1. A method of adsorbing mercury from an industrial process emission, such as a coal-fired plant, comprising the step of contacting the emission with a mercury sorbent comprising a plurality of metal nanodots formed on chabazite.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the metal nanodot comprises a silver nanodot.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the chabazite has a gross plating morphology or exterior surface area of at least about 5 m2 per gram.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the chabazite has an exterior surface area of at least about 10 m2 per gram.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the chabazite has an exterior surface area of at least about 15 m2 per gram.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the industrial process emission comprises a flue gas.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the flue gas is the result of coal oxidation or combustion.
8. A mercury sorbent comprising a plurality of metal nanodots formed on chabazite.
9. The sorbent of claim 8 wherein the metal comprises silver.
10. The sorbent of claim 9 wherein the chabazite has a gross plating morphology or exterior surface area of at least about 5 m2 per gram.
11. The sorbent of claim 10 wherein the chabazite has an exterior surface area of at least about 10 m2 per gram.
12. The sorbent of claim 11 wherein the chabazite has an exterior surface area of at least about 15 m2 per gram.
13. The sorbent of claim 8 wherein the metal nanodots comprise surface-accessible metal nanodots, having a particle size less than about 100 nm.
14. The sorbent of claim 13 wherein the nanodots have a particle size less than about 50 nm.
15. The sorbent of claim 14 wherein the nanodots have a particle size less than about 30 nm.
16. The sorbent of claim 15 wherein the nanodots have a particle size less than about 20 nm.
17. The sorbent of claim 16 wherein the nanodots have a particle size less than about 10 nm.
18. The sorbent of claim 8 wherein the chabazite comprises mineral chabazite having a SiAl ratio of less than about 3.5.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:
a first substrate;
a second substrate;
a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and
an electrode group provided on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, and that applies an electric field to the liquid crystal layer,
wherein the liquid crystal layer contains at least one liquid crystalline compound, and at least one chiral dopant,
wherein one of the liquid crystalline compounds contained in the liquid crystal layer develops a blue phase liquid crystal, and
wherein the liquid crystal layer has a storage elastic modulus G\u2032 of 4,000 Pa or more at 25\xb0 C. and 1 Hz frequency.
2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein one of the liquid crystalline compounds contained in the liquid crystal layer has a TNI point (nematic-isotropic transition temperature) of 70\xb0 C. or more.
3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the liquid crystal layer contains a polymer polymerized from at least one polymerizable monomer.
4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein the liquid crystal layer contains the polymer in 10.0 mol % or less.
5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein the polymer is polymerized from at least two polymerizable monomers,
one of the polymerizable monomers having a solubility parameter value greater than a solubility parameter value of the liquid crystalline compound,
the other polymerizable monomer having a solubility parameter value less than the solubility parameter value of the liquid crystalline compound.
6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1,
wherein the liquid crystal layer contains a liquid crystalline compound that has a phenyl group, a cyano group, or a cyclic molecular structure within the molecular structure, and
wherein the chiral dopant is an isosorbide derivative, or a binaphthyl derivative.
7. A method for producing a liquid crystal display device that includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an electrode group provided on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, and that applies an electric field to the liquid crystal layer,
the liquid crystal layer containing at least one liquid crystalline compound, and at least one chiral dopant,
one of the liquid crystalline compounds contained in the liquid crystal layer developing a blue phase liquid crystal,
the method comprising the liquid crystal layer viscosity adjusting step of adjusting the storage elastic modulus G\u2032 of the liquid crystal layer to 4,000 Pa or more as measured at 25\xb0 C. and 1 Hz frequency.
8. The method according to claim 7,
wherein the liquid crystal layer contains a polymer polymerized from at least one polymerizable monomer, and
wherein the liquid crystal layer viscosity adjusting step adjusts the 25\xb0 C. and 1 Hz frequency storage elastic modulus G\u2032 of the liquid crystal layer to 4,000 Pa or more according to the degree of polymerization of the polymer.