Abstract:
A process for synthesizing nanoparticles, in particular metal salt nanoparticles. To the synthesis mixture is added a modifying reagent which binds, by means of a first functional group, to the nanoparticle surface and which carries a second functional group for binding to molecules which are specifically selected in dependence on the subsequent use of the nanoparticles. This dispenses with a postsynthetic, separate, application-specific modification step. A new substance class, the pentaalkyl iminobis(methylenephosphono)carboxylates, are particularly suitable for this purpose. These modifying reagents permit the nanoparticles to grow in a specifically controlled manner and, at the same time, modify the surface of the growing nanoparticles, (in-situ) during the synthesis, such that the particles can be very readily dissolved in a large number of solvents and carry functional groups for coupling on molecules, resulting in the particles having, immediately after having been synthesized, a certain all-round usability.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a solar cell in which semiconductor nanoparticles are surrounded by a photoactive surfactant material in the photoactive layer.
Abstract:
A composition containing transparent thermoplastic polymers and a surface modified oxide particles is disclosed. The size of the particles is less than 200 nm and the composition is suitable for the preparation of products wherever diathermancy is undesirable.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an assay based on resonance energy transfer (RET), comprising a first molecule grope A, which is marked with at least one energy donor, and at least one second molecule group B which is marked with at least one energy acceptor, the donor comprising a molecule or particle which can be energetically excited by an external radiation source and which is fluorescence enabled and the acceptor comprising a molecule or particle which can be excited by energy transfer via the donor with partial or complete quenching of the donor fluorescence, and the donor and/or acceptor comprise luminescing inorganic dope nanoparticles having an expansion of ≦50 nanometers, emitting electromagnetic radiation with stokes or anti-stokes scattering after energetic excitation.
Abstract:
An electrochromic device which carries a coating comprising at least one UV absorber and nanoparticles is effectively protected against destruction by UV light.
Abstract:
A process for synthesizing nanoparticles, in particular metal salt nanoparticles. To the synthesis mixture is added a modifying reagent which binds, by means of a first functional group, to the nanoparticle surface and which carries a second functional group for binding to molecules which are specifically selected in dependence on the subsequent use of the nanoparticles. This dispenses with a postsynthetic, separate, application-specific modification step. A new substance class, the pentaalkyl iminobis(methylenephosphono) carboxylates, are particularly suitable for this purpose. These modifying reagents permit the nanoparticles to grow in a specifically controlled manner and, at the same time, modify the surface of the growing nanoparticles, (in-situ) during the synthesis, such that the particles can be very readily dissolved in a large number of solvents and carry functional groups for coupling on molecules, resulting in the particles having, immediately after having been synthesized, a certain all-round usability.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an assay based on resonance energy transfer (RET), comprising a first molecule grope A, which is marked with at least one energy donor, and at least one second molecule group B which is marked with at least one energy acceptor, the donor comprising a molecule or particle which can be energetically excited by an external radiation source and which is fluorescence enabled and the acceptor comprising a molecule or particle which can be excited by energy transfer via the donor with partial or complete quenching of the donor fluorescence, and the donor and/or acceptor comprise luminescing inorganic dope nanoparticles having an expansion of ≦50 nanometers, emitting electromagnetic radiation with stokes or anti-stokes scattering after energetic excitation.
Abstract:
A method for the preparation of nano size zinc oxide particles having an average primary particle diameter of less than or equal to 15 nm, which are redispersible in organic solvents and/or water, by basic hydrolysis of at least one zinc compound in alcohol or an alcohol/water mixture. The hydrolysis is carried out with substoichiometric amounts of base, based on the zinc compound. The precipitate which originally forms during hydrolysis is left to mature until the zinc oxide has completely flocculated. This precipitate is then thickened to give a gel and separated off from the supernatant phase.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composite particle containing a solid inorganic or organic colorless support material and adherent to it an inorganic and/or organic pigment particle, wherein the pigment particle has an average particle size of 1 nm to 100 nm, comprises at least one primary pigment particle and the minimum average distance between two pigment particles is at least one quarter of the diameter of the primary pigment particle, whereby the modified inorganic and organic pigments, depending on the pigment material, can be used as IR light absorbers or as color-imparting agents and give rise to a negligible haze in the matrix.