Abstract:
Provided herein is an agrochemical composition comprising a pesticide and at least one water-soluble copolymer (P) including at least one monomer (A), selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylamide, N-methyl(meth)acrylamide, N,N′-dimethyl(meth)acrylamide or N-methylol(meth)acrylamide; at least one macromonomer (B), at least including a macromonomer (B1) H2C═C(R1)—R2—O—(R3O)a—(R4O)b—[(R4O)c(R5O)d]—H; and (B1) at least one anionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomer (C), including at least one acidic group selected from —COOH, —SO3H, PO3H2, and salts thereof.Further provided herein is the production of a spray mixture, including the contacting of a pesticide, the water-soluble copolymer (P), and water; and also a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, unwanted plant growth, unwanted insect infestation or mite infestation, and/or for regulating plant growth. The agrochemical composition acts on a pest, its environment, a crop plant to be protected from the pest, on the soil, the unwanted plant, the crop plant, and/or its environment.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to water-soluble hydrophobically associating copolymers which are obtained in the presence of a nonpolymerizable surface-active compound and which comprise novel hydrophobically associating monomers. The monomers comprise an ethylenically unsaturated group and a polyether block, the polyether block comprising a hydrophilic polyethyleneoxy block and a hydrophobic polyalkyleneoxy block consisting of alkyleneoxy units having at least 4 carbon atoms. The monomers may optionally have a terminal polyethyleneoxy block. The invention further relates to processes for preparing the copolymers and to the use thereof.
Abstract:
In a method of treating a substrate including patterns having line-space dimensions of 50 nm or below, the substrate is rinsed by an aqueous composition including at least one non-ionic surfactant A and at least one hydrophobizer B. The at least one surfactant A has an equilibrium surface tension of 10 mN/m to 35 mN/m, determined from a solution of the at least one surfactant A in water at the critical micelle concentration. The hydrophobizer B is selected so that the contact angle of water to the substrate is increased by contacting the substrate with a solution of the hydrophobizer B in water by 5-95° compared to the contact angle of water to the substrate before such contacting.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a surfactant mixture comprising at least three ionic surfactants which differ in terms of the hydrocarbyl moiety (R1)(R2)—CH—CH2— and are of the general formula (I) where R1, R2, A0, k, X, o, Y, a, b, M are each as defined in the description and the claims. The invention further relates to the use and preparation thereof, and to aqueous surfactant formulations comprising the mixtures, and to processes for producing mineral oil by means of Winsor type III microemulsion flooding, in which the aqueous surfactant formulation is injected into a mineral oil deposit through injection wells and crude oil is withdrawn from the deposit through production wells.
Abstract:
The use of an organic compound as cleavable additive, preferably as cleavable surfactant, in the modification and/or treatment of at least one surface of a semiconductor substrate is described. Moreover, it is described a method of making a semiconductor substrate, comprising contacting at least one surface thereof with an organic compound, or with a composition comprising it, to treat or modify said surface, cleaving said organic compound into a set of fragments and removing said set of fragments from the contacted surface. More in particular, a method of cleaning or rinsing a semiconductor substrate or an intermediate semiconductor substrate is described. In addition, a compound is described which is suitable for the uses and methods pointed out above and which preferably is a cleavable surfactant.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a water-soluble copolymer comprising the step of reacting a monomer (a) of formula (I), (1) wherein Q1, Q2, R1 to R7 and X have the meaning as indicated in the description and claims with at least one monoethylenically unsaturated, anionic monomer (b), preferably representing a monoethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising at least one carboxy, phosphonate or sulfonate group and salts thereof, preferably their ammonium salts or alkaline-earth metal salts or alkali metal salts; and at least one monoethylenically unsaturated, non-ionic monomer (c). The present invention further relates to a copolymer obtainable by said process and its use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a formulation comprising said copolymer and a method of oil production uses said formulation.
Abstract:
A process for producing mineral oil from underground mineral oil deposits, in which an aqueous formulation comprising at least one water-soluble, hydrophobically associating copolymer is injected through at least one injection well into a mineral oil deposit having a deposit temperature of 20° C. to 120° C. and crude oil is withdrawn from the deposit through at least one production well, wherein the water-soluble copolymer comprises at least acrylamide or derivatives thereof and a mixture comprising at least two amphiphilic macromonomers.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for preparing hydrophobically associating macromonomers M and to the novel macromonomers prepared by means of the process according to the invention. The macromonomers M comprise a copolymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated group and a polyether structure in block form, the latter consisting of a polyethyleneoxy block and a hydrophobic polyalkyleneoxy block consisting of alkyleneoxy units having at least 4 carbon atoms. Optionally, the macromonomers M may have a terminal polyethyleneoxy block. The macromonomers prepared by the process according to the invention are suitable for reaction with further monomers, especially with acrylamide, to give a water-soluble, hydrophobically associating copolymer.