Abstract: A MEMS media sensor, in particular, a MEMS gas sensor, including at least two electrodes, which are situated electrically isolated from one another with the aid of a carrier layer, a media-sensitive material for electrically connecting the two electrodes being applied to the carrier layer, a surface area for applying the media-sensitive material on the carrier layer having a topography, which is adapted to a particle size of particles of the media-sensitive material.

Abstract: A method for planning a power exchange between a charging infrastructure and an electricity supply grid. The infrastructure has a plurality of terminals for connecting and charging electric vehicles such that the electric vehicles can exchange power with the grid via the terminals. Each electric vehicle has an electrical storage unit with a variable individual state of charge for drawing and outputting power, and all of the storage units connected to the infrastructure form an overall storage unit of the infrastructure, which overall storage unit is characterized by a total storage capacity and a total state of charge that are variable. The prediction of arrival times of the vehicles at the terminals thereof is created, and a total state of charge prediction is created for a prediction period depending on the prediction of the arrival times, wherein the total state of charge prediction is created as a time profile.

Abstract: A MEMS media sensor, in particular, a MEMS gas sensor, including at least two electrodes, which are situated electrically isolated from one another with the aid of a carrier layer, a media-sensitive material for electrically connecting the two electrodes being applied to the carrier layer, a surface area for applying the media-sensitive material on the carrier layer having a topography, which is adapted to a particle size of particles of the media-sensitive material.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for identifying high affinity adaptor molecules that bind to both a circulating antibody and a target molecule and redirect the specificity of the circulating antibody to the target molecule. Exemplary high affinity adaptor molecules are also provided.

Abstract: An integrated diode array and a corresponding manufacturing method are provided. The integrated diode array includes a substrate having an upper side, and a plurality of blocks of several diodes, which are positioned in a planar manner and are suspended at the substrate above a cavity situated below them in the substrate. The blocks are separated from one another by respective gaps, and within a specific block, the individual diodes are electrically insulated from one another by first STI trenches situated between them.

Abstract: An integrated diode array and a corresponding manufacturing method are provided. The integrated diode array includes a substrate having an upper side, and a plurality of blocks of several diodes, which are positioned in a planar manner and are suspended at the substrate above a cavity situated below them in the substrate. The blocks are separated from one another by respective gaps, and within a specific block, the individual diodes are electrically insulated from one another by first STI trenches situated between them.

Abstract: A method for producing a component having at least one diaphragm formed in the upper surface of the component, which diaphragm spans a cavity, and having at least one access opening to the cavity from the back side of the component, at least one first diaphragm layer and the cavity being produced in a monolithic semiconductor substrate from the upper surface of the component, and the access opening being produced in a temporally limited etching step from the back side of the substrate. The access opening is placed in a region in which the substrate material comes up to the first diaphragm layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micromechanical diaphragm structure having access from the rear of the substrate includes: n-doping at least one contiguous lattice-type area of a p-doped silicon substrate surface; porously etching a substrate area beneath the n-doped lattice structure; producing a cavity in this substrate area beneath the n-doped lattice structure; growing a first monocrystalline silicon epitaxial layer on the n-doped lattice structure; at least one opening in the n-doped lattice structure being dimensioned in such a way that it is not closed by the growing first epitaxial layer but instead forms an access opening to the cavity; an oxide layer being created on the cavity wall; a rear access to the cavity being created, the oxide layer on the cavity wall acting as an etch stop layer; and the oxide layer being removed in the area of the cavity.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for identifying high affinity adaptor molecules that bind to both a circulating antibody and a target molecule and redirect the specificity of the circulating antibody to the target molecule. Exemplary high affinity adaptor molecules are also provided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micromechanical diaphragm structure having access from the rear of the substrate includes: n-doping at least one contiguous lattice-type area of a p-doped silicon substrate surface; porously etching a substrate area beneath the n-doped lattice structure; producing a cavity in this substrate area beneath the n-doped lattice structure; growing a first monocrystalline silicon epitaxial layer on the n-doped lattice structure; at least one opening in the n-doped lattice structure being dimensioned in such a way that it is not closed by the growing first epitaxial layer but instead forms an access opening to the cavity; an oxide layer being created on the cavity wall; a rear access to the cavity being created, the oxide layer on the cavity wall acting as an etch stop layer; and the oxide layer being removed in the area of the cavity.

Abstract: A method for producing a component having at least one diaphragm formed in the upper surface of the component, which diaphragm spans a cavity, and having at least one access opening to the cavity from the back side of the component, at least one first diaphragm layer and the cavity being produced in a monolithic semiconductor substrate from the upper surface of the component, and the access opening being produced in a temporally limited etching step from the back side of the substrate. The access opening is placed in a region in which the substrate material comes up to the first diaphragm layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides peptides and mimetics thereof that bind to VEGF. In preferred embodiments, the peptides of the invention are D type optical isomers which can bind VEGF and which can inhibit or reduce VEGF biological activity.

Abstract: Improved plant growth is realized especially with turf grasses by using an enhanced plant growth medium prepared by adding a bioefficacious amount of C1-C4 alkyl ether of methyl oxirane-oxirane copolymer that, serendipitously reduces the water repellency of the medium.

Abstract: Improved plant growth is realized especially with turf grasses by using an enhanced plant growth medium prepared by adding a bioefficacious amount of C1-C4 alkyl ether of methyl oxirane-oxirane copolymer that, serendipitously reduces the water repellency of the medium.

Abstract: Improved process for the preparation of granular N-alkylammoniumacetonitrile salts I R2R3N+R1—CR4R5—CN Y−  (I) where R1 to R5 are hydrogen or organic radicals, and Y− is a sulfate or hydrogensulfate anion, from an aqueous solution of the compound II R2R3N+R1—CR4R5—CN R6O—SO2—O−  (II) where R6 is C1- to C4-alkyl, which comprises evaporating this aqueous solution at a temperature of from 80° C. to 250° C. and a pressure of from 10 mbar to 2 bar to give a melt, then allowing the melt to solidify, where, during or following the evaporation, customary carrier materials and/or auxiliaries can be added, and the resulting solidified compound I is converted into the desired granular form.

Abstract: A process is provided for the preparation of a compound having the structure of Formula I The process includes reacting a heterocyclic amine with a monoaldehyde or a dialdehyde in a pH range of from about 8 to 14 and then quaternizing the so-reacted heterocyclic amine with an alkylating agent at a pH of not less than about 2. The use of pH control substantially prevents formation of an undesirable protonated reaction intermediate.

Abstract: A stabilized polyaryl ether ketone molding composition contains as essential componentsA: from 50 to 99.99% by weight of a polyaryl ether ketone A prepared by electrophilic polycondensation and at least 50 mol % of which is made up of units of the general formula I ##STR1## where s and t are each 0, 1,2, or 3 and T and T' are each --O-- or --CO--, or a ring-substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, c.sub.6 -C.sub.20 -arly or halogen derivative thereof,B: from 0.01 to 4% by weight of a phosphorus compound B containing units of the general formula IIa ##STR2## or of the general formula IIb ##STR3## in which the substituents and indices have the following meanings: V is oxygen or sulfur,Q.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.25 -alkyl or aryl or from 6 to 25 carbon atoms in which the aromatic rings can be monosubstituted, disubstituted or trisubstituted by slkyl of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms,Q.sup.2 and Q.sup.3 are each independently of the other C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: A sensitized lithographic printing plate comprising an aluminum substrate which has been mechanically, chemically and/or electrochemically pretreated and anodically oxidized in a conventional manner and a photosensitive copying layer which is applied to this substrate is produced by a process in which the substrate is aftertreated with an aqueous solution of a mixture of a fluoride and a hydrolysis product or condensate of a silane before application of the photosensitive copying layer.There lithographic printing plates are particularly suitable for offset printing.

Abstract: A method of isolating trans-1,1,4,4-tetraalkyl-2-butene-1,4-diols of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and denote C.sub.1 - to C.sub.5 -alkyl, from mixtures thereof with their cis-isomers, wherein the trans-isomer is separated from the cis-isomer by liquid-liquid extraction.

Abstract: Agent for controlling the peach twig borer, Anarsia lineatella, by the confusion technique containing a mixture of E5-decen-1-ol (I), E5-decen-1-yl acetate (II) and Z5-decen-1-ol (III) and Z5-decen-1-yl acetate (IV), the amount of the Z isomers (III) and (IV) being up to 50% by weight, based on the mixture (I) to (IV), and, if required, conventional additives and assistants.