Abstract: The present invention relates to phase change materials (PCMs) for the storage of thermal energy in the form of phase change heat, and to the use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phase change materials (PCMs) for the storage of thermal energy in the form of phase change heat based on lithium nitrate trihydrate, and to the use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of phase change materials in devices for cooling, in particular, electrical and electronic components.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing electrically conductive pigments based on F−- and/or PO43−-doped tin mixed oxides applied as an electrically conductive layer to a substrate, in which, first of all, SnO2-coated substrates are prepared by precipitation and subsequent calcining and then, in further process steps, this SnO2 layer is converted into a tin mixed oxide layer doped with F− and/or PO43−. The invention further relates to electrically conductive pigments prepared by the process of the invention, to the use of these pigments for pigmenting lacquers, printing inks, plastics systems or coatings, and to lacquers, printing inks, plastics systems or coatings pigmented with an electrically conductive pigment prepared by the process of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pearl luster pigment on the basis of a platelet-shaped substrate coated with metal oxides and a top layer which is located on the metal oxide layer and can possess a multilayer structure, comprising a first layer, containing a hydroxide or oxide hydrate of the elements aluminum or silicon, a second layer, containing at least one hydroxide or oxide hydrate of the elements aluminum, silicon, cerium or zirconium, with the exception of the hydroxide or oxide hydrate which forms the first layer, and a third layer, containing at least one organic hydrophobic coupling agent. The present invention also relates to a preparation process and the use of pigments in paints, inks, plastics, coatings and cosmetics.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pearl luster pigment which may possess a first, inner layer, consisting of a platelet-shaped substrate, a second layer, comprising one or more metal oxides, the first and second layers forming a calcined base pigment, a third layer, comprising the corresponding uncalcined oxide, hydroxide or oxide hydrate of the oxide of the second layer, a fourth layer, comprising oxides, hydroxides and/or oxide hydrates of silicon or aluminum, a fifth layer, comprising oxides, hydroxides and/or oxide hydrates of silicon, aluminum, zirconium and/or cerium, this layer differing from the fourth layer, and a sixth layer, comprising one or more organofunctional coupling reagents. The present invention relates to also a preparation process, and the use of the pigments in paints, inks, plastics, coatings and cosmetics.

Abstract: The invention relates to pigment preparations for anticorrosion paints which are employed in primers for metallic objects, have a good corrosion-protection action and consist of from 1 to 99% by weight of one or more compounds which absorb OH− ions and from 1 to 99% by weight of one or more compounds which catalyze an oxygen-reduction reaction on a metallic substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pearl luster pigment which may possess a first, inner layer, consisting of a platelet-shaped substrate, a second layer, comprising one or more metal oxides, the first and second layers forming a calcined base pigment, a third layer, comprising the corresponding uncalcined oxide, hydroxide or oxide hydrate of the oxide of the second layer, a fourth layer, comprising oxides, hydroxides and/or oxide hydrates of silicon or aluminum, a fifth layer, comprising oxides, hydroxides and/or oxide hydrates of silicon, aluminum, zirconium and/or cerium, this layer differing from the fourth layer, and a sixth layer, comprising one or more organofunctional coupling reagents. The present invention relates to also a preparation process, and the use of the pigments in paints, inks, plastics, coating and cosmetics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pearl luster pigment on the basis of a platelet-shaped substrate coated with metal oxides and a top layer which is located on the metal oxide layer and can possess a multilayer structure, comprising a first layer, containing a hydroxide or oxide hydrate of the elements aluminum or silicon, a second layer, containing at least one hydroxide or oxide hydrate of the elements aluminum, silicon, cerium or zirconium, with the exception of the hydroxide or oxide hydrate which forms the first layer, and a third layer, containing at least one organic hydrophobic coupling agent. The present invention also relates to a preparation process and the use of pigments in paints, inks, plastics, coatings and cosmetics.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing electrically conductive pigments based on F−- and/or PO43−-doped tin mixed oxides applied as an electrically conductive layer to a substrate, in which, first of all, SnO2-coated substrates are prepared by precipitation and subsequent calcining and then, in further process steps, this SnO2 layer is converted into a tin mixed oxide layer doped with F− and/or PO43−. The invention further relates to electrically conductive pigments prepared by the process of the invention, to the use of these pigments for pigmenting lacquers, printing inks, plastics systems or coatings, and to lacquers, printing inks, plastics systems or coatings pigmented with an electrically conductive pigment prepared by the process of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of phase change materials in devices for cooling electrical and electronic components.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel manganese dioxide electrodes containing modified, electrochemically active manganese dioxide, a method for their production and their use in primary electrochemical cells. The manganese dioxide electrode contains coated or uncoated inorganic particles, in which the carrier particles consist of a material chosen from the group: mica, SiO2, Al2O3, ZrO2 and ZnO.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to compositions for storing heat energy in the form of heat of phase transition, and to their use. The compositions of the invention for storing heat comprise at least one heat storage material and at least one auxiliary and are characterized in that the composition comprises at least one heat storage material which has at least one solid/solid phase transition and is solid throughout the application range.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel manganese dioxide electrodes comprising modified, electrochemically active manganese dioxide, to a method for fabricating these novel manganese dioxide electrodes and to the use of these in rechargeable cells.

Abstract: A pale electrically conductive pigment consisting of a substrate and an electrically conductive layer formed of phosphorus- and/or fluorine-doped tin oxide. There may be an interlayer disposed between the substrate and the conductive layer.

Abstract: Modified pearl luster pigments for waterborn coating systems, based on a platelet-form substrate coated with metal oxides and, located on the topmost metal oxide layer, a top layer consisting of at least two oxides and/or mixed oxides from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, aluminium oxide, cerium oxide, titanium oxide and zirconium oxide, and on a water-based oligomeric silane system. The oligomeric silane system can be described, for example, by the following approximate structure: [HO[Si(A)(OH)z(CH3)1−zO]a[Si(B)(OH)y(CH3)1−yO]b[Si(E)(OH)w(CH3)1−wO]c[Si(D)(OH)v(CH3)1−vO]dH].

Abstract: Formulation for anti-corrosion coating materials, comprising (i) 3-30% by mass of a monomeric and/or polymeric, metal-free or metal-containing, chelate-forming compound, (ii) 10-80% by mass of a material which binds hydroxide ions, and (iii) 5-65% by mass of a conductive pigment based on carbon.

Abstract: A pigment preparation comprising(i) 10-80% by wt. of a platelet-shaped substrate coated with a metal oxide, and(ii) 20-90% by wt. of an active pigment.

Abstract: A pigment preparation for anti-corrosion coating materials, comprising(i) 3-40% by weight of a monomeric or polymeric, metal-free or metal-containing chelate-forming compound, preferably a phthalocyanine,(ii) 3-40% by weight of a material in flake form, preferably mica, and(iii) 25-80% by weight of a hydroxide ion-binding material, preferably a metaphosphate, di- or triphosphate. In a further embodiment, the pigment preparation additionally contains 5-65% by weight of a conductive pigment.

Abstract: A pearlescent pigment based on a metal oxide-coated, platelet-shaped substrate and a top layer on the metal oxide layer, where the top layer comprises silicon dioxide, at least one further metal hydroxide or metal oxide hydrate and at least one organic coupling reagent. The further metal hydroxides or metal oxide hydrates are hydroxides or oxide hydrates of cerium, aluminum or zirconium, or mixtures thereof. The coupling reagents employed are organofunctional silanes, zirconium aluminates or metal acid esters.