Process For Creating High Internal Phase Polymeric Emulsions
Control over the morphology of both the continuous and dispersed phases in HIPPE Economical production of stable HIPPE Enables creation of low-cost, novel materials with advantageous properties.
Plastics Membranes Foams Barriers Cosmetics This technology is available for licensing.
Researchers at UCSB have developed a novel, simple procedure to synthesize polyHIPE blends based on self-assembly and collapse of colloidal dispersions. This procedure makes use of narrow size distribution colloidal particles as precursors of the final dispersed phase and properly designed block copolymers to build up the continuous phase. This procedure allows controlling the morphologies of both the continuous and dispersed phase to an extent well beyond that possible with other currently available techniques. The embodiments of this novel procedure enable the construction of plastic materials having novel transport and barrier properties at potentially low costs.
Patent Number: US7432311B2
Application Number: US200584727A
Inventor: Mezzenga, Raffaele | Fredrickson, Glenn H. | Kramer, Edward J.
Priority Date: 19 Mar 2004
Priority Number: US7432311B2
Application Date: 18 Mar 2005
Publication Date: 7 Oct 2008
IPC Current: C08J000928 | C08K000300 | C08L002302 | C08L003906 | C08L005100 | C08L005300 | C08L002100
US Class: 521064 | 521062 | 521063 | 521147 | 521150 | 521155 | 521157
Assignee Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
Title: Process for creating high internal phase polymeric emulsions
Usefulness: Process for creating high internal phase polymeric emulsions
Summary: The composition is used for making membranes, foams, and barriers.
Novelty: High internal phase emulsion composition for making e.g. membranes, comprises discrete phase comprising a polymer and/or monomer, continuous phase and compatibilizer e.g. surfactants
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Chemical/Material Application
Background Emulsions based on water/oil/surfactant systems have been extensively investigated during the past few decades. High internal phase emulsions (HIPE) can be achieved in these systems, in which the dispersed phase is present in a volume fraction exceeding the critical packing ratio of a face-centered-cubic crystal. Multiple efforts have been made more recently to synthesize polymer-based HIPE, or polyHIPE (HIPPE), owing to the potential advantages these structures may have in many applications. However, there exists a need to produce HIPPE compositions wherein the morphologies of both the continuous and dispersed phases can be controlled. Additional Technologies by these Inventors Tech ID/UC Case 18692/2002-471-0 Related Cases 2002-471-0
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