Abstract: An electroactive material suitable for electrochemical cell electrode wherein the electroactive material includes a chalcogen oligomer that can reversibly deintercalate/reintercalate an anion of the chalcogen, such as La2O2S2, and the electrochemical electrodes and cells containing the electroactive material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating comprising at least one functional decorative layer. The decorative layer comprises a thermochromic composition exhibiting a reversible variation of optical and/or colorimetric properties when part or all of the coating is subjected to a temperature variation between a cold temperature and a hot temperature, the cold temperature being between 0° C. and 40° C. and the hot temperature being between 80° C. and 400° C., and comprising at least one thermochromic compound of the family of silver halides. The invention also relates to a functional decorative layer composition, to an article comprising the coating or the decorative layer composition, and to the use of the coating or the decorative layer composition as a temperature indicator.

Abstract: Provided is a non-stick coating including at least one functional decorative layer, including a pigment composition having a reversible variation of optical and/or colorimetric properties when the coating is subjected to a temperature variation between a cold temperature of 0° C. to 40° C. and a hot temperature of 80° C. to 400° C. The pigment composition includes at least one compound of formula Y(3-x)MxFe(5-y)QyO12 in the form of particles, in which M is selected from the lanthanides, alkaline metals, alkaline-earth metals and metalloids with a degree of oxidation (DO) +3; Q is selected from the group made up of the lanthanides, non-metals with degree of oxidation +4, metals with DO +3 or +4, transition metals with DO +2 or +4, alkaline-earth metals and alkaline metals; and wherein x is between 0 and 0.3 and y is between 0 and 3.

Abstract: Provided is a non-stick coating including at least one functional decorative layer, including a pigment composition having a reversible variation of optical and/or colorimetric properties when the coating is subjected to a temperature variation between a cold temperature of 0° C. to 40° C. and a hot temperature of 80° C. to 400° C. The pigment composition includes at least one compound of formula Y(3-x)MxFe(5-y)QyO12 in the form of particles, in which M is selected from the lanthanides, alkaline metals, alkaline-earth metals and metalloids with a degree of oxidation (DO) +3; Q is selected from the group made up of the lanthanides, non-metals with degree of oxidation +4, metals with DO +3 or +4, transition metals with DO +2 or +4, alkaline-earth metals and alkaline metals; and wherein x is between 0 and 0.3 and y is between 0 and 3.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for converting an alkaline-earth metal chloride to at least one salt chosen from the tungstates and molybdates of this metal, which comprises the reaction of the alkaline-earth metal chloride with at least one precursor of tungsten or of molybdenum chosen from tungsten oxides, molybdenum oxides, tungstates and molybdates, this reaction being carried out in a solvent constituted by KCl or by an LiCl/KCl mixture and at a temperature at least equal to the melting point of this solvent. Applications: synthesis of alkaline-earth metal tungstates and molybdates, extraction of alkaline-earth metals from media in which they are found in the form of chlorides, recovery of alkaline-earth fission products from a salt flux in the context of the reprocessing of a spent nuclear fuel in molten chloride media, etc.

Abstract: The invention relates to hybrid organic-inorganic materials containing molybdenum and having photochromic properties. The invention also relates to the use thereof, particularly in cosmetics and in the glass industry, e.g. in glazing applications or in the production of ocular glasses.