Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler-Benz Ag

Wacker-Chemie Gmbh

Aeg Elektronische Rohren Gmbh

Michael Gailberger

Andreas Stohr

Fritz Dannenhauer

Katja Strelzyk

Karl Holdik

Peter Strohriegl

Anne Barth

Petra Grundig

Erik Grosse

Volkmar Vill

Hans R Kricheldorf

Fritz Mezger

Anja Keller

Thomas Gruber

Mona Ferguson

Christoph Mueller-Rees

Gerhard Gassler

Georg Meichsner

Matthias Berghahn

Mihai Gurau

Gunter Maetze

Reinhold Berkau

Kathrin Kuerschner

Self-coating or self-layering lacquer systems from at least two different resins, oligomers, or polymers, which are emulsifiable or dispersible in water, have different surface tensions, and form self-layering phases. After the application, the phases separate into the components of the formulation.

Coating composition for forming self-layering or self-coating lacquer systems

Compounds and their application as well as a method of producing liquid crystalline polymers therefrom

A compound for use as a nematic phase in cholesteric liquid polymers of the general formula C&mdash;A,, and a production process.

Compounds, process for their manufacture, as well as a process for manufacturing liquid-crystalline polymers using these compounds

The invention relates to platelet-shaped interference pigments for effect paints for painting objects of daily use, especially vehicle bodies, with the interference pigments including liquid crystal polymers (LCP) with main and/or side groups&mdash;mesogens&mdash;which are arranged at least approximately chirally-nematically or the like. In order to be able to paint different colored backgrounds in a covering fashion using the transparent interference pigments, the interference pigments are built up in several layers and also have at least one and preferably two interfering layer(s) of liquid crystal polymers and even of a single, preferably centrally located, light-absorbent layer, with the light-absorbent layer absorbing at least a portion of the visible light spectrum. Advantageously the light-absorbent layer can absorb light in the entire visible light spectrum, in other words appear black. It is also possible for it to be made light-absorbent within those partial areas of the visible light spectrum that lie outside one of the colors of the interference pigments. A method is also disclosed for manufacturing the multilayer interference pigments.

Method for producing platelet-shaped interference pigments

The invention relates to compounds with the general formula Y.sup.1 --A.sup.1 --M.sup.1 --A.sup.2 --Y.sup.2 wherein

Compounds and their application as well as a method of producing liquid

The invention relates to platelet-shaped interference pigments for effect paints for painting objects of daily use, especially vehicle bodies, with the interference pigments including liquid crystal polymers (LCP) with main and/or side groups--mesogens--which are arranged at least approximately chirally-nematically or the like. In order to be able to paint different colored backgrounds in a covering fashion using the transparent interference pigments, the interference pigments are built up in several layers and also have at least one and preferably two interfering layer(s) of liquid crystal polymers and even of a single, preferably centrally located, light-absorbent layer, with the light-absorbent layer absorbing at least a portion of the visible light spectrum. Advantageously the light-absorbent layer can absorb light in the entire visible light spectrum, in other words appear black. It is also possible for it to be made light-absorbent within those partial areas of the visible light spectrum that lie outside one of the colors of the interference pigments. A method is also disclosed for manufacturing the multilayer interference pigments.

Interference pigments for effect paint, paint manufactured therefrom,

A process for preparing a phosphor layer of a cathode ray tube. To prepare a phosphor layer located on the display screen rear side of the cathode ray tube, the display screen rear side is first coated with an electrically conductive electrode layer consisting of electrically conductive polymers; a solution containing the phosphors or their precursors as well as a solution containing an electrolyte are deposited on the electrode layer; an electric field is applied between the electrode layer and the solution; and the phosphors are electrophoretically deposited on the electrode layer to form the phosphor layer. Since polymers with an evaporation temperature below the destruction temperature of the phosphors are selected, the electrode layer can subsequently be removed by evaporating the polymers.

Process for preparing a phosphor layer of a cathode ray tube

Effect coating material and effect coating system, especially for

A coating material and coating process for color coating articles, such as motor vehicle bodies, and coated articles produced therewith. The coating contains a paint vehicle composed of at least one curable liquid-crystal polymer (LCP), the colored appearance of the coating being determined by mesogens of the paint vehicle which exhibit an interference effect, the mesogens automatically aligning themselves substantially perpendicular to the surface of the article during application of the coating material and adopting a chiral-nematic configuration in which they form a helix having a pitch length which can be influenced by heat within a specified temperature range. The liquid-crystal polymers are such that they are not crosslinked by heat and also such that the temperature level at which the pitch length of the helix can be influenced is above the temperature at which the color coated article is used. By heating an applied but uncrosslinked coating to a temperature within the specified range, the color of the coating can be adjusted in situ to obtain a desired interference color effect after the coating has been applied to the article, and the heat-adjusted color effect can thereafter be stabilized by rapid cooling and/or by UV irradiation of the coat. The color-determining substance of the paint vehicle and the essential substance of the paint vehicle itself are identical and form a coherent homogeneous layer of a cured liquid-crystal polymer.

Coating composition with thermally-influenced color

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Michael Gailberger