes: a polylactic acid resin; an impact-resistant resin which is superior in impact resistance to the polylactic acid resin and is incompatible with or hardly compatible with the polylactic acid resin; and a nucleating agent which promotes crystallization of the polylactic acid resin; the nucleating agent existing at least in the phase of the impact-resistant resin.

Resin composition and molded product thereof, and method for their production

A polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure: In the formula, each of ring A and a ring B is a benzene ring, and the hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings be substituted with other groups. Additionally, Y is &#x2014;CONH&#x2014; or &#x2014;NHCO&#x2014; and X is a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO.

Resin composition and process for producing resin molding

A resin composition for molding, added with a nucleating agent suitable for promoting crystallization of a polyester capable of having a crystal structure, and in particular of a biodegradable polyester, and a molded product containing, the resin composition for molding thus improved in the crystallinity has either a cyclic compound expressed by general formula (I): (where each of A, A, Aand Acommonly or independently expresses &#x2014;CO&#x2014; or &#x2014;NH&#x2014;, each of Aand Acommonly or independently expresses hydrogen, halogen, optionally-substituted aliphatic group or optionally-substituted aromatic group) and having both of &#x2014;CO&#x2014; and &#x2014;NH&#x2014; in the molecule, or a mixture of (i) a cyclic compound having &#x2014;CO&#x2014; but no NH in the molecule and (ii) a cyclic compound having no &#x2014;CO&#x2014; but NH in the molecule, together with the polyester capable of having a crystal structure.

Resin composition

The present invention provides a polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure. (In the formula, a ring A and a ring B respectively represent benzene rings, and hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings may optionally be substituted with other groups. Y represents &#x2014;CONH&#x2014; or &#x2014;NHCO&#x2014;. X represents a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO respectively).

Moldings made with a polyester resin which comprises a cyclic compound represented by a following formulaA1-B-A2(in the formula, A1 and A2 are the same or different and show groups represented by a below-described formula, P shows a benzene ring which may be replaced by a material, and B shows a bivalent hydrocarbon group which may be replaced by a material) and polyester capable of having a crystal structure.

Disclosed is a biodegradable resin composition containing at least one biodegradable organic high molecular compound, a flame retardant additive containing a phosphorus-containing compound, and a hydrolysis suppressing agent suppressing the hydrolysis of the at least one biodegradable organic high molecular compound. An aliphatic polyester resin is polylactic acid, polycaprolactone, polyhydroxy lactic acid, polyhydroxy valeric acid, polyethylene succinate, polybutylene succinate, polybutylene adipate, polymalic acid, polyesters synthesized by fermentation, or a copolymer containing at least one of them. A polysaccharide is cellulose, starch, chitin, chitosan, dextrane, a derivative of at least one of them, or a copolymer containing at least one of them.

Resin composition, molded product from resin composition and method for preparing resin composition

By molding a biodegradable plastic material which is treated with a compound reactive to the active hydrogen in the biodegradable plastic material, a biodegradable plastic material and molding having long-term reliability are obtained.

Polyester molding for use with a casing

A charging circuit includes a generator, a step-down circuit for reducing an output voltage of the generator to a predetermined voltage, a current controller for controlling a charging current that is supplied from the step-down circuit to a secondary battery, based on an amount of power generated by the generator, a mode selector for selecting charging modes, and a monitor for monitoring an amount of stored electricity. The step-down circuit receives an output of the generator, in charging, at a high voltage and a small current and is used to charge the battery at a low voltage and a large current.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tsutomu Noguchi