Abstract: The invention relates to a metal particle sol, which comprises silver nanoparticles that are doped with a metal or a metal compound selected from the group of metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum, preferably ruthenium, to a method for producing such a sol and to its use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for esterifying free fatty acids in vegetable and animal fat with alcohols over heterogeneous acidic ion exchange resin catalysts at temperatures of 60 to 120° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing diphenylcarbonate while using a catalyst composition comprising ionic fluids.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a system, comprising bacteriophages and particles comprising active agents, in which a first additional peptide is fused to proteins of the bacteriophage, the first additional peptide adheres to the surface of the particle and furthermore a second additional peptide is fused to proteins of the bacteriophage. The second additional peptide can adhere on substrate surfaces. The present invention furthermore concerns the use of the system for delayed release of active agents and also a method for production of the system. The present invention furthermore concerns a method for the selection of phage species from a combinatorial phage population.

Abstract: Sampling valve with which samples containing mechanically sensitive material are removed in a sterile manner from a bioreactor, and process analysis system with analysis stations, in particular chromatography systems, biosensors and cell determination devices, permitting automated, sterile removal of a sample from a bioreactor and gentle transport of the sample, containing mechanically sensitive material, in particular cells, to the analysis station.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a system, comprising bacteriophages and particles comprising active agents, in which a first additional peptide is fused to proteins of the bacteriophage, the first additional peptide adheres to the surface of the particle and furthermore a second additional peptide is fused to proteins of the bacteriophage. The second additional peptide can adhere on substrate surfaces. The present invention furthermore concerns the use of the system for delayed release of active agents and also a method for production of the system. The present invention furthermore concerns a method for the selection of phage species from a combinatorial phage population.

Abstract: The present invention is based on a process for oligothiophene synthesis at elevated temperatures and low catalyst concentrations.

Abstract: Process for hydrogenating organic compounds in the gas phase in the presence of a catalyst comprising a nanoparticulate palladium cluster and a gas- and liquid-permeable shell comprising zirconium oxide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for etching carbon fibers, in particular carbon nanofibers and to the carbon nanofibers obtainable by this method, and the use thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for developing a biomarker for the prognosis of the result of a therapeutical treatment based on data obtained in clinical studies, data remaining unchanged by therapy being subdivided into diagnostic and genomic parameters and the marker being defined by a combination of parameters. The method according to the invention is characterized by specifying the maximum number of parameters for defining the marker and thus the maximum complexity of the system from the beginning and by carrying out the search for defining parameters by sequential combination of clinical parameters (=z parameters) and/or genomic parameters (=x parameters).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the aeration of liquid media by tube aeration, special tube modules contained therein and the use of a device for the aeration of liquid media.

Abstract: The invention relates to a new co-crystal of 4-{[(6-chloropyrid-3-yl)methyl](2,2-difluoroethyl)amino} furan-2(5H)-one with benzoic acid, to processes for the preparation thereof and use thereof.

Abstract: The flame ionization detector, which comprises a supply and an ignition device (7) for the combustible gas, a supply for the sample gas, a combustion chamber (4) in which the sample gas is ionized by the flame, and electrodes (8, 1) to which a voltage is applied in order to generate and measure the ion current, is distinguished in that it is constructed as an integrated planar system of at least three parallel platelet-like substrates (1, 2, 3) which are connected to one another and are processed by microsystem technology methods, with a central substrate (1) comprising nozzles (5, 6) for the gases and the ignition device (7) and a recess which forms a part of the combustion chamber (4), is completed by recesses in the neighboring substrates (2, 3) and is essentially closed together with the nozzle region by these substrates (2, 3), and the neighboring substrates (2, 3) comprise supply channels (10, 11) for the gases.

Abstract: Continuous method for the esterification of free fatty acids in plant and animal fats with alcohols using a heterogenic acid catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous process for preparing hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylates, more particularly those hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylates which have more than one (meth)acrylate group per molecule.

Abstract: The invention relates to a new co-crystal of 4-{[(6-chloropyrid-3-yl)methyl](2,2-difluoroethyl)amino}furan-2(5H)-one with oxalic acid, and also to processes for preparation thereof and use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing graphene solutions by means of alkali metal salts, to graphene solutions, to processes for preparing graphene alkali metal salts, to graphene alkali metal salts and to graphene composite materials and to processes for producing the graphene composite materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing volatile compounds from sparingly volatile fluids by means of rectification using an auxiliary and also to separation methods and chemical reactions in which sparingly volatile fluids are used, the purification of which is effected by means of rectification and using an auxiliary.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sparger for introducing a gas or gas mixture into a liquid and to a method for sparging liquids. The sparger according to the invention comprises a cavity, a gas inlet for routing a gas into the cavity and two or more faces, which are or can be pressed onto one another in a positive fashion such that a gas pressed into the cavity through the gas inlet escapes through the gaps occurring between the pressed together faces.

Abstract: Method for improving selectivity and productivity during purification of charged macromolecules and particles by electrofiltration by means of membranes in the electric filed. The ratio between the electric field and the permeate flow through the membrane is kept constant.