82 results about "Lyotropic" patented technology

An aqueous peroxide composition for coloring or lightening hair comprising (a) 1-99% of an aqueous phase containing (ii) 1-55% by weight of the total composition of water, (ii) 1-45% hydrogen peroxide, and (iii) a water soluble cosolvent; and (b) 0.1-60% of an oil phase; and (c) 1-65% of an organic, amphiphilic, surface active ingredient capable of interacting with the water phase and the oil phase to form lyotropic liquid crystals containing said water phase ingredients; a method for coloring or lightening hair using the peroxide composition, and a method for reducing the amount of time necessary to permanently color hair using the peroxide composition.

The present invention relates to a non-amphiphile-based water-in-water emulsion composition. The non-amphiphile-based water-in-water emulsion composition includes a water-soluble polymer, a non-amphiphilic lyotropic mesogen encapsulated by the water-soluble polymer; and water. In one embodiment, the non-amphiphilic lyotropic mesogen includes, without limitation, a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal, and more specifically disodium cromoglycate (DSCG). In another embodiment, the water-soluble polymer can include, without limitation, a polyacrylamide, a polyol, a polyvinylpyrrolidone, a polysaccharide, or a water-soluble fluoride-bearing polymer. The present invention also relates to a porous hydrogel made with the use of the non-amphiphile-based water-in-water emulsion. The present invention further relates to using the emulsion and hydrogel for various applications.

This invention provides composite materials that combine the material properties of hydrophobic polymers with internal structure and order provided by polymerization of lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs). Composites, particularly nanocomposites, are made by forming a LLC assembly that has hydrophobic regions and hydrophilic regions, combining hydrophobic polymer in the assembly and polymerizing the polymerizable LLC monomers in the assembly. The hydrophobic polymer, polymerized LLC assembly or both can be crosslinked in the composite. Nanoporous composites, particularly those with uniform-sized pores and/or with uniform pores distribution can be prepared in this way. In addition, complex polymers in which a second polymeric material, which may be organic or inorganic, can be introduced into the pores or other structural features of the composite can be prepared. Adding flexible hydrophobic polymers to the LLC assembly increases the flexibility and toughness of the resultant polymerized composite material to provide improved composite materials for use as membranes and in other applications. Hydrophobic polymer addition can also increase the diffusion resistance in the organic phase of the composite. Of particular interest are composites in which the hydrophobic polymer is butyl rubber or related synthetic rubber.

The invention discloses a method for using tree branching molecule to improve the hydrophilicity of polymer porous membrane. The method comprises following steps: (1) adding the tree branching molecule and polymer into solvent to be heated, mixed and dissolved; (2) laying casting liquid on the carrier of stainless steel plate or glass plate and using erasing knife to make it into a liquid film with a certain thickness; (3) dipping the carrier with casting liquid into coagulating bath via the lyotropic conversion process to make the liquid film into tree branching molecule to improve the property of polymer porous membrane. The invention can adjust the molecular weight, terminal group and added amount of tree branching molecule to control the surface property of polymer porous membrane; and adjust the components of casting liquid and coagulating bath and temperature to control the structure of porous membrane. The inventive method can effectively control the balance between hydrophilicity and dewatering of dewatering polymer; improve the dirt resistance and biocompatibility, which can improve the preparation and application of ultra and micro filtration film.

The present invention relates to the fields of chemistry and biology and more particularly to the field of biomaterials. The present invention includes amphiphilic fibers and membranes, which can be used for biomembranes and biocompatible devices. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing amphiphilic fibers and membranes from solutions comprising amphiphilic molecules. More particularly, the present invention relates to processes for preparing fibers and membranes from electrospinning solutions comprising amphiphilic molecules. The present invention further provides fibers and nonwoven membranes comprising amphiphilic fibers chosen from anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, nonionic surfactants, phospholipids, sulfobetaines, lyotropic liquid crystalline molecules, and/or block copolymers. Electrospun fibers offer the potential for direct fabrication of biologically based, high-surface-area membranes without the use of multiple synthetic steps, complicated electrospinning designs, or post-processing surface treatments. Polymeric phospholipids, for example, have been shown to be attractive candidates for blood purification membranes, artificial heart valves and organs, and other prosthetics, including other biocompatible devices.

The invention provides a preparation method of a Pt-Ru alloy catalyst with high catalytic activity. According to the preparation method, Pt and Ru of the alloy catalyst come from chloroplatinic acid and rutheniumchloride hydrate respectively; lyotropic liquid crystals are formed from Pt and Ru with amphipathic segmented copolymer P123, water, and ethanol; ascorbic acid is taken as a reducing agent for reduction via ultrasonic water bath; and the Pt-Ru alloy catalyst with high catalytic activity is obtained via washing, centrifugation, and roasting. Catalytic activity and poison resistance of the Pt-Ru alloy catalyst with high catalytic activity obtained via the preparation method are higher than that of commercial Pt black catalyst.

The invention relates to a method for extracting microcrystalline cellulose from sea squirts and preparing lyotropic cholesteric crystal, which comprises the steps of: soaking the sea squirts with distilled water, cleaning and only reserving tunics with thin skin scraped out; soaking the tunics with strong base for 6-24h to remove protein and lipid; subjecting the tunics in a buffering solution at 40-90 DEG C to reaction for 1-5h, and repeating the step 2-8 times; placing obtained cellulose on watch glass for drying; crushing to a micrometer or millimeter level; pouring into a beaker containing a proper amount of concentrated acid for hydrolysis, stirring to react for 30min-6h, and adding a large amount of distilled water again for terminating the reaction; and repeatedly centrifuging and dialyzing to remove acid in suspension so as to ensure that the solution outside a dialysis bag to be neutral or subacid finally, and then evaporating for concentration to obtain the lyotropic cholesteric crystal. The method has simple reaction processes, easier control of technological method, rich raw material resources, low cost, good repeatability, environmental protection, no toxicity and lower cost, is easier for mass production, and can be applied to industrial production.

The present invention relates to a method for treating damaged hair, where the hair is chemically treated, comprising the steps of: a) contacting the hair with a shampoo composition, the shampoo comprising: from about 5% to about 50% of an anionic surfactant; from about 0.025% to about 5% by weight of a synthetic cationic polymer having a cationic charge density from about 2 meq/gm to about 7 meq/gm, wherein the synthetic cationic polymer forms lyotropic liquid crystals upon combination with the anionic surfactant; and water; and b) rinsing the composition from the hair, wherein following the treatment, the surface energy of the hair is reduced, as compared to that measured prior to the treatment.

The invention relates to the fields of industrial catalysis and environmental management, and particularly relates to a nitrogen oxide removal process based on hydrogen peroxide catalytic oxidation. A hydrogen peroxide solution is directly sprayed into a flue after passing through an atomizer; after the hydrogen peroxide solution is mixed with flue gas, a mixture enters a catalyst layer; the mixture is activated under the contact action of a catalyst; NO in the flue gas is oxidized into high valence lyotropic nitrogen oxides such as NO2, N2O4, N2O5 and the like; absorption processing is carried out by using alkali slurry to remove the nitrogen oxides in the flue gas. The process is simple, easy to operate, compact in device structure, good in economy and flexible to regulate, has various mode configurations, and can implement efficient denitration. Meanwhile, the catalyst used in the technical process uses nano titanium dioxide as a carrier and uses one or more of ceric oxide, cobaltosic oxide, nickel oxide, chromium sesquioxide and manganese dioxide as active ingredients; the catalyst is low in price and simple in preparation process.

The invention belongs to the technical field of chemical materials, and in particular relates to a lyotropic color response transparent film material and a preparation method thereof. Methods of emulsion polymerization, dispersion polymerization, suspension polymerization, mini-emulsion polymerization and the like are adopted to prepare polymer latex which has hydrophilic groups, average particle size of between 100 and 500 nanometers, narrow particle size distribution, and glass-transition temperature of between 0 and 100 DEG C, the polymer latex is coated on a substrate material and is dried; and when the moisture is volatized, the polymer latex can be automatically assembled into a three-dimensional order colorless transparent film arranged periodically. The transparent film material has the advantages of quick lyotropic color responsibility and wide-range reversible regulation; and when the film contacts with a solvent, the colorless transparent film material can be changed into a colorized film material with beautiful colors which disappear along with the volatilization of the solvent. The material has excellent mechanical properties and lyotropic color response reversibility, simple, environment-friendly and nontoxic production process, and can be prepared in large areas directly. The lyotropic color response transparent film material can be widely applied to film or coating materials for color response, an optical and detection sensor, simulation, decoration, printing, anti-counterfeiting and the like.

The present invention is a method of separating nucleic acid molecules from contaminants, such as proteins, in a solution and isolating one or more desired nucleic acid molecules, which method comprises the following steps (a) providing an aqueous adsorption solution, which includes nucleic acids and a salt that forms lyotropic ions when dissolved; (b) passing said solution over a matrix to adsorb the nucleic acids onto the matrix, said matrix including an aromatic ring moiety and at least one thioether moiety; (c) passing an aqueous eluent over said matrix to desorb the nucleic acid molecules therefrom, which eluent includes a salt that forms lyotropic ions and a gradient of increasing ionic strength originating from an increasing concentration of a salt that forms less lyotropic ions when dissolved than the ones present in said aqueous adsorption solution; and (d) isolating a fraction comprising the desired nucleic acid molecules.

Lyotropic chromophoric compounds comprised of a naphthalimide derivative, a perylene-3,4-dicarboxylic imide derivative, or a perylenetetracarboxylic diimide derivative are described. The compounds can be used to form liquid crystal systems possessing high quality optical properties. The resulting liquid crystal systems are readily applied onto a substrate to obtain optically isotropic or anisotropic, at least partially crystalline films applicable in various fields.

A process for preparing a mesoporous material, e.g., transition metal oxide, sulfide, selenide or telluride, Lanthanide metal oxide, sulfide, selenide or telluride, a post-transition metal oxide, sulfide, selenide or telluride, and metalloid oxide, sulfide, selenide or telluride. The process comprises providing a micellar solution comprising a metal precursor, an interface modifier, a hydrotropic or lyotropic ion precursor, and a surfactant; and heating the micellar solution at a temperature and for a period of time sufficient to form the mesoporous material. A mesoporous material prepared by the above process. A method of controlling nano-sized wall crystallinity and mesoporosity in mesoporous materials. The method comprises providing a micellar solution comprising a metal precursor, an interface modifier, a hydrotropic or lyotropic ion precursor, and a surfactant; and heating the micellar solution at a temperature and for a period of time sufficient to control nano-sized wall crystallinity and mesoporosity in the mesoporous materials. Mesoporous materials and a method of tuning structural properties of mesoporous materials.

The present invention provides a paper quality improver composition for papermaking, which is excellent in improved efficiencies of bulky value, brightness, opacity and the like of pulp sheet, demanded at lightening paper and increasing a blending amount of deinked pulp, even by adding a small amount thereof as well as which is further excellent in an improved efficiency of paper-strength. That is, the present invention provides a paper quality improver composition for papermaking; which comprises (A) a compound having lyotropic degree measured by a specific method of not less than 4% and satisfying at least two of (i) standard improved bulky value of not less than 0.02 g/cm3, (ii) standard improved brightness of not less than 0.5 point, and (iii) standard improved opacity of not less than 0.5 point and (B) a water-soluble polymer satisfying an average molecular weight and/or a viscosity thereof of specific value.

The present invention provides materials and methods that make liquid crystal phases accessible with relatively short β-peptides in aqueous solvents.

Synthesis of lyotropic semiconducting polymers having novel side chains enabling control over crystalline fraction, crystalline orientation, and the unit cell (specifically the π-stacking distance). Moving the branch point in the side chain further from the conjugated backbone not only retains the lyotropic liquid crystalline behavior as observed by UV-vis and POM, but also achieves reduced π-stacking distance. This results in higher charge carrier mobility, reaching (in one or more examples) a mobility of at least 0.41 cm²V⁻¹s⁻¹ when the polymers were non-aligned.

Disclosed are polymerizable mixtures comprising a functionalized ionic gemini surfactant and a thiol-ene crosslinking agent. The polymerizable mixtures that further comprise a polar solvent may be used to form the surfactant into a triply periodic multiply continuous lyotropic phase in the presence of the crosslinking agent. Upon crosslinking, the lyotropic phase morphology is substantially retained.