Abstract: Enzymes are immobilized by mixing the following components with one another in aqueous solution:(a) an enzyme or a dispersed microorganism,(b) a water-soluble glycidyl ether, prepared by subjecting from 1 to 30 equivalents of an epoxide of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, to an addition reaction with 1 equivalent (based on OH groups) of a polyfunctional alcohol of 2 to 6 carbon atoms or of a mono- or disaccharide to produce an adduct, reacting the adduct with epichlorohydrin and, if required, then carrying out cyclization to give the epoxide, and(c) a water-soluble amine possessing two or more NH groups, if necessary in a partially neutralized form,and allowing the mixture thus obtained to gel.

Abstract: A terpolymer of vinylpyrolidone, tert-butyl (meth)acrylate and acrylic or methacrylic acid, its use in hair treatment agents, and hair cosmetics compositions which contain these agents.

Abstract: An insoluble biocatalyst is prepared by forming a mixture consisting essentially of the biocatalyst, one or more water-soluble compounds having two or more acrylamide or meth-acrylamido groups and one or more water soluble amines possessing two or more hydrogen atoms bonded to an amine nitrogen, and forming a gel from the mixture. The water-soluble amine is selected from ammonia, lower diamines, lower polyamines, primary monoamines, polyethyleneimine and polyvinylamine. Beads containing the biocatalyst may be formed by suspending the mixture in a water-immiscible solvent to form droplets prior to gelling. The biocatalyst may be an enzyme, cells or cell fragments.

Abstract: Copolymers of vinylpyrrolidone, acrylamides which are monoalkylated or dialkylated on the N atom and alkyl or hydroxyalkyl esters of (meth)acrylic acid, with or without (meth)acrylic acid, or (meth)acrylic acid are used as and in hair fixatives.

Abstract: In dry film resists possessing a solid photopolymerizable resist layer, which is applied on a temporary base and can be developed with aqueous, in particular aqueous alkaline, media, and, if required, a cover sheet on the resist layer, the said resist layer is built from a homogeneous mixture of (a) not less than 40% by weight of one or more oligomers which contain free carboxyl groups and more than two acryloyl and/or methacryloyl groups and are soluble or dispersible in aqueous alkaline solutions, (b) from 1 to 35% by weight of one or more film-forming compatible polymers which are soluble in aqueous media, (c) from 1 to 30% by weight of one or more compatible photopolymerizable monomers, (d) from 0.001 to 10% by weight of one or more photoinitiators and (e) from 0 to 30% by weight of further additives and/or assistants. Resist images are produced on a substrate by a process employing photopolymerizable resist layers of the type stated above.

Abstract: A membrane of substantially non-crosslinked organic polymers which contain ionogenic groups bonded to the polymer chain via an alkylene radical, at intervals of not less than 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Photopolymerizable recording materials which are suitable for the production of photoresist layers, and contain one or more thermoplastic vinyl polymers as the binder, one or more low molecular weight, ethylenically unsaturated, photopolymerizable compounds and one or more photoinitiators, with or without other, conventional additives and/or assistants, have excellent adhesion to metallic substrate surfaces if the binder employed is a vinyl polymer which possesses amino and/or imino groups.

Abstract: A membrane of a substantially non-crosslinked organic polymer which contains complex-forming groups bonded to the polymer chain via an alkylene radical, at intervals of not less than 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable recording material for the production of relief plates comprises a photopolymerizable layer which can be developed in an alcoholic solution and contains a mixture of a photoinitiator, a photopolymerizable monomer and a linear, high molecular weight polyurethane which possesses activated double bonds in side branches, and is prepared using a polyether-diol from the group comprising the polyethylene glycols, propylene glycols and ethylene glycol/propylene glycol co-condensates.

Abstract: A membrane of a vinyl polymer which contains groups of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, fluorine or trifluoromethyl and R.sup.5 is --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 -- or ##STR2## covalently bonded to the polymer chain, and the use of the said membrane.

Abstract: Readily water-soluble, slightly hygroscopic terpolymers which consist of(a) from 10 to 40% by weight of vinylpyrrolidone,(b) from 20 to 50% by weight of vinyl acetate (VAc) or vinyl propionate and(c) from 10 to 40% by weight of hydroxyethyl acrylate, hydroxypropyl acrylate or hydroxyethyl methacrylate, which terpolymers are used as auxiliaries in the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals sectors.

Abstract: A biologically active protein which is bonded to a water-insoluble porous copolymer based on N-vinylimidazole and/or substituted N-vinylimidazoles and monomers which can be copolymerized therewith, its preparation and its use for carrying out enzymatic reactions.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an enzymatically active formulation embedded in silica gel, wherein an aqueous mixture of an enzymatically active formulation and a dissolved alkali metal silicate and/or ammonium silicate is suspended in an organic, water-immiscible fluid and then converted to a water-insoluble gel.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of insoluble, only slightly swellable, granular polymers of basic vinyl-heterocyclic compounds and of their copolymers with up to 30% by weight of copolymerizable monomers and 0.1-10% by weight of crosslinking agent by exclusion of (atmospheric) oxygen from the mixture of monomer and crosslinking agent, without addition of any initiator or catalyst, and the use of the polymers obtained as ion exchangers, adsorbents and carriers for proteins.

Abstract: A macroporous crosslinked styrene resin, used as a carrier for covalently binding proteins, which resin contains isocyanate, thioisocyanate or aldehyde groups as protein-binding groups and may or may not contain sulfonic acid groups--which may also be in the form of the sodium salt or of sulfonic acid amide groups--as hydrophilic groups.The carrier according to the invention is prepared from a sulfochlorinated macroporous crosslinked styrene resin by reacting the sulfonic acid chloride groups with an .alpha.,.omega.-diamino compound, with hydrazine or with an .alpha., .omega.-diamino-diether, converting any sulfonic acid chloride groups which may still be present to free sulfonic acid groups, their sodium salt or a sulfonamide group, and then reacting the terminal amino groups with phosgene, thiophosgene or a diisocyanate in order to produce the binding groups, which in turn fix a biologically active protein by covalent bonds.

Abstract: A macroporous crosslinked sytrene resin, used as a carrier for covalently binding proteins, which resin contains isocyanate, thioisocyanate or aldehyde groups as protein-binding groups and may or may not contain sulfonic acid groups--which may also be in the form of the sodium salt or of sulfonic acid amide groups--as hydrophilic groups.The carrier according to the invention is prepared from a sulfochlorinated macroporous crosslinked styrene resin by reacting the sulfonic acid chloride groups with an .alpha.,.omega.-diamino compound, with hydrazine or with an .alpha.,.omega.-diaminodiether, converting any sulfonic acid chloride groups which may still be present to free sulfonic acid groups, their sodium salt or a sulfonamide group, and then reacting the terminal amino groups with phosgene, thiophosgene or a diisocyanate in order to produce the binding groups, which in turn fix a biologically active protein by covalent bonds.

Abstract: Polymers in powder form are manufactured by polymerizing water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers, which form hydrophilic polymers, in a powder bed of polymers of water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated compounds in the presence of polymerization initiators and water as an auxiliary liquid, the water being entirely or partially removed from the polymerization zone by evaporation during the polymerization.

Abstract: Bonded textile sheet materials having improved water vapor absorbency can be manufactured by bonding the sheets with polymeric binders and additionally impregnating these sheets with glycidyl ethers, chlorohydrin compounds corresponding thereto and/or reaction products of the chlorohydrin compounds with compounds containing NH groups, and drying the impregnated sheets at elevated temperatures and at the same time fixing the impregnants by means of compounds containing NH groups.

Abstract: A process for improving the water absorption of textile sheet structures bonded by means of a polymer solution or dispersion, by the application and fixation of a polyglycol ether derivative containing at least two aziridine rings.

Abstract: Process for washing textiles in which the washing treatment is carried out in the presence of a cation exchanger containing carboxyl groups in the form of alkali salts and capable of removing calcium and magnesium ions from the washing liquor, and a washing agent for use in said process.