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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell which can generate electric power directly from polysaccarides such as starch or the like. SOLUTION: On an electrode 11 made of carbon or the like, a fuel electrode 1 is formed by fixing, with fixing materials, enzymes in decomposing polysaccharides into monosaccharides, enzymes in decomposing the formed monosaccharides, a coenzyme (for example, NAD+, NADP+, etc.) by which reductants are formed with an oxidation reaction in the decomposing process of the monosaccharides, a coenzyme oxidase (for example, diaphorase) which oxidizes the reductants (for example, NADH, NADPH, etc.) of the coenzyme, and an electronic mediator (for example, ACNQ, Vitamin K3 or the like) which receives electrons obtained from the coenzyme oxidase with the oxidation of the coenzyme, and passes the electrons to the electrode 11. The fuel cell is constituted by making the fuel electrode 1 and an air pole 5 so as to face together through an electrolyte layer 3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a functional carbon material of a process being low-cost, safe, simple and of small environmental load and capable of realizing high purity and high yield, as well as the functional carbon material synthesized through the method and controlled highly in its structure. SOLUTION: This method for manufacturing the functional carbon material comprises a process that heats a polymer having structure represented by general formula (1) (wherein R is a hydrocarbon group and may include a heteroatom, and n is 2-10,000) at a low temperature (100-300°C) and forms a microcrystal carbon material having a polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon. The functional carbon material is obtained by heating the polymer having structure represented by the general formula (1) as a raw material at the low temperature and is composed of the microcrystal carbon material having the polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for simply manufacturing a hydrogen storage body of high purity in a high yield at a low cost, and the hydrogen storage body highly controlled in structure, having lightweight properties, inexpensive and safe, high in transport properties and excellent in hydrogen storage capacity. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the hydrogen storage body has a process for applying at least one of rapid temperature rising heat treatment and energy irradiation treatment to a polymer having a structure represented by formula (1) (wherein, R is a hydrocarbon group and may contain a hetero atom end n is 2-10,000). The hydrogen storage body is manufactured using the polymer as a raw material and has a shape of at least one of a sheetlike carbon material having a nano-size thickness and a fibrous carbon material having a diameter between a nano-size and a micron order size. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a protein photoelectric conversion element using various proteins such as metal substitution cytochrome bprepared based on cytochrome bderived from Escherichia, and to provide a method of manufacturing the same.SOLUTION: A protein-immobilized electrode is formed by immobilizing a protein 12 comprising a metal substitution cytochrome bor a zinc chlorine cytochrome bor their derivative or mutant on a gold electrode 11. A protein photoelectric conversion element is manufactured using this protein-immobilized electrode. This protein photoelectric conversion element is used in a photoelectric conversion system such as a color imaging element.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for immobilizing carbon dioxide, which can readily immobilize carbon dioxide in the form of an organic acid or a carbohydrate under ordinary environments.SOLUTION: In the device for immobilizing carbon dioxide, an anode 1 and a cathode 2 on which an oxidoreductase is present on the surfaces thereof are so arranged as to face each other through a proton conductor 3. Electric power is input from the outside, so that water is decomposed in the anode 1 to generate a proton and an organic acid or a carbohydrate is generated from the proton generated in the anode 1 and carbon dioxide in the cathode 2. In the generation of the organic acid or the carbohydrate, a high concentration of carbon dioxide is supplied from a carbon dioxide supply unit 5 to the cathode 2, and oxygen generated in the anode 1 and the organic acid or the carbohydrate generated in the cathode 2 are removed from the reaction system respectively through an oxygen removal unit 4 and a product collection unit 6.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biofuel cell system, capable of obtaining desired battery performance by preventing of failures or output deterioration of a battery due to supply of inappropriate liquid, by automatic determining the degree of adaptation of liquid supplied by a user as a fuel solution.SOLUTION: The biofuel cell system is provided with an inlet 5 for leading-in a liquid from the outside; a cell electrode 4 as a reacting field of redox reaction of fuel by using oxidoreductase as catalyst; and a control means (a controller 3, a switching valve 6 and a sensor electrode 7) for automatically determining the degree of adaptation of liquid as fuel solution and controlling supplying of the liquid to the cell electrode.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mutant gluconate dehydrogenase having a predetermined level or higher of enzymatic activity and/or heat resistance. SOLUTION: The mutant gluconate dehydrogenase comprises an amino acid sequence produced by deleting, substituting, adding or inserting one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence represented by a specific sequence, has enzymatic activity that is 120% or more of that of wild-type gluconate dehydrogenase that comprises the specific amino acid sequence, and/or, after the mutant gluconate dehydrogenase is subjected to a heat treatment under predetermined conditions, has residual enzymatic activity that is 20% or more of the enzymatic activity before the heat treatment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a protein-immobilized electrode enabling stable use over a long period wherein highly stable cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a chemically stable gold electrode while the electron transport capability of the cytochrome is maintained, and a manufacturing method therefor. SOLUTION: A self-organizing monomolecular film 12 is formed on the gold electrode 11 using a hydrophobic thiol and a hydrophilic thiol. A protein-immobilized electrode wherein cytochrome c552 13 is immobilized on the gold electrode 11 with the self-organizing monomolecular film 12 interposed therebetween is produced by immersing, in a cytochrome c552 solution, the gold electrode 11 on which the self-organizing monomolecular film 12 is formed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell and its manufacturing method, enclosing one or a plurality of kinds of enzymes and coenzymes into a very small space, for generating electric energy by efficiently extracting electrons from fuel by carrying out enzyme reaction using the space as a reaction filed, and for easily carrying out immobilization of those enzymes and coenzymes to an electrode. SOLUTION: The enzyme immobilization electrode is formed by sealing enzymes and coenzymes necessary for enzyme reaction into a liposome 12, and immobilizing the liposome 12 on a surface of an electrode 11 made of a porous carbon or the like. The liposome 12 contains a transporter as needed. An electron mediator is immobilized on a surface of the electrode 11. The enzyme immobilization electrode is used, for example, as an anode of a biofuel cell. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell capable of improving the output and its operation method. SOLUTION: In the fuel cell, a structure is provided in which a positive electrode 2 and a negative electrode 1 are opposed to each other via a proton conductor 3, enzyme, coenzyme and an electronic mediator are fixed to the negative electrode 1. In this fuel cell, at least one or preferably both of these coenzyme and electronic mediator are added into a fuel solution. The coenzyme is, for example, NADH, the electronic mediator is, for example, ANQ, and these are added into, for example, a glucose solution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT