Abstract: A modified flame-spraying method for producing self-cleaning surfaces by a dry coating process penetrates particles in a hot air or flame stream into the softened substrate surface. The process can be applied to textiles and other articles having plastic surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to separators for lithium batteries and to a process for producing them, and also to their use. The separators of the invention for lithium batteries, based on a sheetlike flexible substrate provided with a plurality of openings and having a porous inorganic electrically insulating coating on and in said substrate, said coating closing the openings in the substrate, the material of the substrate being selected from woven or non-woven electrically nonconductive polymeric fibers and the inorganic electrically conductive coating comprising metal oxide particles, are notable for the fact that the separators have lithium ion conducting properties without the presence of an electrolyte. After filling them with an additional lithium ion conducting electrolyte, the resulting ion conduction is much higher than in the case of conventional combinations of non-lithium ion conducting separators and electrolyte.

Abstract: A light-scattering material includes a coating with self-cleaning properties on a transparent substrate. Particles randomly distributed in and on the coating roughen the coating and provide a surface structure that scatters light. The light-scattering material is useful in providing indirect illumination, particularly using daylight. The coating can have antimicrobial properties. The light-scattering material can require significantly less maintenance than conventional light-scattering materials.

Abstract: A process for producing self-cleaning surfaces by a dry coating process. The process produces self-cleaning surfaces that have elevations formed by particles applied dry to the surface by a modified flame-spraying process. The process can equip textiles and other articles, in particular those having plastic surfaces, with self-cleaning properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sub-20 nm nanofiller for use in a matrix material, to the matrix resulting therefrom, to a process for preparing said matrix, and to the use of said nanofiller, the nanofiller comprising functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silicon-oxygen cluster units of the formula [(RaXbSiO1.5)m(RcXdSiO)n(ReXfSi2.

Abstract: A self-cleaning or lotus-effect surface that has antimicrobial properties, commercial products comprising such a surface, and uses thereof. A process for the production of an antimicrobial self-cleaning or lotus-effect surface in which one or more antimicrobial polymer(s) is secured to a surface-coating system for securing structure-formers to generate a self-cleaning surface. This method lastingly binds antimicrobial polymers to the self-cleaning surface. Commercial products comprising an antimicrobial self-cleaning or lotus-effect surface.

Abstract: A light-scattering material includes a coating with self-cleaning properties on a transparent substrate. Particles randomly distributed in and on the coating roughen the coating and provide a surface structure that scatters light. The light-scattering material is useful in providing indirect illumination, particularly using daylight. The coating can have antimicrobial properties. The light-scattering material can require significantly less maintenance than conventional light-scattering materials.

Abstract: A process for producing extraction-resistant polymer coatings on surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to microbicidal wallcoverings and methods of making the same.

Abstract: A surface structure having protuberances with at least one protuberance configured as a three-dimensional rotationally symmetric shape. The surface structure can be included as surfaces on containers, pipettes, films, semifinished products, or reaction vessels.