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K. Kawahara, 4 1 Int. Zinc-bromine Battery Symp. Perth, Australia, Toyota Central R D Inc. Handout, Feb. 1987. 

Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc., Nagakute-cho, Aichi-gun, Aichi-ken, 480-11 Japan... 

Acknowledgements I would like to thank Professor M. Doi of Nagoya University for stimulating discussions. I am also very grateful to Y. Hirose and Dr. T. Kurauchi of Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, who helped me to fabricate biomimetic actuators. 

Pham Hoai Nam Maiti P Okamoto M Kotaka T Nakayama T Takada M Ohshima M Usuki A Hasegawa N Okamoto H Toyota Technological Institute Kyoto.University Toyota Central R D Laboratories Inc. 

Takeaki Taniguchi Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan Kenta UcHiBE Department of Systems Biomedicine, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan Osamu Watanabe Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., Naprakute, Aichi, Japan... 

H. Shinjoh, Toyota Central R D Labs., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192 Japan (1)... 

Toyota Central R D Labs., Inc., Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, Japan bInstitute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science and CREST, JST, Tohoku university, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan... 

The authors wish to thank Drs Yoshiaki Fukushima and Shinji Inagaki of Toyota Central R D Labs, Japan, for their valuable comments and for the kind provision of FSM-16. 

Since the advent of PCNs, many researchers have attempted to commercialize them for a variety of engineering applications. The first commercialized nanocomposite product, developed by Toyota Central was based on in-reactor processing of... 

H. Muraki, H. Sobukawa, M. Kimura and A. Isogai. Toyota Central R. D. Labs.,... 

Matsumoto, S., N. Miyoshi, M. Kimura, M. Ozawa and A. Isogai, 1988, Inventors, Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Japan. German Patent DE 3737419, issued May 19, 1988 (patent applied for November 4, 1987). 

Toyota Central RandD Labs. Inc.. Aichi 480-1192, Japan... 

Mechanical Properties Toyota Central Research Laboratories in Japan was the first to obtain significant mechanical improvement of a PA matrix by adding as little as about 2 wt% of montmorillonite (MMT) [Kojima et ah, 1993 Usuki et ah, 1993 Okada and Usuki, 2006], Improvement in the mechanical properties on the vitreous and rubbery plateau by layered silicate nanoparticles depends on several factors, including clay surface modification, polymer chemistry, processing method, level of exfoliation, and clay orientation. In this section we present an overview of the influence of these factors on the dynamic mechanical properties of PLSN. 

Taniguchi T, Morimoto T, Kawakado M (2001) JP 2001/213987A2 (Toyota Central Research Development Laboratory Inc)... 

In 1998, Ube Industries, Ltd. discovered that pentafluorobenzoates, such as methyl pentafluorobenzoate (62), can be used as additives in small quantities [92], Also, in 1999, Toyota Central R D Labs found that fluorinated benzoates, such as methyl 2,6-difluorobenzoate (63), can be used as additives in small quantities [93], and in 2002, Ube Industries, Ltd. found that pentafluorophenol compounds, such as pentafluorophenyl methanesulfonate (64) and methyl pentafluorophenyl carbonate (65), can be used as additives in small quantities [94]. 

Several variable-light transmission electrochromic devices based on pANI with a counter-electrode that is electrochromic in the complementary mode have been developed. The device tested at Toyota Central R D Labs [27]... 

The nanocomposite concept appears to have its origin in pioneering research conducted in Japan by Unitika, Ltd. in the 1970s [1] and separatdy by Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in the late 1980s [2]. The theory was that if nanodays could be fully dispersed or exfohated to high aspect ratio platelets into polymers at relatively low levels (2-5 wt%), a number of mechanical and barrier properties would be enhanced. The original work at both Unitika and Toyota CRDL... 

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