Abstract:
The present invention provides an electrode material having excellent resistance to a high potential and strongly acidic environment, high conductivity, and excellent electrochemical properties; and a fuel cell including the same. The present invention also provides a method for simply and easily producing such an electrode material. The present invention relates to an electrode material containing: a titanium suboxide carrier whose crystal phase is single-phase Ti4O7 and having a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or more; and a noble metal and/or its oxide supported on the carrier.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method for producing polyester comprising: a step for preparing an oligomer comprising a dicarboxylic acid diester by an esterification reaction or a transesterification reaction between a dicarboxylic acid or an ester-forming derivative thereof and a glycol, and then a step for subjecting the oligomer to melt-polycondensation to provide polyester as melt-polycondensate, wherein at least in the step of subjecting the oligomer to melt-polycondensation of the two steps, the oligomer is subjected to melt-polycondensation in the presence of titanium nitride and, as a polycondensation catalyst, particles of a solid base having a coating layer of titanic acid on the surfaces, thereby to provide polyester as melt-polycondensate.
Abstract:
The invention provides a polycondensation catalyst for producing polyester by an esterification reaction or a transesterification reaction between a dicarboxylic acid or ester-forming derivative thereof and a glycol, wherein the polycondensation catalyst comprises particles of a solid base having on their surfaces either a coat layer of titanic acid in an amount of from 0.1 to 50 parts by weight in terms of TiO2 per 100 parts by weight of the solid base, or an inner coat layer of an oxide of at least one element selected from silicon, aluminum and zirconium or a composite oxide of at least two elements selected from silicon, aluminum and zirconium in an amount of from 1 to 20 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the solid base and an outer coat layer of titanic acid in an amount of from 0.1 to 50 parts by weight in terms of TiO2 per 100 parts by weight of the solid base, and wherein the solid base is hydrotalcite.
Abstract:
The invention provides a polycondensation catalyst for producing polyester by an esterification reaction or a transesterification reaction between a dicarboxylic acid or an ester-forming derivative thereof and a glycol, wherein the polycondensation catalyst comprises particles of a solid base having on the surfaces an inner coating layer of titanic acid in an amount of from 0.1 to 50 parts by weight in terms of TiO2 per 100 parts by weight of the solid base, and an outer coating layer either of an oxide of at least one element selected from aluminum, zirconium and silicon, or of a composite oxide of at least two elements selected from aluminum, zirconium and silicon on the surface of the inner coating layer in an amount of from 1 to 50 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the solid base.