Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080248354 | Enzyme Electrode, and Device, Sensor, Fuel Cell and Electrochemical Reactor Employing the Enzyme Electrode - An enzyme electrode has a conductive member and an enzyme, wherein the conductive member has a porous structure, and the enzyme is immobilized through a carrier in pores constituting the porous structure. An enzyme electrode device, comprises the enzyme electrode, and wiring connected to the conductive member of the enzyme electrode. | 10-09-2008 |
20080277275 | TREATMENT APPARATUS, SOLUTION STIRRING METHOD AND SOLUTION TRANSFER METHOD - The electrolytic reaction of a solution supplemented with oxidation-reduction substances is caused in a magnetic field. Lorentz force generated by the interaction between an electrolytic current and the magnetic field is utilized. As a result, the effective stirring or transfer of a solution as well as the detection of a biologically relevant substance with high precision can be achieved without causing the aggregation or uneven distribution of magnetic beads or the like. | 11-13-2008 |
20090026071 | DEVICE WITH pi-CONJUGATED METAL COMPLEX IMMOBILIZED SUBSTRATE IN AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE - A π-conjugated metal complex immobilized substrate, in which π-conjugated metal complex molecules are connected to a substrate via a π-conjugated molecular structure, is adapted for observing an electron transfer (redox reaction) of the π-conjugated metal complex molecules in aqueous electrolytes. An electrochemical device including this π-conjugated metal complex immobilized substrate and an aqueous electrolyte with cations having an ion radius of r (m) that is not less than a radius of a sphere inscribed in a clearance formed between the π-conjugated metal complex molecules. The device utilizes an electron transfer (redox reaction) of the π-conjugated metal complex molecules in the aqueous electrolyte. | 01-29-2009 |
20090134042 | POLYMERASE-IMMOBILIZED ELECTRODE - The present invention is to reduce a false signal in an apparatus for electrochemically decoding a base sequence of DNA, which false signal is caused by a phenomenon that even unreacted nucleotide 5′-triphosphate derivatives remaining in the solution are electrochemically converted on an electrode. The present invention provides a polymerase-immobilized electrode that comprises an electroconductive substrate and a polymerase unit immobilized on the surface of the electroconductive substrate, wherein the polymerase unit comprises a polymerase part, an anchor part and an electroconductive part, which are linked in an order of the polymerase part, the anchor part and the electroconductive part, or in an order of the polymerase part, the electroconductive part and the anchor part; and the polymerase unit is immobilized on the electroconductive substrate by the anchor part; wherein a free end of the electroconductive part, not immobilized on the electroconductive substrate, is located in the vicinity of an active site of the polymerase part. | 05-28-2009 |
20090159449 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE HAVING IMMOBILIZED pi-CONJUGATED LIGANDS, ELECTRODE HAVING IMMOBILIZED pi-CONJUGATED METAL COMPLEXES, AND ELECTRODE HAVING IMMOBILIZED pi-CONJUGATED MULTINUCLEAR METAL COMPLEXES - A method for producing an electrode having immobilized π-conjugated ligands is provided. The method includes bringing an aqueous solution into contact with an electrically conductive base material, the aqueous solution including π-conjugated ligands and at least one of (i) a surfactant, and (ii) a water-soluble molecule having a structure different from that of the π-conjugated ligands, the water-soluble molecule having a π-conjugated structure, and immobilizing the π-conjugated ligands on the base material. | 06-25-2009 |
20090233280 | METHOD OF ACQUIRING INFORMATION REGARDING BASE SEQUENCE AND INFORMATION READING DEVICE FOR THE SAME - Information regarding a base sequence of a target nucleic acid is acquired by preparing a sample comprising the target nucleic acid hybridized with a primer or a sample comprising the target nucleic acid containing a promoter sequence, a polymerase, a nucleotide derivative having an electrochemically convertible moiety; allowing the three components to coexist in a solvent; and detecting whether the nucleotide derivative is introduced into the primer or a transcription product of the target nucleic acid or not using an electrochemical reaction. | 09-17-2009 |
20100147796 | METAL STRUCTURAL BODY-CONTAINING POLYMER FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING METAL STRUCTURAL BODY-CONTAINING POLYMER FILM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PATTERNED STRUCTURAL BODY - A method for manufacturing a patterned structural body by which a patterned structural body having a micropattern can be manufactured, a metal structural body-containing polymer film that can be used in the manufacture of the patterned structural body, and a method for manufacturing the polymer film are provided. The metal structural body-containing polymer film comprises a polymer film that includes a block copolymer having an ion-conductive segment and a non-ion-conductive segment and has a microphase-separated structure including ion-conductive domains and non-ion-conductive domains, and a metal structural body localized at the ion-conductive domains. | 06-17-2010 |
20100308708 | FILM CONTAINING CONJUGATED POLYMER CHAINS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A method of producing a film containing an oxide having a plurality of tubular structures and a plurality of conjugated polymer chains includes preparing a solution by dissolving a precursor substance having a first site containing a precursor of the oxide and a second site containing a precursor of a component constituting the conjugated polymer chains; forming a film containing the oxide having the tubular structures on a substrate, the surface of which exhibits anisotropy, by applying the solution onto the substrate so that the tubular structures and the conjugated polymer chains are oriented; and forming the conjugated polymer chains in pores of the tubular structures by polymerizing the second site in the film formed on the substrate, wherein an inorganic component of the first site is connected to carbon of the second site through a covalent bond. | 12-09-2010 |
20110129065 | X-RAY MONOCHROMATOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND X-RAY SPECTROMETER - An X-ray monochromator including: a substrate having a concave surface; and an inorganic oxide film formed on the concave surface and having a plurality of pores, in which the plurality of pores of the inorganic oxide film being laid periodically in a stacked manner in the normal directions of the concave surface, and in which the plurality of pores being cylindrical is provided. The X-ray monochromator shows an excellent X-ray spectroscopic performance. | 06-02-2011 |
20110198214 | MESOPOROUS SILICA FILM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - In a mesoporous silica film formed on a non-single-crystalline carbon film having structural anisotropy on a substrate in-plane arrangement of the pores is controlled in one direction, which is defined by the structural anisotropy of the carbon film. | 08-18-2011 |
20110299661 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the cladding has a periodic structure in which multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged in two-dimensional directions perpendicular to the guiding direction of X-ray; and the periodic structure has a period of 100 nm or less. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299662 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced is realized with an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that the real part of refractive index of materials is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the cladding has a one-dimensional periodic structure consisting of at least two materials having different real parts of refractive index; one of the materials is inorganic one, and another one of materials is any of an organic material, a gas, or vacuum; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at the interface between the core and the cladding is smaller than a Bragg angle depending on the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 12-08-2011 |
20120128965 | MESOPOROUS FILM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MESOPOROUS FILM - A method of producing a mesoporous film includes a step of preparing a mesostructured film containing a surfactant and an inorganic oxide; a step of holding the mesostructured film in an atmosphere containing a compound having the following formula; and a step of removing the surfactant from the mesostructured film during and/or subsequently to the holding step: | 05-24-2012 |
20120269327 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core. The core has a periodic structure formed in at least one period direction. The periodic structure includes periodically arranged members made of material having different refractive index real parts. The core is surrounded by the cladding in the plane perpendicular to a wave-guiding direction. The Bragg angle obtained from the periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than the total reflection critical angle at which X-rays are incident on the interface between the cladding and the core. The at least one period direction is the direction of at least one fundamental vector expressing the periodicity of the periodic structure in a plane of the core perpendicular to the wave-guiding direction. | 10-25-2012 |
20120325680 | INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS ON CONCENTRATION OF THIOREDOXINS IN SAMPLE, STRESS LEVEL INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND STRESS LEVEL JUDGING METHOD - The invention is to provide an information acquisition apparatus for acquiring information relating to at least one of an oxidized form concentration, a reduced form concentration and a ratio of the concentrations of thioredoxin, useful for judging a stress level, and a stress level information acquisition apparatus and a stress level judging method utilizing the same. A reaction by an enzyme or the like catalyzing an redox reaction of thioredoxins is used to measure at least one of an oxidized form concentration, a reduced form concentration and a concentration ratio of thioredoxins, and data of such measurement is used for judging the stress level of a subject person. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328082 | X-RAY MIRROR, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE MIRROR, AND X-RAY APPARATUS - Provided is an X-ray mirror, a method of producing the X-rat mirror, and an X-ray apparatus. The X-ray mirror comprises: a substrate; and an X-ray reflecting structure formed of multiple regions present on the substrate, in which the X-ray reflecting structure comprises a mesostructured film that has the multiple regions having different structural periods in a normal direction of the substrate. Thus, there can be reduced the absorption loss of an X-ray of the mirror that reflects X-rays having different energies. | 12-27-2012 |
20130039477 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - To provide an X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; has a waveguide mode with its phase controlled; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced, an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the core has a one-dimensional periodic structure containing multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index; the multiple materials include one of an organic material, a gas, and a vacuum, and an inorganic material; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle resulting from a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure, is realized. | 02-14-2013 |
20130058461 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide showing a small propagation loss and having a waveguide mode with its phase controlled is provided. The X-ray waveguide including: a core for guiding an X-ray in a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the X-ray is confined in the core by total reflection at a interface between the core and the cladding; in the core multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged; and a waveguide mode of the X-ray waveguide is such that the number of antinodes or nodes of an electric field intensity distribution or a magnetic field intensity distribution of the X-ray coincides with the number of periods of the periodic structure in a direction perpendicular to a waveguiding direction of the X-ray in the core. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064352 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, PROCESS OF PRODUCING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND X-RAY GUIDING SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide, for guiding X-rays having a wavelength of 1 pm or more and 100 nm or less, includes: a core and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure composed of a plurality of materials each having a different real part of refractive index in the direction perpendicular to the waveguiding direction. A planarizing layer is disposed between the core and the cladding. The critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays at the interface between the planarizing layer and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle of the periodic structure of the core. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070905 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the core has a low electron density portion and a high electron density portion having a higher electron density than an electron density of the low electron density portion; the low electron density portion is provided in the high electron density portion; and the low electron density portion is formed of one of a pore and an organic substance. | 03-21-2013 |
20130114795 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a periodic structure in which basic structures made of a plurality of materials having different real parts of refractive indexes are periodically disposed, a cladding formed on an outer side of the core to confine X-rays in the core through total reflection and including at least a portion with a gap between the cladding and the core, and a driving unit which drives at least a portion of the cladding or the core to change a distance of the gap. A critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays in the interface between the cladding and the gap is larger than a Bragg angle corresponding to the periodic structure of the core, and a critical angle for total reflection in an interface between a plurality of ingredients which form the periodic structure of the core is smaller than the Bragg angle. | 05-09-2013 |
20130142312 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core configured to guide X-ray therethrough and a cladding. In a section perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction, the core has threefold or more rotational symmetry and has a periodic structure made of plural substances each having a different value of a real part of refractive-index, and a critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle of the X-ray for the periodic structure of the core. A waveguide mode having a two-dimensionally spatial coherence over a wide cross-section of the core and exhibiting a small propagation loss is realized. | 06-06-2013 |
20130156162 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core to guide X-rays. The core includes a periodic structure of plural substances having different values of a refractive-index real part in a direction perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction. A Bragg angle determined depending on a wavelength of an X-ray and periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding. The Bragg angle is larger than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the plural substances constituting the periodic structure. The core has, in the X-ray guiding direction, two or more regions differing in periodic number of the periodic structure constituting the core with a core width in a direction of period being different between the two or more regions corresponding to change of the periodic number. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163727 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - A X-ray waveguide includes a core for guiding X-rays having a wavelength band in which the real part of refractive index of material is smaller than 1 and a cladding for confining the X-rays in the core. The core has a one-dimensional periodic structure in which a plurality of layers respectively formed of inorganic materials having different real parts of refractive index are periodically laminated. The core and the cladding are configured so that a critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle due to a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. A critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between layers in the one-dimensional periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle due to the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130196112 | OXIDE MESOSTRUCTURED FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An oxide mesostructured film has a structure in which the orientation direction of cylindrical structures is a given direction throughout in the film plane, at least one peak appears in an angle region corresponding to a plane spacing of 8 nm or more, the number of atoms (X) of silicon to which an alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms is bonded to the number of atoms (Y) of silicon or metallic elements among elements constituting oxides of the oxide mesostructured film is 0.1 or more and 0.5 or lower in terms of the atomic number ratio (X/Y). | 08-01-2013 |
20140217063 | METAL STRUCTURAL BODY-CONTAINING POLYMER FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING METAL STRUCTURAL BODY-CONTAINING POLYMER FILM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PATTERNED STRUCTURAL BODY - A method for manufacturing a patterned structural body by which a patterned structural body having a micropattern can be manufactured, a metal structural body-containing polymer film that can be used in the manufacture of the patterned structural body, and a method for manufacturing the polymer film are provided. The metal structural body-containing polymer film comprises a polymer film that includes a block copolymer having an ion-conductive segment and a non-ion-conductive segment and has a microphase-separated structure including ion-conductive domains and non-ion-conductive domains, and a metal structural body localized at the ion-conductive domains. | 08-07-2014 |
20140295142 | STRUCTURED MATERIAL - A structured material includes a base member, and a mesostructured member disposed on the surface of the base member. The mesostructured member includes a wall defining cylindrically shaped portions. The base member has a plurality of grooves periodically formed in the surface thereof. The grooves each have a bottom surface and side surfaces in a shape in which a plane including the bottom surface is perpendicular to planes including the side surfaces. The cylindrically shaped portions in a region opposite to the base member with respect to an imaginary surface of the base member defined by imaginarily filling grooves to form an even surface are oriented at angles within a range of ±10° with respect to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the grooves. | 10-02-2014 |
20140376699 | X RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide system capable of forming X-rays having spatial coherence of a large space region has an X-ray collecting optical element which collects incident X-rays; and an X-ray waveguide containing a core and claddings and wave-guiding a collected X-ray collected by the X-ray collecting optical element, in which the core of the X-ray waveguide is a periodic structure body in which a plurality of basic structures containing substances different in the refractive-index real part are periodically disposed, the total reflection critical angle of the collected X-ray at the interface of the core and the cladding is equal to or larger than the Bragg angle corresponding to the period of the core, and the collection angle of the collected X-ray entering the X-ray waveguide is as large as or larger than the double of the Bragg angle. | 12-25-2014 |