Abstract: The invention is related to a hydrated silicone hydrogel contact lens having a layered structural configuration: a lower water content silicone hydrogel core (or bulk material) completely covered with a layer of a higher water content hydrogel totally or substantially free of silicone. A hydrated silicone hydrogel contact lens of the invention possesses high oxygen permeability for maintaining the corneal health and a soft, water-rich, lubricious surface for wearing comfort.

Abstract: Surfaces are modified with polymeric or monomeric amic acids that also comprise one or more tertiary amine functional groups. The amic acids may provide benefits including hydrophilicity, soil resistance, and corrosion inhibition to the treated surfaces. Compositions and methods for treating surfaces are provided.

Abstract: A photoinitiator composition is described that includes a specific iodonium salt combined with a hydrogen donor that is a Guerbet alcohol that can also act as a solvent. This initiator system can solve problems concerning odor, in particular after the polymerization/cross-linking of conventional iodonium salts.

Abstract: Provided herein is a silicon based coating formed from a mixture of constituents. The mixture comprises from about 5% (w/w of the mixture) to about 80% (w/w of the mixture) polysilazane, from about 0% (w/w of the mixture) to about 60% (w/w of the mixture) polysiloxane, and from about 8% (w/w of the mixture) to about 80% (w/w of the mixture) polysilane of a formula (R1R2Si)n, wherein n is greater than 1, and wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different and are chosen from alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, alkylamino, aryl, aralkyl, or alkylsilyl. The coating has a thickness ranging between about 0.1 mil and about 1.5 mil, a hardness ranging between about 2H and about 9H in accordance with ASTM 3363 for film hardness by pencil test, and a kinetic coefficient of friction between about 0.03 and about 0.04.

Abstract: A polishing liquid comprising abrasive grains, an additive, and water, wherein the abrasive grains include a hydroxide of a tetravalent metal element, produce absorbance of 1.00 or more for light having a wavelength of 400 nm in a first aqueous dispersion having a content of the abrasive grains adjusted to 1.0 mass %, and produce light transmittance of 50%/cm or more for light having a wavelength of 500 nm in the first aqueous dispersion, and a NO3? concentration of a second aqueous dispersion obtained by retaining the first aqueous dispersion at 60° C. for 72 hours is 200 ppm or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, a protective film, an optical element, and a display device. A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet formed using the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to the present invention can have proper high-speed and low-speed peel strengths and simultaneously can exhibit an excellent balance between the high-speed and low-speed peel strengths. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet formed using the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention exhibits a proper level of surface resistance and excellent electrostatic discharge characteristics, and has no contaminants with respect to an adherend even when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from the adherend after the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is attached to the adherend for a long period of time.

Abstract: One or more cuts is provided in a label liner sheet near the area of a cutout within the label, such as the center hole in a CD label, in order to facilitate reliable separation of the cutout from the label and retention of the cutout on the liner sheet as the label is peeled from the liner. The majority of the cut runs generally parallel to the cutout boundary underneath the cutout, and the ends of the cut cross the boundary at two separate boundary crossing points on either side of the portion of the cut running parallel to the boundary. The cut first causes a flap to be created in the liner sheet and partially lifted as the label is beginning to be peeled away. Thereafter, as the peel line passes the flap area, the cutout experiences the full retentive strength of the label's pressure sensitive adhesive primarily at the two boundary crossings, and the cutout is pulled from the label and retained on the liner sheet as the adhesive force overcomes the cohesive force.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adhesive composition comprising at least one natural latex and at least one polymeric composition having a glass transition temperature ranging from ?50° C. to 0° C. The invention also relates to a membrane obtained after drying the adhesive composition according to the invention, to a combination of a flexible surface coating with an adhesive composition according to the invention, to a method for applying a flexible surface coating onto a substrate as well as a substrate coated with a peelable adhesive membrane according to the invention.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive composition comprising a modified polyolefin and an epoxy resin, the composition having excellent pot life, and excellent adhesion to both a metal substrate and a polyolefin resin substrate. The adhesive composition comprises a modified polyolefin (A), a glycidyl amine-type epoxy resin (B1), a glycidyl ether-type epoxy resin (B2), and an organic solvent (C); wherein the modified polyolefin (A) is (A1) or (A2) below: (A1): a crystalline acid-modified polyolefin having an acid value of 5 to 50 mg KOH/g-resin; or (A2): an acid-modified chlorinated polyolefin having an acid value of 5 to 50 mg KOH/g-resin and a chlorine content of 5 to 40 mass %.

Abstract: An adhesive composition includes an acrylic polymer (A) having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 350,000 or higher obtained by polymerizing an acrylic monomer by living radical polymerization using an organotellurium-containing compound as the polymerization initiator, an epoxy thermosetting resin (B), and a thermosetting agent (C). The adhesive composition is capable of joining with sufficient adhesive strength and capable of achieving high package reliability in a semiconductor device.

Abstract: Provided are an optical member, a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and an LCD. The optical member may have excellent endurance reliability even when a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is formed to have a thickness of 20 ?m or less.

Abstract: An adhesive film for a semiconductor chip with a through electrode, which is used for stacking multiple semiconductor chips each with a through electrode on a semiconductor wafer, which can favorably connect the through electrodes while suppressing formation of voids, and which can reduce the length of burrs protruding around the semiconductor chips. An adhesive film for a semiconductor chip with a through electrode, to be used for stacking multiple semiconductor chips each with a through electrode on a semiconductor wafer, the adhesive film having a minimum melt viscosity of 50 to 2500 Pa·s and a thixotropic index at 140° C. of 8 or lower.

Abstract: To provide a working fluid which has cycle performance sufficient as an alternative to R410A while the influence over global warming is sufficiently suppressed, which does not significantly increase the load to an apparatus as compared with a case where R410A is used, and which can be stably used continuously without any special measures, a composition for a heat cycle system contains the working fluid, and a heat cycle system employs the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle, wherein the global warming potential is less than 300; the product of the relative coefficient of performance and the relative refrigerating capacity is at least 0.820 relative to R410A in a standard refrigerating cycle under conditions of an evaporation temperature of 0° C., a condensing temperature of 40° C., a supercoiling degree of 5° C. and a degree of superheat of 5° C.; the relative compressor discharge gas pressure is at most 1.

Abstract: To provide a working fluid for heat cycle which has a small temperature glide, a sufficiently low discharge temperature, high durability and less influence over global warming, and with which a heat cycle system excellent in the system maintenance properties and the cycle performance (capacity) is achieved, a composition for a heat cycle system, and a heat cycle system. A working fluid for heat cycle, which contains trifluoroethylene and difluoromethane, wherein the proportion of the total amount of trifluoroethylene and difluoromethane based on the entire amount of the working fluid for heat cycle is higher than 90 mass % and at most 100 mass %, and the mass ratio represented by trifluoroethylene/difluoromethane in the working fluid for heat cycle is from 41/59 to 59/41, a composition for a heat cycle system, and a heat cycle system employing the composition.

Abstract: Compositions containing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and 1,2-difluoroethylene, that can be used in multiple fields of application. The composition can include from 45 to 90 mol % of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and from 55 to 10 mol % of, 1,2-difluoroethylene. The composition can include from 55 to 80 mol % of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and from 45 to 20 mol % of 1,2-difluoroethylene. The composition can include from 62 to 69 mol % of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and from 38 to 31 mol % of 1,2-difluoroethylene at a temperature of between ?30° C. and 56° C. and a pressure of between 1 and 15 bar.

Abstract: A method of preventing formation of a water and oil emulsion in a downhole formation containing oil, the method comprises preparing a dispersion of water and a plurality of non-functionalized nanoparticles, each nanoparticle in the plurality of nanoparticles having a size of at least 300 nanometers, and injecting the dispersion into contact with the oil downhole. Presence of the plurality of nanoparticles prevents formation of an emulsion between the injected water and the oil.

Abstract: Method of increasing the permeability in subterranean formations comprising rock that is soluble by acid, in particular carbonatic formations, using a formulation comprising at least an acid and a retarding surfactant which is an amphoteric surfactant. Preferably, the acid comprises methanesulfonic acid.

Abstract: Self-suspending proppants including proppant particles coated with a CO2-philic coating are provided. The CO2-philic coating may be lightly crosslinked and may have a physical structure that constrains CO2 molecules. Methods of making self-suspending proppants may include coating a proppant particle with a polymerizable precursor material of a CO2-philic material and polymerizing the polymerizable precursor material to form a self-suspending proppant are also provided. Additionally, hydraulic fracturing fluids that may include a CO2-based fluid and the self-suspending proppants and methods of treating subterranean formations by contacting a subterranean formation with hydraulic fracturing fluid and propagating at least one subterranean fracture are provided.

Abstract: Self-suspending proppants including proppant particles coated with a CO2-philic coating are provided. The CO2-philic coating may be lightly crosslinked and may have a physical structure that constrains CO2 molecules. Methods of making self-suspending proppants may include coating a proppant particle with a polymerizable precursor material of a CO2-philic material and polymerizing the polymerizable precursor material to form a self-suspending proppant are also provided. Additionally, hydraulic fracturing fluids that may include a CO2-based fluid and the self-suspending proppants and methods of treating subterranean formations by contacting a subterranean formation with hydraulic fracturing fluid and propagating at least one subterranean fracture are provided.

Abstract: Self-suspending proppants including proppant particles coated with a CO2-philic coating are provided. The CO2-philic coating may be lightly crosslinked and may have a physical structure that constrains CO2 molecules. Methods of making self-suspending proppants may include coating a proppant particle with a polymerizable precursor material of a CO2-philic material and polymerizing the polymerizable precursor material to form a self-suspending proppant are also provided. Additionally, hydraulic fracturing fluids that may include a CO2-based fluid and the self-suspending proppants and methods of treating subterranean formations by contacting a subterranean formation with hydraulic fracturing fluid and propagating at least one subterranean fracture are provided.

Abstract: A phosphor composition is derived from combining K2SiF6:Mn4+ in solid form with a saturated solution of a manganese-free complex fluoride including a composition of formula I: A3[MF6], where A is selected from Na, K, Rb, and combinations thereof and M is selected from Al, Ga, In, Sc, Y, Gd, and combinations thereof. The composition of formula I: A3[MF6] has a water solubility lower than a water solubility of K2SiF6. A lighting apparatus including the phosphor composition is also provided.

Abstract: The invention described in the present specification relates to a color conversion film including a resin matrix; and an organic fluorescent substance, wherein the organic fluorescent substance includes a first fluorescent substance and a second fluorescent substance, and the first fluorescent substance has a light emission peak with FWHM of 60 nm or less and a Stokes shift of 30 nm or less when irradiating light having a light emission peak at 450 nm, a FWHM of 40 nm or less and monomodal light emission intensity distribution, a method for preparing the same, and a back light unit including the color conversion film.

Abstract: A method for producing a fluorescent material can be provided. The method includes preparing fluorescent material particles that contain a fluoride having a composition including Mn, at least one selected from the group consisting of alkali metal elements and NH4+, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Group 4 elements and Group 14 elements; causing at least one cation selected from rare-earth elements and a phosphate ion to come into contact with each other in a liquid medium containing the fluorescent material particles to obtain rare-earth phosphate-adhered fluorescent material particles including the fluorescent material particles to which the rare-earth phosphate is adhered; and separating the rare-earth phosphate-adhered fluorescent material particles from the liquid medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a composition comprising a pigment, wherein the composition is suitable for coating a surface that is, or is expected to be, exposed to the sun. The pigment comprises particles that fluoresce in sunlight, thereby remaining cooler in the sun than coatings pigmented with non-fluorescent particles. The particles comprise solids that fluoresce or glow in the visible or near infrared (NIR) spectra, or that fluoresce when doped. Suitable dopants include, but are not limited to, ions of rare earths and transition metals.

Abstract: A high-energy LED is provided, in particular based on the n-polar technique, comprising a Eu3+ activated converter material based on tungsten/molybdenum oxide. Surprisingly, these materials do not show any saturation.

Abstract: A method for preparing an iron silicon sulfur multi-element composite biochar soil heavy metal conditioner, including: adding silicate to agricultural wastes and roasting with air isolated to enable silicate to enter structural pores of biochar; enabling iron-containing slats to gather on kaolinite with a given proportion; enabling sulfate to gather on bentonite with a given proportion; mixing the above three materials evenly according to a given proportion; and adding diatomite and starch to the mixture, and pelleting to prepare the iron silicon sulfur multi-element composite biochar soil heavy metal conditioner. The conditioner can be widely applied in soil heavy metal pollution abatement of rice fields, and it is able to synchronously passivate composite pollutants in acid or alkaline soils to reduce the amount of pollutants absorbed by and accumulated in rice, thereby achieving safe utilization of polluted farmland.

Abstract: The invention relates to the compounds of the formula I and to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds which contains at least one compound of the formula I in which R1, ring A1, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, Z1 and m have the meanings indicated in claim 1 and to the use of the LC mixtures in electro-optical displays, especially for the self-aligning VA mode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal alignment agent allowing formation of an LCD element having good reliability and less residual image, a liquid crystal alignment film, and an LCD element having the liquid crystal alignment film are shown. The liquid crystal alignment agent includes a polymer (A), a photosensitive polysiloxane (B), and a solvent (C). The polymer (A) is obtained by reacting a mixture that includes a tetracarboxylic dianhydride component (a-1) and a diamine component (a-2). The photosensitive polysiloxane (B) is obtained by reacting a polysiloxane (b-1) having an epoxy group with a cinnamic acid derivative (b-2) and an aromatic heterocyclic derivative (b-3) containing nitride, oxide or sulfide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vertical alignment layer including a cyclic olefin copolymer, and more specifically, the present invention relates to a vertical alignment layer capable of having alignment even in a low temperature process, and exhibiting excellent liquid crystal vertical alignment by including a cyclic olefin copolymer having a specific substituent.

Abstract: Compositions, structures and methods are described that improve fire retardant characteristics of various material, and which can be used for protecting structures, devices, or components therein. In one example, a mixture suitable for imparting heat or cold blocking properties to an object is produced. The mixture includes a catalyst comprising particles that are 8 microns or less in diameter, a charring agent comprising particles that are 8 microns or less in diameter, and a blowing agent comprising particles that are 8 microns or less in diameter. The catalyst, the charring agent and the blowing agent are mixed together in equal portions by weight to produce the mixture suitable for imparting heat or cold blocking properties to an object.

Abstract: A method of using automatic carbonizing collector to eliminate waste on site pertains to automatic collection of wastes, reduce, recycle and eliminate the wastes on the site where the waste producing, to replace manual door to door collection, landfill and incineration of wastes. The carbonizing collectors set in where the waste producing is comprised of an automatically opening lid (4), putting wastes into container (2) set in carbonizing tank (14), carbonizing the wastes under anaerobic condition by heater (13) and burner (16), collecting carbonized products by pipe (15) and pipeline (202) which connecting with all of the carbonizing collectors in a city, storing the products in tank (18) and collecting tank (207) of the carbonizing collectors for fuel, cleaning the carbonized products in carbonizing tank (14) by taking out pail (3), shredding the carbonized products into conductible particle, the carbonized products going through pipeline (202) to collecting tank (207).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improvement over the invention previously submitted by the inventor relating to an apparatus for recovering heavy oil from oil shale and a method for recovery using same, the present invention relating to an apparatus for supplying continuous heat/pressure to continuously supply and discharge oil shale sludge, in which a plurality of unit extraction apparatuses, comprising a kerogen extraction apparatus and an intermediate storage tank, are installed to implement a continuous operation, which is an improvement over a semi-continuous operation of alternately operating the kerogen extraction apparatus and the intermediate storage tank.

Abstract: A process is described for treating waste plastics material to provide at least one on-specification fuel product. Plastics material is melted and then pyrolyzed in an oxygen-free atmosphere to provide pyrolysis gases. The pyrolysis gases are brought into contact with plates in a contactor vessel so that some long chain gas components condense and return to be further pyrolyzed to achieve thermal degradation. Short chain gas components exit the contactor in gaseous form and proceed to distillation to provide one or more on-specification fuel products. A pipe directly links the pyrolysis chamber to the contactor, suitable for conveying upwardly-moving pyrolysis gases and downwardly-flowing long-chain liquid for thermal degradation.

Abstract: A composition, including 40-50 wt-% C14 paraffins, based on the total weight of the composition, and 35-45 wt-% C15 paraffins, based on the total weight of the composition, wherein the C14 and C15 paraffins are produced from a biological raw material.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for the isomerization of a light naphtha with a view to forming high octane number gasolines, said process using a deisopentanizer and a deisohexanizer which are thermally integrated in a manner such as to reduce the consumption of the high temperature utilities employed in the process.

Abstract: A naphtha and methanol mixed catalytic cracking reaction process involves a simultaneous cracking reaction of naphtha and methanol using a circulating fluidized-bed reactor comprising a reactor, a stripper, and a regenerator. The naphtha is supplied from the bottom part of the reactor at a position between 0%˜5% of the total length of the reactor, and the methanol is supplied from the bottom part of the reactor at a position between 10%˜80% of the total length of the reactor. The catalytic cracking reaction process uses the circulating fluidized-bed reactor and can crack naphtha and methanol simultaneously by having different introduction positions for the naphtha and methanol in the reactor, which is advantageous for heat neutralization, so that energy consumption can be minimized and also the yield of light olefins can be improved by suppressing the production of light saturated hydrocarbons such as methane, ethane and propane.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of removing metals from hydrocarbon oil, comprising: supplying a feed including hydrocarbon oil; mixing the feed with an aqueous solution including a metal scavenger to prepare a first mixture; separating the first mixture into a first aqueous solution phase and a first hydrocarbon phase and discharging the separated first aqueous solution phase; mixing the separated first hydrocarbon phase with washing water to produce a second mixture; separating the second mixture into a second aqueous solution phase and a second hydrocarbon phase; and recovering the separated second hydrocarbon phase and recirculating the separated second aqueous solution phase.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for removing sulfur compounds from a fuel containing sulfur compounds. The method includes contacting the fuel with an adsorbent that comprises a carbonaceous material doped with nanoparticles of aluminum oxide to reduce the concentrations of the sulfur compounds. The carbonaceous material is at least one selected from the group consisting of activated carbon, carbon nanotubes, and graphene oxide, and the adsorbent has a weight ratio of C to Al in the range from 3:1 to 30:1, and a weight ratio of C to O in the range from 1:1 to 10:1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing BTX comprising pyrolysis, aromatic ring opening and BTX recovery. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process installation to convert a pyrolysis feedstream into BTX comprising a pyrolysis unit, an aromatic ring opening unit and a BTX recovery unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing BTX comprising coking, aromatic ring opening and BTX recovery. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process installation to convert a coker feedstream into BTX comprising a coker unit, an aromatic ring opening unit and a BTX recovery unit.

Abstract: A method for pressurized pyrolysis of biomass in a pressurized pyrolysis furnace, including: 1) crushing and screening biomass; collecting biomass having desired particle sizes; and delivering the biomass having desired particle sizes to a pulse-type feeding system; 2) transporting the biomass to a pyrolysis furnace via the pulse-type feeding system; synchronously initiating microwave and a plasma torch, the microwave producing a microwave field in the pyrolysis furnace, working gas of the plasma torch being ionized for the first time to produce plasma jet entering the pyrolysis furnace; and 3) allowing the syngas generated in 2) to continue moving upwards and introducing the syngas out from the top of the pyrolysis furnace; chilling the syngas; introducing the syngas to a cyclone separator to separate residues; and then cooling and purifying the syngas using a cooling device and a purifying device, respectively, to produce clean syngas.

Abstract: A system including a quench system that may cool a syngas generated in a gasification chamber. The quench system includes a quench chamber, a dip tube that may direct the syngas from the gasification chamber into a quench liquid to cool the syngas to generate a cooled syngas, and a draft tube disposed circumferentially about the dip tube and that may receive the cooled syngas. A passage is disposed between a first wall of the dip tube and a second wall of the draft tube, and the draft tube includes a tapered configuration in a flow direction along the passage.

Abstract: A system includes a quench system that may cool a syngas generated in a gasification chamber. The quench system includes a quench chamber, a dip tube that may direct the syngas from the gasification chamber into a quench liquid to cool the syngas to generate a cooled syngas, a draft tube disposed circumferentially about the dip tube and that may receive the cooled syngas in a first direction. A first passage is disposed between a first wall of the dip tube and a second wall of the draft tube. The system also includes a first baffle that may receive the cooled syngas from the first passage. The first baffle may split a flow of the cooled syngas into a first syngas flow and a second syngas flow, and the first baffle may redirect the first syngas flow in a second direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: The present invention is provided with a step for preheating coal, a step for heating an extraction solvent, a step for mixing the preheated coal and the extraction solvent heated to a higher temperature than the preheated coal and thereby heating the coal, a step for separating a solution in which a coal component is dissolved from the mixture of the coal and the extraction solvent, and a step for evaporating and separating the extraction solvent from the solution.

Abstract: This invention relates to corrosion inhibitor additive combinations giving long acting performance in oxygenated gasoline blends comprising either low carbon number (<3) or high carbon number (greater than or equal to 4) alcohols or mixtures thereof and adapted for use in fuel delivery systems and internal combustion engines. The invention also is concerned with a process for conferring anti-corrosion properties to oxygenates in gasoline fuel mixtures wherein the oxygenate comprises biologically-derived butanol.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dialkyl polysulfide which can be suitably used as an extreme pressure additive that can be added to a lubricant in a wide range of amounts, that enables effective formation of a film of a metal sulfide on a metal surface, and that is less likely to cause corrosion of the metal surface. In particular, provided is a dialkyl polysulfide containing compounds represented by General Formula (1) (where R1 and R2 each represent an alkyl group, and n is an integer from 1 to 6), wherein the total content of a compound in which n in General Formula (1) is 2 and a compound in which n in General Formula (1) is 3 is in the range of 80 to 100 mass % relative to the entire amount of the compounds represented by General Formula (1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a) at least one N-methyl-N-acylglucamine of formula (I), wherein R1 represents a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon chain with 7 to 21 carbon atoms, one or more organic acids of formula (II) and/or the salts thereof, R2—COOM, wherein R2 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or a linear or branched mono- or poly-unsaturated alkenyl group with 5 to 29 carbon atoms, and M represents hydrogen or one or more cations, wherein the cations are present in charge-equalizing amounts, and c) one or more alkanolamines of formula (III), wherein NR1R2R3R1, R2 and R3 represent hydrogen, a linear or branched alkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group with 5 to 7 carbon atoms, a linear or branched hydroxyalkyl group with 2 to 5 carbon atoms and 1 or 2 hydroxy groups or a hydroxyether group with 2 to 6 carbon atoms, with the provision that at least one of the groups is a hydroxyalkyl group or a hydroxyether group.

Abstract: The present invention generally provides a process for treating a soapstock. The present invention more particularly provides systems and methods for treating a soapstock to generate free fatty acids and/or fatty acid derivatives, e.g. fatty acid alkyl esters. The present invention more particularly provides systems and methods for realizing the full fatty acid yield of a soapstock by first converting substantially all of the saponifiable material in a soapstock to salts of fatty acids (soaps) and acidulating the soaps to generate free fatty acids and/or fatty acid derivatives, e.g. fatty acid alkyl esters, wherein the soapstock comprises soaps and saponifiable lipids, e.g. glycerides and/or phospholipids, and the generating of free fatty acids and/or fatty acid is achieved without the use of a mineral acid.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a detergent and a pharmaceutical composition comprising a deoxyribonuclease (DNase), wherein the DNase is obtained from a fungal source. It further concerns a laundering method and the use of DNase. The present invention further relates to polypeptides having DNase activity, nucleotides encoding the polypeptide, as well as methods of producing the polypeptides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having protease activity, and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of using the polypeptides in beer production.