1795 results about "Catechol" patented technology

Detergent compositions containing catechols, such as tiron (1,2-dihydroxybenzene-3,5-disulfonic acid), which do not have or do not develop the reddish color associated with the catechol/ferric iron chelate are disclosed. Methods for reducing the intensity of red color in a tiron containing detergent composition are also disclosed.

Polymers with improved bioadhesive properties and methods for improving bioadhesion of polymers have been developed. A compound containing an aromatic group which contains one or more hydroxyl groups is grafted onto a polymer or coupled to individual monomers. In one embodiment, the polymer is a biodegradable polymer. In another embodiment, the monomers may be polymerized to form any type of polymer, including biodegradable and non-biodegradable polymers. In some embodiments, the polymer is a hydrophobic polymer. In the preferred embodiment, the aromatic compound is catechol or a derivative thereof and the polymer contains reactive functional groups. In the most preferred embodiment, the polymer is a polyanhydride and the aromatic compound is the catechol derivative, DOPA. These materials display bioadhesive properties superior to conventional bioadhesives used in therapeutic and diagnostic applications. These bioadhesive materials can be used to fabricate new drug delivery or diagnostic systems with increased residence time at tissue surfaces, and consequently increase the bioavailability of a drug or a diagnostic agent. In a preferred embodiment, the bioadhesive material is a coating on a controlled release oral dosage formulation and/or forms a matrix in an oral dosage formulation.

An electric smoking system includes a cigarette including a cylindrical tobacco web partially filled with tobacco material to define a filled tobacco rod portion and an unfilled tobacco rod portion, and an electric lighter. The wrapper includes a filler of ammonium-containing compounds effective to reduce the gaseous constituents of the smoke produced during smoking. The system includes a pilot burner including at least one heating vane and a controller adapted to control heating of the heating vane. The lighter is configured to at least partially contain the cigarette such that the heater blade heats the heating region of the cigarette. Manipulating the controller to limit the heating of the heater blades to a predetermined temperature range which allows the delivery of the smoke generated when the portion of the tobacco rod is heated while at least reducing the amount of smoke present in the smoke as compared to smoking a cigarette having only calcium carbonate as filler. A gaseous component. The gaseous components that can be reduced include carbon monoxide, 1,3 butadiene, isoprene, acrolein, acrylonitrile, hydrogen cyanide, 0-toluidine, 2-naphthylamine, nitrogen oxide, benzene, NNN, Phenol, catechol, benzanthracene and benzopyrene.

New, economical and convenient procedures for the preparation of catecholborane in high chemically pure form using tri-O-phenylene bis borate readily prepared from the reaction of catechol with boric acid, and diborane or borane-Lewis base complexes.

The invention discloses a biomedical material and a product thereof. The biomedical material has main characteristic that a compound having a catechol group structure is grafted on chitosan to form a chitosan biomedical material having the catechol group structure; or the grafted chitosan is cross-linked to prepare a novel macromolecular biomedical material. The catechol has cell adhesion, so that tissue adhesiveness of the chitosan can be changed, and blood cells can be adsorbed on the material surface to achieve better bleeding-steeping effect. By virtue of the mediation, performance of the chitosan is improved, and tissue affinity is improved. The material is prepared into a novel bleeding-stopping sponge by freeze-drying, and prepared into novel dressing by spinning or prepared into powder dressing by reverse flocculating.

The invention discloses a preparation method and application of a supported metal catalyst. The supported metal catalyst comprises carrier framework materials and nano particles, loaded on the surfaces of the carrier framework materials, of metal or metal oxide, or metal ions chelated on the surfaces of the carrier framework materials, wherein the metal ions and nano particles of the metal or metal oxide are loaded on the surfaces of the carrier framework materials through the polymerization layers, adhered to the surfaces of the carrier framework materials, of catechol derivatives. The preparation method of the supported metal catalyst has the advantages that the method is simple, various carrier framework materials are used, one or more metal ions or nano particles can be loaded, and universality is achieved; the supported metal catalyst is good in active metal dispersity, large in carrier specific surface area, low in use amount, low in cost, and the like; the catalyst loaded with noble metal is catalyst material which is widely used and environmental friendly and is efficiently applicable to environmental chemical engineering fields such as dye wastewater decoloring, wastewater organic pollutant removing, car tail gas treatment, air purification, hydrogenation and reforming catalytic reaction, gas sensors and fuel cells.

The present invention is directed to a golf ball having at least one layer formed from a rubber composition comprising a base rubber, a free radical initiator, and a catechol. The present invention is also directed to a golf ball having at least one layer formed from a rubber composition comprising a base rubber, a free radical initiator, and a resorcinol. Rubber compositions of the present invention may be present in any one or more of a core layer, a cover layer, or an intermediate layer.

The invention discloses a method for fixing biological molecules on a polymer microporous membrane surface, comprising the following steps: (1) respectively dissolving DOPA compounds and the biological molecules in a trihydroxymethyl aminomethane - muriatic acid buffer solution and a phosphoric acid buffer solution to prepare solutions; (2) immersing a polymer microporous membrane in a DOPA compound solution and oscillating to cause the DOPA compounds to be auto-polymerized-compounded on the membrane surface and to be closely attached to the membrane surface and a membrane pore wall; (3) immersing the polymer microporous membrane modified by the DOPA compounds in a biological molecule solution, and fixing the biological molecules on the polymer microporous membrane surface by the addition reaction between catechol groups of the membrane surface and amidogen in the biological molecules. The method for fixing biological molecules on the polymer microporous membrane surface has simple process, the prepared polymer microporous membrane has good hydrophilic property and biocompatibility, and the method has important meaning for improving the permeability and the biocompatibility of the polymer microporous membrane.

The present invention includes methods and compositions for liquid separation and water purification. The present invention includes a purification membrane having a polymer matrix purification membrane that has been treated with hydroquinone, catechol, and/or dopamine coated membrane with a high water flux.

Dihydrophenazines and bis(dihydrophenazines) are prepared in high yield under commercially viable reaction conditions by reacting a catechol with a 1,2-diaminoaryl compound, wherein either the catechol or the 1,2-diaminoaryl compound is provided in at least 50% molar stoichiometric excess. The product may be oxidized to the corresponding phenazine, but is preferably derivatized at one or both of the 5,10-positions to form a monosubstituted or disubstituted dihydrophenazine or bis(dihydrophenazine). Most preferably, 5,10-dialkyl-5,10-dihydrophenazines are prepared starting from catechol and 1,2-diaminoaryl compound in a one pot synthesis. The products are useful as dyes, and in particular as chromophores in electrochromic systems.

The invention discloses an imitation mussel attachment protein and cell membrane structure double-bionic copolymer shown by the structural formula (I), wherein m is an integer from 10 to 1,000, n is an integer from 0 to 500, and x is an integer from 5 to 500; in the m, n and x, the molar percentage of m is 30-90%, the molar percentage of n is 0-50%, and the molar percentage of x is 10-70%; R1, R2 and R3 are H or CH3; R4 is an alkyl with 4-18 carbon atoms; V is a catechol group with 2-300 carbon atoms in chain connection; W is a hydrophilic group with 2-8 carbon atoms in chain connection; and the hydrophilic group is a quaternary ammonium group, phosphorylcholine group, pyridinium, sulfonic acid group, phosphate group, carboxylic acid group or sulfuric acid group. According to the invention, the coating is in firm combination, the copolymer is almost suitable for an establishment method of a surface imitation cellulosa membrane structure of any material, and the surface hydrophilic performance and biocompatibility of artificial organ and related materials, medicine controlled-release systems, separation materials and other materials can be improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of carbon material preparation and provides a preparation method of graphene. The preparation method comprises the following step that graphene oxide is dispersed in a solution of catechol or its derivatives and the mixed solution undergoes a hydrothermal reaction to produce the graphene having particle length and width of 10-200 microns. The invention also discloses a preparation method of a graphene-oxide compound comprising uniform-size and uniformly-dispersed oxide particles. The preparation method comprises that the graphene and an oxide precursor solution are dispersed in an aqueous solution and the mixed solution undergoes a hydrothermal reaction to produce the graphene-oxide compound. The preparation methods adopt a hydrothermal method and a water system, do not produce toxins and are environmentally friendly. The graphene has good transparency and small thickness. The graphene-oxide compound comprises the uniform-size oxide particles uniformly dispersed in the graphene, solves the problems of easy aggregation of the graphene and the oxide particles, uneven dispersion of the graphene and the oxide particles, complex preparation processes and high equipment requirements, and can be widely used in fields of supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries and electrochemical sensing.

Methods of treating or suppressing oxidative stress disorders affecting normal electron flow in the cells, including mitochondrial diseases, impaired energy processing disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, diseases of aging and diseases caused by reactive oxygen species are disclosed, as well as compounds useful in the methods of the invention, such as such as catechol or ortho-quinone derivatives of Formula (I).

The invention relates to a preparation method of a biological mimetic and structural bionic tissue adhesive in order to overcome disadvantages of present technological technologies for preparing mussel mucoprotein bionic biological tissue adhesives and improve the viscosity, the biocompatibility and the structural bionic property of a material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: grafting a natural polymer material with dopamine or other catechol group-containing derivatives through an amidation reaction by adopting DMTMM as a carboxyl group activator; and further modifying the grafted natural polymer material with lysine or polylysine by adopting the same technology to obtain the novel biological mimetic and structural bionic tissue adhesive containing dopamine analog and polylysine analog. The tissue adhesive plays a full role in tissue adhesion in wet and physiologic environment, has good tissue adherence and high biological safety, and can be slowly degraded in the tissue healing process until complete degradation. The preparation method of the biological adhesive has the advantages of simplicity, mild reaction conditions, increase of the reaction efficiency, improvement of the operability of the enterprise production process, and facilitation of amplified production of enterprises.

A textile ink composition and a method of manufacturing a textile ink composition are disclosed. The textile ink composition is formed from a cationically charged metal oxide and a dye, and is capable of durably dyeing different types of fabric. The cationically charged metal oxide is typically an oligomer, such as an alumina oligomer. A suitable alumina oligomer is aluminum chlorohydrate. Typical dyes have anthraquinone, catechol, hydroxyazo or salicylic acid groups or are mordant dyes, such as Carminic Acid, Alizarin Red, Acid Blue 45, Acid Green 41, Hematoxylin, Chromoxane Cyanine R, Calconcarboxylic Acid, Plasmocorinth B, Pyrocatechol, Acid Alizarin Violet N, Alizarin Yellow GG, Mordant Yellow 12 and Mordant Blue 9.

The invention relates to a cigarette additive and cigarette prepared by the additive. The additive can lower the tar contents in cigarette flue gas and can selectively absorb harmful substances such as polycyclic aromatics, phenols and the like in cigarette flue gas. The additive is carbon nanometer pipe preparation dispersed in water solution of surface active agent. The preparation is taken as cigarette cut tobacco additive and is sprayed on tobacco leaves in the cigarette production material feeding technique process according to 1 to 25% of the weight of the cut tobacco, and carbon nanometer pipes are evenly and dispersedly absorbed on the surface of the cut tobacco after silk drying processing. The additive can remove 6.2-38.8% of polycyclic aromatics such as Benzo(a)pyrene and the like and 3.0 to 28.3% of carbolic acid and catechol in cigarette main flow flue gas, and also can lower the tar contents in flue gas for 3.4 to 20.4%, and the original color and flavor of cut tobacco are not changed basically.

The invention provides an antifouling hydrogel comprising an effective amount of antifouling polymer modified with a compound containing catechol functional groups to yield a modified antifouling polymer comprising at least one catechol functional end group; and an effective amount of at least one oxidizing reagent, wherein the at least one oxidizing reagent reacts with the modified antifouling polymer to provide a modified antifouling polymer comprising at least one oxidized catechol end group, wherein an antifouling hydrogel is provided. Methods of synthesis, methods of use and kits of the antifouling hydrogel are also provided.

Crystalline COFs comprising a phthalocyanine moiety and a boron-containing multifunctional linking group joined by boronate ester bonds. A method for making crystalline COFs comprising Lewis acid catalyzed formation of boronate ester bonds between protected catechol subunits and multifunctional linkers comprising boronic acid groups. The COFs can be used in applications such as, for example, electronic devices.