Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols by attaching alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide to one or more H-functional starters in the presence of a double-metal cyanide catalyst, characterized in that (alpha) a suspending agent which contains no H-functional groups is provided in a reactor, (ss) optionally, a moiety of alkylene oxide is added to the mixture from step (alpha) at temperatures of 90 to 150 DEG C., and the addition of the alkylene oxide compound is then interrupted; and (gamma) one or more H-functional starters are continuously metered into the reactor during the reaction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyether carbonate polyols from one or more H-functional starter compounds, one or more alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst, wherein (?) the H-functional starter substance or a mixture of at least two H-functional starter substances is initially introduced into the reaction vessel, (?) for the activation, a part amount (based on the total amount of the amount of alkylene oxides employed in steps (?) and (?)) of one or more alkylene oxides is added to the mixture resulting from step (?), it also being possible for step (?) to be carried out several times for the activation, (?) one or more alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide are metered continuously into the mixture resulting from step (?) (“copolymerization”), the alkylene oxides employed for the copolymerization being identical to or different from the alkylene oxides employed in step (?), characterized in that in step (?) the carbon dioxide is

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols by attaching alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide to one or more H-functional starters in the presence of a double-metal cyanide catalyst, characterized in that (alpha) a suspending agent which contains no H-functional groups and is selected from among one or more compounds from the group consisting of aliphatic lactones, aromatic lactones, lactides, cyclic carbonates comprising at least three optionally substituted methylene groups between the oxygen atoms of the carbonate group, aliphatic cyclic anhydrides, and aromatic cyclic anhydrides, is provided in a reactor; (ss) optionally, a moiety of alkylene oxide is added to the mixture from step (alpha) at temperatures of 90 to 150 DEG C, and the addition of the alkylene oxide compound is then interrupted; and (gamma) one or more H-functional starters are continuously metered into the reactor during the reaction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing linear and/or cyclic carbonate esters, involving the step of reacting an epoxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of a catalyser. The invention further relates to the use of special catalysers for reacting epoxides with carbon dioxide, special catalysers and special reaction products. The catalyser comprises a complex of a metal M or M-A with a ligand L, the metal M being present in an oxidation state of >=0, A standing for halide, carboxylate, phenolate, sulfonate, phosphonate, alkyl, alkoxy or amido, and the ligand L having the subsequent structure (Ia) or (Ib), wherein one or both of the OH groups shown in (Ia) and/or (Ib) can also be deprotonated.

Abstract: A method for controlling a wind turbine system may generally include controlling a wind turbine to operate at a speed and torque setting within a permissible operating region defined between maximum and minimum operating curves, receiving a speed de-rate request and/or a torque de-rate request to de-rate the wind turbine based on a limiting constraint of the wind turbine system, determining an adjusted speed setting and/or an adjusted torque setting for the wind turbine based on the speed de-rate request and/or the torque de-rate request, determining whether an adjustment of the wind turbine operation to the adjusted speed setting and/or the adjusted torque setting would place the turbine outside the permissible operating region and, if the adjustment would place the operation outside the permissible operating region, adjusting the speed setting and/or the torque setting to a new speed and/or torque setting defined along the maximum or minimum operating curve.

Abstract: A microelectronic flash memory device including a plurality of memory cells including transistors fitted with a matrix of channels connecting a block of common source to a second block on which bit lines rest, the transistors also being formed by a plurality of gates including at least one gate material, including a first selection gate coating the channels, a plurality of control gates coating the channels, a plurality of second selection gates each coating the channels of the same row and the matricial arrangement, at least one or more of the gates based on superposition of layers including at least one first layer of dielectrical material, at least one charge store zone, and at least one second layer of dielectrical material.

Abstract: In one aspect, a system for monitoring load-related parameters of a rotor blade of a wind turbine is disclosed. The system may generally include a plurality of reflective targets positioned within the rotor blade. Each reflective target may include a unique visual identifier. In addition, the system may include a light source configured to illuminate the reflective targets and a sensor configured to detect light reflected from the reflective targets.

Abstract: A memory device is provided, including a back gate including a first portion of electrically conductive material, a first portion of dielectric material arranged on the back gate, a semiconductor nanobeam arranged on the first portion of dielectric material, a second portion of dielectric material covering the semiconductor nanobeam, a portion of material configured to receive electrons and holes, and configured to store electrical charges and covering the second portion of dielectric material, a third portion of dielectric material covering the portion of material configured to perform storage of electrical charges, and a front gate including a second portion of electrically conductive material covering the third portion of dielectric material.

Abstract: Electromechanical detection device, particularly for gravimetric detection, and method for manufacturing the device. The electromechanical detection device includes a support including a face defining a plane, at least one beam that can move relative to the support, and means of detecting beam displacement, outputting a signal that depends on the displacement. The beam is anchored to the support through an end and is approximately perpendicular to the plane, and the other end of the beam includes at least one reception zone that can receive one or several particles causing or modifying displacement of the beam, in order to determine at least one physical property of the particle(s) from the signal. According to the invention, the detection means are located between the reception zone and the support.

Abstract: The invention relates to bimetallic complexes in which the ligand contains a salophen unit which complexes copper, manganese or cobalt and a phenanthroline unit which complexes palladium and the two systems are linked by a continuous conjugated system. The invention further relates to the use of these bimetallic complexes as catalysts for the oxidative carbonylation of aromatic hydroxy compounds to form diaryl carbonates, a process for preparing diaryl carbonates using the bimetallic complex as catalyst and also diaryl carbonates prepared by oxidative carbonylation of aromatic hydroxy compounds using the bimetallic complexes of the invention as catalysts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing polyetherester carbonate polyols by means of catalytic addition of carbon dioxide, alkylene oxides and cyclic anhydrides to H-functional starter compounds in the presence of double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols by way of the catalytic addition of carbon dioxide and alkylene oxides to H-functional starter compounds in the presence of double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyser that was activated in the presence of cyclic anhydride.

Abstract: A microelectronic device, including: a substrate and a plurality of metal interconnection levels stacked on the substrate; a first metal line of a given metal interconnection level; a second metal line of another metal interconnection level located above the given metal interconnection level, the first and second lines are interconnected via at least one semiconductor connection element extending in a direction forming a nonzero angle with the first metal lines and the second metal line; and a gate electrode capable of controlling conduction of the semiconductor connection element.

Abstract: A process for preparing olefin-CO copolymers with the steps of: providing a reactor; charging the reactor with a gaseous olefin and with CO, such that there is a first pressure p1 in the reactor; and reacting olefin with CO in the presence of a catalyst in the reactor. Prior to the reaction, either no CO is present in the reactor or the volume ratio of gaseous olefin to CO is ?90:10. During the reaction, gaseous olefin and CO are metered in at least intermittently, with an average over time of the volume ratio of the olefin metered into CO metered in of ?90:10.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing olefin-CO terpolymers with the steps of: providing a reactor; charging the reactor with a first, gaseous olefin and with CO, such that there is a first pressure p1 in the reactor; reacting the first olefin with CO in the presence of a catalyst in the reactor; wherein a second olefin is initially charged in the reactor and/or metered in during the reaction, prior to the reaction either no CO is present in the reactor or the volume ratio of first, gaseous olefin to CO is >60:40, and during the reaction the average over time of the volume ratio of gaseous olefin metered in to CO metered in is >60:40.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing light-coloured polyisocyanates by phosgenation of mixtures comprising MDA and polycyclic aromatic polyamines that have o-phenylenediamine units incorporated via methylene bridges. The invention further relates to the polyisocyanate mixtures obtainable by this method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the activation of double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts and to a process for the preparation of polyethercarbonate polyols from one or more H-functional starter compounds, one or more alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst, characterized in that (?) (?1) the DMC catalyst and one or more H-functional starter compounds are placed in a reactor, (?2) an inert gas, an inert gas/carbon dioxide mixture or carbon dioxide is passed through the reactor at a temperature of 50 to 200° C. and at the same time a reduced pressure (absolute) of 10 mbar to 800 mbar is established in the reactor by removal of the inert gas or carbon dioxide, (?) under an atmosphere of inert gas/carbon dioxide mixture or under a pure carbon dioxide atmosphere, alkylene oxide is added to the mixture from step (?) at temperatures of 50 to 200° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the activation of double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts with heterocumulenes for the preparation of polyether carbonate polyols by catalytic copolymerization of carbon dioxide (CO2) with alkylene oxides in the presence of one or more H-functional starter substances, and to a process for the preparation of polyether carbonate polyols from one or more H-functional starter substances, one or more alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst, characterized in that (?) under an inert gas atmosphere, under an atmosphere of an inert gas/carbon dioxide mixture or under a pure carbon dioxide atmosphere, at temperatures of from 90 to 150° C., the DMC catalyst is mixed with a heterocumulene and H-functional starter substance, (?) alkylene oxide is added at temperatures of from 100 to 150° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyether carbonate polyols from one or more H-functional starter compounds, one or more alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst, wherein (?) the H-functional starter substance or a mixture of at least two H-functional starter substances is initially introduced into the reaction vessel, (?) for the activation, a part amount (based on the total amount of the amount of alkylene oxides employed in steps (?) and (?)) of one or more alkylene oxides is added to the mixture resulting from step (?), it also being possible for step (?) to be carried out several times for the activation, (?) one or more alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide are metered continuously into the mixture resulting from step (?) (“copolymerization”), the alkylene oxides employed for the copolymerization being identical to or different from the alkylene oxides employed in step (?), characterized in that in step (?) the carbon dioxide is

Abstract: In one aspect, a system for monitoring load-related parameters of a rotor blade of a wind turbine is disclosed. The system may generally include a plurality of reflective targets positioned within the rotor blade. Each reflective target may include a unique visual identifier. In addition, the system may include a light source configured to illuminate the reflective targets and a sensor configured to detect light reflected from the reflective targets.