Abstract: A dispersion includes a carbonaceous nanoparticle, a dispersant including a graft polymer having a poly(alkylene glycol) side chain, and a polar solvent. An article coated with the dispersion and a method of making the dispersion are disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a corrosion-protected steel product, in particular a steel strip or steel sheet, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a device for plasma nitriding a steel substrate and a coating device for applying a metallic material to the steel substrate. A process for producing a corrosion-protected steel product, in particular a steel strip or steel sheet, is also disclosed, wherein a steel substrate is provided and nitrogen is diffused by plasma nitriding into the steel substrate, and wherein a metallic material is applied to the steel substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the treatment of internal surfaces of a hollow body, on the inner surfaces of which areas having different surface properties, for example, having hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties, are produced. The invention further relates to fluid separators that are based on said hollow bodies and that have areas having different surface properties. Such fluid separators are used in medical technology and analysis, in particular biochemical analysis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plasma stamp, with which surfaces can be subjected to a plasma treatment. In addition, the invention relates to a plasma treatment device, with which surfaces can be subjected to a plasma treatment, and also a plasma treatment method. In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing a plasma stamp.

Abstract: Articles of manufacture comprise a body. A porous material is plated on the body, the porous material comprising nickel having a plurality of pores disposed in a generally ordered array extending into the nickel. Methods of forming a porous material on a body comprise disposing an anode and a cathode in an electrolyte comprising nickel ions. An electrical signal is pulsed to at least one of the anode and the cathode. A porous material comprising nickel having a plurality of pores generally disposed in an ordered array extending into the nickel is deposited on the cathode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the microstructured plasma treatment of a film substrate, especially of a plastic film. Said device comprises a rotatably received cylindrical electrode the surface of which contains or consists of metal, especially chromium, the surface having microstructured depressions, a planar high-voltage electrode the surface of which has a shape complementary to that of the cylindrical electrode and can be arranged on a section of the surface of the cylindrical electrode in a substantially form-fit manner, a transport device for transporting the film substrate to be treated between the surface of the cylindrical electrode and the high-voltage electrode, and a device for feeding a process gas to the surface of the cylindrical electrode and to the interspace between the cylindrical electrode and the high-voltage electrode.

Abstract: A dispersion includes a carbonaceous nanoparticle, a dispersant including a graft polymer having a poly(alkylene glycol) side chain, and a polar solvent. An article coated with the dispersion and a method of making the dispersion are disclosed.

Abstract: Articles of manufacture comprise a body. A porous material is plated on the body, the porous material comprising nickel having a plurality of pores disposed in a generally ordered array extending into the nickel. Methods of forming a porous material on a body comprise disposing an anode and a cathode in an electrolyte comprising nickel ions. An electrical signal is pulsed to at least one of the anode and the cathode. A porous material comprising nickel having a plurality of pores generally disposed in an ordered array extending into the nickel is deposited on the cathode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the microstructured plasma treatment of a film substrate, especially of a plastic film Said device comprises a rotatably received cylindrical electrode the surface of which contains or consists of metal, especially chromium, the surface having microstructured depressions, a planar high-voltage electrode the surface of which has a shape complementary to that of the cylindrical electrode and can be arranged on a section of the surface of the cylindrical electrode in a substantially form-fit manner, a transport device for transporting the film substrate to be treated between the surface of the cylindrical electrode and the high-voltage electrode, and a device for feeding a process gas to the surface of the cylindrical electrode and to the interspace between the cylindrical electrode and the high-voltage electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plasma stamp, with which surfaces can be subjected to a plasma treatment. In addition, the invention relates to a plasma treatment device, with which surfaces can be subjected to a plasma treatment, and also a plasma treatment method. In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing a plasma stamp.

Abstract: The invention relates to a grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet including an electrically insulating coating made of an amorphous carbon-hydrogen network, which is applied after final annealing in order to ensure electrical insulation of the individual layers of the sheet. The grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet including the electrically insulating coating made of an amorphous carbon-hydrogen network can be used in transformers.

Abstract: The invention relates to grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet comprising an electrically insulating coating, made of an amorphous carbon-hydrogen network, which is applied after final annealing in order to ensure electrical insulation of the individual layers of sheet, said grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet being used e.g. in transformers. The invention also relates to a method for producing the grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet comprising an electrically insulating coating made of an amorphous carbon-hydrogen network, which method consists of coating of the strip-shaped sheet substrate taking place in a continuous strip method. The application is to be published without a Figure.

Abstract: A method for surface treatment of at least one electrically conducting substrate or a substrate that has been coated so as to be conducting (1) by means of a gas placed in the region of an electric discharge (2). The discharge region is restricted by at least two essentially opposite sides of the substrate surface to be treated (7). This process is especially suitable for treating band-shaped and continuously supplied substrates.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for surface treatment of at least one electrically conducting substrate or a substrate that has been coated so as to be conducting (1) by means of a gas placed in the region of an electric discharge (2). The discharge region is restricted by at least two essentially opposite sides of the substrate surface to be treated (7). This process is especially suitable for treating band-shaped and continuously supplied substrates.

Abstract: An electrode consisting of a substrate and a diamond layer applied to the substrate, in which the applied diamond layer is pore-free, and a process for producing a diamond-coated electrode, in which the process comprises at least the following steps: a) cleaning the surface of the substrate; b) seeding the surface of the substrate with a high diamond nucleation density; c) coating the surface of the substrate with diamond.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing heteroepitaxial diamond layers on Si-substrates by means of CVD and standard process gases, in which (a) during the nucleation phase a negative bias voltage is applied to the Si-substrate and (b) following the nucleation phase diamond deposition takes place.

Abstract: In an apparatus for the deposition of polycrystalline diamond on large, flat substrates (3) by the plasma method, with a vacuum chamber (4); with locks for the inward and outward transfer of the substrates; with a device installed in the chamber (4) for conveying the substrates (3) through at least one, preferably through two treatment stations; with hot-filament sources (5, 5', . . . ) forming a first group, installed above the plane of the substrates; with microwave plasma sources (8, 8', . . . ) forming a second group; with an electrode (11) fed with radio frequency underneath the plane of the substrates for generating a bias voltage; and with gas feed pipes (6, 9) opening into the vacuum chamber (4), the hot-filament arrangements (5, 5', . . . ), designed as linear sources, are arranged transversely to the substrate transport direction (a) and form a first coating zone (Z.sup.1), where the microwave plasma sources (8, 8', . . .

Abstract: A resistive film includes carbon (40-95 at. %), one or more metal(s) (4-60 at.%) and hydrogen (1-30 at. %). The film has a resistivity in excess of 1000 .mu..OMEGA.cm and a temperature coefficient TC in the range of between -100 and +100 ppm/K.

Abstract: The invention relates to a resistive film comprising carbon (40-95 at. %), one or more metal(s) (4-60 at. %) and hydrogen (1-30 at. %), said film having a resistivity in excess of 1000.mu..OMEGA.cm and a temperature coefficient TC in the range between -100 and +100 ppm/K.

Abstract: A process for depositing a layer containing boron and nitrogen on a substrate by decomposing one or more N-substituted borazoles in the presence of the substrate, in particular by a plasma CVD process.