18952 results about "Acrylamide" patented technology

A hemostatic composition for stopping or decreasing blood flow from an open wound or medical or surgical procedure. Compositions of the invention comprise a mixture of a cationic polymer and a cation exchange material. In one embodiment, the composition comprises a mixture: (1) a high molecular weight copolymer of diallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride (DADMAC) and acrylamide [DADMAC copolymer], and (2) the hydrogen form of a crosslinked, sulfonated polystyrene (hydrogen resin). In an exemplified embodiment, a composition of the invention comprises the mixture of DADMAC copolymer and hydrogen resin provided in a dry powdered form. The compositions of the invention may be applied directly to a wound or treatment site, or they may be incorporated into a wound dressing, such as a bandage. The seal formed at a wound or treatment site treated with the present invention is adhesive and exhibits considerable toughness.

The present invention relates to the discovery that certain non-naturally occurring, non-peptide amide compounds and amide derivatives, such as oxalamides, ureas, and acrylamides, are useful flavor or taste modifiers, such as a flavoring or flavoring agents and flavor or taste enhancer, more particularly, savory (the “umami” taste of monosodium glutamate) or sweet taste modifiers,—savory or sweet flavoring agents and savory or sweet flavor enhancers, for food, beverages, and other comestible or orally administered medicinal products or compositions.

The present invention relates to thickened fabric conditioners, which fabric conditioners contain a particular polymeric thickener, which is obtained by polymerizing from 5 to 100 mole percent of a cationic vinyl addition monomer, from 0 to 95 mole percent of acrylamide, and from 70 to 300 ppm of a difunctional vinyl addition monomer cross-linking agent. As compared to such compositions comprising a similar product but obtained from a polymerization reaction using between 5 and 45 ppm cross-linking agent considerable advantages are obtained. Especially, the delivery of fragrance present in the softening composition is more efficiently carried over to the fabrics to be treated.

The present invention relates to a process comprising the steps of reacting a reactive mixture comprising at least one silicone-containing component, at least one hydrophilic component, and at least one diluent to form an ophthalmic device having an advancing contact angle of less than about 80°; and contacting the ophthalmic device with an aqueous extraction solution at an elevated extraction temperature, wherein said at least one diluent has a boiling point at least about 10° higher than said extraction temperature.

A method of thermally processing a tobacco material is provided, the method including the steps of (i) mixing a tobacco material, water, and an additive selected from the group consisting of lysine, glycine, histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, phenylalanine, valine, arginine, di- and trivalent cations, asparaginase, saccharides, phenolic compounds, reducing agents, compounds having a free thiol group, oxidizing agents, oxidation catalysts, plant extracts, and combinations thereof, to form a moist tobacco mixture; (ii) heating the moist tobacco mixture at a temperature of at least about 60° C. to form a heat-treated tobacco mixture; and (iii) incorporating the heat-treated tobacco mixture into a tobacco product. Heat-treated tobacco composition prepared according to the method are also provided, such as heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition comprising a tobacco material, water, flavorant, binder, and filler, the heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition having an acrylamide content of less than about 2000 ppb.

The present invention relates to a silicone (meth)acrylamide monomer, and this silicone (meth)acrylamide monomer is particularly suitable for use in contact lenses, intraocular lenses, artificial cornea, and the like.

The invention provides an amphiphilic siloxane-containing (meth)acrylamide which comprises one sole (meth)acrylamido group, one sole tris(trimethylsiloxy)silyl group, and one polyethylene glycol segment which is either dangling polymer chain or a hydrophilic linker between the (meth)acrylamido group and the tris(trimethylsiloxy)silyl group. The present invention is also related to a polymer, an actinically-crosslinkable silicone-containing prepolymer, a silicone hydrogel polymeric material, or a silicone hydrogel contact lens, which comprises monomeric units derived from an amphiphilic siloxane-containing (meth)acrylamido group, one tris(trimethylsiloxy)silyl group of the invention. In addition, the invention provides a method for making silicone hydrogel contact lenses using a water-based lens-forming formulation comprising an amphiphilic siloxane-containing (meth)acrylamido group, one tris(trimethylsiloxy)silyl group of the invention and / or an actinically-crosslinkable silicone-containing prepolymer of the invention.

Nitrogen-containing lipids prepared from the conjugate addition of amines to acrylates, acrylamides, or other carbon-carbon double bonds conjugated to electron-withdrawing groups are described. Methods of preparing these lipids from commercially available starting materials are also provided. These amine-containing lipids or salts forms of these lipids are preferably biodegradable and biocompatible and may be used in a variety of drug delivery systems. Given the amino moiety of these lipids, they are particularly suited for the delivery of polynucleotides. Complexes or nanoparticles containing the inventive lipid and polynucleotide have been prepared. The inventive lipids may also be used to in preparing microparticle for drug delivery. They are particularly useful in delivering labile agents given their ability to buffer the pH of their surroundings.

Methods and compositions generating and using an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra)-rich solution. Methods for generating and isolating interleukin-1 receptor antagonist include incubating adipose tissue and / or adipocytes with polyacrylamide beads to produce interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. The interleukin-1 receptor antagonist is isolated from the polyacrylamide beads to obtain the solution rich in interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. Methods for treating a site of inflammation in a patient include administering to the site of inflammation the solution rich in interleukin-1 receptor antagonist.

The invention discloses a preparation method for sodium alginate-acrylamide-based hydrogel. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: dissolving sodium alginate powder in deionized water; then sequentially adding an acrylamide monomer, a methylene diacrylamide cross-linking agent, ammonium persulfate and an N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine catalyst; uniformly stirring the materials, pouring the mixture into a glass die, and heating the mixture to obtain a hydrogel; completely soaking the hydrogel in a 0.01-1 mol / L non-monovalent cation aqueous solution for 1-10 hours, wherein cations diffuse and enter in a hydrogel network structure, and induce sodium alginate to cross-link, so as to generate the high-strength and high-toughness sodium alginate-acrylamide-based hydrogel during the process. The hydrogel disclosed by the invention has the following performances: the highest tensile strength can achieve 1 MPa, and the highest tensile elasticity modulus can achieve 250 KPa; a loading-unloading test is performed on the hydrogel, and when the great tensile multiple before unloading is 8, the highest dissipated energy can achieve 2180 KJ / m<3>.

Methods and compositions generating and using an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra)-rich solution. Methods for generating and isolating interleukin-1 receptor antagonist include incubating a liquid volume of white blood cells and platelets with polyacrylamide beads to produce interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. The interleukin-1 receptor antagonist is isolated from the polyacrylamide beads to obtain the solution rich in interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. Methods for treating a site of inflammation in a patient include administering to the site of inflammation the solution rich in interleukin-1 receptor antagonist.

The present invention provides transparent silicone hydrogels with high acrylamide monomer content and an excellent balance between moisture content.The silicone hydrogels may be obtained by polymerizing a monomer mix containing a plurality of monomers, wherein the monomer mix comprises about 30 to about 98% by weight of at least one type of silicone monomer which is, and about 1 to about 50% by weight of at least one type of non-silicone type (meth)acrylamide monomer containing two or more hydroxyl groups within a molecule; wherein the weight percents are based upon the total amount of monomer components and polymer components in the monomer mix.

A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore including:(a) preparing a fracturing fluid containing a mixture resulting from:(I) providing a water-in-oil emulsion composition that includes:(i) 5% to 99% by weight of a water-in-oil emulsion polymer comprising a polymer or copolymer containing repeat units from an acrylamide monomer;(ii) 0.5% to 90% by weight of a carrier solvent; and(iii) 0 to 90% by weight of a fluidizing agent; and adding(iv) 0.1% to 10% by weight of one or more inorganic microparticles, where the total of all components is 100% by weight; and(II) adding the water-in-oil emulsion composition to water; and(b) contacting the subterranean formation with the fracturing fluid.

Compositions comprising a blend of two or more paper strengthening agents have improved stability compared with previously known paper strengthening agents. One component is a polymeric paper strengthening agent, preferably a wet strengthening agent. The other component is a stabilized polyacrylamide prepared by (1) reacting a first portion of glyoxal with a polyacrylamide having pendant amide groups to form a first reaction mixture comprising polyacrylamide; (2) adding an acid to the first reaction mixture to form a second reaction mixture having a reduced pH and comprising the polyacrylamide; and (3) adding a second portion of glyoxal to the second reaction mixture to form the stabilized polyacrylamide. If desired, an aldehyde scavenger can be included in one or more of step (1), step (2), step (3), or the stabilized polyacrylamide. Such compositions can be used to enhance the strength of paper, particularly the wet strength of paper.

The invention relates to an immobilized microorganism preparation method in biochemical technical field, comprising the following steps: step 1, preparing a solution of which preparation method per 100ml comprises the following steps: (1) dissolving 12-18g of polyethylene glycol prepolymer in water to obtain a solution A; (2) adding microorganism in the solution A, then adding 0.5-1g of N,N-dimethylbisacrylamide and 0.05-0.1g of silicon dioxide, then adding 0.05-0.2g of diethoxyacetophenone and obtaining a solution B; (3) adding water in the solution B to ensure the volume of the obtained solution is 100ml, mixing evenly and obtaining the desired solution; step 2, placing the solution obtained in the step 1 under a ultraviolet lamp for curing, cutting, and washing to obtain the immobilized microorganism. The method of the invention can be performed at room temperature, the reaction process is easy to control and the prepared embedded bacteria particles have longer service life.

Ionic hydrophilic high molecular weight redox polymers for use in enzymatic electrochemical-based sensors include a hydrophilic polymer (such as a hydrophilic polymer backbone) with ionic portions (e.g., cationic monomers incorporated in the hydrophilic polymer backbone) and a plurality of attached redox mediators. The redox mediators can be, for example, covalently attached to the hydrophilic polymer in a pendant manner. An exemplary cationic hydrophilic high molecular weight redox polymer is synthesized by co-polymerization of a hydrophilic acrylamide monomer, [2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl]trimethyl ammonium chloride and vinyl ferrocene.

The present invention relates to thickened fabric conditioners, which fabric conditioners contain a particular polymeric thickener, which is obtained by polymerizing from 5 to 100 mole percent of a cationic vinyl addition monomer, from 0 to 95 mole percent of acrylamide, and from 70 to 300 ppm of a difunctional vinyl addition monomer cross-linking agent. As compared to such compositions comprising a similar product but obtained from a polymerization reaction using between 5 and 45 ppm cross-linking agent considerable advantages are obtained. Especially, the delivery of fragrance present in the softening composition is more efficiently carried over to the fabrics to be treated.

A method of thermally processing a tobacco material is provided, the method including the steps of (i) mixing a tobacco material, water, and an additive selected from the group consisting of lysine, glycine, histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, phenylalanine, valine, arginine, di- and trivalent cations, asparaginase, saccharides, phenolic compounds, reducing agents, compounds having a free thiol group, oxidizing agents, oxidation catalysts, plant extracts, and combinations thereof, to form a moist tobacco mixture; (ii) heating the moist tobacco mixture at a temperature of at least about 60° C. to form a heat-treated tobacco mixture; and (iii) incorporating the heat-treated tobacco mixture into a tobacco product. Heat-treated tobacco composition prepared according to the method are also provided, such as heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition comprising a tobacco material, water, flavorant, binder, and filler, the heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition having an acrylamide content of less than about 2000 ppb.

The invention relates to a nanometer clay-containing high absorptive hydrogel as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The hydrogel contains an acrylamide monomer M1, a chemical crosslinking agent M2, inorganic nanometer clay M3 and a water soluble biopolymer M4 with use level of 98-50:0-10:2-25:015 in mass percent. The preparation method comprises the following step of: taking M3 as a filler or a reinforcing agent or a physical crosslinking agent and taking M4 as a second component in a water solution to prepare the environmentally-friendly hydrogel with high water soluble dye adsorption property and excellent mechanical property. The method has the advantages of simple and reliable preparation process, no environmental pollution, very strong dye adsorption removal effects and practicability; and the dye adsorption quantity can be adjusted by temperature, pH value, crosslinking degree, dye concentration, nanometer clay or biopolymer variety and use level and a reactant charge ratio. The hydrogel can be used for the fields of weaving and dyeing wastewater treatment, dye adsorption, and the like.

The present invention provides lipidoids that can be used to modulate the immune response in a subject. Lipidoids are prepared by the conjugate addition of an amine to an acrylate to acrylamide. The lipidoids form complexes or particles with an immunostimulatory polynucleotide, which are then administerd to a subject. Such compositions have been found to stimulate the production of cytokines and increase both humoral and cell-mediate immune response. The invention also provides pharmaceuti-cal compositions thereof and methods for using the same.

A method of thermally processing a tobacco material is provided, the method including the steps of (i) mixing a tobacco material, water, and an additive selected from the group consisting of lysine, glycine, histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, phenylalanine, valine, arginine, di- and trivalent cations, asparaginase, saccharides, phenolic compounds, reducing agents, compounds having a free thiol group, oxidizing agents, oxidation catalysts, plant extracts, and combinations thereof, to form a moist tobacco mixture; (ii) heating the moist tobacco mixture at a temperature of at least about 60° C. to form a heat-treated tobacco mixture; and (iii) incorporating the heat-treated tobacco mixture into a tobacco product. Heat-treated tobacco composition prepared according to the method are also provided, such as heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition comprising a tobacco material, water, flavorant, binder, and filler, the heat-treated smokeless tobacco composition having an acrylamide content of less than about 2000 ppb.

A personal care composition that comprises a synthetic random polymer comprising a net positive charge; said synthetic random polymer comprising an acrylamide monomer unit; and a cationic monomer unit comprising 3 or more positive charges; wherein said synthetic random polymer comprises a ratio of said acrylamide monomer unit to said cationic monomer unit comprising from about 55:45 to about 97:3; and a surfactant component; and an aqueous carrier.

The invention relates to a high-temperature resistant phenolic resin weak gel profile control plugging agent, which is a profile control plugging agent formed by reacting partially-hydrolyzed polyacrylamide and a cross-linking agent by acylamino of the hydrolytic polyacrylamide. The profile control plugging agent comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.25 to 1.2 percent of partially-hydrolyzed polyacrylamide, 0.2 to 1 percent of cross-linking agent, 0.01 to 1 percent of additive and the balance of water. According to the high-temperature resistant phenolic resin weak gel profile control plugging agent, the water plugging rate is more than 80 percent, the oil plugging rate is less than 30 percent, the profile control plugging agent can be resistant to high temperature of over 90 DEG C, mineralization resistance is up to 85,000 mg / L (on the basis of 80,000 mg / L of sodium chloride and 5,000 mg / L of calcium chloride), the strength of gel is high, breaking strength is improved by 68 percent compared with the prior art, the gel-formation time is adjustable, the aims of plugging high-permeability layers in strata and adjusting water absorption profiles of water injection wells deeply can be fulfilled, the deep profile control of oil layers is realized, and the recovery ratio of petroleum is improved greatly.

A stabilized bran component and a stabilized whole grain wheat flour containing the component are produced by subjecting a bran-enriched coarse fraction which contains bran, germ and starch to grinding or milling to reduce grittiness of the coarse fraction without substantially damaging the starch due to abrasion. The coarse fraction may be stabilized by heating to substantially reduce the lipase and lipoxygenase activity of the coarse fraction without substantial gelatinization of the starch. High levels of natural antioxidants and vitamins are retained while avoiding substantial acrylamide formation during the stabilization. The stabilized coarse fraction or stabilized bran component may be combined with a fine fraction which contains predominantly endosperm to obtain a stabilized whole grain wheat flour. The stabilized whole grain wheat flours and the stabilized bran component exhibit extended shelf life and may be used for making baked goods, such as cookies, with desirable oven spread, and a non-gritty mouthfeel.

A method of preparing a tobacco material for use in a smoking article is provided, including (i) mixing a tobacco material, water, and an additive selected from the group consisting of lysine, glycine, histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, phenylalanine, valine, arginine, di- and trivalent cations, asparaginase, saccharides, phenolic compounds, reducing agents, compounds having a free thiol group, oxidizing agents, oxidation catalysts, plant extracts, and combinations thereof; (ii) heating the mixture; and (iii) incorporating the heat-treated mixture into a smoking article as a smokable material. A smoking article in the form of a cigarette is also provided that includes a tobacco material pre-treated to inhibit reaction of asparagine to form acrylamide in mainstream smoke. Upon smoking, the smoking article is characterized by an acrylamide content of mainstream smoke that is reduced relative to an untreated control smoking article.

The invention relates to intelligent gel particles capable of being crosslinked again under a stratum condition and a preparation method and application of the intelligent gel particles. The intelligent gel particles are prepared by acrylamide, anionic monomer, cationic monomer, N, N-vinyl pyrrolidone, pH regulator, initiator, cross-linking agent I, cross-linking agent II, stabilizer, nano particle material and water. The intelligent gel particles are applicable to oil field profile control and water plugging, filtration loss control and / or plugging during a drilling process and drilling and completion plugging, and the gel particles can be crosslinked again under the stratum condition after entering a stratum to form high-strength gel so as to achieve effective plugging.

The invention discloses a sodium alginate-acrylamide composite aquagel. The preparation method comprises the following steps: 1) proportionally dissolving sodium alginate and acrylamide in water, and uniformly mixing; 2) sequentially adding a crosslinking agent and an initiator, carrying out vacuum degassing treatment, and adding a catalyst; and 3) transferring the obtained mixed solution into a glass mold, and heating to react, thereby obtaining the sodium alginate-acrylamide composite aquagel. The sodium alginate-acrylamide composite aquagel has favorable multivalent ion adsorption capacity and biocompatibility. By combining the polyacrylamide network with the graft copolymerization action of the sodium alginate and acrylamide, the mechanical properties of the aquagel are effectively enhanced. The aquagel is sensitive under the condition of different pH values, can generate intermolecular interactions with multiple cationic dyes and heavy metal ions, and is applicable to the fields of chemical substance adsorptive separation, sewage treatment and the like.

The present invention is sludge curing agent and its application, and belongs to the field of soil treating chemicals technology. The sludge curing agent includes powdered components and liquid components, the powdered components include cement clinker 30-60 weight portions, slag 30-60 weight portions, lime 3-8 weight portions, gypsum 1-7 weight portions and other sulfates 1-7 weight portions; and the liquid components include polyacrylamide 5-30 weight portions, polyaluminum chloride 0-20 weight portions, mannitol 0-30 weight portions, lignosulfonate 20-80 weight portions, lignosulfonate-iron or chromium ion complex 0-30 weight portions, alkylphenol ethoxylate 0.2-2 weight portions, tannin 0-10 weight portions, humate 0-10 weight portions, and alpa-olefin sulfonate 0.2-2.5 weight portions. The sludge curing agent has low cost, small consumption, high cumulate strength and high cumulate water tolerance, and may be applied widely.

The present invention discloses one kind of hydrophobic associated and micro cross-linking polymer oil displacing agent and its preparation process. The hydrophobic associated and micro cross-linking polymer oil displacing agent is prepared through compounding water solution of water soluble hydrophobic associated copolymer of acrylamide / (vinyl benzene sulfonic acid and / or 2-acryl amido-2-methyl propyl sulfonic acid) / (C0-C18 alkyl styrene and / or p-phenyl styrene) in 0.1-2 g / l concentration, cross-linking agent solution in 0.01-1.0 g / l concentration, surfactant solution in 0.01-8 mmol / l concentration and solution of heat stabilizer thiourea in 0.005-1.0 g / l concentration; mixing in a mixer with stirrer and regulating the solution pH to 4-11 to obtain the polymer oil displacing agent. The polymer oil displacing agent cross links during flowing in oil reservoir to increase solution viscosity, and has excellent application foreground in oil reservoir development.

A device and method for generating microcapsules employs an inertial-focusing channel for introducing particles dispersed in a prepolymer suspension fluid, a droplet-generating junction for introducing oil evenly onto the flow of particles to create separated droplets of prepolymer suspension fluid encapsulating respective particles in a streamline flow, and a polymerization section for exposing the droplets to UV light or heat to cause polymerization of a polymer coating on separate microcapsules each containing a respective particle. Preferred suspension fluids may be aqueous solution of poly(ethylene-glycol)-diacrylate (PEGDA), or poly(N-isopropyl-acryalmide) (PNIPAAM). The preferred device may employ a curved or linear inertial-focusing microchannel. Functional tags and / or handles may be added to the microcapsules allowing easy detection, measurement and handling of the microcapsules.