85 results about "Colloidal nanoparticles" patented technology

A method for reducing odors is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises contacting a substrate containing a thin coating of colloidal nanoparticles with an odorous compound. The colloidal nanoparticles have an average size of less than about 500 nanometers, a surface area of from about 50 to about 1000 square meters per gram, and a pore volume of less than about 0.5 milliliters per gram. The colloidal nanoparticles may adsorb at least about 25% of the odorous compound when contacted therewith.

A method for synthesis of high quality colloidal nanoparticles using comprises a high heating rate process. Irradiation of single mode, high power, microwave is a particularly well suited technique to realize high quality semiconductor nanoparticles. The use of microwave radiation effectively automates the synthesis, and more importantly, permits the use of a continuous flow microwave reactor for commercial preparation of the high quality colloidal nanoparticles.

The present application discloses acolloidal nanoparticle that includes a therapeutic nucleic acid species and a targeting protein species attached via a coating on the nanoparticle that facilitates the specific attachment of both species.

A method for synthesis of high quality colloidal nanoparticles using comprises a high heating rate process. Irradiation of single mode, high power, microwave is a particularly well suited technique to realize high quality semiconductor nanoparticles. The use of microwave radiation effectively automates the synthesis, and more importantly, permits the use of a continuous flow microwave reactor for commercial preparation of the high quality colloidal nanoparticles.

The invention provides a photonic crystal humidity sensor comprising: a substrate which is polyacrylamide gel; a photonic crystal material cured in the substrate, wherein the photonic crystal material is superparamagnetic carbon-coated ferroferric oxide colloidal nanoparticles. The invention also provides a preparation method of the photonic crystal humidity sensor. In the photonic crystal humidity sensor provided by the invention, the polyacrylamide gel has strong water swelling performance, and has different absorptivity under different relative humidity; when ambient relative humidity changes, the absorptivity of the polyacrylamide gel changes, and thus the expansion rate of the polyacrylamide changes; therefore, the band gap of the photonic forbidden band of the photonic crystal material cured in the polyacrylamide gel changes, and finally the photonic crystal humidity sensor shows different colors with the change of the humidity.

The present invention relates to colloidal photonic crystals using colloidal nanoparticles and a method for the preparation thereof, wherein by adding a viscoelastic material into a solution containing the colloidal nanoparticles when preparing the colloidal photonic crystals, a uniform volume contraction occurs due to the elasticity of the viscoelastic material even when a nonuniform volume contraction occurs while drying a dispersion medium in the colloidal solution. Thus, it is possible to prepare 2 or 3 dimensional colloidal photonic crystals of large scale with no defects in less time.

This invention provides a method for producing a composition comprising colloidal nanoparticles of metals including silver, gold, zinc, mercury, copper, palladium, platinum, or bismuth, by contacting a metal or metal compound with bacteria. An embodiment of the method comprises a step of incubating probiotic bacteria with an aqueous solution comprising at least 4 mM of a silver or gold salt. A resulting nanosilver-containing composition is useful as a highly efficient antimicrobial agent, for instance when impregnated onto a carrier, or an algicide agent or a herbicide agent.

The present invention discloses additive compositions, cementitious compositions, and methods for controlling air in cementitious compositions in which colloidal nano-particles are used for stabilizing a water-dispersible defoamer within a cement-dispersant-containing aqueous additive formulation for modifying hydratable cementitious compositions such as cement or concrete.

The invention relates to a method for recovering rare earth from low-concentration rare earth solution through prussian blue colloidal nanoparticles (PB-CNP). The method comprises the following steps: firstly synthesizing a stable PB-CNP colloidal solution, loading into a bag produced by a dialysis membrane, enabling a dialysis bag containing PB-CNP suspension to be in contact with rare earth material liquid (the pH value is 4-7), and enabling rare earth ions to pass through membrane holes to be in contact with the PB-CNP for being adsorbed. Dilute acid solution is used for desorbing the rareearth from the PB-CNP suspension which absorbs the rare earth ions, thereby achieving the purpose of recovering the rare earth. The PB-CNP suspension and the rare earth material liquid can also be arranged in different channels on the two sides of the membrane of a membrane component for flowing in a countercurrent way, thereby achieving the high-efficient enrichment effect. The method has the advantages of simple process, large rare earth loading amount, high rare earth recovery rate and the like, and can be widely used for the rare earth material liquid of rare earth mines and separation factories; and furthermore, by adopting the method, the rare earth ions in low-concentration rare earth wastewater can be completed removed and recovered, thereby having wide application prospects.

The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to compositions, devices, systems, and methods including and/or for preparing and/or using a thermoresponsive nanocomposite hydrogel. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of preparing a hydrogel including, for example, photochemically curing an aqueous solution of NIPAAm and copoly(dimethylsiloxane/methylvinylsiloxane) colloidal nanoparticles (˜219 nm). At temperatures above a volume phase transition temperature (VPTT) of ˜33-34° C., a hydrogel may deswell and become hydrophobic, while lowering the temperature below a VPTT may cause the hydrogel to swell and become hydrophilic.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a catalyst, at least comprising the steps of adding a protecting agent to an aqueous solution of a metal precursor to give a mixture (M1), adding a reducing agent to mixture (M1) to give a mixture (M2), adding a support material to mixture (M2) to give a mixture (M3), adjusting the pH of mixture (M3), and separating the solid and liquid phase of mixture (M3). Furthermore, the present invention relates to the catalyst as such and its use as diesel oxidation catalyst.

The invention relates to a preparation method for synthesizing relatively strict monodisperse stable LDHs (layered double hydroxides) colloid nanocrystalline. The preparation method mainly comprises the following steps of: 1, synthesizing the LDHs through a colloid mill to obtain white slurry, then centrifugally washing three times, transferring to a hydrothermal kettle, re-crystallizing to obtain a stable colloid solution; 2, respectively preparing density gradient medium solutions with different densities; 3, sequentially adding quantitative gradient solutions according to different densities in a centrifugal tube for preparing a step type density gradient solution; 4, slowly adding the prepared colloid solution on the liquid level of the density gradient solution, centrifuging under a certain condition; and 5, since colloid nano particles with different sizes have different sedimentation rates in the density gradient solutions, after centrifugation is stopped, the colloid nano particles remain in the gradient solutions with different densities, so that an effective method for preparing the monodisperse LDH nanocrystalline is provided. The high-monodispersity nano material has great potential application on the aspects of medicines, genetic vectors, polymer/LDHs biological nano composite materials, LDH films and the like.

Soluble or colloidal nanoparticles of molecularly imprinted polymer are produced reliably and consistently in a photoreactor with a reaction vessel (18) containing a solid phase (14) bearing immobilised template. Parameters such as temperature, fluid flows and irradiation time are controlled by a computer (52).

This invention provides a method for producing a composition comprising colloidal nanoparticles of metals including silver, gold, zinc, mercury, copper, palladium, platinum, or bismuth, by contacting a metal or metal compound with bacteria. An embodiment of the method comprises a step of incubating probiotic bacteria with an aqueous solution comprising at least 4 mM of a silver or gold salt. A resulting nanosilver-containing composition is useful as a highly efficient antimicrobial agent, for instance when impregnated onto a carrier, or an algicide agent or a herbicide agent.

Currently available glutaminase inhibitors are generally poorly soluble, metabolically unstable, and/or require high doses, which together reduce their efficacy and therapeutic index. These can be formulated into nanoparticles and delivered safely and effectively for treatment of pancreatic cancer and other glutamine addicted cancers. Studies demonstrate that nanoparticle delivery of BPTES, relative to use of BPTES alone, can be safely administered and provides dramatically improved tumor drug exposure, resulting in greater efficacy. GLS inhibitors can be administered in higher concentrations with sub-100 nm nanoparticles, since the nanoparticles package the drug into “soluble” colloidal nanoparticles, and the nanoparticles deliver higher drug exposure selectively to the tumors due to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. These factors result in sustained drug levels above the IC50 within the tumors for days, providing significantly enhanced efficacy compared to unencapsulated drug.