101 |
Microemulsion |
US180744 |
1998-11-17 |
US06140375A |
2000-10-31 |
Tohru Nagahama; Kazuo Hasegawa; Toshiaki Nakajima; Yuji Ito |
The present invention relates to a microemulsion comprising: (1) one or two selected from decaglycerol stearates having an HLB of 14 or greater and sucrose stearates having an HLB of 18 or greater, (2) one or tow selected from decaglycerol myristates having an HLB of 13 or greater and decaglycerol laurates having an HLB of 14 or greater, (3) a fat-soluble ingredient, and (4) a water-soluble polyhydric alcohol, wherein the weight ratio of (1) and (2) if 1:05-1:6. |
102 |
Sol-gel route to transparent metal oxide films |
US106114 |
1998-06-29 |
US6074471A |
2000-06-13 |
Peter J S Foot; Richard Singer; Maria Sugrue; Ian J Youngs |
This invention relates to metal oxides based films and a method for their production via a sol-gel route using metal bis(.beta.-diketonate) salts as precursors. They can be conveniently doped by Group (III), (IV) or (V) impurities and may be used to provide coductive coating on optically transparent substrates such as glass, ceramics or polymers. |
103 |
Method for protecting surfaces from arthropod infestation |
US972653 |
1997-11-18 |
US6027740A |
2000-02-22 |
Gary J. Puterka; Dennis G. Sekutowski; David Michael Glenn |
Disclosed is a method for protecting surfaces from arthropod infestation which involves treating the surface with an effective amount of finely divided calcined kaolins, hydrophobic calcined kaolins, hydrous kaolins, hydrophobic hydrous kaolins, hydrophobic calcium carbonates, calcium carbonates or mixtures thereof. |
104 |
Process for producing emulsifiers, and emulsified compositions |
US11374 |
1998-02-04 |
US6015840A |
2000-01-18 |
Akihiro Nakamura; Masayoshi Kato; Taro Takahashi; Hirokazu Maeda |
A process for producing an emulsifier which comprises hydrolysis of water-soluble hemicellulose with purified rhamnogalacturonase, and emulsified compositions prepared using the emulsifier. |
105 |
Oil-free water-soluble hydroxyethyl cellulose liquid polymer dispersion |
US729470 |
1996-10-11 |
US5985801A |
1999-11-16 |
Michael H. Hoff |
The present invention is directed to an oil-free, water-soluble, liquid, polymer dispersion for use in thickening aqueous mediums, particularly completion and workover fluids used in the oil and gas drilling business. The dispersions of the present invention are comprised of hydroxyethyl cellulose and propylene glycol derivatives, preferably both propylene glycol polyether polyols and an aliphatic propylene glycol ether. Optionally these dispersions include water. Because of their low toxicity, these dispersions are particularly useful for drilling in offshore environments. These compositions rapidly disperse in and viscosity a variety of brines, including sea water and other light brines, with minimum shear and without fisheye formation. |
106 |
Organic aerogel microspheres |
US586038 |
1996-01-16 |
US5908896A |
1999-06-01 |
Steven T. Mayer; Fung-Ming Kong; Richard W. Pekala; James L. Kaschmitter |
Organic aerogel microspheres which can be used in capacitors, batteries, thermal insulation, adsorption/filtration media, and chromatographic packings, having diameters ranging from about 1 micron to about 3 mm. The microspheres can be pyrolyzed to form carbon aerogel microspheres. This method involves stirring the aqueous organic phase in mineral oil at elevated temperature until the dispersed organic phase polymerizes and forms nonsticky gel spheres. The size of the microspheres depends on the collision rate of the liquid droplets and the reaction rate of the monomers from which the aqueous solution is formed. The collision rate is governed by the volume ratio of the aqueous solution to the mineral oil and the shear rate, while the reaction rate is governed by the chemical formulation and the curing temperature. |
107 |
Microemulsion and fiber treatment agent |
US846401 |
1997-04-30 |
US5851431A |
1998-12-22 |
Hiroki Ishikawa; Tsutomu Naganawa; Isao Ona |
The invention concerns a microemulsion having a mean particle size of 0.15 microns or less comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least one epoxy containing group per molecule, wherein said epoxy containing group is selected from the group consisting of: ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are divalent hydrocarbon groups, and wherein said organopolysiloxane also has carboxyl containing groups present in the amount of 0.5 to 15 moles of caboxyl containing groups per mole of silicon atoms in said organopolysiloxane, wherein said carboxyl containing groups are expressed by the formula: --R.sup.3 --COOR.sup.4 where R.sup.3 is a divalent hydrocarbon group, and R.sup.4 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atoms, monovalent hydrocarbon groups and silyl groups expressed by the formula --SiR.sup.5.sub.3, where R.sup.5 indicates the same or different monovalent hydrocarbon groups; (B) a nonionic surfactant; and (C) water. The present invention also comprises a fiber treatment agent whose principal ingredient is the abovementioned microemulsion. |
108 |
C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 diol and diol alkoxylates as coupling agents for
surfactant formulations |
US430516 |
1995-04-27 |
US5686023A |
1997-11-11 |
Robert O. Keys |
Disclosed are stable monophasic liquid compositions comprising water, one or more cationic, anionic, amphoteric and/or nonionic surfactants, exhibiting partial solubility in water or in concentrated formulations, and one or more coupling agents which are C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 alkane substituted with two hydroxyl groups or alkoxylates thereof with up to 20 moles of one or more of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide and/or butylene oxide. |
109 |
Method of preparing HIPR bituminous emulsions |
US474253 |
1995-06-07 |
US5670087A |
1997-09-23 |
Maria Luisa Chirinos; Alistair Stewart Taylor; Spencer Edwin Taylor |
An HIPR emulsion of bitumen in water is prepared by a method which comprises directly mixing 70 to 98% by volume of bitumen having a viscosity in the range 200 to 500,000 mPa.s at the mixing temperature with 30 to 2% by volume of an aqueous solution of an emulsifying surfactant, percentages being expressed as percentages by volume of the total mixture. Mixing is effected under low shear conditions in the range 10 to 1,000 reciprocal seconds in such manner that an emulsion is formed comprising highly distorted bitumen droplets having mean droplet diameters in the range 2 to 50 micron separated by thin films of water. The emulsions can be cut back to provide stable emulsions of lower bitumen content which are useful in road-making and the formation of protective coatings. |
110 |
Process for making gel microbeads |
US257854 |
1994-06-10 |
US5662840A |
1997-09-02 |
William R. Thomas; Henry A. Pfeffer; Basil A. Guiliano; Christopher J. Sewall; Stephen Tomko |
A process for making gel bead having a mean diameter of less than 50 microns by adiabatically atomizing a hydrocolloid sol to droplet of less than 50 microns under conditions that lower the temperature of the hydrocolloid below its gel temperature. |
111 |
Method for stabilizing ceramic suspensions |
US239706 |
1994-05-09 |
US5624604A |
1997-04-29 |
Mehrdad Yasrebi; William W. Kemp; David H. Sturgis; Ilhan A. Aksay; Hamazo Nakagawa |
A method for dispersing and reducing the rate of dissolution and/or hydration of colloidal ceramic suspensions is described. The method comprises adding to a ceramic suspension a non-polymeric hydroxylated organic compound. The organic compound has at least one hydroxyl group, preferably at least two hydroxyl groups. The organic compound also includes a functional group selected from the group consisting of a carboxyl, a carboxylate, a sulfonic acid, a sulfonate, a phosphoric acid, a phosphate, an amine, and a quaternary ammonium salt. The ceramic suspension typically comprises a colloidal suspension of a metal oxide, wherein the metal of the metal oxide is an alkali metal, alkaline-earth metal or a rare-earth metal, but preferably is magnesium, calcium or a rare-earth metal. The non-polymeric organic compound is added to the suspension in an amount effective to substantially disperse and reduce the rate of dissolution of the ceramic particles, such as from about 0.01 weight percent to about 5.0 weight percent. |
112 |
Emulsifying milling machine and process for emulsifying |
US528774 |
1995-09-15 |
US5622650A |
1997-04-22 |
John K. Rourke |
A mill for emulsifying immiscible fluids comprises a mill body having a cylindrical cavity extending therewithin, a fluid inlet at one end of the cavity and a fluid outlet near the other end, both in fluid communication with the cavity. The mill further comprises a stator having a first stator surface, and a rotor assembly having a rotor mounted on a shaft for rotation in the cavity, where the rotor has a first milling surface which faces the first stator surface. Between the first stator surface and the first milling surface is a first fluid milling space. The stator includes at least one annular row of stator projections extending from the first stator surface into the first fluid milling space, and the rotor includes at least one annular row of rotor projections extending from the first milling surface into the first fluid milling space. The annular rows of rotor projections are concentrically adjacent to the annular rows of stator projections within the first fluid milling space. The fluid inlet delivers the hydrophobic and hydrophilic fluids to the first fluid milling space, such that, upon rotating the rotor assembly, the fluids are pumped from the fluid inlet into the first fluid milling space where they are emulsified, and are then pumped from the first fluid milling space to the fluid outlet. The mill thus utilizes a single pass continuous feed process to produce fluid emulsions of a substantially uniform particle size. |
113 |
Preparation of alumina-silica sol gel compositions |
US437486 |
1995-05-09 |
US5591380A |
1997-01-07 |
Robert J. Wright |
A method is taught for the preparation of mixed metal oxide sols particularly suited for the deposition of protective mixed metal oxide coatings upon a substrate. |
114 |
Thermally insulative, microporous xerogels and aerogels |
US493153 |
1995-07-28 |
US5525643A |
1996-06-11 |
M. Antonieta Macip-Boulis; Aheed G. Boulis |
Microporous aerogel and xerogel compositions are prepared by a random polymerization reaction of a silanol-terminated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and/or methyltriethoxysilane (MTEOS) at a molar ratio of at least about 0.012 of the PDMS to TEOS and/or MTEOS to form a gel. The reaction is in the presence of an acid catalyst at a molar ratio of at least about 0.5 acid to TEOS and/or MTEOS, water at a molar ratio in the range of from about 6 to about 15 of the water to TEOS and/or MTEOS and a solvent at a minimum molar ratio of about 4 of the solvent to TEOS and/or MTEOS. In the preparation process, the gel is aged. When elevated temperatures of at least about 40.degree. C. up to the boiling point of the solvent are used in aging, the gel can be aged for a period of at least about 24 hours. At temperatures from ambient up to about 40.degree. C., the gel is aged for a minimum of about 48 hours. |
115 |
Organic aerogel microspheres and fabrication method therefor |
US89119 |
1993-07-08 |
US5508341A |
1996-04-16 |
Steven T. Mayer; Fung-Ming Kong; Richard W. Pekala; James L. Kaschmitter |
Organic aerogel microspheres which can be used in capacitors, batteries, thermal insulation, adsorption/filtration media, and chromatographic packings, having diameters ranging from about 1 micron to about 3 mm. The microspheres can be pyrolyzed to form carbon aerogel microspheres. This method involves stirring the aqueous organic phase in mineral oil at elevated temperature until the dispersed organic phase polymerizes and forms nonsticky gel spheres. The size of the microspheres depends on the collision rate of the liquid droplets and the reaction rate of the monomers from which the aqueous solution is formed. The collision rate is governed by the volume ratio of the aqueous solution to the mineral oil and the shear rate, while the reaction rate is governed by the chemical formulation and the curing temperature. |
116 |
Ligand gold bonding |
US185103 |
1994-01-21 |
US5384073A |
1995-01-24 |
Brian L. Shigekawa; Yung-Ao Hsieh |
Gold sol coated with alkanethiols and alkanethiol derivatives, which provide groups on the sol available for the linking of binding moieties such as antibodies, antigens or ligands to the gold sol. Di- and tri-thiol compounds bound to gold sol also facilitate the adsorption of antibodies, antigens or ligands to the sol. The coating process, and test kits incorporating the coated sols are also included. |
117 |
Alumina of controlled density and catalysts prepared therefrom |
US66000057 |
1957-05-17 |
US2980632A |
1961-04-18 |
MALLEY THOMAS J; SCHINDLER HARVEY D; PENNELL JR JOHN D; INNES WILLIAM B |
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118 |
Manufacture of gel beads |
US34466553 |
1953-03-25 |
US2813836A |
1957-11-19 |
LEBEIS JR EDWARD H |
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119 |
Manufacture of spherical particles |
US32104552 |
1952-11-17 |
US2672453A |
1954-03-16 |
CHARLES WANKAT |
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120 |
Bead forming process |
US18750050 |
1950-09-29 |
US2665258A |
1954-01-05 |
LEBEIS JR EDWARD H |
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