Patent ID: 7759274

Claim:
A catalytically active unit, the catalytically active unit comprising a support material in the form of a sheet-like construction comprising a textile fabric, the support material being provided with polymeric nanoparticles, the polymeric nanoparticles having a diameter in the range of from 1 am to 1,000 nm and comprising at least one catalytically active component selected from the group consisting of metals, metal ions and metal salts and mixtures thereof and the catalytic active compound being chemically or physically bound to the polymeric nanoparticles, wherein the polymeric nanoparticles are silicate-based ceramic nanoparticles and comprise at least one inorganic-organic hybrid polymer comprising both organic structural units and inorganic structural units comprising an inorganic silicatic network based on silicon alkoxides comprising Si—O—Si units.