“…Patents have been issued for the following: a glue-free cardboard support fixed on an Al or Sn sheet (1286); a plastic sheet support bonded to an aluminum sheet (1287); a process for binding layers onto supports using a binder material which can be converted by thermal decomposition to a partitioning adsorbent after application, in the layer, to the support (1220); a polyethylene binder for preparing layers on polyterephthalate supports (1251); alkali metal silicate binders for TLC plates (1260); coating a polymer support with T1O2 on 1 2 before covering with a silica gel layer (533,1167); silicic acid-loaded fiber matrix sheets (1087); potassium salts of various acids as binders for silica gel (555); polyacrylate resin dispersions as binders (862); sintered chromatographic plates (1035); dual-thickness plates (306); coarse, uniform metal plates (268); and plates with alternate transparent and nontransparent segments (1231).…”