Abstract: A coated container having reduced nonspecific adsorption of nonspecific targets can have an interior volume surrounded by one or more walls having one or more interior surfaces, and a coating comprising a spray-coated hydrogel layer surface attached to the one or more interior surfaces, the spray-coated hydrogel having surface roughness with surface features with an average features height of less than 20 nm.

Abstract: A rotating element with a cuboid body has a base, a ceiling, support elements connecting the base to the ceiling, and a translational-rotational fitting with a base plate and a rotating plate, with which the rotating element can be moved in a combined translational-rotational movement from an initial position into an open end position and back into the initial position. A positioning plate is arranged between the rotating plate and the base or the ceiling of the body. The positioning plate is fastenable to the rotating plate in different predetermined positions from one another, the predetermined positions being selected such that adjacent outer edges of the rotating element, which are located opposite the outer edges of the body and aligned at right angles to one another, lie on the imaginary boundary lines in the open end position of the rotating element.

Abstract: Device for the in-vivo and/or in-vitro enrichment of target structures in a sample liquid, including at least one functional portion, which is provided with receptors for enriching the target structures. In order to improve the enrichment of the target structures in the sample liquid, it is provided according to the invention that the functional portion has a helical shape, which is produced by twisting a symmetrical starting cross section about a twisting axis. The invention likewise discloses a method for producing this device.

Abstract: Device for the in-vivo and/or in-vitro enrichment of target structures in a sample liquid, including at least one functional portion, which is provided with receptors for enriching the target structures. In order to improve the enrichment of the target structures in the sample liquid, it is provided according to the invention that the functional portion has a helical shape, which is produced by twisting a symmetrical starting cross section about a twisting axis. The invention likewise discloses a method for producing this device.

Abstract: The invention relates, in particular, to supported transition metal complexes based on a polystyrene matrix comprising structural units of the formula (Ia): or supported transition metal complexes based on a silica gel matrix comprising structural units of the formula (II): where the radicals and indices have the meanings given in the description. The invention also relates to the use of the supported transition metal complexes in catalysis and corresponding processes for the transition metal-catalyzed conversion of starting material(s) into product(s). In particular, the invention relates to the field of olefin metathesis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for covalently immobilising probe-biomolecules on organic surfaces by means of photoreactive cross-linking agents which are used for covalently immobilising the probe-biomolecules on an organic surface. The inventive immobilising method consists in applying said probe-biomolecules and photoactive polymers and afterwards in cross-linking.

Abstract: The invention relates to polyfunctional polymer networks comprising an assembly of cross-linked polymer subchains attached to a surface, with each polymer subchain comprising a multitude of identical or different repeating units carrying one or more functional groups which allows an interaction with a sample or probe molecule.

Abstract: The invention relates to sensor chips with multiple layers of polysiloxane with improve homogeneity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas sensor comprising a substrate of a first charge carrier type whereon a drain and a source of a second charge carrier type are arranged. A channel area is formed between the drain and the source. The gas sensor also comprises a gas sensitive layer comprising poles between which a gas induced voltage is produced according to the concentration of a gas which is in contact with the layer. In order to measure said voltage, a pole of the gas sensitive layer is capacitatively coupled to the channel area by means of an air gap and the other pole is connected to a counter-electrode having a reference potential. A hydrophobic layer is arranged on the surface of the gas sensor between the gas sensitive layer and the channel area and/or on a sensor electrode which is connected to a gate electrode arranged on the channel area.

Abstract: The invention relates to polyfunctional polymer monolayers (polymer brushes) comprising a multitude of polymer chains attached to a surface, with each polymer chain comprising a multitude of units carrying at least on functional group which allows the interaction of the polymer chain with a sample molecule.

Abstract: The invention relates to polyfunctional polymer networks comprising an assembly of cross-linked polymer subchains attached to a surface, with each polymer subchain comprising a multitude of identical or different repeating units carrying one or more functional groups which allows an interaction with a sample or probe molecule.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the large scale production of patterned active surfaces for bioconjugation comprising the steps of: