Patents by Inventor Klaus Mullen

Klaus Mullen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110268647
    Abstract: Two-dimensional nanomaterials are produced in a process comprising the steps of (a) providing (a1) a mixture comprising graphene oxide particles, water and at least one cationic surfactant and/or nonionic surfactant or (a2) a mixture comprising graphene particles, at least one solvent useful for solution exfoliation of graphite and at least one cationic surfactant and/or nonionic surfactant, (b) adding at least one sol precursor compound to the mixture from step (a), (c) reacting the mixture from step (b) in a sol/gel process to form gel from the at least one sol precursor compound on the graphene oxide particles or, respectively, the graphene particles, (d) removing the at least one surfactant, and (e) optionally heating the gel-coated graphene oxide particles for at least 1 min to at least 500° C. under inert gas atmosphere to reduce the graphene oxide to graphene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicants: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerd. der Wisse. e.V., BASF SE
    Inventors: Sorin IVANOVICI, Shubin YANG, Xinliang FENG, Klaus MÜLLEN
  • Publication number: 20110168946
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel polythiophene-polyanion complexes which are soluble or dispersible in nonpolar organic solvents, and to the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: H.C. Starck Clevios GMBH
    Inventors: Wilfried Loevenich, Stephan Kirchmeyer, Andreas Elschner, Knud Reuler, Klaus Müllen, Markus Klapper, Kavin Müller
  • Publication number: 20110158906
    Abstract: The present invention provides a micelle comprising an amphiphilic block copolymer, said amphiphilic block copolymer consisting of (a) a hydrophobic polymer attached to the 5? end of a first nucleic acid molecule, wherein said first nucleic acid molecule is hybridized with a second nucleic acid molecule, wherein a targeting unit capable of selectively binding to a specific cell type and/or tissue is attached to the 5? end of said second nucleic acid molecule; and/or (b) a hydrophobic polymer attached to the 3? end of a first nucleic acid molecule, wherein said first nucleic acid molecule is hybridized with a second nucleic acid molecule, wherein a targeting unit capable of selectively binding to a specific cell type and/or tissue is attached to the 3? end of said second nucleic acid molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
    Inventors: Klaus Müllen, Fikri E. Alemdaroglu, Andreas Herrmann, N. Ceren Alemdaroglu, Peter Langguth
  • Patent number: 7968872
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers comprising repeating unit(s) of the formula (I), and their use in electronic devices. The polymers according to the invention have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high charge carrier mobilities and high temperature stability of the emission color are observed, if the polymers according to the invention are used in polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schäfer, Klaus Müllen, Mathieu G. R. Turbiez, Martin Baumgarten
  • Publication number: 20110152491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers comprising repeating unit(s) of the formula (I), and their use in electronic devices. The polymers according to the invention have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high charge carrier mobilities and high temperature stability of the emission color are observed, if the polymers according to the invention are used in polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Shin-Ichiro Kawano, Martin Baumgarten, Klaus Mullen, Peter Murer, Thomas Schafer, Moussa Saleh
  • Publication number: 20110020944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for fast and reliable online detection of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), with at least three differently coated HFF quartz crystal oscillator sensors (29).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicants: RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHILMS-UNIVERSITÄT BONN, MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÕRDERUNG DER WISSENSC
    Inventors: Siegfried R. Waldvogel, Jürgen Lörgen, Daniel Lubczyk, Klaus Müllen, Roland Bauer
  • Publication number: 20100324293
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel perylenetetracarboxylic acid bisimide derivatives with improved performance properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Christopher Kohl, Jianqiang Qu, Klaus Müllen
  • Patent number: 7799919
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel perylenetetracarboxdiimide derivatives with improved performance properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Christopher Kohl, Jianqiang Qu, Klaus Müllen
  • Patent number: 7795432
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel perylenetetracarboxylic acid bisimide derivatives with improved performance properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Christopher Kohl, Jianqiang Qu, Klaus Müllen
  • Publication number: 20100187482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optically transparent conductive carbon-based film which is suitable for use as an electrode in optoelectronic devices etc. Further, the invention relates to a process for the production of the transparent conductive carbon film and the use thereof in electronic devices. Organic solar cells using transparent conductive carbon film as electrode display comparable performance with cells using ITO. These carbon films show high thermal and chemical stability, ultra-smooth surface, and good adhesion to substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSC
    Inventors: Klaus Mullen, Xuan Wang, Linjie Zhi
  • Publication number: 20090203866
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers comprising repeating unit(s) of the formula (I), and their use in electronic devices. The polymers according to the invention have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high charge carrier mobilities and high temperature stability of the emission color are observed, if the polymers according to the invention are used in polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Schafer, Klaus Müllen, Mathieu G.R. Turbiez, Martin Baumgarten
  • Publication number: 20090124732
    Abstract: Rylenetetracarboximides of the general formula I in which the variables are each defined as follows: R, R? are each independently hydrogen; optionally substituted C1-C30-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl, aryl or hetaryl; R1 is hydrogen or C1-C6-alkyl; R2, R3 are each independently hydrogen; optionally substituted C1-C18-alkyl, aryl or hetaryl; A is a 5- to 9-membered ring which is bonded via a nitrogen atom and whose carbon chain may be interrupted by one or more —O—, —S—, —NR1—, —CO— and/or —SO2— moieties, to which one or two unsaturated or saturated 4- to 8-membered rings may be fused, whose carbon chain may likewise be interrupted by these moieties and/or —N?, and the overall ring system may be mono- or polysubstituted, and where the A radicals may be the same or different when m>1; X is chlorine or bromine, and the X radicals may be the same or different when x>1; Z is optionally substituted C3-C20-alkyl, C3-C20-alken-2-yl, C3-C20-alkyn-2-yl, aryloxy, arylthio, hetaryloxy or hetarylthio, where the Z rad
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2005
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Konemann, Jianqiang Qu, Klaus Mullen
  • Publication number: 20090023937
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a perylene-3,4-dicarboxylic anhydride, substituted in the 9-position, of the general formula III wherein Z is bromine or cyano, and processes for preparing 9-bromoperylene-3,4-dicarboxylic anhydride and 9-cyanoperylene-3,4-dicarboxylic anhydride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicants: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Foerd Der Wissen. E.V.
    Inventors: Arno Bohm, Peter Blaschka, Willi Helfer, Dirk Hammel, Peter Schlichting, Klaus Mullen
  • Publication number: 20080269482
    Abstract: Use of rylene derivatives I with the following definition of the variables: X together both —COOM; Y a radical -L-NR1R2 ??(y1) -L-Z-R3 ??(y2) the other radical hydrogen; together both hydrogen; R is optionally substituted (het)aryloxy, (het)arylthio; P is —NR1R2; B is alkylene; optionally substituted phenylene; combinations thereof; A is —COOM; —SO3M; —PO3M2; D is optionally substituted phenylene, naphthylene, pyridylene; M is hydrogen; alkali metal cation; [NR5]4+; L is a chemical bond; optionally indirectly bonded, optionally substituted (het)arylene radical; R1, R2 are optionally substituted (cyclo)alkyl, (het)aryl; together optionally substituted ring comprising the nitrogen atom; Z is —O—; —S—; R3 is optionally substituted alkyl, (het)aryl; R? is hydrogen; optionally substituted (cyclo)alkyl, (het)aryl; R5 is hydrogen; optionally substituted alkyl (het)aryl; m is 0, 1, 2; n, p m=0: 0, 2, 4 where: n+p=2, 4, if appropriate 0; m=1: 0, 2, 4 where: n+p=0, 2, 4; m=2: 0, 4,
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicants: BASF SE, MAX-PLANCK-GESEL.ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSEN. E.V.
    Inventors: Neil Gregory Pschirer, Felix Eickemeyer, Jan Schoneboom, Jianqiang Qu, Martin Konemann, Klaus Mullen, Chen Li, Andreas Herrmann, Peter Erk, Gero Nordmann, Alfred Kuhn, Anders Hagfeldt, Tomas Edvinsson
  • Publication number: 20080188660
    Abstract: Rylenetetracarboximides of the general formula I in which the variables are defined as follows: R are identical or different radicals: hydrogen; alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or hetaryl, each substituted if desired; R? are identical or different radicals: hydrogen; aryloxy, arylthio, hetaryloxy or hetarylthio, each substituted if desired; n is 1 or 2, and also a process for preparing the rylenetetracarboximides I and their use for coloring high molecular weight organic and inorganic materials, for preparing aqueous polymer dispersions which absorb in the near infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, for producing markings and inscriptions which absorb infrared light and are invisible to the human eye, as infrared absorbers for heat management, as IR laser beam-absorbing materials in fusion treatment of plastics parts, and also as active components in photovoltaics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicants: BASF A.ktiengesellschaft, MAX-PLANCK-CESELLSCHAFT ZUR
    Inventors: Neil Gregory Pschirer, Christopher Kohl, Klaus Mullen
  • Publication number: 20070191583
    Abstract: A device having at least one layer including poly(p-phenylene)s based on 3,6-conjugated and 2,7-conjugated phenanthrene moietie having been synthesized by polycondensation using Ni(0)-mediated Yamamoto-type cross coupling are described as the charge transport layer or as the host for a dopant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Josemon Jacob, Klaus Mullen
  • Patent number: 7253004
    Abstract: The invention relates to a chemical sensor comprising a sensor film formed of a nanoparticle network in which the nanoparticles are interlinked by functionalized dendrimer molecules. The dendrimers support an efficient uptake of analyte molecules by the film material and therefore enable a high sensitivity of the sensor. In addition, the chemical nature of the dendrimers strongly determines the chemical selectivity of the sensor device. By cross-linking the components of the sensitive material the sensor displays a good mechanical stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Vossmeyer, Akio Yasuda, Roland E. Bauer, Klaus Müllen
  • Publication number: 20070155968
    Abstract: A process for preparing terylene-3,4:11,12-tetracarboximides I where the variables are each defined as follows: R, R? are each independently hydrogen; if desired substituted alkyl or cycloalkyl; R1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R2 is hydrogen; alkyl; if desired substituted aryl or hetaryl, by reacting a perylene-3,4-dicarboximide II in the presence of a base-stable, high-boiling organic solvent and of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal base, with a naphthalene-1,8-dicarboximide III in which X is hydrogen, bromine or chlorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicants: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, MAX-PLANCK-GESEL, ZUR FOREDERUNG DER WISSEN. E.V.
    Inventors: Martin Konemann, Arno Bohm, Willi Helfer, Jurgen Romeis, Jianqiang Qu, Klaus Mullen
  • Publication number: 20070043218
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel perylenetetracarboxylic acid bisimide derivatives with improved performance properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Kohl, Jianqiang Qu, Klaus Mullen
  • Publication number: 20070004919
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel perylenetetracarboxdiimide derivatives with improved performance properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Kohl, Jianqiang Qu, Klaus Mullen