Abstract: A method for preparing hydroxybenzophenone polyglycol ether (meth)acrylate comprising the steps of (i) reaction of hydroxybenzophenone with ethylene carbonate to give hydroxybenzophenone monoglycol ether, (ii) ethoxylation of hydroxybenzophenone monoglycol ether with ethylene oxide to give hydroxybenzophenone polyglycol ether, (iii) transesterification of hydroxybenzophenone polyglycol ether with alkyl (meth)acrylate to give hydroxybenzophenone polyglycol ether (meth)acrylate.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to polymer compositions comprising a bulk material (P1) and an amphiphilic polyethersulfone block copolymer (P2) and to membranes prepared thereof. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to the use of amphiphilic polyethersulfone block copolymers as antifouling agents and/or pore size control agents in filtration membranes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a copolymer exhibiting both antimicrobial and anti-adhesive properties as well as to a hydrogel. Said hydrogel is obtained from the inventive copolymer and a substrate. Another part of the invention is a process for making the hydrogel, as well as different uses of the inventive copolymer as well as of the hydrogel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing (meth)acrylic esters by esterifying (meth)acrylic acid or transesterifying at least one (meth)acrylic ester with at least one compound comprising at least one OH group in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst comprising at least one inorganic salt, wherein the esterification or transesterification is performed in the presence of 300 to 3000 ppm of water based on the total weight of the reaction mixture.

Abstract: Triarylamine compounds of formula I and methods of using them as hole conducting materials in solar cells. Solar cells that contain these materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates 9,9?-spirobifluorene compounds of general formula I wherein the variables R11, R12, R21, R22, R31, R32, R41 and R42 independently of each other have the meaning of aryl or hetaryl, with the proviso that not all of the radicals R11, R12, R21, R22, R31, R32, R41 and R42 are identical, to the use of compounds of general formula I in organic electronics applications, especially in organic field effect transistors, in organic photodetectors and organic solar cells, specifically in dye-sensitized solar cells and bulk heterojunction solar cells, and to an organic field effect transistor, a dye-sensitized solar cell and a bulk heterojunction solar cell comprising compounds of general formula I.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new coating materials for corrosion control.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing (meth)acrylic esters by esterifying (meth)acrylic acid or transesterifying at least one (meth)acrylic ester with at least one compound comprising at least one OH group in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst comprising at least one inorganic salt, wherein the esterification or transesterification is performed in the presence of 300 to 3000 ppm of water based on the total weight of the reaction mixture.

Abstract: Provided is a process for preparing a (meth)acrylic ester (F) of an N-hydroxyalkylated lactam, in which a cyclic N-hydroxyalkylated lactam (L): where the structural variables as defined herein, in the presence of at least one metal salt of C1-C10-alkoxides (A), is esterified with (meth)acrylic acid (S) or transesterified with at least one (meth)acrylic ester (D), in which the metal salt of C1-C10-alkoxides (A) used as a catalyst is added in the absence of solvents and completely at the start of the reaction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new coating materials for corrosion control.

Abstract: Method of applying corrosion control coats, especially integrated pretreatment layers or coats for atmospheric corrosion control, to metallic surfaces, using copolymers comprising as monomeric building blocks 20% to 70% by weight of monomers containing nitrogen heterocycles, 10% to 50% by weight of monomers containing acidic groups, 10% to 50% by weight of vinylaromatic monomers, and optionally 0% to 25% by weight of further monomers. Copolymers of the stated composition, and also preparations for applying corrosion control coats.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microwave absorbing composition comprising: a) magnetic nanoparticles, dispersed in b) a polymer matrix comprising at least one highly branched polymer comprising nitrogen atoms, a method for the production of such a microwave absorbing composition and the use thereof.

Abstract: A process for catalytically preparing (meth)acrylic esters of N-hydroxyalkylated lactams and to the use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new coating materials for corrosion control.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing (meth)acrylic esters (F) of N,N-substituted amino alcohols, by transesterifying N,N-substituted amino alcohols (I) in which Y and Z are each independently C1-C20-alkyl, C3-C15-cycloalkyl, aryl, or Y and Z together with the nitrogen atom connecting them form a 5- to 9-membered saturated heterocyclic radical which optionally has oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen or C1-C4-alkyl-substituted nitrogen as a further heteroatom, and X is C2-C20-alkylene which may be interrupted by 1 to 10 nonadjacent oxy groups and/or unsubstituted or methoxy-substituted C1-C4-alkylimino groups, or a C3-C15-cycloalkylene, with at least one (meth)acrylic ester (D) in the presence of at least one heterogeneous catalyst (K), wherein the heterogeneous catalyst (K) is used without any further solvent and the content of polymerization inhibitors in the reaction mixture is <450 ppm, and to the use of the (meth)acrylic esters (F) of N,N-substituted amino alcohols.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for producing a photoelectric conversion device comprising a dye-sensitized metal oxide semiconductor which is treated with an essentially transparent hydroxamic acid or an essentially transparent salt thereof. The invention also relates to a photoelectric conversion device obtainable by the process of the invention and to a photoelectric cell, especially a solar cell, comprising the photoelectric conversion device. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of an essentially transparent hydroxamic acid or an essentially transparent salt thereof for enhancing the energy conversion efficiency ? of dye-sensitized photoelectric conversion devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of compounds of the general formula I in which A1, A2, A3 are each independently divalent organic units which may comprise one, two or three optionally substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic groups, where, in the case of two or three aromatic or heteroaromatic groups, two of these groups in each case are joined to one another by a chemical bond and/or via a divalent alkyl radical, R1, R2, R3 are each independently R, OR, NR2, A3-OR or A3-NR2 substituents, R is alkyl, aryl or a monovalent organic radical which may comprise one, two or three optionally substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic groups, where, in the case of two or three aromatic or heteroaromatic groups, two of these groups in each case are joined to one another by a chemical bond and/or via a divalent alkyl or NR? radical, R? is alkyl, aryl or a monovalent organic radical which may comprise one, two or three optionally substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic groups, where, in the case of two or three ar

Abstract: A process for preparing (meth)acrylic esters (F) of N-hydroxyalkylated imidazoles, wherein N-hydroxyalkylated imidazoles (I), in which R1 and R2 may each independently be hydrogen or C1-C20-alkyl, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently hydrogen or C1-C20-alkyl, C1-C20-alkylcarbonyl, C2-C20-alkenyl, C2-C20-alkenylcarbonyl, C2-C20-alkynyl, C2-C20-alkynylcarbonyl, C3-C15-cycloalkyl, C3-C15-cycloalkylcarbonyl, aryl, arylcarbonyl, a heterocycle or a halogen atom, and m and n are each integers in the range of in each case from 0 to 20, where m and n cannot simultaneously be 0, and in which the particular units bracketed by the variables m and n are present in any sequence, and in which, in the case that m?2, the R1 and R2 radicals are in each case independent in the particular units, in the presence of at least one catalyst (K), are esterified with (meth)acrylic acid (S) or transesterified with at least one (meth)acrylic ester (D).

Abstract: Methods for controlling atmospheric corrosion of a metallic surface including coating the metallic surface with a coating material containing at least one compound having at least one thioamide group.

Abstract: A process for preparing (meth)acrylic esters (E) of alcohols (A) comprising polyalkoxy groups, in which alcohols (A) which comprise polyalkoxy groups and are of the formula (I) RO—[(CH2)mO]n—H ??(I) in which m is an integer from 1 to 10, n is an integer from 1 to 100 and R is a straight-chain saturated or unsaturated alcohol having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, are transesterified with at least one (meth) acrylic ester (D) in the presence of at least one inorganic salt (S).