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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method with excellent productivity by which noncrystalline cellulose reduced in cellulose I type crystallinity can be efficiently obtained from a cellulose-containing raw material. SOLUTION: The method is for producing noncrystalline cellulose from a cellulose-containing raw material having a cellulose I crystallinity calculated with following formula exceeding 33%, wherein the cellulose-containing raw material has bulk density of 100-500 kg/m 3 and an average particle diameter of 0.01-1 mm, and the residual components obtained by removing water from the raw material have a cellulose content of ≥20 mass%. The method for producing noncrystalline cellulose comprises treating the cellulose-containing raw material with a pulverizer to reduce the cellulose I crystallinity to ≤33%. Cellulose I crystallinity (%)=[(I 22.6 -I 18.5 )/I 22.6 ]×100 [I 22.6 represents the diffraction intensity for the lattice plane (002) in X-ray diffractometry, and I 18.5 represents the diffraction intensity for the amorphous part]. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing cationized cellulose, in which cellulose can be cationized directly, industrially simply and highly selectively. SOLUTION: The method for producing cationized cellulose comprises a step of reacting low-crystallinity powdery cellulose with the glycidyl trialkyl ammoniun salt shown by formula (1) (wherein R 1-3 are the same or different from one another and each a 1-4C hydrocarbon group; X is a halogen atom) in the presence of a catalyst. The low-crystallinity powdery cellulose has ≤50% crystallinity and an alkali metal hydroxide is used as the catalyst. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ultraviolet protection cosmetics having high ultraviolet protection effect and excellent in water resistance when it is applied to skin. SOLUTION: This cosmetics is an O 1 /W/O 2 emulsion type composition and contains a metal oxide particles having ultraviolet protection performance in the oil phases O 1 and O 2 , and its manufacturing method is also provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide fragrant particles capable of optimizing detergent powder fragrance during storage after mixed into a detergent composition, fragrance during laundering and the fragrance lingeringness of clothes or the like after laundering. SOLUTION: The fragrant particles are such as to be 100-1,500μm in mean size, 300-1,000 kg/m 3 in bulk density, contain a perfume, oil-absorbing vehicle and a thermoplastic water-soluble binder, and substantially contain no moisture, wherein the perfume is such that a component >133 Pa in vapor pressure at 25°C accounts for 0-30 wt.% of the whole perfume and the weight ratio of a component 0.13-133 Pa in vapor pressure at 25°C to a component
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing an aqueous ink capable of efficiently producing the aqueous ink having good dispersion stability, filterability and printing characteristics. SOLUTION: This method produces the aqueous ink containing an aqueous dispersion of polymer particles including a dye. The method includes a dispersion process in which the dye and a water insoluble polymer are dispersed in a dispersion medium by shearing stress of >=1.0×10 Pa after the dispersion medium, the dye, and the water insoluble polymer are mixed with each other.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a mixed crushed product of a cellulose-containing material and a low crystalline hesperidin-containing material excellent in solubility in water and absorbability in living bodies, to provide a mixed crushed product obtained by the production method, and to provide a hesperidin-containing composition containing the mixed crushed product. SOLUTION: There are provided the method for producing the mixed crushed product of a cellulose-containing material and a low crystalline hesperidin-containing material, including mixing the cellulose-containing material with the hesperidin-containing material and crushing them wherein the crystallinity of the hesperidin is ≥50% and the content of the hesperidin in water-removed residual components is ≥50 mass%, with a medium type crusher; the mixed crushed product obtained by the production method; and the hesperidin-containing composition containing the mixed crushed product. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a production method with excellent productivity by which small particle diameter cellulose can be efficiently obtained from a cellulose-containing raw material.SOLUTION: The method for producing small particle diameter cellulose includes processing a cellulose-containing raw material, in which a cellulose content in a residual component obtained by removing water from the raw material is ≥20 mass% and which has an average particle diameter of 42-100 μm, with a vibration mill packed with rods having an outside diameter of 3-15 mm to reduce the average particle diameter to 1-38 μm.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a production method with excellent productivity by which low crystalline cellulose having lowered cellulose I crystallinity is efficiently obtained while suppressing reduction in molecular weight.SOLUTION: The method for producing low crystalline cellulose includes crushing a cellulose-containing raw material, in which a cellulose content in a residual component except water is ≥20 mass%, the following cellulose I crystallinity exceeds 33%, a molecular weight of cellulose is 100,000-1,000,000, and a water content is ≤4.5 mass%, with a crusher, so that the cellulose I crystallinity is lowered to 1/2.5 to 1/100 after the crushing: cellulose I crystallinity (%)=[(I-I)/I]×100, wherein Idenotes diffraction intensity of a lattice plane (002 plane) (2θ=22.6°) in X-ray diffraction; and Idenotes diffraction intensity of an amorphous moiety (2θ=18.5°).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for economically producing oxidized cellulose by efficiently recovering a catalyst which is used in obtaining oxidized cellulose with oxidation of cellulose fiber and which contains an N-oxyl compound, and reusing the recovered catalyst. SOLUTION: The method for producing oxidized cellulose includes: a step to obtain an aqueous dispersion of the oxidized cellulose by oxidizing the cellulose fiber in the presence of the catalyst containing the N-oxyl compound; and a step to add an organic solvent and an adsorbent or an ion exchange resin to the aqueous dispersion of the obtained oxidized cellulose, or to a reaction solution containing the catalyst remaining after separating the oxidized cellulose from the aqueous dispersion of the oxidized cellulose, and to recover the catalyst or the aqueous solution containing the catalyst. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a sugar, which comprises subjecting an amorphous cellulose prepared by lowering a cellulose I type crystallinity from a cellulose-containing raw material, as a substrate, to an enzymatic reaction using a cellulase or the like, and by which the sugar can efficiently be produced in excellent productivity. SOLUTION: Provided is the method for producing the sugar, characterized by treating a cellulose-containing raw material having a bulk density of 100 to 500 kg/m 3 and an average particle size of 0.01 to 1 mm with a grinder to prepare amorphous cellulose having a decreased cellulose I type crystallinity of ≤33%, and then saccharifying the amorphous cellulose with a cellulase and/or a hemicellulase. The cellulose I type crystallinity (%)=[(I 22.6 -I 18.5 )/I 22.6 ]×100 wherein, I 22.6 is a diffracted intensity of a lattice plane (angle of diffraction 2θ= 22.6°) in X-ray diffraction; and I 18.5 is a diffracted intensity of an amorphous portion (angle of diffraction 2θ= 18.5°). COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT