Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dynamic load simulation, wherein loads are specified by target signals and applied to a test object by a parallel kinematic excitation unit via an end effector, including the following operations: measuring loads at a contact point (200), comparing the measured loads with the target signals (300), and determining target pressures (400) for individual actuators of the parallel kinematic excitation unit for applying the target signals by use of a control algorithm (Fq,ref). This provides a method for dynamic load simulation that reduces the time and cost expenditure compared to previously known methods and at the same time enables hardware-in-the-loop simulations to be used.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the formation, chemistry and application of biologically active compositions. More particularly, the present invention relates to certain dyes, specifically porphyrin and chlorin derivatives, in combination with inventive polymers, i.e. light-cleavable polymers, that can be used as photosensitizer compositions for a wide range of light irradiation treatments such as photodynamic therapy of cancer, infections and other diseases. The dye derivatives may either be adsorbed on, or incorporated in, or attached to specific polymers, which as well form part of the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing waveguides (201) from a material (202) of the KTP family comprising the following method steps: b) treating the material (202) in such a way that a periodic poling of the material (202) is achieved, c) treating the material (202) in a molten salt bath (309c), which contains rubidium ions, characterized in that the molten salt bath (309c) which contains rubidium ions in step c) satisfies the following boundary conditions: the mole fraction of rubidium nitrate (RbNO3) in the melt lies in the range of 86-90 mol % at the beginning of the treatment, the mole fraction of potassium nitrate (KNO3) in the melt lies in the range of 10-12 mol % at the beginning of the treatment, the mole fraction of barium nitrate (Ba(NO3)2) in the melt lies in the range of 0.5-1 mol % at the beginning of the treatment, the temperature of the melt lies in the range of 357-363° C. during the treatment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an electrode material for a battery electrode, in particular for a lithium-ion battery, wherein said electrode material comprises nanostructured silicon carbide, comprising the steps of: a) providing a mixture including a silicon source, a carbon source and a dopant, wherein at least the silicon source and the carbon source are present in common in particles of a solid granulate; b) treating the mixture provided in step a) at a temperature in the range from ?1400° C. to ?2000° C., in particular in a range from ?1650° C. to ?1850° C., wherein step b) is carried out in a reactor that has a depositing surface the temperature of which relative to at least one other inner reactor surface is reduced. In summary, a method described above enables to combine a simple and cost-efficient production with a high cycle stability.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dynamic load simulation, wherein loads are specified by target signals and applied to a test object by a parallel kinematic excitation unit via an end effector, including the following operations: measuring loads at a contact point (200), comparing the measured loads with the target signals (300), and determining target pressures (400) for individual actuators of the parallel kinematic excitation unit for applying the target signals by use of a control algorithm (Fq,ref). This provides a method for dynamic load simulation that reduces the time and cost expenditure compared to previously known methods and at the same time enables hardware-in-the-loop simulations to be used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a silicon carbide-containing body (100), characterized in that the process has the following process steps: a) providing a mixture (16) comprising a silicon source and a carbon source, the silicon source and the carbon source being present together in particles of a solid granular material; b) arranging a layer of the mixture (16) provided in process step a) on a carrier (12), the layer of the mixture (16) having a predefined thickness; and c) treating the mixture (16) arranged in process step b) over a locally limited area with a temperature within a range from ?1400° C. to ?2000° C. according to a predetermined three-dimensional pattern, the predetermined three-dimensional pattern being selected on the basis of the three-dimensional configuration of the body (100) to be produced. Such a process allows simple and inexpensive production even of complex structures from silicon carbide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic device (1), comprising a photovoltaic acceptor material (7) and a photovoltaic donor material (10), in which the photovoltaic device (1) comprises at least two carrier layers (2, 3), of which one carrier layer (2) has n-doped electron donors (6) and the other carrier layer has acceptor material (7) as p-doped or undoped electron acceptors, wherein the carrier layers (2, 3) are arranged with respect to one another such that they touch one another at least in sections, and the carrier layers (2, 3) are wetted or coated in filmlike fashion with a photovoltaic donor material (10). The carrier layers (2, 3), which are formed in particular from fibres (6, 7) composed of silicon carbide SiC, enable textile solar cells. Methods for producing the fibres (6, 7) and for producing the photovoltaic device (1) and textile structures formed therefrom are furthermore described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a fibre-reinforced, transparent composite material (10), comprising the following steps: a) providing a material matrix melt and b) producing reinforcing fibres (14), step b) of the method comprising the steps of b1) providing a mixture having a silicon source and a carbon source, the silicon source and the carbon source being present together in particles of a granulated solid; b2) treating the mixture provided in step a) of the method at a temperature in a range from ?1400° C. to ?2000° C., more particularly in a range from ?1650° C. to ?1850° C.; thereby producing reinforcing fibres (14), the method comprising the further steps of c) introducing the reinforcing fibres (14) into the material melt; and d) optionally cooling the material melt to form a transparent composite material (10). A method of this kind allows a composite material to be produced that is able to unite high transparency with outstanding reinforcing qualities.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for continuously producing qualitatively high-grade crystalline silicon carbide, in particular in the form of nanocrystalline fiber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a layered structure (1) of an apparatus that luminesces by means of organic luminescence, which consists of at least two layers (2, 3) of transparent, semiconductive fibers as a substrate and an electrode, as well as a layer (5) disposed between adjacent layers (2, 3), composed of a photoactive polymer, in which layer, in interaction with the adjacent layers (2, 3) of transparent, semiconductive fibers, an organic luminescence (7) can be brought about. Furthermore, methods for the production and for the operation of corresponding layered structures, and a luminescent apparatus formed from them, are indicated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating surfaces by enzymatic reaction of a biopolymer, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a) applying an enzyme to the surface of a substrate, and b) contacting the enzyme with the biopolymer to be deposited, wherein the enzyme cleaves the biopolymer, wherein the cleavage gives rise to at least two cleavage products of the biopolymer having different solubility in a solvent, and at least one cleavage product of the biopolymer having relatively low solubility is deposited on the surface of the substrate, and to a coated article obtainable by the method and to a coating composition comprising a biopolymer and at least one component selected from the group comprising binders, fillers, pigments and/or additives, and optionally a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an electrode material for a battery electrode, in particular for a lithium-ion battery, wherein said electrode material comprises nanostructured silicon carbide, comprising the steps of: a) providing a mixture including a silicon source, a carbon source and a dopant, wherein at least the silicon source and the carbon source are present in common in particles of a solid granulate; b) treating the mixture provided in step a) at a temperature in the range from ?1400° C. to ?2000° C., in particular in a range from ?1650° C. to ?1850° C., wherein step b) is carried out in a reactor that has a depositing surface the temperature of which relative to at least one other inner reactor surface is reduced. In summary, a method described above enables to combine a simple and cost-efficient production with a high cycle stability.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating surfaces by enzymatic reaction of a biopolymer, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a) applying an enzyme to the surface of a substrate, and b) contacting the enzyme with the biopolymer to be deposited, wherein the enzyme cleaves the biopolymer, wherein the cleavage gives rise to at least two cleavage products of the biopolymer having different solubility in a solvent, and at least one cleavage product of the biopolymer having relatively low solubility is deposited on the surface of the substrate, and to a coated article obtainable by the method and to a coating composition comprising a biopolymer and at least one component selected from the group comprising binders, fillers, pigments and/or additives, and optionally a solvent.

Abstract: A method to at least one of compress and decompress data includes providing a string (T) consisting of multiple given substrings. Identification symbols ($,$1,$2,$3) are assigned to the substrings of the string (T). The substrings of the string (T) are transferred by permutation into a permuted string (O(T),O*(T)). The permuted string (O(T),O*(T)) is sorted into a sorted permuted string (oSort(T), oSort*(T)) according to a given sorting criterion. The identification symbols ($,$1,$2,$3) are permuted and sorted together with the substrings of the sting (T) so that, in a partial inverse transformation step, characters of an Nth substring are sequentially determined within the permuted string (O(T),O*(T)) after determining a position (P) of an Nth identification symbol ($,$1,$2,$3) assigned to an Nth substring within the sorted permuted string (oSort(T),oSort*(T)) without reading characters of other substrings of the permuted string (O(T),O*(T)).

Abstract: The invention relates to a layered structure (1) of an apparatus that luminesces by means of organic luminescence, which consists of at least two layers (2, 3) of transparent, semiconductive fibers as a substrate and an electrode, as well as a layer (5) disposed between adjacent layers (2, 3), composed of a photoactive polymer, in which layer, in interaction with the adjacent layers (2, 3) of transparent, semiconductive fibers, an organic luminescence (7) can be brought about. Furthermore, methods for the production and for the operation of corresponding layered structures, and a luminescent apparatus formed from them, are indicated.

Abstract: A method to at least one of compress and decompress data includes providing a string (T) consisting of multiple given substrings. Identification symbols ($,$1,$2,$3) are assigned to the substrings of the string (T). The substrings of the string (T) are transferred by permutation into a permuted string (O(T),O*(T)). The permuted string (O(T),O*(T)) is sorted into a sorted permuted string (oSort(T), oSort*(T)) according to a given sorting criterion. The identification symbols ($,$1,$2,$3) are permuted and sorted together with the substrings of the sting (T) so that, in a partial inverse transformation step, characters of an Nth substring are sequentially determined within the permuted string (O(T),O*(T)) after determining a position (P) of an Nth identification symbol ($,$1,$2,$3) assigned to an Nth substring within the sorted permuted string (oSort(T),oSort*(T)) without reading characters of other substrings of the permuted string (O(T),O*(T)).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of an object with an at least partly silicon carbide structure from a blank of a carbon-containing material, wherein, in a first step, the object made from the carbon-containing material is produced essentially in the desired end form and/or end size, the object made from the carbon-containing material is then at least partly enveloped in a carbon-rich silicon dioxide granulate and then fired at least once in the envelope in a protective gas atmosphere such that the silicon dioxide granulate gives off gas containing silicon carbide which diffuses into the object and the carbon-containing material is completely or partly converted into silicon carbide.

Abstract: In a process for producing plastic components, a molded plastic article with a hollow space and relatively thick walls is molded in a first step, and, in an additional step, a predetermined fluid pressure is applied to the interior of the hollow space in the molded plastic article to enlarge it so that the thicknesses of the walls of the hollow space are reduced.