Semiconductor nanoparticles that include a compound semiconductor mainly containing a Ag component, a Ge component, and a S component, wherein a content ratio of the Ag component to the Ge component is 1.0 or more and less than 7.5, in terms of molar ratio, and an average particle size of the semiconductor nanoparticles is 9 nm or less

An oxide fluorescent material has a composition represented by the following formula (1).

(Ga.sub.1-uM.sup.1.sub.u).sub.2(Ge.sub.1-vM.sup.2.sub.v).sub.wO.sub.x:Cr.sub.y,M.sup.3.sub.z(1), wherein M.sup.1 represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Sc, and In; M.sup.2 represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Si, Ti, Zr, Sn, and Hf, M.sup.3 represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ni, Eu, Fe, Mn, Nd, Tm, Ho, Er, and Yb; and u, v, w, x, y, and z satisfy 0u1.0, 0v0.5, 1.0w3.0, 5x9, 0.005y1.0, and 0z0.5, respectively.

Described are luminescent components with excellent performance and stability. The luminescent components comprise a first element 1 including first luminescent crystals 11 from the class of perovskite crystals, embedded a first polymer P1 and a second element 2 comprising a second solid polymer composition, said second polymer composition optionally comprising second luminescent crystals 12 embedded in a second polymer P2. Polymers P1 and P2 differ and are further specified in the claims. Also described are methods for manufacturing such components and devices comprising such components.

Described are luminescent components with excellent performance and stability. The luminescent components comprise a first element 1 including first luminescent crystals 11 from the class of perovskite crystals, embedded a first polymer P1 and a second element 2 comprising a second solid polymer composition, said second polymer composition optionally comprising second luminescent crystals 12 embedded in a second polymer P2. Polymers P1 and P2 differ and are further specified in the claims. Also described are methods for manufacturing such components and devices comprising such components.

Materials are presented of the formula:

A.sub.xM.sub.yM.sup.i.sub.ziO.sub.2d, where A is sodium or a mixed alkali metal including sodium as a major constituent; x>0; M is a metal or germanium; y>0; M.sup.i, for i=1, 2, 3 . . . n, is a transition metal or an alkali metal; z.sub.i0 for each i=1, 2, 3 . . . n; 0<d0.5; the values of x, y, z.sub.i and d are such as to maintain charge neutrality; and the values of x, y, z.sub.i and d are such that x+y+z.sub.i>2d.

The formula includes compounds that are oxygen deficient. Further the oxidation states may or may not be integers i.e. they may be whole numbers or fractions or a combination of whole numbers and fractions and may be averaged over different crystallographic sites in the material. Such materials are useful, for example, as electrode materials in rechargeable battery applications. Also presented is a method of preparing a compound having the formula A.sub.xM.sub.yM.sup.i.sub.ziO.sub.2d.

The present invention provides novel two-dimensional van der Waals materials and stacks of those materials. Also provided are methods of making and using such materials.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing nanoparticles by using laser and more particularly, a method for preparing nanoparticles by irradiating a laser beam to the mixture of a source material gas and a hexafluoride (SF.sub.6) catalyst gas, thereby improving the production yield of nanoparticles with energy saved. More particularly, the present invention provides the method for preparing the nanoparticles by using the laser wherein the laser beam of wavelength having the excellent energy absorption by the mixture gas of source material gas and catalyst gas is irradiated to the mixture gas so as to increase the reactivity of the source material gas with energy saved, which brings the effects of solving the problems of damaging environment due to the unreacted toxic source material gas incurred by the low production yield of the conventional nanoparticle preparation method and of making system complicated with the high cost when the discarded source gas is recovered and reused.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing nanoparticles by using laser and more particularly, a method for preparing nanoparticles by irradiating a laser beam to the mixture of a source material gas and a hexafluoride (SF.sub.6) catalyst gas, thereby improving the production yield of nanoparticles with energy saved. More particularly, the present invention provides the method for preparing the nanoparticles by using the laser wherein the laser beam of wavelength having the excellent energy absorption by the mixture gas of source material gas and catalyst gas is irradiated to the mixture gas so as to increase the reactivity of the source material gas with energy saved, which brings the effects of solving the problems of damaging environment due to the unreacted toxic source material gas incurred by the low production yield of the conventional nanoparticle preparation method and of making system complicated with the high cost when the discarded source gas is recovered and reused.

A particulate material having a body including a first phase having at least about 70 wt % alumina for a total weight of the first phase, and a second phase comprising phosphorus, wherein the body includes at least about 0.1 wt % of the second phase for the total weight of the body, and wherein the second phase has an average grain size of not greater than about 1 micron.

A particulate material having a body including a first phase having at least about 70 wt % alumina for a total weight of the first phase, and a second phase comprising phosphorus, wherein the body includes at least about 0.1 wt % of the second phase for the total weight of the body, and wherein the second phase has an average grain size of not greater than about 1 micron.