Abstract: An illumination device includes: a light source configured for emitting a primary light; a light conversion unit formed by or including a light conversion element including a front side and a back side, the light conversion element being configured for being illuminated with the primary light and for emitting a secondary light with a wavelength altered relative to the primary light, the light conversion element being configured, on illumination with the primary light, for emitting the secondary light which is characterized by a spectrum which defines a point in a CIE 1931 color space at least one of that: (i) together with a blue point and a red point of an REC709 window defines an area which covers at least 95% of the REC709 window; and (ii) has a radial distance from a green point of the REC709 window that is at most 0.02.

Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution, comprising monomers bearing acid groups, in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the monomer solution comprises polyvalent cations and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: A process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution, where the monomer solution comprises at least two initiators, one of the initiators is a peroxide with the exception of persulfate, and the molar ratio of peroxide to further initiator is at least 1:8, the water-absorbing polymer particles themselves, and hygiene articles comprising these water-absorbing polymer particles.

Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution, comprising monomers bearing acid groups, in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the monomer solution comprises polyvalent cations and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein a water-insoluble inorganic salt is suspended in the monomer solution and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein a water-insoluble inorganic salt is suspended in the monomer solution and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: A process for preparing postcrosslinked water-absorbing polymer beads with high absorption by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the solids content of the monomer solution is at least 35% by weight and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: Water-absorbing polymeric particles are produced by spray polymerization of a monomer solution in a process wherein the monomer solution is spray dispensed and at least one crosslinker accumulates in the region of the droplet surface, and are useful in hygiene articles.

Abstract: A process for preparing postcrosslinked water-absorbing polymer beads with high absorption by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the solids content of the monomer solution is at least 35% by weight and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: A process for preparing postcrosslinked water-absorbing polymer beads with high absorption by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the solids content of the monomer solution is at least 35% by weight and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: A process for producing a polymer powder comprising vinylformamide units by free radical polymerization of an aqueous solution of N-vinylformamide and if appropriate other monomers and drying the polymer which comprises an aqueous monomer solution comprising N-vinylformamide and at least one polymerization initiator being spray dispensed as an aerosol or dropletized at the top of a heatable tower-shaped reactor, then polymerizing the aerosol or droplets in an inert gas atmosphere to form a finely divided solid and discharging the finely divided polymer from the reactor.

Abstract: A process for producing a polymer powder comprising vinylformamide units by free radical polymerization of an aqueous solution of N-vinylformamide and if appropriate other monomers and drying the polymer which comprises an aqueous monomer solution comprising N-vinylformamide and at least one polymerization initiator being spray dispensed as an aerosol or dropletized at the top of a heatable tower-shaped reactor, then polymerizing the aerosol or droplets in an inert gas atmosphere to form a finely divided solid and discharging the finely divided polymer from the reactor.

Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the monomer solution comprises at least 0.5% by weight of a crosslinker, based on the monomer, the polymerization in the droplet takes place in homogeneous phase, and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: In a process for dropletizing a liquid by means of a dropletizer plate at least the underside of the dropletizer plate has at least in part a contact angle of at least 60° with regard to the liquid to be dropletized.

Abstract: Process for producing polymers by spray polymerization wherein the monomer solution is dispersed in a hydrophobic liquid, the use of the polymers for thickening liquids and also an apparatus for producing polymers by spray polymerization.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for continuously preparing styrene polymers by anionic spray polymerization, which comprises i) styrene and the initiator solution being mixed in a dynamic or static mixer and then the mixture being sprayed, ii) the resultant droplets passing from the liquid monomer state to the melted polymer state during their free fall in the spraying tower, iii) the melt droplets being collected as a melt at the foot of the tower, the melt having a monomer content of below 1%, preferably below 0.1% (<1000 ppm), and being discharged by suitable means.

Abstract: A process for producing water-absorbing polymeric particles by dropletization polymerization in the gas phase, which comprises drying the polymeric particles after the polymerization in a fluidized bed, the water-absorbing polymeric particles themselves, hygiene articles comprising these water-absorbing polymeric particles and also apparatus for implementing the process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing polyisobutene by polymerizing isobutene using an inert diluent and a halogen-containing Lewis acid as a catalyst, wherein the isobutene in the form of droplets is contacted with the Lewis acid in a polymerization apparatus.

Abstract: A process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution, where the monomer solution comprises at least two initiators, one of the initiators is a peroxide with the exception of persulfate, and the molar ratio of peroxide to further initiator is at least 1:8, the water-absorbing polymer particles themselves, and hygiene articles comprising these water-absorbing polymer particles.

Abstract: A process for preparing postcrosslinked water-absorbing polymer beads with high absorption by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the solids content of the monomer solution is at least 35% by weight and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.