1398 results about "Hydrophobic monomer" patented technology

The invention is directed to conductive polymer compositions, catalytic ink compositions (e.g., for use in screen-printing), electrodes produced by deposition of an ink composition, methods of making, and methods of using thereof. An exemplary ink material comprises platinum black and / or platinum-on-carbon as the catalyst, graphite as a conducting material, a polymer binding material, and an organic solvent. The polymer binding material is typically a copolymer of hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers. The conductive polymer compositions of the present invention can be used, for example, to make electrochemical sensors. Such sensors can be used in a variety of analyte monitoring devices to monitor analyte amount or concentrations in subjects, for example, glucose monitoring devices to monitor glucose levels in subjects with diabetes.

A rheology modifying copolymer composition containing a cross-linked copolymer of unsaturated carboxylic acid, a hydrophobic monomer, a hydrophobic chain transfer agent, a cross linking agent, and, optionally, a steric stabilizer, provides increased viscosity in aqueous electrolyte-containing environments.

A polymer of hydrophobic monomers and hydrophilic monomers is provided. It is also provided a polymer blend that contains the polymer and another biocompatible polymer. The polymer or polymer blend and optionally a biobeneficial material and / or a bioactive agent can form a coating on an implantable device such as a drug delivery stent. The implantable device can be used for treating or preventing a disorder such as atherosclerosis, thrombosis, restenosis, hemorrhage, vascular dissection or perforation, vascular aneurysm, vulnerable plaque, chronic total occlusion, patent foramen ovale, claudication, anastomotic proliferation for vein and artificial grafts, bile duct obstruction, ureter obstruction, tumor obstruction, or combinations thereof.

Film-forming compositions, as well as methods of making and using, wherein the compositions include an optional active agent, water, a surfactant, and a water-soluble or water-dispersible vinyl polymer comprising amine group-containing side-chains and a copolymerized hydrophobic monomer; wherein the amine equivalent weight of the polymer is at least about 300 grams polymer per equivalent of amine group.

An ink jet ink composition comprising an aqueous media and a pigment dispersion comprising a pigment and a polymeric dispersant wherein said polymeric dispersant is a copolymer comprising at least a hydrophobic methacrylate or acrylate monomer containing an aliphatic chain having greater than or equal to 12 carbons; and a hydrophilic methacrylic or acrylic acid monomer; wherein said copolymer comprises at least 10% by weight of the methacrylate or acrylate monomer and at least 5% by weight of the methacrylic or acrylic acid monomer; and wherein the copolymer comprises, in total, 20 to 95 weight % of hydrophobic monomer.

Optically transparent, relatively high refractive index polymeric compositions and ophthalmic devices such as intraocular lenses and corneal inlays made therefrom are described herein. The preferred polymeric compositions are produced through the polymerization of one or more copolymers with one or more hydrophilic monomers and optionally one or more aromatic-based monomers, hydrophobic monomers or a combination thereof.

Optically transparent, relatively high refractive index polymeric compositions and ophthalmic devices such as intraocular lenses, contact lenses and corneal inlays made therefrom are described herein. The preferred polymeric compositions are produced through the polymerization of one or more siloxysilane monomers or the copolymerization of one or more siloxysilane monomers with one or more aromatic or non-aromatic non-siloxy monomers, hydrophobic monomers or hydrophilic monomers.

The invention discloses a temperature resistant salt tolerant high efficiency gel and a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method is characterized in that the preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing a comb-shaped associated copolymer PAH containing macromonomers and functional hydrophobic monomers into an aqueous solution having the concentration of 0.1 to 4g / L, the crosslinking agent concentration of 0.01 to 1.0g / L, the surfactant concentration of 0.01 to 8mmol / L and the sodium sulfite thermal stabilizer concentration of 0.005 to 1.0g / L; adding the aqueous solution into a mixing container with a stirring device; stirring the aqueous solution evenly at the room temperature; regulating the pH value of the solution to be equal to between 4 and 11, and obtaining a temperature resistant salt tolerant high efficiency gel polymer solution system used for tertiary oil recovery and scavenge, displacement modification, profile modification or water shutoff. The polymer solution system has micro-crosslinking to form the gel during the flowage inside the oil reservoir. The gel has good elasticity, not easy dehydration, stable gelling performance, and excellent tackification, temperature resistance, salt tolerance, shearing resistance and ageing resistance.

The present invention relates to an aqueous ink, particularly an aqueous ink suitable for ink jet recording. The ink is an aqueous ink comprising a modified pigment having organic groups chemically attached to the surface of a particle of the pigment and an aqueous medium which is a dispersant of the pigment, wherein the above-described organic group includes a reaction product of a functional group chemically attached to the surface of the pigment directly or via another atomic group with a copolymer of an ionic monomer and a hydrophobic monomer.

The present invention provides a membrane, kit, and method of making a hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer membrane. The hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer membrane includes a hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer. The hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer includes one or more hydrophilic monomers having a sulfonated polyarylsulfone monomer and a second monomer and one or more hydrophobic monomers having a non-sulfonated third monomer and a fourth monomer. The sulfonated polyarylsulfone monomer introduces a sulfonate into the hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer prior to polymerization.

Polymer particles are provided having (1) a core with a glass transition temperature within a range of −50° to +110° C. and (2) a shell surrounding the core. The core comprises at least one layer, with the layer(s) comprising at least one polymerized hydrophobic monomer and, optionally, a first cross-linker. The shell comprises a copolymerized mixture of least one hydrophobic monomer and at least one hydrophilic monomer and a second cross-linker for increasing thermal shear stability by forming cross-linkages. Use of these polymer particles in aqueous-based ink-jet inks provide laser print quality without any secondary treatment.

The invention relates to a harsh oil deposit reversed-phase microemulsion profile-control flooding system and a preparation method thereof. The problems in the prior art that the initial particle size of the product is improper and polymeric microspheres are poor in expansibility under high-temperature high-salt conditions are mainly solved. The harsh oil deposit reversed-phase microemulsion profile-control flooding system disclosed by the invention comprises the following components in parts by weight of microemulsion: 20-70 parts of an oil-soluble solvent, 5-20 parts of an emulsifier and a co-emulsifier, 20-70 parts of a polymer aqueous phase containing acrylamide and other temperature-resistant salt-resistant comonomers. According to the technical scheme, a semi-continuous reaction method is adopted, the aqueous phase containing acrylamide and other temperature-resistant salt-resistant comonomers is added into an oil phase containing the emulsifiers in batches, and a hydrophobic monomer is added, so that the problems are solved, the prepared polyacrylamide reversed-phase microemulsion is directly compounded or is compounded with other oil field chemicals to be applied to such field applications for improving oil recovery as depth profile control, water plugging and displacement in tertiary oil recovery of a harsh oil deposit.

The invention relates to an amphoteric hydrophobically-associating polymer and a preparation method thereof, and is mainly used for solving the problem that polymers are poor in heat resistance, salt tolerance and shear resistance, and incapable of meeting the requirements of tertiary oil recovery in the prior art. According to the amphoteric hydrophobically-associating polymer and the preparation method thereof disclosed by the invention, the problem is solved well by adopting the technical scheme that the amphoteric hydrophobically-associating polymer contains, in parts by weight, 5-99.9 parts of non-ionic water-soluble monomer, 0-50 parts of anionic monomer or / and cationic monomer, and 0.1-10 parts of hydrophobic monomer with surface activity. The amphoteric hydrophobically-associating polymer and the preparation method thereof can be used for industrial production and application of polymers for oil field tertiary oil recovery.

The present invention discloses a hollow microsphere preparation method, which uses a hydrogel microsphere as a template. The preparation method is that an emulsion or inverse emulsion polymeric method is adopted to synthesize the hydrogel microsphere with electric charge. A surfactant with inverse electric charge and hydrophobic monomer are added into the hydrogel microsphere suspension, and the hydrogel microsphere is coated by a polymer crust layer of the hydrophobic monomer by a seed emulsion polymerization method to form a core-shell microsphere with an inner layer of hydrogel and an outer layer of polymer; a hydrolyzation of a silicon dioxide or titanium dioxide precursor is used to form the core-shell microsphere with the outer layer of inorganic matter and the inner layer of hydrogel. The core-shell microsphere is dried to obtain the hollow microsphere. The method of the present invention does not need removing the template by organic impregnant dissolving, strong acid or strong alkali etching or high temperature calcining; the preparation process is safe and the operation is simple; and the hollow microsphere with different chemical components can be obtained by changing core or shell.

The invention relates to a non-woven fabric enhanced micropore polymer diaphragm material for a non aqueous electrolyte battery energy accumulator and method for preparation, which belongs to the manufacturing field of non aqueous electrolyte energy accumulators which are a battery and a capacitor. The non-woven fabric enhanced micropore polymer diaphragm is characterized in that the diaphragm comprises polymeric colloid emulsion which are copolymerized by 100 parts of water-soluble polymer, 30-500 parts of hydrophobic monomer, 0-200 parts of hydrophilic monomer and 1-5 parts of initiator. According to the 100 percent of the content of solids in polymer colloid emulsion, 0-100 percent of inorganic filler and 20-100 percent of plasticizer are added, obtained slurry is coated on the two surfaces of the non-woven fabric, and the non-woven fabric enhanced micropore polymer film is dried and obtained. The diaphragm has excellent heat resistance, excellent mechanical strength and low produce cost, is applied for a maintaining power, has higher safety and long cycle service life, and is friendly to the environment.

Optically transparent, relatively high refractive index polymeric compositions and ophthalmic devices such as intraocular lenses, contact lenses and corneal inlays made therefrom are described herein. The preferred polymeric compositions are produced through the polymerization of one or more aromatic-based silyl monomers or the copolymerization of one or more aromatic-based silyl monomers with one or more aromatic or non-aromatic non-siloxy-based monomers, hydrophobic monomers or hydrophilic monomers.

Disclosed are soft, high refractive index, acrylic materials. These materials, especially useful as intraocular lens materials, contain an aryl acrylic hydrophobic monomer as the single principal device-forming monomer and a tack-reducing macromer additive. In addition to their use as intraocular lens materials, the present materials are also suitable for use in other ophthalmic or otorhinolaryngological devices, such as contact lenses, keratoprostheses, corneal inlays or rings; otological ventilation tubes and nasal implants.

The invention relates to a pigment dispersion for an ink jet ink composition, the pigment dispersion comprising pigment particles having a median particle size of 200 nm or less, and a polymeric dispersant comprising a random addition copolymer comprising at least one hydrophobic monomer type and at least one hydrophilic monomer type, wherein the polymeric dispersant comprises from 50 weight percent to 80 weight percent of hydrophobic monomers relative to the total weight of the polymeric dispersant, and wherein, when the polymer comprises more than one hydrophobic monomer type, at least 50 weight percent of the hydrophobic monomers relative to the total weight of the hydrophobic monomers is an acrylate comprising an aromatic group. The invention also provides an ink composition and ink jet printing method using the pigment dispersion.

The present invention relates to a hydrophobically-associating polyacrylamide fracturing fluid thickener, a preparation method and applications thereof. In the prior art, the polyacrylamide polymer fracturing fluid thickener has disadvantages of insufficient temperature resistance, incomplete gel breaking and instability at high temperature and high shearing. A purpose of the present invention is mainly to solve the problems in the prior art. The hydrophobically-associating polyacrylamide fracturing fluid thickener is prepared by carrying out a reaction on a reaction system comprising components of 15-50 parts by weight of acrylamide, 1-50 parts by weight of a cationic monomer or anionic monomer, 1-20 parts by weight of a nonionic monomer, 0.01-0.5 part by weight of a hydrophobic monomer, 0.001-0.005 part by weight of a molecular weight regulator, 0.0001-0.0005 part by weight of a composite initiator, and 30-80 parts by weight of water. With the technical scheme, the problems in the prior art are well solved. According to the present invention, the hydrophobically-associating polyacrylamide fracturing fluid thickener can be separately applied in the oil and gas field fracturing process, or can be compounded with other auxiliary agents so as to be adopted as the fracturing fluid thickener applied in the oil and gas field fracturing process.

The invention provides a pigment dispersion for an ink jet ink composition in which the pigment dispersion contains pigment particles having a median particle size of 200 nm or less, and a random graft copolymer dispersant containing a hydrophilic monomer type, a hydrophobic monomer type having a molecular weight of less than 200, and a macro-monomer type. The invention also provides an aqueous ink jet ink composition and printing method using the pigment dispersion.

The present invention provides copolymers made up of alkoxyalkyl methacrylate and / or alkoxyalkyl acrylate monomers in combination with one or more additional hydrophobic monomers. The copolymers may be used in the manufacture of intraocular lenses, including both the optic and haptic portions of the lenses. The present invention also provide methods for making intraocular lenses from the copolymers.

The invention provides a hydrophobic associated polymer, comprising repeating units shown in formula (I) and formula (II), wherein x: y = 1: (0.001 to 0.06); A is a monomeric unit of a hydrophobic monomer; the viscosity average molecular weight of the hydrophobic associated polymer is 5 to 35 million. Compared with the prior art, the hydrophobic associated polymer comprises two monomeric units, and a hydrophilic unit is a monomeric unit of acrylamide, can provide a hydrophilic group for a hydrophobic associated polymer, and ensures that the polymer has good water solubility; a hydrophobic unit is a monomeric unit of the hydrophobic monomer, can provide a hydrophobic side group for the hydrophobic associated polymer, and ensures that a polymer chain has a certain hydrophobic character, and hydrophobic groups gather in water due to a hydrophobic interaction to form a spatial network structure, thereby providing necessary viscoelasticity for a solution; under the combined action of the two units, the temperature resistance and salt tolerance and shear resistance of the hydrophobic associated polymer are improved.

The invention discloses a non-linear associated water soluble quadripolymer as well as a preparation method and use thereof, comprising: adding 20 parts of acrylamide, 1-20 parts of nionic monomer or / and cationic monomer, 0.1-15 parts of macromonomer, 0.05-10 parts of hydrophobic monomer, 0.1-50 parts of surfactant and 60-1000 parts of deionized water to a three-necked reaction flask, adjusting the pH to be 3-9, adding 0.002-1 part of initiator (persulphate) at 30-75 DEG C after introducing N2 for 30min, reacting for 8-36h to obtain the quadripolymer PACH, diluting with water, and obtaining concentrated PACH solution. The macromonomer with a long chain and the hydrophobic monomer with a molecular association function are simultaneously introduced in a copolymer PACH, which can obtain the best synergistic viscosifying between rigid conformation of a molecular chain and molecular association and salt resistance. The non-linear associated water soluble quadripolymer is obtained. The copolymer is prepared into aqueous solution with the mass concentration of 0.2-3g / l and the surfactant concentration of 0.01-2mmol / l, added to a mixing vessel with a stirring device and evenly stirred at the room temperature to obtain a viscosified, salt-resistant and shear-resistant polymer oil displacement agent. The PACH has dual functions of a viscosifier and a high molecular surfactant; minute amount of a low molecular surfactant is added to the PACH solution, thus improving the apparent viscosity of the solution, reducing the surface tension of solution and the water-oil interfacial tension, and being beneficial to improving the crude oil recovery ratio. A copolymer PABE is prepared into the aqueous solution with the mass concentration of 0.05-7% to obtain high molecular surfactant with excellent surface activity, and the high molecular surfactant is used as an emulsifier, a demulsifier, a solubilizer and a wetting agent.

The present invention is directed toward water-soluble supramolecular self-assemblies and a process for their preparation via micellization of polyelectrolytes through the use of hydrophobic monomeric units. In this invention the polyelectrolyte segment ultimately forms the core of the supramolecular assembly whereas the shell consists of uncharged hydrophilic polymers or oligomers. It has been determined that the inclusion of the hydrophobic co-monomers to the polyelectrolyte segment forming the micelle core leads to a structure of enhanced stability.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a fluorine-containing modified amphoteric water-soluble polymer, in particular to a method for preparing the fluorine-containing modified amphoteric water-soluble polymer by a cosolvent method and belongs to the technical field of water-soluble macromolecular synthesis. Methacryloyl ethyl-N and N-dimethyl propanesulfonic acid (DMAPS) as amphoteric monomers and perfluoro hexyl ethyl acrylate (PFHEA) and acrylamide (AM) as hydrophobic monomers are copolymerized in a single solvent; azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) is used as a catalyst; and the fluorine-containing modified amphoteric water-soluble polymer is obtained. The polymer has good water solubility and remarkable interface activity, thickening, shearing resistance, temperature resistance and salt resistance. Through a mixed solution of anhydrous acetone and anhydrous ether, the polymer is precipitated, dried and pulverized to obtain a powdery product; and the powdery product has wide application prospect in the development of an oil field, dope, printing, household chemical, medicament and other fields.

A personal care conditioning and / or styling composition for a keratin substrate comprising: (i) about 50 wt. % to 95 wt. % of at least one cationic or pseudo-cationic monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylamidopropyl trimethylammonium chloride (APTAC) and / or Vinylpyrrolidone (VP); (ii) about 1 wt. % to 30 wt. % of at least one anionic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) acrylic acid (AA), (b) acrylamido methylpropyl sulfonate (AMPS), and / or (c) sodium methyl allyl sulfonate (SMAS); and (iii) about 0.1 wt. % to 20 wt. % of at least one hydrophobic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) polyoxyethylene (PEG)-18-behenylether-methacrylate (BEM) (b) Lauryl-ethoxylated-methacrylate (LEM), (c) stearyl acrylate (SA), (d) Stream-10-allyl-ether, (e) Vinylcaprolactam (V-cap), and / or (f) Hydroxyethyl-pyrrolidone-methacrylate (M06). Also described is a process of preparing said polymer, and its method of use.

The present invention relates to an aqueous ink, particularly an aqueous ink suitable for ink jet recording. The ink is an aqueous ink comprising a modified pigment having organic groups chemically attached to the surface of a particle of the pigment and an aqueous medium which is a dispersant of the pigment, wherein the above-described organic group includes a reaction product of a functional group chemically attached to the surface of the pigment directly or via another atomic group with a copolymer of an ionic monomer and a hydrophobic monomer.