Abstract: Methods for the deposition of thin films comprising at least preparing a solution containing at least one transition metal oxide powder in a solvent, continuously stirring said solution in order to form a sol, and using said sol in the form of said transition metal oxide film, wherein the powder is subjected to a preliminary preparation step.

Abstract: A method produces thin films. The method includes preparing a solution containing transition metal oxide precursors, a chelating agent, and a polar organic solvent. The solution is agitated in order to form a sol. The sol is used in the form of the transition metal oxide film. The chelating agent is selected from among di- or tri-aliphatic carboxylic acids, or salts or mixtures thereof. The polar organic solvent has a boiling temperature at atmospheric pressure of less than 150° C.

Abstract: A method produces thin films. The method includes preparing a solution containing transition metal oxide precursors, a chelating agent, and a polar organic solvent. The solution is agitated to form a sol. The sol is used in the form of the transition metal oxide film. The chelating agent is selected from among di- or tri-aliphatic carboxylic acids, or salts or mixtures thereof. The polar organic solvent has a boiling temperature at atmospheric pressure of less than 150° C.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a composite material comprising a functionalization of the substrate, which comprises treatment of said substrate with at least one first alcoholic solvent, functionalization of a first powder and formation of a first colloidal sol of said functionalized first powder in a second solvent, at least one application of a layer of said first colloidal sol of said first powder to the substrate, drying of said layer of said first colloidal sol and formation of a layer of first coating formed by said first colloidal sol, adherent to said substrate, by heating at a temperature above 50° C. and below 500° C.

Abstract: A process for modifying an unmodified clay, in particular a montmorillonite type clay, is characterized in that the clay is intimately mixed with an organomodifier selected from quaternary ammonium salts, siliconated ammonium compounds, highly fluorinated ammonium compounds, phosphonium salts, sulphonium salts, precursors of said salts and mixtures of at least two of said compounds, in the presence of carbon dioxide under pressure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing nanocomposite aliphatic polyester consisting of the mixing of a nanofiller in at least one monomer that can form an aliphatic polyester and the intercalative polymerisation of the mixture obtained in the presence of a supercritical fluid.

Abstract: The invention relates to an elastomer/reinforcing filler composite in which said elastomer contains a dispersion therein of said reinforcing filler wherein said composite is prepared by forming said filler reinforcement in situ within the elastomer host. Such in-situ formation of reinforcement filler is created by a condensation reaction of a filler precursor within a solvent solution of a diene hydrocarbon based elastomer and with the aid of a phase transfer agent and a condensation reaction promoter. The invention further relates to a tire having at least one component comprised of the resulting elastomer/filler composite. The invention includes a rubber composition of at least two elastomers wherein one of said elastomers is a said pre-formed composite of said elastomer/filler reinforcement. A tire having a component of such rubber composition, particularly a tire tread, is specifically contemplated.

Abstract: A film of a composite material is deposited by electropolymerization onto electrically conductive surface. A mixture comprising a monomer, a substance forming a dopant, a supporting electrolyte and a solvent is subjected to electrolysis in which the conductive surface to be coated is used as either cathode or anode. The cathode or anode is polarized to a potential between the electron transfer between the electrically conductive surface and the monomer. Prior to electrolysis, a solution is made from the mixture containing the substance forming a dopant either as anion, cation, molecule, and/or as undissociated complex.

Abstract: A process for depositing by electropolymerization an organic film onto an electrically conductive surface, wherein use is made of a mixture comprising (a) at least one monomer suited for forming a polymer onto said surface, (b) at least one material which can be linked to said polymer, (c) a supporting electrolyte and (d) a solvent, said process comprising the use, as material to be linked to said polymer, of a reactive substance which can react chemically with the growing polymeric chains formed starting from the monomer.