Abstract: This invention relates to materials and to films comprising molecular photoswitches. The films exhibit excellent photoswitchable properties in the dry state. This invention is also related to processes of making the materials and the films and to uses of the films. The invention also relates to devices and systems comprising the films of this invention.

Abstract: A method for forming a superhydrophobic, superoleophobic or superamphiphobic layer and imparting said properties on a surface, wherein dispersed silicone nanoparticles are formed by polymerization of at least one compound of formula I RaSi(R1)n(X1)3-n??(I) in an aprotic solvent comprising 5 to 500 ppm water and wherein Ra is a straight-chain or branched C(1-24) alkyl or alkenyl group, an aromatic group which is linked by a single covalent bond or linked by a straight-chain or branched alkylene unit having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, to the Si-atom, R1 a straight chain or a branched hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, X1 is a hydrolysable group, which is one or more of a halogen or an alkoxy group, and n is 0 or 1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous material in which at least the pores of the porous material are lined with nanoparticles capable of treating fluids or fluid mixtures that pass through the pores of the porous material and whose treating properties can be fully reinstated through heating the porous material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous material in which at least the pores of the porous material are lined with nanoparticles capable of treating fluids or fluid mixtures that pass through the pores of the porous material and whose treating properties can be fully reinstated through heating the porous material.

Abstract: The present invention provides for method for forming a superhydrophobic, superoleophobic or superamphiphobic layer and imparting said property on a surface, comprising the steps of a. preparing a liquid coating composition comprising a solvent and dispersed silicone nanoparticles, b. optionally priming the surface to form a primed surface on which a superhydrophobic, superoleophobic or superamphiphobic layer is to be formed, c. applying a layer of the liquid coating composition on the surface or primed surface on which the superhydrophobic, superoleophobic or superamphiphobic layer is to be formed, d.