The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

Belenos Clean Power Holding Ag

Vhf Technologies Sa

Belanos Clean Power Holding Ag

Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (epfl) Epfl-tto

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Yves Leterrier

Young-Ho Cho

Jan-Anders Manson

Michael Stalder

Pascal Heck

Jericho Lynn Moll

Jean-Baptiste Leran

Kurosh Sohi

Fredy Zuellig

Pierre Fayet

Holger Frauenrath

Gil Rochat

Alexandre Closset

Christopher Plummer

Guillaume Cuvillier

Fabiane Oliveira

Jan-Anders Månson

Bandeep Singh

Marlene Rodlert

Alain Bonnebault

Judith Waller

Julien Verrey

Paul Velut

Federico Galliano

Bjoern Schulte

Stephen Schrettl

Jan-Anders Edvin Manson

Frédy Züllig

Lars Schmidt

Young-Hyun Jin

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a coating comprising at least one coating layer on a substrate, the method comprising the steps of a. providing monomers of the type R&#x2014;(N)-(L)-(C&#x2550;C)-(L')-(N&#x2032;)&#x2014;R&#x2032;, wherein R is a head moiety, R&#x2032; is a tail moiety, (C&#x2261;C)is an oligoyne moiety, L and L&#x2032; are linker moieties, N and N&#x2032; independently are branched or unbranched optionally substituted C-Calkyl moieties optionally containing 1 to 5 heteroatoms, x, m, o, and y are independently 0 or 1, n is 4 to 12, and wherein the head moiety allows for an interaction with the surface of the substrate; b. bringing the monomers into contact with the substrate wherein the interaction of the head moieties of the monomers with the surface of the substrate induces at least a part of the monomers to align in a defined manner thereby forming a film on the surface and bringing the oligoyne moieties of the monomers into close contact with each other; c. inducing a reaction between oligoyne moieties by providing an external stimulus so as to at least partially cross-link the aligned monomers, thereby forming a coating layer on the substrate. The invention further relates to a coating obtainable according to the method of the invention, the use of a coating obtainable according to the method of the invention, a substrate comprising a coating obtainable according to the invention and the use of solid substrate. The invention further relates to a method for the synthesis of the monomers according to the invention.

Method for the preparation of a coating comprising oligomeric alkynes

The present invention relates to an electrochemical cell, comprising:

Electrochemical cell

An electrochemical cell, including: a first current collector including a first collecting section in contact with a first electrode and including a first connecting section; a second current collector overlapping with the first current collector and including a second collecting section in contact with a second electrode and including a second connecting section; wherein the first and second current collectors are mutually connected via their first and second connecting sections and a distance between the first and second connecting sections is equal to or smaller than 50% of the distance between the first and the second collecting sections.

According to the present invention there is provided a photovoltaic element, comprising a photovoltaic laminate; a structural substrate; wherein the photovoltaic element further comprises a plurality of hairs which are arranged to improve adhesion between said photovoltaic laminate and said structural substrate. There is also provided an intermediate product which is used in the manufacture of such a photovoltaic element and a method of manufacturing such a photovoltaic element.

Photovoltaic element

A high pressure media storage vessel including a wall made of at least one layer with barrier and piezoelectric properties.

Self-monitoring composite vessel for high pressure media

A barrier film for packaging food or beverage comprises a polymer base film, and a barrier layer comprising an inorganic oxide applied onto the base film by vapor deposition. The inorganic oxide layer is further coated with a healing layer of a crosslinked organopolysiloxane which is covalently bound to the inorganic layer. Other aspects disclosed here involve a multilayer packaging laminate comprised of the barrier film, and a method of manufacturing the barrier film and packaging containers manufactured from the film.

Packaging laminate, method for manufacturing of the packaging laminate and packaging container produced there from

The piezoelectric and barrier liner for a high-pressure storage vessel is made out of PVDF-TrFE copolymer and the amount of crystallinity in the liner material is over 30%, preferably 35% at least.

Method for obtaining a piezoelectric liner for a high pressure storage vessel

Intercalates and exfoliates formed from layered materials and dendritic polymers are disclosed, together with the uses of these materials, e.g. in producing composite materials. The dispersion of layered materials in a dendritic polymer matrix (hyperbranched polymers, star shaped polymers or star branched polymers) or has not been disclosed in the prior art. The high number of end-groups per molecule of dendritic polymer combined with their unique globular architectures leads to large intergallery spacings when intercalated in layered silicates and particularly facile exfoliation in spite of the high molar mass of the dendritic polymer. The excellent processability and potential high reactivity of dendritic polymers makes them extremely promising for thermoset applications, and coatings.

Composites and methods for their production

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Yves Leterrier