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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7842268 | Process for producing lithium-containing composite oxide for positive electrode for lithium secondary battery To provide a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, which is low in gas generation and has high safety and excellent durability for charge and discharge cycles even at a high charge voltage. A process for producing a lithium-containing compo... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7588743 | Cesium-rubidium-borate nonlinear optical crystal and its growth method and applications The present invention provides a cesium-rubidium-borate nonlinear optical crystal, which is represented by the chemical formula CsxRb1−xB3O5 (0 | 09/15/2009 |
| 7374738 | Superhard dielectric compounds and methods of preparation Novel superhard dielectric compounds useful as gate dielectrics discovered. Low temperature methods for making thin films of the compounds on substrate silicon are provided. The methods comprise the step of contacting a precursor having the formula H3X—... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371359 | Non-aqueous borate routes to boron nitride A non-aqueous route and process for preparation of boron nitride utilizing aerosol assisted vapor phase synthesis (AAVS) wherein boron precursors are nitrided in one or two heating steps, and wherein a boron oxide nitride carbide intermediary composition is formed a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7341702 | Process for producing boron nitride A process for producing boron nitride of high purity and high thermal conductivity, wherein a oxygen-containing boron compound is reacted with a nitrogen-containing source in the presence of a dopant at a temperature of at least 1000° C. for at least one hour, and ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338669 | Inorganic boranophosphate salts The invention provides novel inorganic boranophosphate salts that can be used as fertilizers, in detergent formulations, as additive in melts for the glass industry, in boron neutron-capture therapy of cancer, and as synthetic building blocks in the synthesis of bor... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7332264 | Photo-definable self-assembled materials The present invention provides a mesoporous material comprising at least one region of mesoporous material patterned at a lithographic scale. The present invention also provides a method for forming a patterned mesoporous material comprising: coating a sol on a subs... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7314843 | Method for synthesis of lamellar solids from an amino-alcohol-type organic structuring agent The invention relates to a process for synthesis of lamellar solids based on silicates comprising: i) a mixing stage, during which a mixture that comprises an alkaline metal, a silica source, water and an organic structuring agent ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7282137 | Process for preparing basestocks having high VI A process for preparing high VI lubricating oil basestocks comprising hydrotreating, hydrodewaxing and optionally hydrofinishing. The hydrotreating step is under conditions such that the amount of conversion to 343° C. minus is less than 5 wt. % of the feedstock an... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276220 | Preparation of iron pentacarbonyl Iron pentacarbonyl is prepared by reacting iron with carbon monoxide in suspension and in the presence of a polysulfide of the general formula RSxR′ as a catalyst, where R is an organic radical and x is a number from 2 to 8. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273828 | Catalyst treatment useful for aromatics conversion process A process for preparing a transalkylation catalyst, the catalyst itself, and a transalkylation process for using the catalyst are herein disclosed. The catalyst comprises rhenium metal on a solid-acid support such as mordenite, which has been treated with a sulfur-b... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271303 | Multi-zone process for the production of diesel and aromatic compounds A multi-zone process for the production of low sulfur diesel and aromatic compounds wherein C9+ hydrocarbons are hydrocracked to produce low sulfur diesel and a naphtha boiling range stream which is reformed and transalkylated within reforming ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7241532 | Positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, secondary battery employing the same, and process for producing positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery A subject for the invention is to provide a positive-electrode material, which has high capacity and high output and is inhibited from suffering a decrease in output with repetitions of charge and use. The invention provides a positive-electrode material for ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7223713 | Molybdenum sulfide/carbide catalysts The present invention provides methods of synthesizing molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and carbon-containing molybdenum disulfide (MoS2-xCx) catalysts that exhibit improved catalytic activity for hydrotreating reactions involving hydrode... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220350 | Wax isomerate yield enhancement by oxygenate pretreatment of catalyst A waxy hydrocarbon feed is catalytically treated with a dewaxing catalyst that has been selectively activated. The selective activation of the catalyst involves treating the catalyst with at least one oxygenate. The selectively activated catalyst can then be used to... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220885 | Catalyst treatment useful for aromatics conversion process A process for preparing a transalkylation catalyst, the catalyst itself, and a transalkylation process for using the catalyst are herein disclosed. The catalyst comprises rhenium metal on a solid-acid support such as mordenite, which has been treated with a sulfur-b... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7214255 | Aerosol method and apparatus for making particulate products Provided is an aerosol manufacture facility including an aerosol generator (600), an aerosol heater (604), an aerosol cooler (604), a particle collector (606), a precursor liquid supply system (608), a carrier gas supply system ( | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214844 | Molecular sieve catalyst compositions, its making and use in conversion processes The invention relates to a molecular sieve catalyst composition, to a method of making or forming the molecular sieve catalyst composition, and to a conversion process using the catalyst composition. In particular, the invention is directed to a making a molecular s... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211235 | Method for producing hydrotalcites A method is described for the manufacture of hydrotalcites by using at least one compound of a bivalent metal (Component A) and at least one compound of a trivalent metal (Component B), wherein at least one of these components is not used in the form of a solution, ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208131 | Method for the production of hydrogen-bis(chelato) borates and alkali metal-bis(chelato)borates Methods are described for the production of hydrogen-bis(chelato)borates of the general formula H[BL1L2] and of alkali metal-bis(chelato)borates of the general formula M[BL1L2] where M=Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7208437 | Catalyst and method for its manufacture A catalyst is synthesized by a method in which a catalytic metal such as platinum or another noble metal is dispersed onto a support member. A transition metal macrocycle is also adsorbed onto the support, and the support is heat treated so as to at least partially ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7198738 | Cesium-lithium-borate crystal and its application to frequency conversion of laser light The present invention provides a cesium-lithium-borate crystal, which can be used as a high-performance wavelength converting crystal, having a chemical composition expressed as CsLiB6O10, and substituted cesium-lithium-borate crystals expressed by the following for... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192644 | Non-aqueous borate routes to boron nitride A non-aqueous route and process for preparation of boron nitride utilizing aerosol assisted vapor phase synthesis (AAVS) wherein boron precursors are nitrided in one or two heating steps, and wherein a boron oxide nitride carbide intermediary composition is formed a... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7179434 | Integrated apparatus for aromatics production Enabling a transalkylation process to handle both C10 alkylaromatics and unextracted toluene permits the following improvements to be realized. No longer extracting toluene allows a reformate-splitter column to be eliminated. The extraction unit can be mo... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7169368 | Integrated apparatus for aromatics production Enabling a transalkylation process to handle both C10 alkylaromatics and unextracted toluene permits the following improvements to be realized. No longer extracting toluene allows a reformate-splitter column to be eliminated. The extraction unit can be mo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7169261 | Silica-based sols An aqueous sol containing silica-based particles which has an S-value within the range of from 10 to 45%, a viscosity within the range of from 5 to 40 cP, and a molar ratio of SiO2 to M2O, where M is alkali metal or ammonium, within the range o... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7160528 | Radiopaque cationically polymerizable compositions comprising a radiopacifying filler, and method for polymerizing same Polymerizable compositions that include: (a) a cationically active functional group; (b) an initiation system capable of initiating cationic polymerization of the cationically active functional group; and (c) a filler composition that includes various radiopacifying... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7153413 | Gasoline sulfur reduction in fluid catalytic cracking The sulfur content of liquid cracking products, especially the cracked gasoline, is reduced in a catalytic cracking process employing a cracking catalyst containing a high content of vanadium. The cracking process involves introducing at least one vanadium compound ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153806 | Encapsulated oxo-bridged organometallic cluster catalyst and a process for the preparation thereof The present invention relates to a novel encapsulated organometallic cluster complex catalyst and to a process for the preparation thereof. The oxo-bridged organometallic cluster complex of the invention has at least one atom of cobalt and manganese encapsulated in ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154014 | Alumina guard bed for aromatics transalkylation process A transalkylation process for reacting carbon number nine aromatics with toluene to form carbon number eight aromatics such as para-xylene is herein disclosed. The process is based on the discovery that deactivating contaminants present in typical hydrocarbon feeds,... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148388 | Process for preparing and olefinic hydrocarbon mixture In a process for preparing an olefinic hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least 5% by weight of mono-olefin oligomers of the empirical formula: CnH2n where n is greater than or equal to 6, a feedstock comprising n-butene and... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7138102 | Method for manufacturing highly-crystallized double oxide powder A method for manufacturing a highly-crystallized double oxide powder composed of a single crystal phase which can be used as a phosphor material, a dielectric material, a magnetic material, etc. The method involves forming fine droplets of a raw material solution co... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7132386 | Preparation of amorphous sulfide sieves The present invention involves methods and compositions for synthesizing catalysts/porous materials. In some embodiments, the resulting materials are amorphous sulfide sieves that can be mass-produced for a variety of uses. In some embodiments, methods of the invent... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7125818 | Catalyst for wax isomerate yield enhancement by oxygenate pretreatment A dewaxing catalyst is selectively activated by treatment with an oxygenate. Selective activation is accomplished by treated the dewaxing catalyst with a carrier feed containing oxygenate. The selectively activated dewaxing catalyst when used to dewax waxy hydrocarb... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7118727 | Method of making oxide particles The present invention provides a process for producing particles, such as oxide nanoparticles, in a substantially water-free environment. The process involves mixing at least one metal compound of the formula MX(m−n) with at least one surfactant and at ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7087152 | Wax isomerate yield enhancement by oxygenate pretreatment of feed A waxy hydrocarbon feed is catalytically dewaxed with a catalyst that has been selectively activated. The selective activation of the catalyst involves contacting the dewaxing catalyst with a feed mixture containing waxy hydrocarbon and at least one oxygenate. The p... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7077947 | Process for preparing basestocks having high VI using oxygenated dewaxing catalyst A process for preparing high VI lubricating oil basestocks comprising hydrotreating, hydrodewaxing and optionally hydrofinishing. The hydrotreated feedstock is hydrodewaxed using a dewaxing catalyst that has been selectively activated by oxygenate treatment. The hyd... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7060237 | Non-aqueous borate routes to boron nitride A non-aqueous route and process for preparation of boron nitride utilizing aerosol assisted vapor phase synthesis (AAVS) wherein boron precursors are nitrided in one or two heating steps, and wherein a boron oxide nitride carbide intermediary composition is formed a... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7038100 | Aromatics alkylation The present invention provides a process for producing an alkylaromatic compound comprising the step of contacting an alkylatable aromatic compound with an alkylating agent under alkylation conditions in the presence of a alkylation catalyst comprising phosphorus an... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7029528 | Method for flattening surface of oxide crystal to ultra high degree There are provided a method of superflattening an oxide crystal that is soluble neither with acid nor with alkaline, a method of making a ReCa4O(BO3)3 family oxide single crystal thin film using the superflattening method, a ReCa | 04/18/2006 |
