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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a carbon nanofiber and a carbon nanotube capable of raising temperature in a short time, having a good energy efficiency and hardly causing a temperature distribution. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing at least one kind fibrous carbon material selected from a group consisting of the carbon nanofiber and the carbon nanotube comprises (i) a process of making a catalyst to be carried on a carrier capable of absorbing a microwave having a frequency of 300 MHz-300 GHz and (ii) a process of forming the fibrous carbon material on the carrier by bringing a carbon-containing compound into contact with the carrying body carrying the catalyst while irradiating the carrier with the microwave. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-safety nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having large battery capacity, wherein a volume change of a negative electrode accompanying a charge and discharge cycle is suppressed to have an excellent cycle characteristic. SOLUTION: In this nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode, the negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, the negative electrode is a carbon electrode carrying metal fine particles on three-dimensional continuous carbon fiber, and the nonaqueous electrolytic solution contains a phosphazene compound and a supporting salt. Preferably, the three-dimensional continuous carbon fiber is one obtained by baking a fibrillar polymer obtained by oxidizing and polymerizing a compound having an aromatic ring in non-oxidizing atmosphere. Preferably, the metal fine particle is carried on the three-dimensional continuous carbon fiber by a reduction method of a metal ion. Preferably, the metal configuring the metal fine particle is a metal capable of storing and desorbing lithium. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a counter electrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell of a high conversion efficiency of which the surface area is large, which is superior in charge transfer property, and in which high catalyst activity can be obtained by a small consumption of platinum, and provide the dye-sensitized solar cell using this counterelectrode. SOLUTION: This is the counter electrode for the dye-sensitized solar cell in which a fibrous carbon 13 formed by an electro-spinning method is made to be carried on a face opposing to a semiconductor electrode. By making the fiber carbon carried on the face opposing to the semiconductor electrode by the electro-spinning method, the counter electrode having a large surface area can be fabricated, the charge mobility of the counter-electrode is improved, and the conversion efficiency of the dye-sensitized solar cell can be improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for continuously firing an organic substance, which can continuously produce a carbon material by firing the organic substance, and to provide a method therefor. SOLUTION: The apparatus for continuous firing of the organic substance is equipped with a heating chamber 1, a microwave generating unit 2 for making a sheet-like or plate-like organic substance into a carbon material by firing and carbonizing the organic substance by microwave irradiation in the heating chamber 1, and a carrying mechanism 3 for carrying the organic substance into the heating chamber and carrying the carbon material formed by the microwave irradiation out of the heating chamber. The method for continuous firing of the organic substance comprises carrying the sheet-like or plate-like organic substance into the heating chamber 1 of the apparatus for continuous firing and making the organic substance into the carbon material by firing and carbonizing the organic substance by the microwave irradiation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method for particles for a display medium with which a panel for information display panel free of degradation in display contrast and response speed, excellent in durability of repetitive displaying and rewriting of information, is obtained, and also to provide the particles for the display medium, and the panel for information display. SOLUTION: In the manufacturing method for the particles for the display medium that constitute the display medium used for the panel for information display which displays information of an image etc., by moving the display medium by charging the display medium between two opposite substrates at least one of which is transparent and applying an electric field to the display medium, a metal compound is formed on particle surfaces by a sputtering method. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electromagnetic wave shielding translucent window material having a mesh-like conductive pattern of narrow line width and high numerical aperture. SOLUTION: Dots 7 are printed on a transparent film 1 using a material soluble to solvent, such as water. An anti-glare layer 2, a metal layer 3 and an anti-glare layer 4 are then formed sequentially so as to cover the dots 7 on the film 1 and the exposed surface of all the films between the dots 7. Subsequently, the film 1 is cleaned with a solvent, such as water. A metal layer 3, having conductive pattern anti-glare layers 2 and 4 consisting of layers 2, 3 and 4 formed in the region between dots, is thereby left on the film 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a catalyst structure for storing and generating hydrogen made by supporting a catalyst material on a carrier by a method not tried heretofore, and a storage and generation method for hydrogen using the catalyst structure. SOLUTION: The catalyst structure for storing and generating hydrogen made by coating a carrier surface with the catalyst material by a gas flow sputtering method; a storage method for hydrogen using the catalyst structure and aromatic hydrocarbon; and a generation method for hydrogen using the catalyst structure and a hydrogenated derivative of the aromatic hydrocarbon are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell having a transparent conductive film formed on a base and designed to reduce the resistance of the electrode by providing a mesh-shaped conductor made of a metal or alloy lower in resistance than the transparent conductive film to serve as an auxiliary electrode, the electrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell solving the problem of corrosion of the auxiliary electrode due to the electrolyte more reliably and having high durability and reliability. SOLUTION: An auxiliary electrode 12 formed of a mesh of a metal or alloy is provided on a base film 11. A transparent semiconductor film 13 is formed on the auxiliary electrode 12, and a transparent conductive film 14 is formed as the uppermost layer. The metal or alloy used to form the auxiliary electrode 12 is a material lower in resistance than the transparent conductive film 14. The provision of the semiconductor film 13 prevents the auxiliary electrode 12 and the transparent conductive film 14 from being in direct contact with each other and prevents the formation of a local battery. It is thereby possible to prevent the auxiliary electrode 12 from suffering degradation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To crystallize a semiconductor material in a short time by heating selectively and efficiently. SOLUTION: The semiconductor material is crystallized by heating in such a way that amorphous semiconductor material is irradiated with microwave. Since the semiconductor material has few carriers normally, a heating by the microwave is hard because the material is difficult to absorb the microwave, however, an irradiating with ultraviolet rays and visible light, which have energies more than a band gap of the semiconductor material, makes the heating by the microwave possible because carrier density increases. A photocatalyst consisting of anatase type titanium oxide can be manufactured by crystallizing amorphous titanium oxide in such a way that it is heated by microwave irradiation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a forming method of a porous thin film with a high specific surface area efficiently and economically, which is preferable such as to a metal oxide semiconductor thin film for an electrode of a solar cell used after formed on a substrate, and to a thin film photocatalyst, to provide a dye-sensitized solar cell using a semiconductor electrode for the dye sensitized solar cell wherein the porous thin film of such as a porous metal compound thin film is formed by the forming method, and to provide a porous thin film photocatalyst deposited by the forming method. SOLUTION: In the porous thin film forming method, the dye-sensitized solar cell and the porous thin film photocatalyst, a composite thin film, wherein a metal portion comprising a first metal component and a metal compound portion comprising a compound of a second metal component are mixed and dispersed each other, is formed on a substrate, by spattering using a target where metal comprising the first metal component is dispersed in the compound of the second metal component which is different from the first metal component, then only a metal portion in the composite thin film is removed. With such constitution, the porous thin film with the high specific surface area which is preferable such as to the semiconductor thin film for the electrode of the solar cell and to the thin film photocatalyst is efficiently and economically formed by conventional equipment without making a special design change. The dye-sensitized solar cell with the porous thin film used for the semiconductor electrode for the dye-sensitized solar cell exhibits excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency, and also an excellent photocatalyst performance is obtained when using the porous thin film as the thin film photocatalyst. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI