The present application is related to cancer immunotherapy, e.g. stimulation of T cell mediated anti-tumor therapy. Accordingly, described herein are methods of inducing or enhancing an adaptive immune response to a cancer in a subject and methods of treating cancer in a subject. In some embodiments, the methods hyperactivate dendritic cells (DCs), which induce T helper type I (TH1) and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses in the absence of TH2 immunity.

The present invention relates to a process for the processing and/or purification of carbon black comprising the steps of: a) providing carbon black containing impurities b) providing an aqueous fluid comprising a nitrogen hydride c) providing an alkali metal hydroxide and/or an alkali metal d) contacting the mixture of step a), the fluid of step b) and the alkali metal hydroxide and/or alkali metal of step c) e) subjecting the composition obtained in step d) to an elevated temperature in the range of 80 to 240° C. and an elevated pressure in the range of 5 to 50 bar f) separating a carbonaceous solid from the composition obtained in step e). The present invention further relates to the use of a nitrogen hydride as a dispersing agent for producing and/or stabilizing an aqueous suspension.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of lithium ion battery, and discloses a Lithium-Manganese-rich material and a preparation method and a use thereof.

Process for making a manganese composite (oxy)hydroxide with a mean particle diameter D50 in the range from 2 to 16 μm comprising the step(s) of combining (a) an aqueous solution containing salts of nickel and of manganese, and, optionally, at least one of Al, Mg, or transition metals other than nickel and manganese wherein at least 50 mole-% of the metal is manganese, (b) with an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide and (c) an organic acid or its alkali or ammonium salt wherein said organic acid bears at least two functional groups per molecule and at least one of the functional groups is a carboxylate group.

The present technology provides an adsorbent material that includes a silicate composition, wherein the silicate composition includes a crystalline phase; wherein the silicate composition may have an interconnected porous scaffold having a total mercury (Hg) pore volume of about 0.005 cc/g to about 0.25 cc/g for pores having a diameter of about 20-10,000 Å and a total nitrogen (N) pore volume of about 0.02 cc/g to about 0.1 cc/g for pores having a diameter of about 20-600 Å.

A positive-electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery, wherein an average pore size of the positive-electrode active material is 0.2 μm to 1.0 μm when a pore size is measured in a range of 0.0036 μm to 400 μm.

The positive electrode active material is capable of reducing positive electrode resistance, exhibiting better output characteristics, and having high mechanical strength when the positive electrode active material is used in a lithium ion secondary battery. Secondary particles have a d50 of 3.0 to 7.0 μm, a BET specific surface area of 2.0 to 5.0 m.sup.2/g, a tap density of 1.0 to 2.0 g/cm.sup.3, and an oil absorption amount of 30 to 60 ml/100 g. In each of a plurality of primary particles having a primary particle size of 0.1 to 1.0 μm, a coefficient of variation of the concentration of an additive element M is 1.5 or less. The volume of a linking section between the primary particles per primary particle, obtained from the total volume of the linking section and the number of primary particles constituting the secondary particles, is 5×10.sup.5 to 9×10.sup.7 nm.sup.3.

An object of the present invention is to provide a carbonaceous material suitable as an electrode material of an electrochemical device which is increased in capacity with not only suppression of an increase in irreversible capacity, but also securement of a high electrode density, as well as a method for producing the carbonaceous material The present invention relates to a carbonaceous material for an electrochemical device, having a specific surface area of 23 m.sup.2/g or less as measured according to a BET method and an aerated energy (AE) of 40 mJ or more and 210 mJ or less as measured with a powder rheometer.

A solid electrolyte: (compound A) a compound that has a crystal phase having an argyrodite-type crystal structure and that is represented by Li.sub.aPS.sub.bX.sub.c, where X is at least one elemental halogen, a represents a number of 3.0 or more and 6.0 or less, b represents a number of 3.5 or more and 4.8 or less, and c represents a number of 0.1 or more and 3.0 or less; and (compound B) a compound that is represented by LiX, where X is as defined above. The compound B has a crystallite size of 25 nm or more. The solid electrolyte preferably has a BET specific surface area of 14.0 m.sup.2/g or less.

A negative electrode active material including natural graphite. The negative electrode active material has a ratio of D.sub.90 to D.sub.10, which is D.sub.90/D.sub.10, of 2.0 to 2.2, a tap density of 1.11 g/cm.sup.3 to 1.19 g/cm.sup.3, and a BET specific surface area of 2.02 m.sup.2/g to 2.30 m.sup.2/g.