Abstract: Improved aluminum can end stock (CES) is disclosed. The CES includes an adhered polymer coating exhibiting low feathering and high performance in various acid tests. The low feathering and resistance to acid tests is accomplished by incorporating a copolymer adhesion promoter film to an aluminum alloy before lamination. In some cases, the metal strip is pretreated with a conversion layer, which can include compounds of trivalent chromium (Cr(III)) and phosphates or titanium and zirconium.

Abstract: Improved aluminum can end stock (CES) is disclosed. The CES includes a laminated, amorphous polymer coating exhibiting low feathering, low blushing, and high performance in an acetic acid test. The laminated metal strip can include the laminated polymer coating on an interior-facing side and a lacquered coating on an exterior-facing side. The CES is formed by performing an annealing process on the laminated metal strip, wherein the metal strip is raised to an annealing temperature above the melting point of the polymer for a sufficient duration to render the polymer amorphous. In some cases, the polymer film laminated to the metal strip is a Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film.

Abstract: Improved aluminum can end stock (CES) is disclosed. The CES includes an adhered polymer coating exhibiting low feathering and high performance in various acid tests. The low feathering and resistance to acid tests is accomplished by incorporating a copolymer adhesion promoter film to an aluminum alloy before lamination. In some cases, the metal strip is pretreated with a conversion layer, which can include compounds of trivalent chromium (Cr(III)) and phosphates or titanium and zirconium.

Abstract: A laminate aluminium/multilayer biaxially oriented polyester film with successively: M—an aluminum support; C—an amorphous layer C having a copolyester PET-G—which the diol units include Ethylene Glycol EG—units and CycloHexaneDiMethanol CHDM—units; B—a crystallizable layer B having: a copolyester PET-X which the diol units include Ethylene Glycol EG—units and which the acid units include Terephtalic Acid TA—units and units of at least one Dicarboxylic Acid Different From Terephtalic Acid [DADFTA units], the DADFTA units being chosen in the group consisting of Isophtalic Acid IA—units, Sebacic Acid SA—units, Adipic Acid AA—units, and mixtures thereof; and possibly a polyester PolyEthyleneTerephtalate PET; A—optionally a layer A, identical or different from the layer B i. the concentration of the CHDM units in the layer C has between 18 and 34 mol %; ii. the melting temperature of the layer B is comprised between 180 and 245° C.

Abstract: Improved aluminum can end stock (CES) is disclosed. The CES includes a laminated, amorphous polymer coating exhibiting low feathering, low blushing, and high performance in an acetic acid test. The laminated metal strip can include the laminated polymer coating on an interior-facing side and a lacquered coating on an exterior-facing side. The CES is formed by performing an annealing process on the laminated metal strip, wherein the metal strip is raised to an annealing temperature above the melting point of the polymer for a sufficient duration to render the polymer amorphous. In some cases, the polymer film laminated to the metal strip is a Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an adhesive bond between two components, in which an adhesive is used that can be cured with at least two different curing mechanisms. A first curing mechanism here generates less stiffness in the adhesive than at least one second curing mechanism. The layer of adhesive applied to join the components is cured with the first curing mechanism in the region between the components over the entire layer and with the at least second curing mechanism only locally, so that the stiffness of the adhesive layer varies in the region between the components. In like manner, a composite or composite layer can be manufactured with a matrix material, in which the matrix material is varyingly locally cured. The invention also relates to an adhesive or matrix material suitable for the method. The material and accompanying method can be used for many applications.

Abstract: A crestal implant including an elongate anchoring section, an implant stump and a transition section. The anchoring section has an elongate core from which several ribs extend forming rib groups. One or more surfaces which extend in the circumferential direction at a radial reference distance from the longitudinal central axis are provided on the transition section. One or more rib groups, in which the radially outer rib edge of the ribs has a radial distance from the longitudinal central axis of the implant, at least approximately corresponding to the radial reference distance, and one or more rib groups are provided within which only some ribs thereof, or within which all the ribs thereof, have on the radially outer rib edges along the entire or partial circumferential extension, a radial distance from the longitudinal central axis which is greater than the radial reference distance.

Abstract: The invention relates to an implant (1), particularly a jaw implant, which comprises several structural zones (5, 6, 12) made of a material which is non-resorbable, particularly from bones, for the implantation on bones or at least in the vicinity of bones. In an advantageous further embodiment of the implant, two or more of said structural zones (5, 6, 12) have respectively different material properties, in particular different physical properties such as different deformation and/or strength properties. The invention also relates to a method for determining load-dependent deformations in different bone regions, according to which X-ray images of the bone regions are taken with and without mechanical load for comparison. By comparing the X-ray images taken of the individual bone regions under or without load, the resulting deformation can be determined due to the applied load.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of inverse opals having adjustable channel diameters. This is achieved by partial fusing of solid organic or inorganic spheres.

Abstract: The invention relates to an implant (1), particularly a jaw implant, which comprises several structural zones (5, 6, 12) made of a material which is non-resorbable, particularly from bones, for the implantation on bones or at least in the vicinity of bones. In an advantageous further embodiment of the implant, two or more of said structural zones (5, 6, 12) have respectively different material properties, in particular different physical properties such as different deformation and/or strength properties. The invention also relates to a method for determining load-dependent deformations in different bone regions, according to which X-ray images of the bone regions are taken with and without mechanical load for comparison. By comparing the X-ray images taken of the individual bone regions under or without load, the resulting deformation can be determined due to the applied load.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of core/shell particles whose shell forms a matrix and whose core is essentially solid, is built up essentially from an inorganic material and has an essentially monodisperse size distribution and is connected to the shell via an interlayer, for the production of mouldings having homogeneous, regularly arranged cavities and particles in the cavities, to a process for the production of mouldings having homogeneous, regularly arranged cavities, and to the corresponding mouldings.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of core/shell particles, the core of which essentially comprises a degradable polymer with an essentially mono-disperse size distribution and the shell of which forms a matrix, which can be pyrolysed to give a carbon matrix, for the production of shaped bodies with regularly-arranged cavities and the corresponding shaped bodies.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of core/shell particles whose shell forms a matrix and whose core is essentially solid and has an essentially monodisperse size distribution and whose shell is bonded to the core via an interlayer and whose shell has thermoplastic properties for the production of mouldings having homogeneous, regularly arranged cavities, to a process for the production of mouldings having homogeneous, regularly arranged cavities, and to the corresponding mouldings.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of core/shell particles whose shell forms a matrix and whose core is essentially solid and has an essentially monodisperse size distribution as template for the production of inverse opal structures, and to a process for the production of inverse opal-like structures using core/shell particles of this type.

Abstract: A composite multilayer material is described, which exhibits a relatively high specific load carrying capacity and relatively low wear. The composite multilayer material for plain bearings comprises a backing layer, a bearing metallayer (1), a first intermediate layer (2) of nickel, a second intermediate layer (3) of tin and nickel together with an overlay (4) consisting of copper and tin. The overlay (4) comprises a tin matrix (5), into which tin-copper particles (6) are incorporated, which consist of 39 to 55 wt. % copper, the rest being tin. At high temperatures, as occur in the case of plain bearings used in internal combustion engines, the tin migrates into the second intermediate layer (3) therebelow, resulting in concentration of the tin-copper particles (6).

Abstract: A composite multilayer material is described, which exhibits a relatively high specific load carrying capacity and relatively low wear. The composite multilayer material for plain bearings comprises a backing layer, a bearing metal layer (1), a first intermediate layer (2) of nickel, a second intermediate layer (3) of tin and nickel together with an overlay (4) consisting of copper and tin. The overlay (4) comprises a tin matrix (5), into which tin-copper particles (6) are incorporated, which consist of 39 to 55 wt. % copper, the rest being tin. At high temperatures, as occur in the case of plain bearings used in internal combustion engines, the tin migrates into the second intermediate layer (3) therebelow, resulting in concentration of the tin-copper particles (6).

Abstract: A composite material for plain bearings comprises a backing layer, a bearing metal layer consisting of a copper alloy with a copper content of from 50 to 95 wt. % or an aluminum alloy with an aluminum content of from 60 to 95 wt. %, a diffusion barrier layer and an overlay, applied by electroplating, consisting of a lead-free, tin and copper-containing alloy. The invention provides a composite multilayer material whose overlay, applied by electroplating, does not exhibit any embrittlement even at relatively high temperatures, irrespective of the copper content. The overlay preferably comprises from 8 to 30 wt. % copper, 60 to 97 wt. % tin and 0.5-19 wt. % cobalt.