Abstract: This invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising organic catalysts having enhanced enzyme compatibility and processes for making and using such cleaning compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a passivating layer on a metal surface, obtainable by contacting the metal surface with a composition comprising a water-soluble nitrogenous polymer, to a surface composed of a metal surface and the passivating layer of the invention, to a process for forming a passivating layer on a metal surface, to the use of a composition comprising a water-soluble nitrogenous polymer to passivate a metal surface, and to a system on a metal surface that comprises a passivating layer of the invention and further coating films.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel (meth)acrylic esters of monoalkoxylated polyols, a process for their preparation and their use for preparing crosslinked swellable hydrogel-forming polymers and crosslinked swellable hydrogel-forming polymers.

Abstract: This invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising organic catalysts having enhanced enzyme compatibility and processes for making and using such cleaning compositions.

Abstract: Enzymatic preparation of (meth)acrylic esters containing urethane groups, and their use in radiation-curable compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to insoluble, highly crosslinked, slightly swellable styrene-4-sulfonate-containing popcorn polymers, a process for preparation thereof and use thereof as adsorbents, ion exchangers, support materials, filter aids, dye transfer inhibitors for laundry detergents or additives in cosmetic, dermatological or pharmaceutical formulations, as tablet disintegrants. In particular, the styrene-4-sulfonate-containing popcorn polymers are to be used for filtering liquids, in particular beer, and also as tablet disintegrants.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the enzymatic synthesis of polyol acrylates and also to a process for preparing polymeric polyol acrylates, to the polymers obtainable by this process, and to their use for preparing radiation-curable and thermally curable coating materials.

Abstract: Described are a method of killing microorganisms in aqueous industrial systems or products for industrial applications based on water by adding from 0.001 to 5% by weight of a water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer containing from 30 to 100 mol % of styrenesulfonic acid, from 0 to 40 mol % of an N-vinyllactam and/or N-vinylamine, and from 0 to 30 mol % of further free-radically polymerizable monomers as biocidal additive, and a method of protecting articles by applying an antimicrobial aqueous composition comprising such an additive.

Abstract: A multicoat system on a substrate, comprising at least one radiation-curable coating system (F) and at least one elastic intercoat (D) which is located between substrate and radiation-curable coating system (F) and has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of ?20° C. or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for treating surfaces, comprising a copolymer as component A, synthesized from (meth)acrylic acid or salts thereof, a carboxylate-containing monomer and/or monomers containing groups containing phosphoric and/or phosphonic acid or salts thereof, and further comonomers if desired, to a passivating layer on a metal surface, which comprises component A, to a process for forming said passivating layer, and to the use of the composition of the invention to passivate a metal surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of copolymers A containing a) from 50 to 99% by weight of at least one N-vinyllactam or N-vinylamine selected from the group consisting of N-vinylpyrrolidone, N-vinylpiperidone, N-vinylcaprolactam, N-vinylimidazole, methylated N-vinylimidazole, and N-vinylformamide, and b) from 1 to 50% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of b1) C8-C30-alkyl esters of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acids; b2) N—C8-C30-alkyl-substituted amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acids; b3) N,N—C8-C30-dialkyl-substituted amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acids; b4) vinyl esters of aliphatic C8-C30 carboxylic acids; and b5) C8-C30-alkyl vinyl ethers to produce membranes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a solid formulation of a slow-release crop protection product, which comprises carrying out a melt extrusion of a composition comprising 0.1 to 80% by weight of at least one fungicidal active ingredient, 0 to 80% by weight of at least one herbicidal, acaricidal, insecticidal or growth-regulatory active ingredient, 3 to 80% by weight of a thermoplastic, water-insoluble polymer from the group of the polylactides, 0 to 80% by weight of at least one thermoplastic water-insoluble polymer, 10 to 80% by weight of at least one mineral filler and 0 to 20% by weight of inorganic or organic additives, and subsequently shaping the extrudate, and to the solid formulations preparable by this method.