776 results about "Hydrophile" patented technology

A water soluble, biodegradable ABA- or BAB-type tri-block polymer is disclosed that is made up of a major amount of a hydrophobic A polymer block made of a biodegradable polyester and a minor amount of a hydrophilic polyethylene glycol(PEG) B polymer block, having an overall average molecular weight of between about 2000 and 4990, and that possesses reverse thermal gelation properties. Effective concentrations of the tri-block polymer and a drug may be uniformly contained in an aqueous phase to form a drug delivery composition. At temperatures below the gelation temperature of the tri-block polymer the composition is a liquid and at temperatures at or above the gelation temperature the composition is a gel or semi-solid. The composition may be administered to a warm-blooded animal as a liquid by parenteral, ocular, topical, inhalation, transdermal, vaginal, transurethral, rectal, nasal, oral, pulmonary or aural delivery means and is a gel at body temperature. The composition may also be administered as a gel. The drug is released at a controlled rate from the gel which biodegrades into non-toxic products. The release rate of the drug may be adjusted by changing various parameters such as hydrophobic / hydrophilic component content, polymer concentration, molecular weight and polydispersity of the tri-block polymer. Because the tri-block polymer is amphiphilic, it functions to increase the solubility and / or stability of drugs in the composition.

Problem to be Solved To provide an ophthalmic lens, which can be more safely worn, that is, to provide a material, which is transparent and has high oxygen permeability and a high hydrophilic property, and to provide a novel monomer to be a raw material thereof.Solution A hydrophilic polysiloxane macromonomer contains polyoxyethylene as a hydrophilic side chains in a polysiloxane main chain, wherein transparency, oxygen permeability, and hydrophilic properties of the material are controlled by regulating the length of the polysiloxane main chain, the length of the hydrophilic polyoxyethylene side chains, and the number of the side chains.

The present invention relates to absorbent articles comprising nonwoven fabrics, which are made hydrophilic by polymers chemically bonded to the surface of the nonwoven fabrics.Moreover, the invention relates to a process for making hydrophilic fibers, which can be formed into a nonwoven fabric.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating infectious diseases and genetic disorders through gene therapy and intracellular delivery of antisense oligonucleotides or other nucleic acid sequences. The present invention comprises a therapeutic delivery composition effective for treating a disease state comprising an administerable admixture of an effective amount of a therapeutic compound capable of altering nucleic acid sequence function and an effective amount of a block copolymer having the following general formula: 1 wherein: the mean aggregate molecular weight of the portion of the octablock copolymer represented by polyoxypropylene is between about 5000 and about 7000 Daltons; a is a number such that the portion represented by polyoxyethylene constitutes between about 10% to about 40% of the compound by weight; and b is a number such that the polyoxypropylene portion of the total molecular weight of the octablock copolymer constitutes between about 60% and about 90% of the compound by weight. The present invention also includes compositions and methods using biologically active nonionic reverse block copolymers. The reverse copolymers have an inner core of polyoxypropylene (POP) that is flanked on either end by polyoxyethylene (POE). The reverse block copolymers have the following formula: 2 wherein "b" represents a number such that the molecular weight of the hydrophobe (C.sub.3H.sub.6O).sub.b is between approximately 2,000 and 10,000, and "a" represents a number such that the percentage of hydrophile (C.sub.2H.sub.4O).sub.a is between approximately 5% and 30%.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a stable suspension of carbon nanoparticles in a hydrophilic thermal transfer fluid to enhance thermal conductive properties and other characteristics such as freezing point of an antifreeze coolant. The process involves the step of dispersing carbon nanoparticles directly into a mixture of a thermal transfer fluid and other additives in the present of surfactants with intermittent ultrasonication. The present invention also relates to the composition of a hydrophilic nanofluid, which comprises carbon nanoparticles, particularly carbon nanotubes, a hydrophilic thermal transfer fluid, and at least one surfactant. Addition of surfactants significantly increases the stability of nanoparticle dispersion.

The invention discloses a composite fibre membrane with an unidirectional water permeable performance and a preparation method of the composite fibre membrane, belonging to the field of functional micron / nano composite fibre materials; the composite fibre membrane is composed of a two-layer structure; a hydrophile layer is a nano-scale fibre membrane composed of hydrophile polymers such as polyvinyl alcohol, cellulose acetate, polyacrylate and the like; fibre diameter is 100-800nm; thickness is 25-35 microns; a lyophobic layer is the micron-scale fibre membrane composed of lyophobic polymers such as polyurethane, polystyrene, polymethylmethacrylate or polycaprolactone and the like; thickness is 5-10 microns; and fibre diameter is1.0-3.0 microns. The composite fibre membrane can be controlled by regulating technical parameters and has hydrophile / lyophobic differences and an excellent directional water permeable performance; and the preparation method is characterized by simple operation, low energy consumption, high efficiency and is widely used for fields of perspiring-type waterproof dress materials, fuel cell electrolyte membranes, unidirectional liquid transmission and separation and the like.

A method of forming electrospun fiber mats from a plurality of different biodegradable polymeric fibers is provided, in which a plurality of up to six different biodegradable polymer solutions are electrospun together by a method comprising the steps of providing a plurality of up to six different biodegradable polymer solutions each containing at least one biologically or pharmaceutically active material and each in communication with a needle for electrospinning a biodegradable polymer fiber from the solution, and pumping each solution through its respective needle into an electric field under conditions effective to produce uncontrolled charged jet streams of the polymer solutions directed at a grounded rotating mandrel, thereby forming fiber threads of the biologically or pharmaceutically active compounds and polymers in the solutions that are deposited on the mandrel to form an electrospun non-woven fiber mat, wherein the needles are positioned for co-deposition of the fiber threads from the polymer solution streams together on the mandrel to form a fiber mat.

Methods of increasing the rate of separating hydrophobic and hydrophilic particles by flotation have been developed. They are based on using appropriate reagents to enhance the hydrophobicity of the particles to be floated, so that they can be more readily collected by the air bubbles used in flotation. The hydrophobicity-enhancing reagents include low HLB surfactants, naturally occurring lipids, modified lipids, and hydrophobic polymers. These methods can greatly increase the rate of flotation for the particles that are usually difficult to float, such as ultrafine particles, coarse particles, middlings, and the particles that do not readily float in the water containing large amounts of ions derived from the particles. In addition, new collectors for the flotation of phosphate minerals are disclosed.

An article having a nonfouling surface thereon is comprises: (a) a substrate having a surface portion; (b) a linking layer on the surface portion; and (c) a polymer layer formed on the linking layer, preferably by the process of surface-initiated polymerization of monomeric units thereon, with each of the monomeric units comprising a monomer core group having at least one protein-resistant head group coupled thereto, to thereby form a brush molecule on the surface portion. The brush molecule comprising a stem formed from the polymerization of the monomer core groups, and a plurality of branches formed from the hydrophilic head group projecting from the stem. Methods of making and using such articles, are also described.

A transparent gel is disclosed which has an interpenetrating polymer network of a copolymer containing a polysiloxane structure and a polycarbonate structure and a hydrophilic polymer obtained by polymerizing a hydrophilic monomer. The transparent gel is useful as a cultivation substrate, a container for storage and an ophthalmic material, comprising an easily synthesizable and purifiable silicon-containing resin, wherein a gel strength, transparency, oxygen permeability, birefringence and other characteristics are excellent.

The invention relates to a transparent super-amphiphobic surface layer and a layer-by-layer in-situ spraying reaction preparation method. The method comprises the steps of sequentially spraying priming paint solutions and finishing paint solutions on a base body in a layer-by-layer in-situ mode through a spraying gun and by adopting the same spraying technology, sequentially spraying acetic acid water solutions of 1 wt.% and fluorine-silicane solutions of 0.1-2 wt.%, carrying out curing at normal temperature and then obtaining a transparent super-amphiphobic surface. The priming paint solutions are obtained by adding hydrophobic transparent resin and corresponding curing agents into soluble solvents and then dispersing the mixtures ultrasonically until the resin is completely dissolved; the finishing paint solutions are obtained by adding hydrophilic fumed silica into ethyl alcohol and forming solutions ultrasonically. According to the invention, the preparation technology for needed coatings is simple, the spraying technology is easy and convenient to operate, coatings are super-hydrophobic, super-oleophobic and highly transparent, and the application prospect is wide in the fields of solar panels, glasses and automobile windshield glass.

The invention discloses a coal slime flotation collector and a preparation method thereof. The coal slime flotation collector comprises the following matters in percentage by weight: 20-50 percent of kerosene and / or light diesel oil, 1-5 percent of primary emulsion, 0.006-0.015 percent of auxiliary emulsion and the balance of water; wherein the primary emulsion is a mixture of polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester and dehydrated sorbitol fatty acid ester, and the hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) value of the primary emulsion is within 12.8-14.3; the auxiliary emulsion is selected from the following (1) or (2), wherein the (1) is sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate, and the (2) is a mixture obtained by mixing fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether sulfate and the sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate according to the mass ratio of 1: 0.5-2. The coal slime flotation collector has good stability, simple preparation process and 40-60 percent of the oil-saving ratio on the premise of improving the float yield and the tail coal ash proportion. The collector is beneficial to saving the energy, reducing the emission and improving the economical benefit when being used for floating the coal slime.

Inks that contain ionically stabilized dispersions and selected polyurethane ink additives are described. These ionically stabilized dispersions are obtained from polymeric dispersants where the hydrophilic components are minimized. These stabilized dispersions can be utilized to prepare ink jet inks which when printed result in improved optical density, chroma, gloss and especially distinctness of image. The stability of the ionically stabilized dispersions are sufficient for ink jet inks. The polyurethane ink additives are chosen from polyurethanes which are urea terminated or crosslinked.

A well treatment microemulsion includes an oil external phase, an internal aqueous phase and a hydrophilic surfactant. The surfactant has a hydrophile lipophile balance of between 8-18. The oil external phase may include d-Limonene, xylenes, light mineral oil, or kerosene. The surfactant is configured to emulsify the water of the internal aqueous phase into the oil of the external (continuous) phase. The surfactant may include polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate, polyoxyethylene sorbitan tristearate, polyoxyethylene hydrogenated castor oil, polyoxyethylene sorbitan monostearate, polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate, polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate or mixtures therebetween. The use of hydrophilic surfactants to emulsify an internal aqueous phase within an oil external microemulsion produces unexpected and beneficial results.

Composition and method for shortening the shear recovery time of cationic, zwitterionic, and amphoteric viscoelastic surfactant fluid systems by adding an effective amount of a co-gelling agent selected from triblock oligomeric compounds having hydrophilic (for example polyether) and hydrophobic (for example alkyl) portions. The co-gelling agent also increases fluid viscosity and very low co-gelling agent concentration is needed. Preferred surfactants are betaines and quaternary amines. The fluids are useful in oilfield treatments, for example fracturing and gravel packing.

The invention provides a coated product which is provided with a basal body coated with a silicon dioxide coating nano-particle layer. The thickness of the coating layer is uniform virtually, perpetually adhered on the basal body and provides the surface nature of dereflection and / or hydrophile for the basal body.

The invention discloses an amphiphilic ternary polymer brush and a nano capsule. The amphiphilic ternary polymer brush has the following general formula, wherein A is polymer main chain, B is lipophilic polymer side chain, C is photo-crosslinked polymer side chain, D is hydrophilic polymer side chain, and the side chains B, C and D are randomly grafted onto the main chain A; and the nano capsule is prepared through dispersing the amphiphilic ternary polymer brush into an oil-water two-phase system, and then performing light crosslinking reaction or reaction initiated by light. The amphiphilic ternary polymer brush solves the difficulty that the particle size of the capsule can not be adjusted and controlled effectively by using the conventional segmented copolymers, and the size of the prepared photo-crosslinked nano capsule is easily adjusted and controlled; the nano capsule prepared by the emulsion self-assembly method is simple in operation and easy to use in large-scale preparation; the prepared hollow nano capsule is large in casting quantity; the photo-crosslinked nano capsule provided by the invention is stable, and according to the light crosslinking method, nontoxicity and safety are reliazed, and the environmental protection is realized. The amphiphilic ternary polymer brush has the following general formula: A-g-(B-r-C-r-D).

This invention relates to a gas diffusion layer used in proton exchange film fuel cells and its preparation method, in which, the gas diffusion layer includes a multihole supporting layer and a microhole layer, the multihole supporting layer is a net and porous structure, the microhole layer is composited on the surface of the porous supporting layer closing to the catalyzed layer and covers the surface of the large hole and fiber dense region of the supporting layer uniformly but not penerates into the inside of the supporting layer, which applies a drying method to prepare a gas diffusion layer used in proton exchange membrane fuel cells, and polymr 1 and 2 containing FI is either a same kind or different, and the hydrophile / hydrophobic degree of the two layers is adjustable, so the gas diffusion layer structure is matched with the running condition of the fuel cell and discharges water more easily.

The invention discloses a method for preparing an antipollution chitosan-nonwoven fabric composite porous filter membrane and belongs to the technical field of microfilter and ultrafilter composite membranes. The method is characterized in that the method adopts nonwoven fabric with nominal aperture of between 0.1 and 10 microns as a base membrane; a crosslinking agent is adopted to carry out pretreatment on the base membrane; 0.1 to 10 mass percent amylose is dissolved in an acetic acid solution; the crosslinking agent and a hole formation agent are added into the acetic acid solution; after the crosslinking reaction, a casting film liquid is obtained; at negative pressure, the casting film liquid is evenly coated on the surface and pores of the porous base membrane; and after treatment by a sodium hydroxide solution and a hot water bath, the antipollution chitosan-nonwoven fabric composite porous filter membrane is formed. The method has the advantages that the prepared composite membrane has good mechanical performance and chemical stability; and the surface of the membrane is levelled and smooth. The composite membrane has dual functions of hydrophile and antibiosis, can lighten adsorption of pollutants on the surface of the membrane, inhibit the growth and reproduction of thalli on the surface of the membrane, and keep the penetrating performance of the membrane and is widely applied to the water treatment process of various fields.

The invention relates to a high-temperature water-in-oil drilling fluid which is composed of the following components in parts by weight: 70-90 parts of base oil, 3-7 parts of organic bentonite, 2-5 parts of oxidized asphalt, 2-5 parts of sulfonated gilsonite, 20-60 parts of CaCl2 aqueous solution of which the mass concentration is 20%, 6-10 parts of calcium oxide, 1.5-5.5 parts of UZEMUL-S, 2-5 parts of ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) and barite, wherein the base oil is non-blooming mineral oil with low aromatic hydrocarbon; the UZEMUL-S is a main emulsifier, the HLB (hydrophile-lipophile balance) value is 2.5, and the UZEMUL-S is formed by synthetizing an organic acid and an organic acid amide; and the ABS auxiliary emulsifier is sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate, and the HLB value is 10. The invention resists temperature of 240 DEG C, can overcome the difficulty of insufficient heat-resistant capability of the existing drilling fluid and is favourable for satisfying the requirement of drilling fluid heat-resistant capability for deep wells and ultra deep wells.

PCT No. PCT / FR97 / 01621 Sec. 371 Date May 15, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date May 15, 1998 PCT Filed Sep. 15, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98 / 10801 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 1998The invention concerns a novel hydrophile adhesive mass to be used for medical purposes characterised in that said hydrophile adhesive mass comprises: (a) 10 to 35 parts by weight of sequenced poly(styrene / olefin / styrene) copolymer, in particular poly(styrene / isoprene / styrene), (b) 20 to 50 parts by weight of a tackifier resin, (c) 2 to 15 parts by weight of an acrylate polymer with a glass temperature less than -20 DEG C., (d) 2 to 25 parts by weight of a plasticizer, in particular a plasticizing oil, (e) 20 to 50 parts by weight of a hydrocolloid, (f) 0.1 to 2 parts by weight of at least one antioxidant. The invention also concerns the use of this adhesive mass for making protective bandages, in particular for treating blisters, skin-deep dermo-epidermic lesions, exudative wounds and burns.

The invention provides a yoghourt flavor chocolate composition for coating a frozen beverage. In terms of 1,000 parts by weight of the composition, the composition comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 180 to 220 parts of white granulated sugar, 120 to 220 parts of powdered whole milk, 280 to 420 parts of coconut oil, 140 to 280 parts of palm oil, 50 to 90 parts of malto dextrin, 10 to 30 parts of cocoa butter substitute, cocoa butter and / or cocoa butter equivalent, 0.5 to 1 part of lecithin, 1 to 3 parts of polyglycerol polyricinoleate, 2 to 6 parts of acidity regulator, and 2 to 5 parts of emulsifier with low hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) value. The invention also provides a method for coating a frozen beverage by using the chocolate composition, and a frozen beverage made from the chocolate composition. According to the invention, a chocolate coating which has rich yoghourt flavor and stability can be formed by adding the acidity regulator and regulating the formula and the process.

The present invention relates to polymeric compositions useful in the manufacture of biocompatible medical devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to certain hydrophilic monomers capable of polymerization to form polymeric compositions having desirable physical characteristics useful in the manufacture of ophthalmic devices. The polymeric compositions comprise polymerized hydrophilic siloxanyl monomers.

The invention relates to an immobilized carrier of nano-attapulgite clay compounded hydrophilic urethane foam microorganisms, which consists of the following raw materials in parts by weight: 100 polyether, 36-55 toluene di-isocyanate, 3.1-3.9 polyisocyanate, 0.5-5 nano-attapulgite clay, 0.45-1.2 silicon oil, 0.14-0.25 tertiary amine, 0.14-0.20 organotin, 1.0-2.7 water, 1.6-4.5 methylene dichloride and 0-80 N, N-dimethylformamide. The polyisocyanate and the nano-attapulgite clay are added in the foaming process of common polyether urethane, thereby the common polyether urethane has a water absorbing surface with crosslinked network structure and strong polarity, meanwhile has great adsorption capacity and hydrophilicity of nanomaterials, improves the compatibility and the mass transfer performance of a foam carrier to the microorganism, and simultaneously strengthens the physicochemical performance and the stability of the materials, thereby improving the sewage treatment efficiency.

The invention refers to a kind of nano complex water gel of bioactive polyvinyl alcohol / the oxhydryl apatite and preparation method which is as follows: prepare the PVA solution by using the purified polyvinyl alcohol; add the grinded and sifted Ca(OH)2 to the pure anhydrous alcohol, then heat the mixture and ultrasonically disperse it to get the alcohol-calcium suspended liquid (or add the metal calcium to the anhydrous alcohol, stir them and make them react to get the calcium alcohol solution); mix said two solutions; then add anhydrous alcohol containing H3PO4 to the mixed solution, and by freezing-melt molding, get the naneo complex water gel of bioactive polyvinyl alcohol. The invention utilizes the hydrophilicity of water-soluble polymer and the static acting force of oxhydryl to make the surface of the generative HA wetting and evenly dispersing.

The invention relates to a medical polyurethane complex film and the preparation method thereof. The complex film is composed of fatty group polyurethane and nanometer hydroxylapatite, wherein the content of the anometer hydroxylapatite is 20-50 wt percent. The fatty group polyurethane is polymerized by at least one of fatty group vulcabond and polyether or polyester polyol, wherein the mol ratio of the fatty group vulcabond-NCO and -OH in the polyol is 1.5-3 to 1. The film belongs to a thermoplasticity elastic film, has favorable elasticity and easy moulding, can load microspheres containing medicine or active components such as biological nutrilit and the like and structures distributed with through holes, thereby having favorable biological performance, and the film does not contain aromatic components but contains ester groups and / or hydrophilic ether groups which can be hydrolyzed or biologically degraded; the hydrophile and hydrophobic nature balance and the degradation of the film can be changed through adjusting the proportion, and the film can be applied to the medical health field of bone tissue guiding regeneration film and medicine slow-released film, and the like.

The invention provides cardanol polyoxyethylene ether and a preparation method thereof. The cardanol polyoxyethylene ether is prepared by reacting cardanol and epoxy ethane. The method comprises the following steps of: adding a catalyst and the cardanol into a reaction kettle during a reaction; fully stirring at the temperature of between 150 and 180 DEG C; introducing the epoxy ethane into the reaction kettle; performing polyreaction with stirring; adding acetic acid after the reaction for neutralization; and discharging after cooling so as to obtain the cardanol polyoxyethylene ether. The cardanol polyoxyethylene ether and the preparation method thereof have the advantages of a small number of side reactions, good color and luster of a product, mild reaction condition and low cost of raw materials. Natural cardanol is taken as a raw material for producing, so that the adverse effect of alkylpheol ethoxylates synthesized from petroleum on the environment is avoided. The cardanol polyoxyethylene ether belongs to linear chain alkylpheol ethoxylates and the hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) of a nonionic surfactant can be controlled by adjusting the adduct number of the epoxy ethane according to a process, so that the cardanol polyoxyethylene ether can be taken as an emulsifier, a lubricant, a washing agent, a solubilizing agent and the like.

The invention concerns an aqueous viscoelastic fluid for use in the recovery of hydrocarbons. According to the invention, the aqueous viscoelastic fluid comprises a monomer, a dimer or an oligomer of a viscoelastic surfactant able to form a viscoelastic gel under downhole conditions, said surfactant comprising a hydrophobic tail and a hydrophilic head, and being of the following formulae: R-X-Y-Z where R is the hydrophobic tail of the surfactant, Z is the hydrophilic head of the surfactant, said hydrophilic head being charged, X is a stabilising group and Y chain is a linear, saturated or unsaturated, hydrocarbon chain of 1, 2 or 3 carbon atoms or a branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon chain wherein the main chain is of 1, 2 or 3 carbon atoms, possibly incorporating an aromatic ring.

The invention provides a synthetic method and application of a metal-organic framework (MOF) composite nanomaterial. The method comprises the following steps: dispersing ferriferrous oxide magnetic spheres which are synthesized through a traditional hydrothermal technology in a weakly alkaline solution of dopamine hydrochloride to carry out self-polymerization of dopamine on the surfaces of the magnetic spheres; and sequentially dispersing polydopamine coated magnetic spheres in a dimethylformamide solution of zirconium chloride and a dimethylformamide solution of 2-amino-terephthalic acid to obtain the MOF composite nanomaterial with the magnetic sphere surfaces coated with polydopamine and modified with an amino group and with zirconium as a center metal ion. The material has the advantages of large specific surface area, good hydrophilicity and suitable pore structure, can be applied to further researches of the proteomics, and can specifically enrich Which can specifically enrich phosphorylated peptide segments and glycopeptides; the synthetic method is simple and quick; and the synthesized material has good hydrophilicity and biocompatibility, and can be used for selectively enriching endogenous phosphorylation peptide segments and glycopeptide in complex biological samples.