Abstract: A process for making a device comprising a thin functional substrate comprising bonding the functional substrate to a carrier substrate, forming functional components on the functional subsrate, and debonding the functional substrate from the carrier substrate by applying ultrasonic wave to the bonding interface. The application of ultrasonic wave aids the debonding step by reducing the tensile stress the functional substrate may experience.

Abstract: A process for making a device comprising a thin functional substrate comprising bonding the functional substrate to a carrier substrate, forming functional components on the functional subsrate, and debonding the functional substrate from the carrier substrate by applying ultrasonic wave to the bonding interface. The application of ultrasonic wave aids the debonding step by reducing the tensile stress the functional substrate may experience.

Abstract: Articles with surfaces that are both super-hydrophobic and super-oleophobic, and methods for making such articles are described. The article surfaces having contact angles of sessile drops of water and oil greater than 150° and low wetting angle hysteresis leading to low sliding angle of liquid water or oil drops. In some embodiments the water and oil contact angles are greater than 170°.

Abstract: A ceramic composition including a silsesquioxane polymer as a sintering agent in an amount of no more than 30% by weight. The composition is particularly useful as a ceramic cement for forming an external skin on a cordierite honeycomb substrate when the composition is composed of ground cordierite and polyaminopropylsilsesquioxane. A method of preparing the composition is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates in particular to a process for modifying the properties of a hydroxylated surface of a three-dimensional substrate containing exposed zones and recessed zones, according to which a compound, such as a silane containing (a) reactive group(s), is selectively dry-transferred onto the exposed zones of said surface using a a flat stamping pad impregnated with said compound. The substrate may be made of glass and the compound may be a thiol or an alkyl- or aryl-tri(chloro or alkoxy) silane, inter alia. Use, in particular, for the production of microwell plates for biological cultures and printing plates.