Schott Glaswerke

Agxx Intellectual Property Holding Gmbh

Freie Universitat Berlin

Fu Berlin

Largentec Gmbh

Uwe Landau

Rainer Haag

Sigrid Herrmann

Roland Kammel

Thomas Lisowsky

Karlheinz Esser

Andreas Specht

Gunther Schulz

Christian Keidel

Klaus-Dieter Mehler

Carsten Meyer

Olaf Wagner

Ayad Abul-Ella

Michael Lauenroth

Teodora Valkova

Michal Radowski

Michael KRÄMER

The invention relates to the production and use of novel bioactive devices and metallic coatings for example for sterilizing, disinfecting, and decontaminating water or aqueous solutions. The known oligodynamic effect of silver for reducing the amount of germs is thereby improved and increased by combining silver with ruthenium and a vitamin or derivative thereof. The novel properties of these bioactive metal surfaces lead to faster and more efficient killing of microorganisms. Simultaneously, these novel bioactive metal surfaces prevent infestation by microorganisms and attachment or permanent deposition of problematic biomolecules such as for example DNA, RNA, or proteins. A self-cleaning surface is thus obtained, which very quickly and efficiently and over extended periods of time sterilizes water and aqueous solutions when they come in contact with said surface.

Bioactive, ruthenium-containing coating and device

The electrolytic process for dissolving platinum, platinum metal impurities and/or platinum metal alloys, in particular with contents of Rh, Pd, Ir, Au and Ag, in 6 to 8N aqueous hydrochloric acid is characterized by a dissolution process that takes place in an electrolysis cell subdivided by a cation exchanger membrane into an anode and cathode compartment containing anode and cathode respectively, and, if appropriate, in the presence of platinum metal salts or platinum metal acids, at temperatures between 50.degree. and 110.degree. C., under potentiostatic or voltage-controlled conditions in the range of 2.5 V to 8 V and under a current density of 0.3 to 7.0 A/dm.sup.2. The potential across the anode and the cathode is controlled so that chlorine gas is generated and the anode is contacted with the aqueous hydrochloric acid solution and the chlorine gas in impulse-form.

Electrolytic process for dissolving platinum, platinum metal impurities

The electrolytic process for obtaining platinum of high purity from concentrated hydrochloric acid solutions of a platinum alloy containing Rh, Ir and/or Pd proceeds with simultaneous depletion of noble and base metal impurities from the solution. This electrolysis process takes place in an electrolysis cell having an anode and cathode and subdivided by a teflon cation exchanger membrane under potentiostatic or, voltage-controlled conditions with a potential applied across the anode and cathode of 8 V to 16 V, preferably 11.5 to 12 V, at a current density of 12.5 to 37.5 A/dm.sup.2, preferably 22.5 to 35 A/dm.sup.2, to form a purified platinum-containing solution from which the high purity platinum can be obtained and also platinum alloy metal component deposits on the anode and cathode. The concentrated hydrochloric acid solution of the platinum alloy can have a platinum alloy content of 50 to 700 g/l and total metal impurities of not greater than 5000 ppm.

Electrolytic process for extracting high purity platinum from platinum

The electrolytic process for obtaining platinum of high purity from a concentrated hydrochloric acid solution of contaminated platinum containing base and noble metal impurities includes electrolyzing the hydrochloric acid solution containing the contaminated platinum in an electrolysis cell subdivided by a cation exchanger membrane under potentiostatic or voltage-controlled conditions with a voltage of 2.5 V to 8 V applied across the anode and cathode under a current density of 0.3 to 12.5 A/dm.sup.2 so as to form a refined platinum-containing solution and a platinum alloy metal deposit. The concentrated hydrochloric acid solutions used in the process can have a contaminated platinum content of 50 to 700 g/l and total metal impurities of .ltoreq.5000 ppm. In contrast to the known prior art processes, the process according to the invention operates with minimal requirements in terms of safety technology and equipment, causes a minimal environmental burden and is far less time-consuming and more economical.

Electrolytic process for obtaining high purity platinum from

A process for electrolytic production of fine-grained, single-phase, metallic alloy powders, especially powders of intermetallic compounds as well as noble metal alloy powders, is described in which powdery metallic precipitates are galvanically produced on the cathode from an electrolytic precipitating bath known in the art, which contains in solution the metals to be precipitated, under electrolysis conditions causing a powder precipitation known in the art. For the production of alloy powders with defined properties, it is determined, first in preliminary tests by gradual increase of the cathode potential with otherwise constant process parameters, the minimum cathode potential at which single-phase alloy powders result and then the powder precipitation is potentiostatically performed in a cathode potential at or above the minimum for the single-phase alloy precipitation.

Electrolytic process for the production of fine-grained, single-phase

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