Abstract: A thermal storage system, capable of storing and releasing thermal energy, with a radiative heat exchange outer surface and a method of operating the device to cool a room-space without using a circulating refrigerant in the room cooling step.

Abstract: A thermal storage system, capable of storing and releasing thermal energy, with a radiative heat exchange outer surface and a method of operating the device to cool a room-space without using a circulating refrigerant in the room cooling step

Abstract: A laminate, comprising a substrate and at least two controlled droplet-formed layers further comprising an array of discrete placed material volumes having a thickness extent, each material volume having a selected magnitude and a selected position relative to adjacent material volumes, said array being formed by deposition of droplets of selected volume at selected locations with respect to one another.

Abstract: A combinatorial, high-throughput screening method is described for developing new coatings having a performance characteristic of a coating property which results in a substantial increase in the discovery rate of new coating materials. The method includes the steps of providing an array of wells (18) for receiving candidate coating materials having a parameter; placing coating materials in each well (16) while varying the coating material parameter correlating the coating material position in the array to the variation of the coating material parameter; applying a coating leveling force to and optionally drying the coating materials in the array of coating wells (19); testing the coatings with regard to the desired performance characteristic (21) and correlating the result of the test to the well position in the array that thereby coating materials having the desired performance characteristic may be discovered.

Abstract: A continuous process for manufacturing self-assembled multilayer coatings, and more particularly, to a continuous process for making multilayer coatings in a roll-to-roll process. A predetermined number of alternating nanoscopic layers of positively charged and negatively charges species are deposited on a moving substrate to form a multilayer composite coating on a substrate in roll form.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention relates to composite films having barrier properties, and more particularly, to composite films which comprise a silicon nitride based coating on a flexible plastic substrate wherein the silicon nitride based coating has a thickness of less than about 220 nm and is deposited on the plastic substrate by sputtering of a silicon target in an atmosphere comprising at least 75% by volume of nitrogen. The composite barrier film has a visible light transmittance of at least about 75%.

Abstract: A multilayer barrier coating of alternating layers of an organic material and a negatively charged inorganic material. The barrier coating may be a barrier to oxygen, moisture, flavor and/or aroma. The organic material is deposited on a substrate from an aqueous solution, followed by rinsing and then drying the adsorbed layer of organic material. The negatively charged inorganic material is then deposited over the organic material from an aqueous solution, followed by rinsing and then drying the adsorbed layer of inorganic material.