Abstract: A filter media can include a fiber coated with a barrier coating that is substantially non-reactive to reactive species, and a photocatalytic coating disposed on the barrier coating, wherein the photocatalytic coating generates reactive species in response to illumination with optical radiation.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing polypropylene. More specifically, provided is a method of efficiently producing high-strength isotactic polypropylene having high crystallinity even with a shorter polymerization time. More specifically, provided is a method of producing polypropylene, including polymerizing propylene in the presence of a catalyst composition including a Ziegler-Natta catalyst, an external electron donor, dialkylaluminum hydride, and trialkylaluminum. The polypropylene has a xylene cold soluble content of 3 wt % or less.

Abstract: A filter media can include a fiber coated with a barrier coating that is substantially non-reactive to reactive species, and a photocatalytic coating disposed on the barrier coating, wherein the photocatalytic coating generates reactive species in response to illumination with optical radiation.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to polyolefin polymers, such as polypropylene homopolymers, and propylene-ethylene copolymers that have improved flow properties. In one embodiment, the polymers can be produced using a solid catalyst component that includes a) dissolving a halide-containing magnesium compound in a mixture, the mixture including an epoxy compound, an organic phosphorus compound, and a hydrocarbon solvent to form a homogenous solution; b) treating the homogenous solution with an organosilicon compound during or after the dissolving step; c) treating the homogenous solution with a first titanium compound in the presence of a first non-phthalate electron donor, and an organosilicon compound, to form a solid precipitate; and d) treating the solid precipitate with a second titanium compound in the presence of a second non-phthalate electron donor to form the solid catalyst component, where the process is free of carboxylic acids and anhydrides.

Abstract: It is provided a method for obtaining mesoporous silica particles with surface functionalisation comprising the steps of a) providing solutions of at least three precursors; wherein the pH of the mixture is adjusted to a range between 2 and 8 in a buffered system; b) Mixing the precursor solutions thereby allowing a reaction to take place at a temperature between 20 and 60° C., whereby surface functionalized mesoporous silica particles as solid reaction product are formed; c) Separating the surface functionalized mesoporous silica particles from the reaction mixture by centrifugation or filtration; d) Removing any pore structure directing agent present in the pores of the formed surface functionalized mesoporous silica particles by ultrasonication; e) followed by separation by centrifugation or filtration, washing and drying of the surface functionalized mesoporous silica particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new aromatic-amino functional siloxanes, which are compounds comprising one or two tail groups X2, and a linking group L of structure (2) linking each said tail group to said head group, wherein the head group X has structure (1), containing an optional organic moiety Y, wherein the attachment point of said tail group X2 through said linking group L to the head group X1, may be, at positions a, b, c, d, or e. Another aspect of this invention are compositions containing these novel aromatic amino functional siloxane. A further aspect of this invention are compositions comprised of the above novel aromatic-amino functional siloxanes, and also the composition resulting from the aging of these compositions at room temperature for about 1 day to about 4 weeks.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to distribute, to a vehicle, a map showing a road shape of a road on which the vehicle runs makes, for each of a plurality of areas and determine whether it is necessary to update the map of that area. The determination is based on at least either an amount of change from the road shape shown by the map to the road shape at a present time in each of the plurality of areas or the number of occurrences of a predetermined action of a vehicle having run through in each of the plurality of areas.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved way for the production of farnesol.

Abstract: A catalyst including cobalt, a carrier including silica, and a selective promoter including zirconium. The cobalt and the selective promoter are disposed on the surface of the carrier, and the outer surfaces of the active component cobalt and the selective promoter zirconium are coated with a shell layer including a mesoporous material. A method for preparing the catalyst, including: 1) soaking the carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a zirconium salt, aging, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture to yield a zirconium-loaded carrier including silica; 2) soaking the zirconium-loaded carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a cobalt salt, aging, drying, calcining a resulting mixture to yield a primary cobalt-based catalyst; 3) preparing a precursor solution of a mesoporous material; and 4) soaking the primary cobalt-based catalyst into the precursor solution of the mesoporous material; and crystalizing, washing, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyorganosiloxane and a moisture and radiation curable adhesive composition comprising the same, in particular, to a polyorganosiloxane and a moisture and radiation curable adhesive composition used in a liquid optical clear adhesive (LOCA) for handheld device and display (HHDD).

Abstract: Provided is a compound which is mixed with a thermoelectric conversion material matrix as a phonon scattering material. The compound is represented by the following formula: (In the above formula, G1 represents a functional group capable of binding to the thermoelectric conversion material matrix; G2 independently represents G1 or CH3; 0?m?5; 0?m??5; 6?n?1000; and 1/1000<(the number of G1/n)?1).

Abstract: Bisphosphites having a central 2,3?-biphenol unit are useful for catalyzing hydroformylation.

Abstract: A composite membrane comprising: a. a porous support; b. a polymeric layer comprising dialkylsiloxane groups and a metal, the polymeric layer being present on the porous support; c. a discriminating layer present on the polymeric layer; and d. optionally a protective layer present on the discriminating layer wherein the polymeric layer has a molar ratio of metal:silicon of at least 0.0005.

Abstract: A process for preparing a composite membrane comprising the steps: a) applying a radiation-curable composition to a porous support; b) irradiating the composition and thereby forming a gutter layer of cured polymer; and c) forming a discriminating layer on the gutter layer; wherein the radiation-curable composition comprises a partially crosslinked, radiation-curable polymer comprising epoxy groups and siloxane groups, a photoinitiator and is substantially free from mono-epoxy compounds. Composite membranes and gas separation cartridges are also claimed.

Abstract: An unsymmetric bisphosphite of the formula (1) a process for preparation thereof, a reaction thereof with metals to give mixtures containing complexes of the unsymmetric bisphosphite and the metal, and a use thereof as a catalytically active composition in hydroformylation reactions, where the hydroformylation-active composition contains, as well as the complex of metal and unsymmetric bisphosphite, unbound bisphosphite and at least one further component.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture of unsymmetric bisphosphites, to a process for preparation thereof, to the reaction thereof with metals to give mixtures comprising complexes of the bisphosphites and the metal, and to the use thereof as a catalytically active composition in hydroformylation reactions, and also to the hydroformylation reaction itself.

Abstract: A flame retardant filler having brominated silica particles, for example, imparts flame retardancy to manufactured articles such as printed circuit boards (PCBs), connectors, and other articles of manufacture that employ thermosetting plastics or thermoplastics. In this example, brominated silica particles serve both as a filler for rheology control (viscosity, flow, etc.) and a flame retardant. In an exemplary application, a PCB laminate stack-up includes conductive planes separated from each other by a dielectric material that includes a flame retardant filler comprised of brominated silica particles. In an exemplary method of synthesizing the brominated silica particles, a monomer having a brominated aromatic functional group is reacted with functionalized silica particles (e.g., isocyanate, vinyl, amine, or epoxy functionalized silica particles).

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture of bisphosphites, to a process for preparation thereof, and to the reaction thereof with metals to give mixtures comprising complexes of the constitutionally isomeric bisphosphites and the metal, and to the use thereof as a catalytically active composition in hydroformylation reactions, and also to the hydroformylation reaction itself.

Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst composition for hydrogenating a polymer of conjugated diene is provided. The polymer of conjugated diene is a homopolymer of conjugated diene or a copolymer of conjugated diene and vinyl aromatics. The hydrogenation catalyst composition includes: (a) a titanium compound, (b) a compound of formula (II), where R5 is C1˜C12 alkyl, alkenyl, amine, ether, ketone or ester groups, R3 and R6 are C1˜C12 alkyl or alkenyl groups, R4 and R7 are C1˜C12 alkyl, alkenyl, amine, ether, ketone or ester groups, n and m are integrals, 1?n?3, 1?m?3, and (c) alkyl aluminum.

Abstract: A process for preparing a selective hydrogenation catalyst is described, wherein is provided a catalyst precursor, comprising at least one group VIII metal in the metallic form, and at least one support formed of at least one oxide, characterised in that a step is performed of contacting the said catalyst precursor in the metallic form, in the liquid phase and in the presence of a reducing and/or inert atmosphere, with a non-polar solvent containing a silicon compound, the said silicon compound is selected from the silanes containing at least one Si—H bond and at least one Si—C bond, the silanols and the cyclic siloxanes. The selective hydrogenation process implementing the said catalyst is also described.

Abstract: A method for preparing a novel hydrogel including silico-metallic mineral particles of the formula (Six(Si-A)1-x)4M3O11.n?H2O, in which: x is a real number in the range [0.75; 1], A denotes a group selected from methyl and hydrocarbon groups including at least one heteroatom, and M is a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, cobalt, zinc, copper, manganese, iron, nickel and chromium, wherein a coprecipitation reaction is carried out in an aqueous medium between: at least one metal salt of the metal M, sodium metasilicate, Na2OSiO2, and at least one water-soluble oxysilane of formula (I): in which R1, R2 and R3 are selected from hydrogen and linear alkyl groups including 1 to 3 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a visible light-responsive photocatalyst with an excellent removal efficiency of environmental contaminants, and a method of preparing the same. According to the present invention, the TiO2 surface having an increased visible light absorbance due to nitrogen-doping has been modified into a hydrophilic surface using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), i.e., a silicon-carbon precursor, and thereby significantly improved the removal efficiency of environmental contaminants under visible light. Additionally, the photocatalyst of the present invention for removing environmental contaminants is applicable to environment-friendly fields such as removal of volatile organic compounds, air purification, wastewater treatment and sterilization, and enables to remove contaminants by being attached to the surfaces of external walls of buildings, construction materials, glass windows, sound-absorbing walls, road facilities, signboards, etc., while preventing damages by sunlight.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a photocatalytic composition comprising photocatalytic titanium dioxide particles being dispersed in a continuous phase, and at least one anti-photogreying additive, wherein said at least one anti-photogreying additive is adapted to limit photogreying of said titanium dioxide particles while the photocatalytic activity of said titanium dioxide particles is maintained, and wherein the photo greying index (?L) of said composition is less than 6.

Abstract: A composition that comprises a support material that is loaded with an active metal or metal precursor and an additive that comprises an ether amine compound and, preferably, a morpholine compound as an additional component of the ether amine containing additive. The ether amine containing additive impregnated composition is useful in the hydroprocessing of hydrocarbon feedstocks. The ether amine containing additive impregnated composition is prepared by incorporating a metal solution into a support material followed by incorporating therein the ether amine containing additive.

Abstract: The present invention provides bifunctional silica mesoporous materials, including mesoporous silica nanoparticles (“MSN”), having pores modified with diarylammonium triflate and perfluoroaryl moieties, that are useful for the acid-catalyzed esterification of organic acids with organic alcohols.

Abstract: Organometallic compounds of the general formula (I), in which M=Mo, W, are claimed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a carriered hybrid vanadium-chromium-based catalyst, characterized in the catalyst is carriered on a porous inorganic carrier and a V active site and an organic Cr active site are present on the porous inorganic carrier at the same time. The present invention further relates to a process for producing a carriered hybrid vanadium-chromium-based catalyst. The catalyst of the present invention can be used for producing ethylene homopolymers and ethylene/?-olefin copolymers. The hybrid vanadium-chromium-based catalyst can have high activity and produce polyethylene polymers having the properties of broad molecular weight distribution (Part of the products are bimodal distribution) and excellent ?-olefin copolymerization characteristic.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for dehydrating bio-1-alcohols to bio-1-alkenes with high selectivity. The bio-1-alkenes are useful in preparing high flashpoint diesel and jet biofuels which are useful to civilian and military applications. Furthermore, the bio-1-alkenes may be converted to biolubricants useful in the transporation sector and other areas requiring high purity/thermally stable lubricants.

Abstract: A coated substrate including a substrate including a treated layer, a photocatalytic layer, and a protective layer for impeding photocatalyst derived degradation of the treated layer, the protective layer being provided between the photocatalytic layer and the treated layer, the protective layer comprising colloidal particles distributed in a matrix comprised at least partly of an organosilicon phase which is oxidisable by the reactive oxygen species to form a non-volatile inorganic phase, wherein the organosilicon phase includes a surfactant incorporating an organosilicon component.

Abstract: The invention provides a heterogeneous catalyst comprising a catalytic group coupled to a mesocellular siliceous foam support. The catalytic group is capable of catalysing a reaction selected from the group consisting of a Friedel-Craft reaction and a Diels-Alder reaction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ligand compound, a chromium compound, and a catalyst system including the same. The catalyst system including the ligand compound or chromium compound according to the present invention exhibits high catalytic activity in ethylene oligomerization reaction, and therefore, polyethylene can be prepared using a small amount of comonomers or using only ethylene without comonomers.

Abstract: Catalytic materials, particularly membranes, exhibiting high activity, high stability and low metal leaching in a variety of chemical reactions, particularly selective hydrogenations of unsaturated organic compounds, are described. These membranes are inorganic/polymeric hybrid materials in which metal complex molecular catalysts are immobilized or metal nano-particle catalysts are embedded. More specifically, the catalytic materials of the present invention exhibit higher activity and selectivity, and can be used in more extensive kinds of organic solvents than the conventional hybrid catalytic materials due to improvement in the affinity to organic solvents by containing the specific polymeric additives.

Abstract: A fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts to produce singlet oxygen from ambient oxygen. In certain embodiments, the fabric further comprises a compound to reversibly react with singlet oxygen to form an endoperoxide.

Abstract: A method of forming a catalyst ink is disclosed. The method can include: polymerising an ionic monomer and at least one non-ionic monomer to form a hydrophilic polymer; dissolving the hydrophilic polymer in a suitable solvent to form a polymer solution; and mixing a catalyst with the polymer solution to make a catalyst ink. Also disclosed are catalyst inks formed from this method, as well as membranes including the catalyst inks and methods for forming the same.

Abstract: The present invention is a hydrogen combustion catalyst including a catalyst metal supported on a carrier composed of an inorganic oxide, wherein a functional group having at the end thereof at least an alkyl group having three or less carbon atoms is bonded by substitution to each of a certain fraction or the whole of the hydroxyl groups on the surface of the carrier. The functional group bonded to each of a certain fraction or the whole of the hydroxyl groups on the surface of the carrier is preferably an organic silane. The hydrogen combustion catalyst according to the present invention is capable of maintaining the activity thereof even when a hydrogen-containing gas, a treatment object, contains a water content equal to or less than the saturated water vapor content and the reaction temperature is set at or around room temperature, namely, at 0 to 40° C.

Abstract: The present invention is related to the preparation of a metal lattice-doping catalyst in an amorphous molten state, and the process of catalyzing methane to make olefins, aromatics, and hydrogen using the catalyst under oxygen-free, continuous flowing conditions. Such a process has little coke deposition and realizes atom-economic conversion. Under the conditions encountered in a fixed bed reactor (i.e. reaction temperature: 750˜1200° C.; reaction pressure: atmospheric pressure; the weight hourly space velocity of feed gas: 1000˜30000 ml/g/h; and fixed bed), conversion of methane is 8-50%. The selectivity of olefins is 30˜90%. And selectivity of aromatics is 10˜70%. There is no coking. The reaction process has many advantages, including a long catalyst life (>100 hrs), high stability of redox and hydrothermal properties under high temperature, high selectivity towards target products, zero coke deposition, easy separation of products, good reproducibility, safe and reliable operation, etc.

Abstract: Mineral oil is added to a supported chromium catalyst in amounts which maintain a free flowing particulate material. Chromium catalysts so treated, provide polyethylene in a gas phase ethylene polymerization process with reduced reactor fouling or static.

Abstract: An object of the invention of the present application is to provide a photocatalyst-carrying structure provided with a carrier and a photocatalyst layer carried on the carrier with an adhesive layer there between, wherein the adhesive layer for carrying the photocatalyst does not contain a volatile organic compound as solvent. An aqueous silicone-modified resin is preferably used for the adhesive layer, and the aqueous silicone-modified resin is preferably a resin obtained by emulsion polymerization of a monomer in the presence of an emulsifier in an aqueous medium, and is further modified with silicone using a compound having a silicone structure.

Abstract: A process that allows convenient production of multifunctional composite particles by direct self-assembly of hydrophobic nanoparticles on host nanostructures containing high density surface thiol groups is present. Hydrophobic nanoparticles of various compositions and combinations can be directly assembled onto the host surface through the strong coordination interactions between metal cations and thiol groups. The resulting structures can be further conveniently overcoated with a layer of normal silica to stabilize the assemblies and render them highly dispersible in water for biomedical applications. As the entire fabrication process does not involve complicated surface modification procedures, the hydrophobic ligands on the nanoparticles are not disturbed significantly so that they retain their original properties such as highly efficient luminescence.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is to a catalyst composition comprising vanadium and titanium. The catalyst composition has a surface area of at least 22.6 m2/g and a plurality of pores, and the plurality of pores have a pore diameter of less than 11.9 nm.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vertically aligned mesoporous silicate film with site-selective metal deposition from a single polymeric precursor and to diverse catalytic applications thereof. There is an innovative approach of a single precursor to manufacture a vertically aligned mesoporous silicate thin film having high thermal and chemical resistance on a large-area silicon wafer (2 cm×3 cm). A precisely designed organic-inorganic block copolymer (BCP) polyethyleneoxide-ss-polyvinylcyclicsilazane (PEO-ss-PVCSZ) with a disulfide bridge that is chemically cleavable is newly synthesized as the single precursor for an oriented silicate nanoporous film, and using such a precursor, solvent annealing, self-assembling, block cleaving treatment, and then hydrolysis conversion of a polymer into a siliceous phase at room temperature are carried out, thus directly forming a mesostructure on the substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a porous monolith polymeric composition having utility in catalysis, chromatography, filtration, and electro-kinetic pumps, devices incorporating such composition and methods or making and using such monoliths. The monoliths are characterized by a substantially homogeneous skeletal core with little shrinkage, few voids and few channels.

Abstract: Aqueous oil-in-water emulsion comprising from 1 to 70% by weight, based on the total weight of the emulsion, of functional alkoxysilanes and/or condensed oligomers thereof and/or organoalkoxysiloxanes, at least one emulsifier and water, wherein the emulsion has a pH of from 5 to 9 and preferably a mean droplet size of the disperse phase of ?0.5 ?m, and the width of the droplet size distribution, expressed as the span (Formula I), is from 0.6 to 1.2. The preparation of the emulsions having the desired droplet size distribution is carried out in apparatuses having at least one pressure stage at a pressure of from 2 to 15 MPa. The emulsion can be used for hydrophobicizing porous mineral building materials.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for preparing procatalyst compositions and polymers, i.e., propylene-based polymers, produced therefrom. The present procatalyst compositions improve catalyst selectivity and also increase the bulk density of the formant polymer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a large-sized titanium-silicalite molecular sieve, and a method for preparing cyclohexanone oxime using the large-sized titanium-silicalite molecular sieve. The method for preparing a large-sized titanium-silicalite molecular sieve includes preparing a mixture of a titanium source, a silicon source and a template agent; heating the mixture to form a gel mixture; mixing a colloidal silica with the gel mixture; heating the gel mixture mixed with the colloidal silica in a water bath; and calcining the gel mixture mixed with the colloidal silica. In the present invention, the average particle size of the large-sized titanium-silicalitem molecular sieve is more than 10 um, and the particle size distribution is centralized, so as to avoid the formation of titanium-oxygen-titanium bonding. The method for preparing cyclohexanone oxime using the large-sized titanium-silicalite molecular sieve results in high conversion rate, high selectivity and easy recovery.

Abstract: An oxidation catalyst includes a support including particles of an alkaline earth salt, and first particles including a palladium compound on the support. The oxidation catalyst can also include precious metal group (PMG) metal particles in addition to the first particles intermixed together on the support. A gas permeable polymer that provides a continuous phase can completely encapsulate the particles and the support. The oxidation catalyst may be used as a gas sensor, where the first particles are chemochromic particles.

Abstract: A catalyst composition including a solution of at least one member selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal carboxylate and an alkaline earth metal carboxylate in a solvent which is nonreactive with the isocyanate groups of a polyisocyanate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a titanium-silicalite molecular sieve, and a method for preparing cyclohexanone oxime using the titanium-silicalite molecular sieve. The method for preparing a titanium-silicalite molecular sieve includes the steps of preparing a mixture of a titanium source, a silicon source and a template agent, wherein the titanium source has a structure of formula (I); heating the mixture to form a gel mixture; mixing the gel mixture with water; heating the gel mixture mixed with the water in a water bath; and calcining the gel mixture mixed with the water. The method using the titanium-silicalite molecular sieve for preparing cyclohexanone oxime results in high conversion rate and high selectivity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerization process, the polymerization process includes contacting a cyclic bridged metallocene catalyst represented by the following formula: LA(A)LBMQn wherein A is a divalent group bound to each of LA and LB; each of LA and LB are bound to M, and each Q is bound to M; LA and LB are independently selected from the group consisting of cyclopentadienyl ligands and substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands; A is a divalent bridging group comprising a heterocyclic ring comprising from 3 to 6 carbon atoms and one silyl, thus forming a 4 to 7 member divalent ring; M is a Group 4, 5, or 6 transition metal; Q is independently a halogen, a hydride, or a hydrocarbyl radical having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms; wherein n is 1 or 2; with an activator, and optionally a support, to form an activated catalyst and, subsequently, contacting the activated catalyst with ethylene and optionally, at least one C3-C8 alpha olefin comonomer.

Abstract: A catalyst component (A) for olefin polymerization is prepared by contacting a solid component (a) containing magnesium, titanium, halogen and an internal electron donor compound with an organosilicon compound (b), wherein the organosilicon compound (b) is one or more selected from a Si—H functional group containing chainlike polysiloxane (b1) represented by formula (Ix), a cyclic polysiloxane (b2) represented by formula (Iy) and a Si—H functional group containing organosilicon compound (b3) represented by formula (Iz). In addition, a process for preparing the catalyst component and the corresponding catalyst is described. The catalyst component and its catalyst have high catalytic activity, good hydrogen response, and good stereospecificity, the catalyst can release its activity more evenly, and the obtained polymer has significantly increased bulk density. The definitions of R1 to R10, n and z in the formulae (Ix), (ly) and (Iz) are as described in the specification.