Abstract: An integrated circuit may include oscillator circuitry having a resonator formed from fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) devices. The resonator may include drive cells of alternating polarities and sense cells interposed between the drive cells. The resonator may be connected in a feedback loop within the oscillator circuitry. The oscillator circuitry may include an amplifier having an input coupled to the sense cells and an output coupled to the drive cells. The oscillator circuitry may also include a separate inductor and capacitor based oscillator, where the resonator serves as a separate output filter stage for the inductor and capacitor based oscillator.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of dicidal.

Abstract: An exposure control device serves for equipping and/or retrofitting a generative layer-wise building device. The exposure control device has a first data output interface, at which control commands can be output to the exposure device. The control commands specify one of a plurality of exposure types defined by a predetermined combination of a radiation energy density to be emitted by the exposure device and a scanning pattern with which the radiation is being directed to a region of a layer of the building material. The exposure control device also includes a second data output interface at which an exposure type can be output in real time in relation to a timing of the output of a control command specifying this exposure type.

Abstract: The present application relates to a process for removing an organic compound having one or more positive charges from an aqueous solution, comprising the steps a) provision of the aqueous solution comprising the organic compound and of a hydrophobic organic solution which comprises a liquid cation exchanger, where the liquid cation exchanger is hydrophobic, and where the liquid cation exchanger has one or more negative charges and an overall negative charge, b) contacting the aqueous solution and the organic solution, and c) separating off the organic solution from the aqueous solution.

Abstract: An exposure control device (31) serves for equipping and/or retrofitting a generative layer-wise building device (1). The latter comprises an exposure device (20) which emits electromagnetic radiation (22) or particle radiation and is configured to irradiate positions to be solidified in a layer in such a way that after cooling they exist as an object cross-section or part of the same. The exposure control device (31) has a first data output interface (36), at which control commands can be output to the exposure device (20). The control commands which are output specify one of a plurality of exposure types wherein an exposure type is defined by a predetermined combination of a radiation energy density to be emitted by the exposure device (20) and a scanning pattern with which the radiation (22) is being directed to a region of a layer of the building material (15).

Abstract: A polyamide composition comprising the following components: a) at least 40 parts by weight of a polyamide whose monomer units contain an arithmetic average of at least 7.5 carbon atoms, b) 0.1 to 15 parts by weight of at least one salt with a non-metallic cation, c) 0.1 to 25 parts by weight of at least one dispersant based on esters or amides and d) an electrically conductive carbon selected from the group of carbon black, graphite powder, carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes and/or graphene, in an amount which results in a specific surface resistance of the polymer composition to IEC 60167 of 10?1 to 1010?, e) 0 to 5 parts by weight of at least one metal salt, and optionally f) customary assistants and additives, where the polyamide of component a) is not a PA12 if carbon nanotubes are present as component d), and where the sum of the parts by weight of components a) to f) is 100, can be used for production of mouldings with improved electrical conductivity and improved surface quality.

Abstract: The invention provides a biocatalytic process for oxidation of organic compounds with the aid of an alkL gene product, and microorganisms used in this process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a whole-cell catalyst which expresses a recombinant ?-dioxygenase or the combination of a recombinant fatty acid reductase and a phosphopantetheinyl transferase which phosphopantetheinylates the fatty acid reductase, and which expresses, in addition to the ?-dioxygenase and/or the combination of fatty acid reductase and phosphopantetheinyl transferase, a transaminase, wherein the phosphopantetheinyl transferase and/or transaminase is preferably recombinant; and also to a process for converting a carboxylic acid or dicarboxylic acid or a monoester thereof to an amine or diamine, comprising the steps of contacting the carboxylic acid or dicarboxylic acid or the monoester thereof with a phosphopantetheinylated fatty acid reductase or an ?-dioxygenase and contacting the product with a transaminase.

Abstract: The present application relates to a process for removing an organic compound having one or more positive charges from an aqueous solution, comprising the steps a) provision of the aqueous solution comprising the organic compound and of a hydrophobic organic solution which comprises a liquid cation exchanger, where the liquid cation exchanger is hydrophobic, and where the liquid cation exchanger has one or more negative charges and an overall negative charge, b) contacting the aqueous solution and the organic solution, and c) separating off the organic solution from the aqueous solution.

Abstract: A polyamide composition comprising the following components: a) at least 40 parts by weight of a polyamide whose monomer units contain an arithmetic average of at least 7.5 carbon atoms, b) 0.1 to 15 parts by weight of at least one salt with a non-metallic cation, c) 0.1 to 25 parts by weight of at least one dispersant based on esters or amides and d) an electrically conductive carbon selected from the group of carbon black, graphite powder, carbon fibres, carbon nanotubes and/or graphene, in an amount which results in a specific surface resistance of the polymer composition to IEC 60167 of 10?1 to 1010 ?, e) 0 to 5 parts by weight of at least one metal salt, and optionally f) customary assistants and additives, where the polyamide of component a) is not a PA12 if carbon nanotubes are present as component d), and where the sum of the parts by weight of components a) to f) is 100, can be used for production of mouldings with improved electrical conductivity and improved surface quality.

Abstract: The invention relates to plastics composite moldings obtainable via welding in an alternating electromagnetic field, in which the weld is obtained with the aid of a plastics material which comprises nano-scale, magnetic oxidic particles, which are composed of aggregated primary particles, and where the primary particles are composed of magnetic metal oxide domains whose diameter is from 2 to 100 nm in a non-magnetic metal oxide matrix or non-magnetic metalloid oxide matrix.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a molding composition which comprises at least 50% by weight of a copolyamide, which is composed of the following monomer combination: a) from 65 to 99 mol % of a substantially equimolar mixture composed of an unbranched aliphatic diamine having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms and of an unbranched aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms, ?where the mixture composed of diamine and dicarboxylic acid comprises an average of from 8 to 12 carbon atoms, b) from 1 to 35 mol % of a substantially equimolar mixture composed of a cycloaliphatic diamine having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms and of a dicarboxylic acid having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms, for production of a printable or printed item, such as a ski topcoat.

Abstract: Process for preparing ultrafine powders based on polyamides by contacting polyamides having a relative solution viscosity ?rel in the range from 1.5 to 2.0, measured in 0.5% m-cresol solution at 25° C., with an alcoholic medium in the presence of inorganic particles suspended therein under the action of pressure and/or temperature to generate an at least partial solution, and then precipitating the polyamide from the at least partial solution; the resulting ultrafine polyamide powders have a specific BET surface area of 5-100 m2/g; a fineness d50 of less than 70 ?m; an apparent density AD from 250 to 1000 g/l; and a particle content of 0.1 to 80% by weight of inorganic particles based on the total weight of the polyamide powder; which powders are equally suitable for coatings and for mouldings and components with improved mechanical properties.

Abstract: A film whose outer layer is composed of a molding composition which is in essence composed of the following components: a) from 3 to 50% by weight of a polyamide, selected from the group of PA11 and PA12, and b) from 50 to 97% by weight of a polyamide, selected from the group of PA1012 and PA1212, where the percentages are based on the entirety of components a) and b), is suitable for decoration of moldings which retain their gloss during their service time.

Abstract: Compositions comprising an organic polymer as the matrix and inorganic particles as the filler and exhibiting in mixture a) 20 to 99.9% by wt. of an organic polymer and b) 0.1 to 80% by wt. of inorganic particles, where the sum of the constituents a) and b) amounts to 100% by wt.; and optionally c) 0 to 100 parts by weight of b) of various additives, in which case the content of the additives c) relates to the sum of a) and b), calculated as 100 parts by weight. characterized in that the composition can be obtained by incorporating particles and optionally other additives into the polymer matrix, in which case the particles to be incorporated i) are aggregates of globular primary particles; ii) the size of the primary particles is in a range of 0.5 nm to less than 100 nm; iii) the volume-weighted median value d50 of the particles is in a range of greater than 0.50 ?m to 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to plastic molded bodies having two-dimensional or three-dimensional image structures produced in the interior through laser subsurface engraving. The plastic molded bodies are made of plastic materials which have a content of nanoscale metal oxides having particle sizes from 1 to 500 nm, both the plastic material and also the included metal oxide being transparent to the laser light used for producing the image structures. The plastic materials from which the molded bodies are manufactured particularly contain metal oxides having particle sizes from 5 to 100 nm at a content of 0.0001 to 0.1 weight-percent. Typical metal oxides are nanoscale indium-tin oxide or antimony-tin oxide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer composition which comprises at least one at least semicrystalline polymer having no ionic groups and comprises at least one compound with plasticizing properties, and which comprises having 0.1 to 30% by weight of ionic liquid as plasticizer, and also to the use of this polymer composition, and a process for its preparation.

Abstract: Formulation comprising a polymerizable monomer and/or a polymer and, dispersed therein, a superparamagnetic powder, which comprises aggregated primary particles, the primary particles being built up from magnetic metal oxide domains having a diameter of from 2 to 100 nm in a nonmagnetic metal oxide or metalloid oxide matrix. Process for heating the formulation in a magnetic or electromagnetic alternating field. Use of the formulation as an adhesive composition.

Abstract: A multilayer composite which comprises the following layers: I. an interior layer I selected from among a fluoropolymer molding composition and a polyolefin molding composition; II.

Abstract: A film whose outer layer is composed of a molding composition which is in essence composed of the following components: a) from 3 to 50% by weight of a polyamide, selected from the group of PA11 and PA12, and b) from 50 to 97% by weight of a polyamide, selected from the group of PA1012 and PA1212, where the percentages are based on the entirety of components a) and b), is suitable for decoration of moldings which retain their gloss during their service time.