Abstract: A dosing device for dosing a granular material containing a reservoir for storing the granular material, a dosing disc, and a suction device and a spraying device containing such a dosing device and a method for applying a granular material to a substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of barbituric acid derivatives of the formula I as self-tanning substance, for increasing melanin synthesis, for improving melanin transport and/or improving the distribution of melanin in superbasal layers, to preparations comprising these barbituric acid derivatives, and to specific barbituric acid derivatives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of monosubstiuted urea derivatives of the formula I as self-tanning substance, for increasing melanin synthesis, for improving melanin transport and/or improving the distribution of melanin in suprabasal layers, and to preparations comprising these urea derivatives.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) medium containing a polymerisable compound, a process for its preparation, its use for optical, electro-optical and/or electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in an LC display of the polymer sustained alignment (PSA) type, and an LC display, especially a PSA display, containing the LC medium.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to crystalline salt of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid comprising (i) 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid, (ii) sodium and (iii) an organic base having a pKa value from 6 to 11; wherein the molar ratio of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid to the sodium is from 1:0.5 to 1:1.5 and the molar ratio of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid to the organic base is 1:0.5 to 1:1.5 and/or hydrates and/or solvates thereof, as well as, a processes of obtaining the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of tracing and anti-counterfeit protection of physical objects, and particularly to preparing and performing a secure authentication of such objects. Specifically, the invention is directed to a method and a system for preparing a subsequent secured authentication of a physical object or group of physical objects by a recipient thereof, to a method and system for authenticating a physical object or group of physical objects, to a method and system of securely providing a time-variant combination scheme for authenticating a physical object or group of physical objects according to the above methods, and to related computer programs corresponding to said methods. The invention is based on the concept of increasing the security level by increasing the information entropy of the data on which the anti-counterfeit protection is based by means of random data communicated to authenticating entities in an algorithmically hidden way.

Abstract: Polymerisable compounds and processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof. Also liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising the polymerisable compounds, and the use of the polymerisable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PSA (“polymer sustained alignment”) type.

Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more polymerisable compounds, preferably of formula P Pa-(Spa)s1-(A1-Z1)n1-A2-Q-A3-(Z4-A4)n2-(Spb)s2-Pb??P and one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of formulae I, II, and III, in which the parameters have the meaning indicated in Claim 1, and to components comprising these media for high-frequency technology, in particular phase shifters and microwave array antennas.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a crystalline sodium salt of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid wherein the molar ratio of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid to sodium is from 1:0.5 to 1:1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of at least one compatible solute and/or its physiologically acceptable salt for countering age-related skin color change or for the suppression and/or reduction of protein carbonylation and/or for the suppression and/or reduction of the accumulation of carbonylated proteins in the stratum corneum. The invention is further directed to formulations comprising at least one compatible solute and/or its physiologically acceptable salt and at least one further skin pore lightening active, as well as a process for preparing such formulation.

Abstract: A LC lens and a liquid-crystal medium used in said LC lens, wherein the medium contains one or more compounds of each of formulae I and II

Abstract: The present invention describes compounds comprising at least one structural element having at least three fused aromatic or heteroaromatic rings (AR) and at least one structural element having an aromatic or heteroaromatic valerolactam (AV), especially for use in electronic devices. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the compounds of the invention and to electronic devices comprising these.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures comprising at least one phosphorescent dopant and at least one compound of one of the formulae (1) and (2), and the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-optical switching element comprising at least one light source, and a light converting layer, and to a use of the electro-optical switching element in an optical device. The invention further relates to an optical device comprising the electro-optical switching element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of amide bonds, in particular peptide bonds, with the aid of novel amide linking reagents containing an anion of the formula (I), to the novel reagents, and to the preparation thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting oligomers or polymers containing alkylated dithieno[2,3-d:2?,3?-d?]-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b?]dithiophene units, methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, the use of the oligomers, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductor in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices or organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these oligomers, polymers, blends, mixtures or formulations.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula 1 and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof are useful as TLR7/8 antagonists.

Abstract: The present invention describes diazadibenzofuran or diazadibenzothiophene derivatives substituted by carbazole, fluorene, phenanthrene, benzofuran and/or benzothiophene groups, especially for use in electronic devices. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the compounds of the invention and to electronic devices comprising these.

Abstract: The present invention describes diazadibenzofuran or diazadibenzothiophene derivatives having carbazole structures, especially for use in electronic devices. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the compounds of the invention and to electronic devices comprising these.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerisable LC medium with flat optical dispersion, a polymer film with flat optical dispersion obtainable from such a medium, and the use of the polymerisable LC medium and polymer film in optical, electro optical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.