Abstract: Oligomers and polymers containing epoxide groups and silane groups and preparable by reacting (A) at least one low molecular mass, oligomeric or polymeric compound containing at least two epoxide groups (a1) with (B) at least one silane containing (b1) at least one at least divalent organic radical which per se is not hydrolyzable, (b2) at least one cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride group and (b3) at least one silane group containing at least one hydrolyzable group (b31), the cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride groups (b2) being attached to the silane groups (b3) via the radicals (b1), the equivalent ratio of epoxide groups (a1) to dicarboxylic anhydride groups (b2) being 0.7 to 100; processes for preparing them, and their use for preparing anhydrous curable compositions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silane-functional mixture, comprising at least one phosphonic diester (A), at least one diphosphonic diester (A), or at least one phosphonic diester and one diphosphonic diester (A), and at least one compound (B) comprising at least two condensable silane groups.

Abstract: An aerofoil connection on a fuselage airframe comprising a plurality of double-jointed coupling members. In each case at least two z-coupling members extending substantially parallel to a vertical axis of the aircraft and in each case at least two xz-coupling members are arranged in the region of two longitudinal edges of a fuselage airframe recess wherein the xz-coupling members are configured in each case for a first maximum of a load in the event of a crash and of a load in normal flight operation parallel to a longitudinal axis of the aircraft, and for a second maximum of a load in the event of a crash and of a load in normal flight operation parallel to the vertical axis. The xz-coupling members are capable of absorbing force components parallel to the x-axis as well as force components which arise parallel to the z-axis.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a paint composition which forms paint films which are excellent in terms of car-wash scratching resistance, acid resistance and weather resistance, a method of finish painting and painted objects. [Means of Resolution] A paint composition which has as essential components hydroxyl group containing resin (A) which has a hydroxyl group value of from 80 to 220 mgKOH/g, a glass transition temperature of ?50° C. or above but below 0° C. and which contains from 25 to 55 mass % of units of 4-hydroxybutyl (meth)acrylate origin, hydroxyl group containing resin (B) which has a hydroxyl group value of from 80 to 220 mgKOH/g and a glass transition temperature of from 0 to 50° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising (a) at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A), (b) at least one compound (B) having free and/or blocked isocyanate groups, and (c) at least one phosphate-containing catalyst (C) for the crosslinking of silane groups, (d) at least one further catalyst (D), one or more constituents of the coating composition containing hydrolyzable silane groups, wherein the catalyst (D) is a bicyclic amine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising (a) at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A), (b) at least one compound (B) having free and/or blocked isocyanate groups, and (c) at least one catalyst (C) for the crosslinking of silane groups, ?one or more constituents of the coating composition containing hydrolyzable silane groups, wherein the coating composition contains a water scavenger as further constituent (D).

Abstract: The invention discloses deagglomerated barium sulphate which has an average primary particle size of less than 0.5 ?m and is coated with a dispersant. The dispersant has preferably reactive groups which are able to interact with the surface of the barium sulphate; particularly preferred dispersants are those which are able to endow the barium sulphate with a hydrophilic surface and have reactive groups for coupling to or into polymers. Also disclosed is a plastics premix comprising the deagglomerated, coated barium sulphate.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aircraft floor of an aircraft consisting of a number of base plates and a number of longitudinal supports and provides an aircraft with a floor of this type. The aircraft floor has transverse joints for partitioning the floor into a plurality of segments transversely to a longitudinal axis of the aircraft, the respective segment consisting of a number of longitudinal support elements, partitioned by the transverse joints, of the longitudinal supports and of a number of base plate elements partitioned by the transverse joints, of the base plates and the segments being coupled together such that they have exclusively a translatory degree of freedom with respect to one another in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion with a pH of from 2 to 7, comprising (A) at least one swellable polymer or oligomer containing anionic and/or potentially anionic functional groups, (B) surface-modified, cationically stabilized, inorganic nanoparticles of at least one kind, (C) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amphiphiles and organic compounds which are capable of forming chelate ligands, and (D) at least one crosslinking agent; method for its production and its use for producing highly scratch-resistant coatings, moldings, and self-supporting films.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are thermoplastic nanoparticles with a glass transition temperature of 30 to 120° C. prepared by hydrolysis and condensation of a compound (Ia) (D-K—X—)mA{—X—K[—B(—Y)n]p}q or (Ib) (D-K—X—)mB{—X—K[-A(—Y)n]p}q (Ib) where m is 1 to 5; n is 1 to 3; p is 1 or 2; q is 1 to 5; A is a hardening structural element which; B is a softening, flexibilizing structural element; D is the radical of a blocking agent for isocyanate groups —NCZ, in which Z=oxygen or sulfur atom; X is a group of the general formula (II) —NH—C(Z)—; K is a divalent or trivalent atom or divalent or trivalent linking functional group; Y is a group of the general formula (III) —SiErF3?r, where r is 1 to 3; E is a hydrolyzable atom or radical, and F is a nonhydrolyzable radical; processes for preparing them, and their use.

Abstract: A thermosetting coating material comprising (A) at least 50% by weight, based on the amount of nonvolatile substances in the coating material of (A1) from 0% to 50% by weight, based on the entirety of components (A1) and (A2), of a polymethacrylate copolymer containing more than 50% by weight, based on the entirety of comonomers in the copolymer (A1), of free-radically polymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated compounds (a1) containing at least one reactive group of the formula I —X—SiR?x(OR?)3-x??(I) and (A2) from 50% to 100% by weight, based on the entirety of components (A1) and (A2), of an adduct of polyisocyanate and alkoxysilane, (A2) containing at least one reactive group of the formula II: —NR—C(O)—N—(X—SiR?x(OR?)3-x)n(X?—SiR?y(OR?)3-y)m??(II) (B) a catalyst for the crosslinking of the —Si(OR?)3-x units, and (C) an aprotic solvent or a mixture of aprotic solvents.

Abstract: Disclosed are hydroxyl-functional binders having an OH number greater than or equal to 180 mg KOH/g as determined in accordance with DIN 53240 and a solubility parameter SP=10, and to clearcoat compositions comprising said binders. Also disclosed are processes for preparing the disclosed hydroxyl-functional binders, methods of making coated automotive substrates by applying the disclosed clearcoat compositions to automotive substrates, and to coated substrates made therefrom.

Abstract: Disclosed is an at least partly crosslinked coating (K) composed of a near-surface coating zone (K1) and a volume coating zone (K2), the coating obtained from a composition comprising at least two different crosslinkable components (D1) and (D2), at least part of component (D1) having one or more surface-active structural units, wherein (i) the coating both in zone (K1) and in zone (K2) is at least partly crosslinked, and (ii) the crosslinking density of the coating in zone (K1) is higher than the crosslinking density of the coating in zone (K2). Also disclosed are coatings (K) wherein the concentration of component (D1) in the near-surface coating zone (K1) is higher than in the volume coating zone (K2), and the micropenetration hardness and/or the dry scratch resistance of the coating (K) is higher than that of an at least partly crosslinked coating (K?) obtained from a composition with no crosslinkable component (D1).

Abstract: A method for the production of an immunoglobulin or a functional fragment thereof in a prokaryotic host cell comprises transforming the host cell with (a) a first nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a VL and a CL region and (b) a second nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a VH, a CH1, a CH2 and at least a portion of a CH3 region, The host cell is within culture medium. The host cell is cultured under conditions so as to allow the host cell (a) to express (1) the VL and a CL region and (2) the VH, the CH1, the CH2 and the portion of the CH3 region, and (b) to secrete (a)(1) and (a)(2) to the periplasm of the host cell and thereafter to the culture medium of the host cell. Characteristically, (a)(1) and (a)(2) interact to form the immunoglobulin or functional fragment thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed are coating compositions comprising (a) at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A), (b) at least one compound (B) having isocyanate groups, and (c) at least one catalyst (D) for the crosslinking of silane groups, said catalyst (D) comprising phosphorus. It is an aspect of the disclosed coating compositions that (i) one or more constituents of the coating composition contain hydrolyzable silane groups and (ii) the coating composition can be finally cured to a coating which has statistically distributed regions of an Si—O—Si network.

Abstract: The invention relates to two-component coating systems comprising as component (a) one or more polyisocyanates, as component (b) one or more oligomeric and/or polymeric compounds that are reactive with component (a), and as component (c) one or more phosphonates selected from the group of phosphonic diesters and diphosphonic diesters, where (i) component (b) comprises all oligomeric and/or polymeric compounds that are present in the two-component coating system and are reactive with component (a) and (ii) component (b) contains not more than 15% by weight, based on the total weight of component (b), of oligomeric and/or polymeric compounds which carry isocyanate-reactive amino groups. Additionally provided by the invention are a process for preparing the two-component coating systems, and the use of these coating systems as a clearcoat, more particularly for multicoat automobile finishing.

Abstract: Disclosed are coating compositions comprising film-forming material with at least one reactive functional group G??, catalyst for the crosslinking of the silane groups, aprotic solvents, and at least one adduct with silane functionality which is prepared by an addition reaction of (a) at least one silane (S1) which has at least one functional group G? which is reactive with the complementary functional groups G? of the compound (O), and (b) at least one compound (O) which has at least one complementary functional group G? and at least one surface-active radical. Also disclosed are multicoat paint systems in which the transparent coating has been produced from these coating compositions, methods of making and use, as well as methods of improving the hardness and/or the scratch resistance of coatings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection element, in particular a plate nut, comprising a base body for attachment of an arbitrary component to a metallic planar object, in particular to a sheet metal. According to the invention, the base body comprises a securement portion the cross-sectional geometry of which deviates from a circular shape, the securement portion being at least partially positively receivable in a deformation in the sheet metal. The base body is, by means of a holding device, secured in the deformation against dropping out. In an alternative embodiment of the connection element, wherein unilateral accessibility to the sheet metal is sufficient, the holding device is formed by bead portions in a shaft area of the base body, which are plastically deformed into a bead by pull-out of a threaded bolt that is screwed into a thread portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are coating compositions comprising at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A) and at least one isocyanato-containing compound (B), wherein one or more of the constituents of the coating composition comprise between 2.5 and 97.5 mol %, based on the entirety of structural units (I) and (II), of at least one structural unit of the formula (I) —N(X—SiR?x(OR?)3-x)n(X?—SiR?y(OR?)3-y)m ??(I) and between 2.5 and 97.5 mol %, based on the entirety of structural units (I) and (II), of at least one structural unit of the formula (II) —Z—(X—SiR?x(OR?)3-x) ??(II).

Abstract: Disclosed are coating compositions comprising (a) at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A), (b) at least one compound (B) having free and/or blocked isocyanate groups, and (c) at least one catalyst (D) for the crosslinking of silane groups, where (i) one or more constituents of the coating composition contain hydrolyzable silane groups and (iii) the coating composition can be finally cured to a coating which has statistically distributed regions of an Si—O—Si network. The finally cured coating obtained from the coating composition has a post-crosslinking index (PCI) of less than 2, wherein (PCI) is defined as the ratio of the storage modulus E?(200) at 200° C. to the minimum of the storage modulus E?(min) at a temperature above the measured glass transition temperature Tg.