The invention relates to coated effect pigments, wherein the coating comprises a binder which is suitable for powder paints. They comprise a crystalline and an amorphous fraction which is determined by C.sup.13 NMR MAS relaxation measurements, the relaxation of the .sup.13C cores being fitted as a biexponential relaxation according to the formula (II) and the degree of crystallinity c being in a range between 40 to 85%, and relaxation having a short average relaxation time T.sub.1.sup.S and a long average relaxation time T.sub.1.sup.l, and T.sub.1.sup.l being in a range of from 65 to 130 s. The effect pigments coated according to the invention have at least one endothermic peak with a maximum from a range of T.sub.max=100 to 150° C. and an enthalpy ΔH associated with said peak from a range of 15 J/g to 80 J/g in DSC at a feed speed of 5° C./min, the enthalpy being calculated relative to the amount of the binder. The binders are applied to the effect pigment by way of spontaneous precipitation.

The present disclosure is directed to novel germanosilicate compositions and methods of producing and using the same. Included among the new materials are the new germanosilicates of CIT-5 topology having Si:Ge ratios either in a range of from 3.8 to 5.4 or from 30 to 200, with and without added metal oxides. The disclosure also describes methods of preparing and using these new germanosilicate compositions as well as the compositions themselves.

The present disclosure is directed to novel germanosilicate compositions and methods of producing and using the same. In particular, this disclosure describes new germanosilicates of CIT-14 topology. The disclosure also describes methods of preparing and using these new germanosilicate compositions as well as the compositions themselves.

Provided is a crystalline layered silicate, having an X-ray diffraction pattern comprising reflections at 2-theta values of (5.3±0.2)°, (8.6±0.2)°, (9.8±0.2)°, (21.7±0.2)° and (22.7±0.2). Also provided are a process for preparing the crystalline layered silicate and uses of the layered silicate. The process comprises steps of: (i) preparing a synthesis mixture comprising water, a source of Si, and a structure directing agent comprising a diethyldimethylammonium compound; (ii) subjecting the synthesis mixture obtained from (i) to hydrothermal synthesis conditions comprising heating the synthesis mixture obtained from (i) to a temperature in the range of from 110 to 180° C. and keeping the synthesis mixture at a temperature in this range under autogenous pressure for 1 to 6 days, obtaining a mother liquor comprising the crystalline layered silicate.

In order to provide a zirconium boride that provides high caloric value at the time of its combustion with a compound having radicals such as perchlorate and can combust in a short period of time, while providing high physical stability, an amount of radical derived from lattice defect detected by ESR spectroscopy, is set to 0.1×10.sup.15 spin/mg or more.

A negative electrode active material including a negative electrode active material particle, wherein the negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle comprising a silicon compound (SiO.sub.x: 0.5≤x≤1.6), the silicon compound particle includes crystalline Li.sub.2SiO.sub.3 and Li.sub.2Si.sub.2O.sub.5 in at least part of the silicon compound particle, among a peak intensity A derived from Li.sub.2SiO.sub.3, a peak intensity B derived from Si, a peak intensity C derived from Li.sub.2Si.sub.2O.sub.5, and a peak intensity D derived from SiO.sub.2 which are obtained from a .sup.29Si-MAS-NMR spectrum of the silicon compound particle, the peak intensity A or the peak intensity C is the highest intensity, and the peak intensity A and the peak intensity C satisfy a relationship of the following formula 1,formula 1: C/3≤A≤3C.

A negative electrode active material containing a negative electrode active material particle; the negative electrode active material particle including a silicon compound particle containing a silicon compound (SiO.sub.x: 0.5≤x≤1.6), wherein the silicon compound particle contains a Li compound, and the negative electrode active material particle contains an Al element and an Na element as constituent elements, with a mass ratio M.sub.Na/M.sub.Al of the Al element and the Na element satisfying the following Formula 1. This provides a negative electrode active material that is capable of stabilizing slurry that is produced in production of a negative electrode for a secondary battery, and improving initial charge-discharge characteristics and cycle performance when it is used as a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery.
0.022≤M.sub.Na/M.sub.Al≤61  Formula 1

The present disclosure provides a method of synthesizing an aluminosilicate molecular sieve by a crystal seed-assisted method, a natural aluminosilicate clay mineral treated and activated by an alkali is used as a crystal seed for synthesis of the aluminosilicate molecular sieve, and the target molecular sieve product is synthesized by hydrothermal crystallization, wherein the synthesis process does not require addition of conventional crystal seeds of a molecular sieve or use of any organic template agent, thus the synthesized product does not require a calcination process to remove the template agent. The method of synthesizing an aluminosilicate molecular sieve by a crystal seed-assisted method can meet the requirements of both crystallinity and nucleation time, and greatly reduce costs of synthesizing the aluminosilicate molecular sieve, and reduce the environmental pollution caused by removal of the template agent by calcinating.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing a functionalized graphene. The method for preparing a functionalized graphene according to the present invention can functionalize graphene by a simple method and does not use any other substance other than graphene and a salt containing a double bond, thereby enabling functionalization of graphene while exhibiting characteristics inherent to graphene.

Provided are a sulfide-based lithium-argyrodite ion superconductor containing multiple chalcogen elements and a method for preparing the same. More specifically, provided are a sulfide-based lithium-argyrodite ion superconductor containing multiple chalcogen elements and a method for preparing the same that are capable of significantly improving lithium ion conductivity by substituting a sulfur (S) element in a PS.sub.4.sup.3- tetrahedron with a chalcogen element such as a selenium (Se) element, other than the sulfur (S) element, while maintaining an argyrodite-type crystal structure of a sulfide-based solid electrolyte represented by Li.sub.6PS.sub.5Cl.