Steel sheet for cans high in strength and excellent in formability and appearance comprising C: 0.0010 to 0.0035%, Si: 0.050% or less, Mn: 0.10 to 0.50%, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.040% or less, Al: less than 0.005%, N: 0.0050% or less and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein an average value of a ratio of length of crystal grains in a sheet thickness direction to length in a sheet width direction is 0.70 or more, a yield strength is 500 MPa or more, and, in a range of 0 to 90 of the rolling direction, a minimum value of an r-value is 1.50 or more, an average value of the r-value is 1.70 or more, and a difference of the maximum value and minimum value of the r-value is 0.50 or less.

A thixomolding material includes: a metal body that contains Mg as a main component; and a coating portion that is adhered to a surface of the metal body via a binder and contains SiC particles containing SiC as a main component. A mass fraction of the SiC particles in a total mass of the metal body and the SiC particles is 2.0 mass % or more and 40.0 mass % or less. The binder may contain waxes. A content of the binder may be 0.001 mass % or more and 0.200 mass % or less.

A coated metal sheet is provided. The coated metal sheet includes a steel substrate, a metal coating on at least one face of the steel substrate, the metal coating comprising at least 40% by weight of zinc; and a layer coating an outer surface of the metal coating, the layer including an amino acid in a neutral or salt form, the amino acid being selected from among alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamine, lysine, methionine, proline, serine, threonine, or of a mixture thereof, the amount of said amino acid or of said mixture being from 0.1 to 200 mg/m.sup.2, and optionally a base or a mixture of bases, or an acid or a mixture of acids.

There is provided a temperature sensor element including a pair of electrodes and a temperature-sensitive film disposed in contact with the pair of electrodes, in which the temperature-sensitive film includes a matrix resin and a plurality of conductive domains contained in the matrix resin, the conductive domains include a conjugated polymer and a dopant, and the number of structural units constituting the conjugated polymer is 65 or less.

A thixomolding material includes: a metal body that contains Mg as a main component; and a coating portion that is adhered to a surface of the metal body via a binder and contains SiC particles containing SiC as a main component. A mass fraction of the SiC particles in a total mass of the metal body and the SiC particles is 2.0 mass % or more and 40.0 mass % or less. The binder may contain waxes. A content of the binder may be 0.001 mass % or more and 0.200 mass % or less.

The invention relates to a sheet steel (1) coated with a zinc-based coating and skin-pass rolled with a deterministic surface structure (2), and to a method for producing it.

The invention relates to a sheet steel (1) coated with a zinc-based coating and skin-pass rolled with a deterministic surface structure (2), and to a method for producing it.

An aqueous surface treatment composition for coated steel sheet securing sufficient working adhesion while causing the formation of a surface treatment layer imparting excellent overhang corrosion resistance even without containing chrome, that is, a surface treatment composition containing a specific organic silicon compound, hexafluorometallic acid, a urethane resin having specific cationic groups, a vanadium compound, and an aqueous medium and sufficiently securing working adhesion while imparting excellent overhang corrosion resistance by the urethane resin having cationic groups and a total amine value of specific values is provided.

Provided are a zinc-base plated steel material comprising a base steel and a zinc-based plated layer and a post-treatment film, which are sequentially formed on the base steel. The post-treatment film comprises an oxide or oxide salt of at least one group A element selected from B, Al, V, and Fe and an organic compound, wherein the content of oxygen atoms in the post-treatment film is 50 atom % or more, and wherein when the mole number of oxygen atoms forming a covalent bond with hydrogen in the post-treatment film is a and the mole number of oxygen atoms not forming the covalent bond with hydrogen is b, a/b is 0.3 or greater; and a composition for forming the post-treatment film.

An encapsulation structure, an encapsulation method and an electronic device are provided. The encapsulation structure includes an inorganic layer, an aluminum carbon layer and an organic layer. The aluminum carbon layer is on the inorganic layer and contacts with the inorganic layer; the organic layer is on the aluminum carbon layer and contacts with the aluminum carbon layer.