Basf Se Corporation

Molecular Plasma Group Sa

Micronisers Pty Ltd

Raphael Dabbous

Peter Nesvadba

Olof Wallquist

Wolfgang Schrof

Elmar Poeselt

Gabriele Baisch

Claus Gabriel

Michelle Richert

Steffen Onclin

Daniel Mueller

Florian Richter

Simon Gramlich

Thomas Meier

Reinhold Oehrlein

Bert Verheyde

Guido Bilges

Birte Lahrmann

Rainer Ostermann

Vidura Nalin Jayaratne

Annick Vanhulsel

Rupert Konradi

Hartmut Romling

Murray Horton

Terence William Turney

Sebastien Villeneuve

Rainer Xalter

A polymer substrate having deposited on its surface a reaction product of a precursor material obtained or obtainable by a method for preparation of polymer, and to the use of the polymer having improved antibacterial properties and/or antiviral properties or of the polymer having improved antibacterial properties and/or antiviral properties obtained or obtainable by the method for medical applications, antibiofouling applications, hygiene applications, food industry applications, industrial or computer related applications, consumer goods applications and appliances, public and public transport applications, underwater, water sanitation or seawater applications.

Antimicrobial and/or antiviral polymer surfaces and methods for the preparation thereof

A method of manufacture of zinc monoglycerolate containing an incorporated modifier, and the product, the zinc monoglycerolate being in the form of agglomerates of crystallites, wherein the crystallite size based on the average coherence domain length is not more than 30 nm in the &#x3c;100&#x3e; direction, and not more than 60 nm in the &#x3c;011&#x3e; direction, as determined by the Scherrer equation via powder X-ray diffraction; and the aspect ratio computed by &#x3c;100&#x3e;/&#x3c;011&#x3e; coherent domain lengths is less than 0.65, preferably less than 0.56, in particular less than 0.44. Polymers containing this nucleating agent and methods for their production are also described. The zinc monoglycerolate is useful as a nucleating agent, and is very effective at low loading levels in polymers such as polypropylene.

Nucleating agents, methods for their production, and associated polymer compositions

The present invention relates to surface functionalized titanium dioxide nanoparticles, a method for its production, a coating composition, comprising the surface functionalized titanium dioxide nanoparticles and the use of the coating composition for coating holo-grams, wave guides and solar panels. Holograms are bright and visible from any angle, when printed with the coating composition, comprising the surface functionalized tita-nium dioxide nanoparticles.

Surface functionalized titanium dioxide nanoparticles

The present invention relates to a polyamide composition (PC) which comprises at least one polyamide (P) and at least one additive (A). The present invention further relates to the use of the polyamide composition (PC) in a selective laser sintering process, in an injection molding process, for producing molded articles and in an extrusion process.

Polyamide composition containing a polyamide and an additive

The present invention relates to a process for producing a composition (I) at least comprising a compact thermoplastic polyurethane (P1), comprising the providing of at least one compact thermoplastic polyurethane (P1) or a reaction mixture for production of a compact thermoplastic polyurethane (R-P1), the adding of at least one compound (N) that has a conjugated, nitrogen-containing aromatic structure as nucleating agent to the at least one thermoplastic polyurethane (P1) or to the reaction mixture for production of a compact thermoplastic polyurethane (R-P1), wherein the compound (N) is a solid; and the mixing of the nucleating agent and the thermoplastic polyurethane (P1) or the reaction mixture (R-P1) to obtain a composition (I). The nucleating agent is used here in an amount in the range from 0.01% by weight to 2.0% by weight, based on the thermoplastic polyurethane (P1) or the reaction mixture (R-P1). Further relates the present composition comprising at least one compact thermoplastic polyurethane and at least one compound (N) that has a conjugated, nitrogen-containing aromatic structure as nucleating agent, wherein the compound (N) is a solid, and the use of the compounds mentioned as nucleating agents for a compact thermoplastic polyurethane.

Nucleating agent for compact thermoplastic polyurethanes

The present invention relates to a process for improving the flow properties of a polymer melt formed from a thermoplastic polymer, the use of particular copolymeric additives to improve the flow properties of a polymer melt formed from a thermoplastic polymer and the use of said polymeric additives as processing aids.

Process for improving the flow of properties of polymer melts

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