Abstract: A process and apparatus for cleaning and disinfection of textiles and the air from viruses, bacteria and spores, and also for purifying from dust, pollen, odors, etc. in which the employment of water and various other cleaning agents and disinfectants as well is not required includes a lock or chamberin which living beings are able to stay, and piece-goods and textiles, etc. are able to be treated as well. Therein, airborne aerosols (droplets, particles, dust) as well as aerosols and microbes, respectively, adhering to the clothing or body and to the product, respectively, are to be treated. The basic principle shall also be applicable to rooms (e.g. waiting rooms) or stables and under cleanroom conditions as well. Various aspects of the invention include plasma generation, producing an ion current from the plasma, ozone generation and activation, sterilization, oxidation and decomposition of gaseous components, and separation of microbes and aerosols and decomposition thereof.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for cleaning and disinfection of textiles and the air from viruses, bacteria and spores, and also for purifying from dust, pollen, odors, etc. in which the employment of water and various other cleaning agents and disinfectants as well is not required includes a lock or chamberin which living beings are able to stay, and piece-goods and textiles, etc. are able to be treated as well. Therein, airborne aerosols (droplets, particles, dust) as well as aerosols and microbes, respectively, adhering to the clothing or body and to the product, respectively, are to be treated. The basic principle shall also be applicable to rooms (e.g. waiting rooms) or stables and under cleanroom conditions as well. Various aspects of the invention include plasma generation, producing an ion current from the plasma, ozone generation and activation, sterilization, oxidation and decomposition of gaseous components, and separation of microbes and aerosols and decomposition thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a binder, preferably for coating materials, which is curable thermally and/or by high-energy radiation and comprises a mixture of substances comprising (a) as one component, monomers or polymers which have a least one vinyl ether, vinyl ester, (meth)acrylic and/or allyl group and (b) as a further component, saturated polymers and/or unsaturated polymers different from component (a), with the proviso that at least one of components (a) and (b) has structural units of the formulae (I) and/or (II) the other component (b) has structural units of the formulae (I) and/or (II) at least when it contains saturated polymers. The invention also relates to a process for preparing the binder and to a formulation which comprises the binder of the invention. This formulation is in the form of a pigmented or unpigmented coating material or powder coating material.

Abstract: Compounds having isocyanate groups with or without blocking, allophanate groups and free-radically polymerizable C—C double bonds, the C—C double bonds being in activated form by virtue of a carbonyl group attached directly to them or by virtue of an oxygen atom in ether function (activated double bonds), derived from polyisocyanates and alcohols A which in addition to the alcohol group also carry an activated double bond (compounds I). The invention additionally relates to radiation-curable formulations and coating compositions comprising the compounds I, to methods for coating using these substances, and to coated articles produced using these methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a curable polyurethane polymer containing in copolymerized form A) from 10 to 60% by weight of at least one hydroxyl-containing prepolymer having at least one &agr;,&bgr;-ethylenically unsaturated double bond, B) from 0.1 to 30% by weight of at least one compound having at least one isocyanate-reactive hydroxyl group and/or primary or secondary amino group and, in addition, at least one polar functional group per molecule, C) from 0.

Abstract: A decomposition device and a method for decomposing gases with soot or other harmful substances has a processing station using dielectrically hindered discharge. The device has at least two electrodes, one of which is a porous and gas permeable electrode. In order to decompose the gas containing harmful substances, the gas is first introduced into a processing station in which the gas is subjected to plasma processing involving an alternate voltage supply, and from which the gas is let out. The gas is introduced through one end of the processing station formed by the two electrodes.

Abstract: In a process for improving the adhesive strength of radiation-cured films of acrylate resins which comprise compounds having at least one amine group and at least one unsaturated acrylate group and, in particular, an amino-modified acrylate resin having a molecular weight Mn of at least 300, on substrates, the acrylate resins are admixed with amine-hardenable polyepoxides having an epoxide value of from 1 to 15 mol/kg such as polyglycidyl esters or polyglycidyl ethers. Preferred curable mixtures of amine-modified acrylate resins with polyepoxides have amine numbers of from 1 to 250 mg KOH/g and epoxide values of from 0.1 to 4 mol/kg. The mixtures applied as coating films to metal substrates or plastics substrates, in particular, are radiation-cured with, e.g., UV light and an at least partial amine hardening of the polyepoxide compounds in the mixture is conducted by thermal conditioning at, e.g., from 50 to 120° C.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of mixtures of (a) polyurethanes having hydrophilic groups which result in water dispersibility of the polyurethane and (b) radiation-curable (meth)acrylate prepolymers which are dilutable in at least 5% by weight of water, such as hydroxyl-containing polyether acrylates, are suitable, owing to their penetration behavior and their high solids absorption in paper, for use as radiation-curable coating or impregnating materials for paper substrates.

Abstract: Compounds having alcoholic hydroxyl groups are esterified with acrylic or methacrylic acid in the presence of copper(II) salts or mixtures thereof as polymerization inhibitors and in the presence of a hydrocarbon as a water-entraining agent with removal of the water of reaction at from 90 to 150° C. After the esterification, the copper salt is precipitated as copper sulfide and is separated off from the ester. The light-color (meth)acrylates resulting in the high yields are particularly suitable for coatings containing colored pigment on substrates such as wood, paper, mineral building materials, plastics or metal.

Abstract: A water-dispersible, radiation-curable polyurethane composed essentially of a) organic, aliphatic or alicyclic polyisocyanates, b) cycloaliphatic diols and/or cycloaliphatic diamines, c) compounds containing at least one isocyanate-reactive group and at least one free-radically polymerizable unsaturated group, d) compounds containing at least one isocyanate-reactive group and at least one dispersing-active group, e) if desired, compounds containing at least two isocyanate-reactive groups having a molecular weight <1000 g/mol, f) if desired, compounds other than a) to d) containing at least one isocyanate-reactive group.

Abstract: A UV-curable binder composition, a coating material which contains such a binder composition, a photoiniator mixture suitable for use in these coating materials, and a magnetic recording medium which contains such a UV-curable coating material are described.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions which are essentially free from protective colloids or emulsifiers, comprise, in dispersed form, A. a polyurethane (A) comprising hydrophilic groups, which bring about the water-dispersibility of the polyurethane, this polyurethane (A) being essentially free from C—C double bonds, and B. a prepolymer having a content of from 0.1 to 1 mol of free-radically polymerizable C—C double bonds per 100 g of prepolymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing nondispersing (meth)acrylic esters containing urethane groups, comprising a) reacting at least one hydroxyl-containing compound with (meth)acrylic acid in a solvent, to form an ester; b) removing the solvent and optionally a part of unreacted (meth) acrylic acid; c) reacting the mixture resulting from stage a) or b) with at least one epoxy-functional compound in an amount corresponding to the acid number of the mixture; and d) reacting the mixture resulting from stage c) with at least one compound containing isocyanate groups, and such esters obtainable in this way, and radiation-curable coating compositions comprising said esters, and a process for preparing these coating compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to polyfunctionally reactive polymeric substances which contain at least two structural units of the general formulae (I) and/or (II) in the molecule and whose polymer backbone linkages are C—C bonds, ether bonds, urethane bonds, amide bonds, ketone bonds or combinations thereof. The substances are useful as binders for various applications.

Abstract: A water-dispersible, radiation-curable polyurethane composed essentially of

Abstract: The invention provides for pigment preparations containing, as main components, A) at least a finely divided organic or inorganic pigment, B) a dispersing agent composed of formaldehyde-arylsulfonic acid or oxalkylated phenols condensates, C) a radiation curable binder, D) optionally a photoinitiator, and E) water. The invention also provides for the use of said preparations as inks for said ink jet printing method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a curable polyurethane polymer which comprises in copolymerized form A) from 40 to 80% by weight, based on the overall weight of components A) to F), of at least one hydroxyl-containing prepolymer having at least one free-radically or photochemically polymerizable &agr;,&bgr;-ethylenically unsaturated double bond, B) from 0.1 to 20% by weight, based on the overall weight of components A) to F), of at least one compound having at least one isocyanate-reactive hydroxyl group and/or primary or Secondary amino group and, in addition, at least one polar functional group, C) from 0.

Abstract: A process for preparing radiation-curable, urethane-functional prepolymers by reacting an isocyanate-functional component A with an OH-containing component B, wherein either component A embraces two different isocyanate compounds A1 or one isocyanate compound A1 and at least one isocyanate compound A2 or component B embraces at least two different compounds B1. Also, the prepolymers obtainable by the process and the radiation-curable formulations comprising them. Furthermore, the use of the radiation-curable formulations for coating substrates, a method of coating substrates, and the coated substrates themselves.

Abstract: A polymer which can be crosslinked by high-energy radiation and contains from 0.1 to 50% by weight, based on the polymer, of 2,3-dihydrofuran groups or derivatives thereof, each calculated as 2,3-dihydrofuran.

Abstract: Radiation-curable preparations comprise at least one polymer which has ethylenically unsaturated double bonds and are used for the coating of mineral moldings.A process for coating mineral moldings, and also mineral moldings which have a coating cured by radiation, are also described.