The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a solid core having an outer surface and a coating layer, where the coating layer covers at least a portion of the outer surface, the coating layer is permeable to hydrogen (H.sub.2), and the solid core is capable of reversibly absorbing and desorbing hydrogen.

A monolithic substrate including a silica material fused to bulk copper is provided for coupling with electronic components, along with methods for making the same. The method includes arranging a base mixture in a die mold. The base mixture includes a bottom portion with copper micron powder and an upper portion with copper nanoparticles. The method includes arranging a secondary mixture on the upper portion of the base mixture. The secondary mixture includes a bottom portion with silica-coated copper nanoparticles and an upper portion with silica nanoparticles. The method includes heating and compressing the base mixture and the secondary mixture in the die mold at a temperature, pressure, and time sufficient to sinter and fuse the base mixture with the secondary mixture to form a monolithic substrate. The resulting monolithic substrate defines a first major surface providing thermal conductivity, and a second major surface providing an electrically resistive surface.

An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet and/or near-infrared shielding agent composition for transparent material using silicon compound-coated silicon-doped zinc oxide particles that are controlled in properties in an ultraviolet region and/or a near-infrared region. The present invention provides an ultraviolet and/or near-infrared shielding agent composition for transparent material used for a purpose of shielding ultraviolet rays and/or near-infrared rays, the ultraviolet and/or near-infrared shielding agent composition for transparent material featuring that the ultraviolet and/or near-infrared shielding agent contains silicon compound-coated silicon-doped zinc oxide particles, with which surfaces of silicon-doped zinc oxide particles that are zinc oxide particles doped with at least silicon are at least partially coated with a silicon compound.

A method of forming one of a plurality of encapsulated crystalline particles includes feeding a coaxial feed wire downwardly such that a first wire end of the coaxial feed wire is positioned at a heating source. The coaxial feed wire includes a crystalline wire core, and an amorphous shell surrounding the crystalline wire core. The first end of the coaxial feed wire is heated at the heating source, thereby forming a molten pendant drop at the first wire end. The plurality of encapsulated crystalline particles are emitted from the molten pendant drop onto a collector located below the molten pendant drop.

A method of synthesizing aluminum nitride, the method includes: preparing mixed powder containing 0.5 to 8 wt % of zinc powder, 0.01 to 2 wt % of magnesium powder, 0.01 to 1 wt % of silicon powder, 0.01 to 1 wt % of copper powder, and a balanced amount of aluminum powder; preparing a feedstock of the mixed powder blended and filled with thermoplastic organic binder, by pressured kneading the mixed powder and the thermoplastic organic binder; forming granules of the feedstock by crushing the feedstock or forming a molded body of the feedstock via a powder molding method; and debinding the granules or the molded body by heating under a nitrogen gas atmosphere, and then performing direct nitridation between aluminum and a nitrogen gas at a temperature higher than a debinding temperature.

A method of forming one of a plurality of encapsulated crystalline particles includes feeding a coaxial feed wire downwardly such that a first wire end of the coaxial feed wire is positioned at a heating source. The coaxial feed wire includes a crystalline wire core, and an amorphous shell surrounding the crystalline wire core. The first end of the coaxial feed wire is heated at the heating source, thereby forming a molten pendant drop at the first wire end. The plurality of encapsulated crystalline particles are emitted from the molten pendant drop onto a collector located below the molten pendant drop.

A method for producing a metal powder provided on the surface thereof with a glassy thin film, wherein a glassy substance is produced in the vicinity of the surface of the metal powder by spray pyrolysis from a solution that contains a thermally decomposable metal compound and a glass precursor that produces a glassy substance that does not form a solid solution with the metal produced from the metal compound by thermal decomposition, so as to form the metal powder provided on the surface thereof with the glassy thin film. The metal includes a base metal as a major component, and the solution contains 5 to 30 mass %, as the mass % with reference to the overall solution, of a reducing agent that is soluble in the solution and exhibits a reducing activity during the aforementioned step of heating.

A sintered friction material is formed by pressure sintering mixed powder at 800 C. or above, the mixed powder consisting of, in mass %, Cu and/or Cu alloy: 40.0 to 80.0%, Ni: 0% or more and less than 5.0%, Sn: 0 to 10.0%, Zn: 0 to 10.0%, VC: 0.5 to 5.0%, Fe and/or Fe alloy: 2.0 to 40.0%, lubricant: 5.0 to 30.0%, metal oxide and/or metal nitride: 1.5 to 30.0%, and the balance being impurity.

A method of stabilizing soft particles to create dried nanocomposite magnets includes coating a plurality of soft particles with a layer of SiO.sub.2, the soft particles being nanoparticles, creating a composite by mixing the soft particles with hard phase via a solution phase based assembly, annealing the composite, washing the composite with an alkaline solution to remove SiO.sub.2, and compacting the composite to create dried nanocomposite magnets.

A soft magnetic molded body, in which a binder component is used to bind a soft magnetic metal powder that has a flat shape, includes 60% by volume or more of the soft magnetic metal powder and 10-30% by volume of fine open pores. The binder component includes an inorganic oxide as a main component.