9329 results about "Pore diameter" patented technology

The invention provides a composite molecular sieve and a hydrodesulfurization catalyst prepared with the composite molecular sieve as a carrier. According to the composite molecular sieve and the hydrodesulfurization catalyst, the Beta-FDU-12 composite molecular sieve is of a bimodal porous structure, namely a Beta micropore and an FDU-12 mesoporous, the superficial area of the composite molecular sieve is 800-1000m<2>.g<-1>, the pore diameter is 14-25 nm, and the pore volume is 0.4-0.9 cm<3>.g<-1>.The hydrodesulfurization catalyst prepared with the Beta-FDU-12 composite molecular sieve as the carrier is outstanding in performance, the yield of FCC diesel oil can be higher than 99%, the denitrification percent can be higher than 98%, and the sulphur content is lower than 10 ppm.

The invention provides a device for filtering emboli from blood flowing through a lumen defined by the walls of a vessel in a patient's body comprising a filter element. The filter element is expandable from a collapsed configuration when the filter element is restrained to an expanded configuration when the filter element is unrestrained. When the filter element is in the expanded configuration, the average pore size is from 30 to 300 microns and the standard deviation of the pore size is less than 20 percent of the average pore size. The filter element has two or more filtering layers, each filtering layer having pores, each filtering layer being adjacent to at least one other filtering layer, and at least one of the filtering layers being made of a self-expanding material.

Provided are a porous anode active material, a method of preparing the same, and an anode and a lithium battery employing the same. The porous anode active material includes fine particles of metallic substance capable of forming a lithium alloy; a crystalline carboneous substance; and a porous carboneous material coating and attaching to the fine particles of metallic substance and the crystalline carboneous substance, the porous anode active material having pores exhibiting a bimodal size distribution with two pore diameter peaks as measured by a Barrett-Joyner-Halenda (BJH) pore size distribution from a nitrogen adsorption. The porous anode active material has the pores having a bimodal size distribution, and thus may efficiently remove a stress occurring due to a difference of expansion between a carboneous material and a metallic active material during charging and discharging. Further, the anode electrode and the lithium battery comprising the anode active material have excellent charge/discharge characteristics.

Particular aspects provide novel devices for bone tissue engineering, comprising a metal or metal-based composite member/material comprising an interior macroporous structure in which porosity may vary from 0-90% (v), the member comprising a surface region having a surface pore size, porosity, and composition designed to encourage cell growth and adhesion thereon, to provide a device suitable for bone tissue engineering in a recipient subject. In certain aspects, the device further comprises a gradient of pore size, porosity, and material composition extending from the surface region throughout the interior of the device, wherein the gradient transition is continuous, discontinuous or seamless and the growth of cells extending from the surface region inward is promoted. Additional aspects provide a device for bone tissue engineering, comprising a metal or metal-based composite member/material comprising an interior porous structure, wherein the pore size, porosity and material composition is selected to provide a device having an optimal density and/or elastic modulus and/or compression strength for a specific recipient. Novel methods for fabricating the devices are also provided.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a carbon material with rich mesopores and macropores. Inorganic nano-particles are used as pore-forming template agent to be uniformly distributed in a carbon-contained organic precursor and then the carbon-contained organic precursor carries out high-temperature carbonization, template agent washing-out and drying to obtain a porous carbon material. The carbon material prepared by the method has the specific surface area of 50-1,900 m/g and a pore diameter mainly between 2-900 nm, can be conveniently adjusted by the size control of the selected nano-particles, removes a template without using high corrosive HF and has the advantages of simple method, convenient operation, free pore diameter adjustment and control in a mesopore and macropore range, and the like. The carbon material has a wide application prospect in fields of electrochemical energy accumulation, macromolecular adsorption, catalyst carriers, composite materials, and the like.

A redox flow cell is presented that utilizes a porous membrane separating a first half cell and a second half cell. The porous membrane is chosen to have a figure of merit (FOM) is at least a minimum FOM. A method of providing a porous membrane for a flow cell can include determining a figure of merit; determining a first parameter from a pore size or a thickness for the porous membrane; determining a second parameter from the pore size or the thickness that is not the first parameter for the porous membrane, based on the figure of merit; and constructing a porous membrane having the pore size and the thickness.

A honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a honeycomb structured body in which a plurality of porous ceramic members are combined with one another through an adhesive layer, each of the porous ceramic members having a plurality of cells which are allowed to penetrate in a longitudinal direction with a wall portion therebetween and either one end of which is sealed, with a catalyst supporting layer being adhered to the wall portion, wherein, supposing that the rate of the pore volume of pores having a pore diameter of 10 μm or less to the entire pore volume of the porous ceramic member is X₁ (%), the porosity is Y₁ (%) and the weight of the catalyst supporting layer is Z₁ (g/l), these X₁, Y₁ and Z₁ are allowed to satisfy the following expressions (1) and (2):

X₁≦20−Z₁/10  (1), and

Y₁≧35+7Z₁/40  (2)

(where about 20≦Z₁≦about 150).

The invention discloses a bulk hydrotreating catalyst and a preparation method thereof. The catalyst comprises three active metal components, namely Mo, W and Ni, and the sum of active metal oxides is 30 to 70 weight percent. In the method, a proper amount of water-soluble nitrogen-containing compound is added in the bulk catalyst gelatinating process, the pore structure of the catalyst is improved, more metal active sites are exposed on the surface of the catalyst, the utilization rate of active metals is improved, the catalyst has obviously high activity compared with the common bulk catalyst under the condition of the same metal content, and the consumption of the active metals for the common bulk catalyst can be reduced and the preparation cost of the catalyst can be reduced under thecondition of the equivalent activity. In addition, the bulk catalyst has increased pore diameter and pore volume, the Ni-W high active center is fully utilized, complicated macromolecules are easier to contact the active center, and the effect is particularly more obvious when the catalyst treats distillates with high macromolecule content.

[Object] To provide a multilayer assembly that excels in pore properties, is flexible, and is satisfactorily handled and processed; and a method of producing the multilayer assembly.

[Solving Means] A multilayer assembly includes a base and, arranged on at least one side thereof, a porous layer and has a large number of continuous micropores with an average pore diameter of 0.01 to 10 μm. The multilayer assembly suffers from no interfacial delamination between the base and the porous layer when examined in a tape peeling test according to the following procedure:

• • Tape Peeling Test

A 24-mm wide masking tape [Film Masking Tape No. 603 (#25)] supplied by Teraoka Seisakusho Co., Ltd. is applied to a surface of the porous layer of the multilayer assembly and press-bonded thereto with a roller having a diameter of 30 mm and a load of 200 gf to give a sample; and the sample is subjected to a T-peel test with a tensile tester at a peel rate of 50 mm/min.

A microporous polyolefin battery separator membrane is extremely high in porosity, high in puncture strength, very low in shrinkage and with shutdown temperature of 130–140 degrees C. and melt integrity greater than 165 degrees C. It is made of UHMWPE having a weight-average molecular weight of 1×10⁶ or more and an inert filler. A second microporous polyolefin battery separator has a shutdown temperature of between 95 and 110 degrees C. and a melt integrity of more than 165 degrees C. It is made from an UHMWPE having a weight-average molecular weight of 1×10⁶ or more, a shutdown (LMWPE) having a weight-average molecular weight of 4500 or less and an inert filler. Both membranes have a thickness of 5–75 microns, a porosity of 30–95%, an air permeability of 1–200 sec/10 cc, an average pore diameter of 0.001 to 1 micron and puncture strength of more than 300 grams/25 {circumflex over (l)}¼ m.

A honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a honeycomb structured body in which a plurality of porous ceramic members are combined with one another through an adhesive layer, each of the porous ceramic members having a plurality of cells which are allowed to penetrate in a longitudinal direction with a wall portion therebetween and either one end of which is sealed, with a catalyst supporting layer being adhered to said wall portion, wherein pores formed in said porous ceramic member are constituted by large pores having a relatively large pore diameter and small pores having a relatively small pore diameter, and supposing that: the thickness of the catalyst supporting layer is X₁ (μm), and the value, obtained by multiplying the porosity (%) of said porous ceramic member by the ratio (the average pore diameter of said large pores/the average pore diameter of said small pores) of the average pore diameter of said large pores to the average pore diameter of said small pores, is Y₁, these X₁ and Y₁ are allowed to satisfy the following inequalities (1) and (2):

6X₁+80.5≦Y₁≦6X₁+230.5  (1)

6X₁+330≦Y₁≦−6X₁+474  (2).

A method of manufacturing a porous sintered body includes mixing at least two groups of silicon carbide particles and a pore forming material having an average particle diameter Y μm to obtain a molding material. The at least two groups of silicon carbide particles have different average particle diameters and have a first group of silicon carbide particles whose blending quantity by weight in the molding material is greatest among the at least two groups of silicon carbide particles. The first group have an average particle diameter X μm. The relationships 15≦X, 0.5·X≦Z≦0.9·X, and 0.8·Z≦Y≦1.8·Z are satisfied, wherein Z μm is an average pore diameter of the porous sintered body no less than 10 μm and no greater than 20 μm.

The present invention is directed to tissue-engineering scaffolds containing both a microporous scaffold made from a biocompatible material suitable for use in tissue-engineering scaffolds and a nanofiberous, nanoporous hydrogel formed from a self-assembling peptide, where at least a portion of the hydrogel is disposed within the pores of the microporous scaffold, thus providing tissue-engineering scaffolds having average pore diameters in the nanometer range and that provide both mechanical properties suitable for implantation into a body of a mammal and excellent tissue response once implanted in the body.

The invention discloses a guided tissue regeneration membrane. The membrane adopts a double-layer membrane structure and is characterized in that one layer is a compact layer prepared from biological fibers with longer degradation time, and the other layer is a potential loose layer prepared through mixing of biological fibers with different degradation time. After the potentialloose layer is implanted in a body, part of the biological fibers degrades quickly, so that the pore diameter of the membrane is increased, and ingrowth of cells is facilitated. The compact layer and the potential loose layer are connected through the same biological fibers with the longer degradation time, so that the double-layer membrane is free of splitting and fractures. The invention further discloses a preparation method of the guided tissue regeneration membrane as well as an application of the guided tissue regeneration membrane as a tissue repair product to tissue repair.

The honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a pillar-shaped honeycomb structured body having a honeycomb structure that a number of through holes are placed in parallel with one another in the length direction with a wall portion interposed therebetween and one of ends of each through hole is sealed, wherein a relation between a volume Y (L) of said honeycomb structured body and an aperture ratio X (%) on an inlet side satisfies the following inequality (1):

Y≦−1.1X+68.5 (wherein Y≦19, 35≦X≦56)  (1).

A method is provided for removing water, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide out of a gas, such as air, by passing the gas through a packed column so that the gas sequentially contacts a catalyst consisting of platinum or palladium and at least one member selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper, chromium, tin, lead and cerium wherein the catalyst is supported on alumina containing substantially no pores having pore diameters of 110 Angstroms or less under conditions which oxidize the carbon monoxide in the gas into carbon dioxide; an adsorbent selected from the group consisting of silica gel, activated alumina, zeolite and combinations thereof under conditions in which water is adsorbed and removed from the gas and an adsorbent selected from the group consisting of calcium ion exchanged A zeolite; calcium ion exchanged X zeolite; sodium ion exchanged X zeolite and mixtures thereof under conditions which carbon dioxide is adsorbed and removed from the gas. The gas may also be subjected to a catalyst/adsorbent in the packed column to effect oxidation and removal of hydrogen in the gas.

Particulate skeletal iron catalyst is provided which contain at least about 50 wt. % iron with the remainder being a minor portion of a suitable non-ferrous metal and having characteristics of 0.062-1.0 mm particle size, 20-100 m2/g surface area, and 10-40 nm average pore diameter. Such skeletal iron catalysts are prepared and utilized for producing synthetic hydrocarbon products from CO and H2 feeds by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process. Iron powder is mixed with non-ferrous powder selected from aluminum, antimony, silicon, tin or zinc powder to provide 20-80 wt. % iron content and melted together to form an iron alloy, then cooled to room temperature and pulverized to provide 0.1-10 mm iron alloy catalyst precursor particles. The iron alloy pulverized particles are treated with NaOH or KOH caustic solution at 30-95° C. temperature to extract and/or leach out most of the non-ferrous metal portion, and then screened and treated by drying and reducing with hydrogen and to provide the smaller size skeletal iron catalyst material. Such skeletal iron catalyst is utilized with CO+H2 feedstream for Fischer-Tropsch reactions in either a fixed bed or slurry bed type reactor at 180-350° C. temperature, 0.5-3.0 mPa pressure and gas hourly space velocity of 0.5-3.0 L/g Fe/hr to produce desired hydrocarbon products.

The invention discloses a porous thin film and a preparation method for the porous thin film which are easy to achieve the high porosity, guarantee the possible formability in preparation and are simple and practical in preparation technology. The thickness of the porous thin film is 5-200Mum, the average pore size is 0.05-100Mum, and the porosity is 25-75%. The preparation method comprises the steps that 1, a support film is obtained, the support film is provided with a porous-shaped first material, and preliminary pores are formed in the first material; 2, a slurry is prepared, and the slurry contains a powdered second material; 3, the support film is coated with the slurry and then made into a rough-body; 4, the rough-body is sintered, reaction happens between the first material and the second material in sintering, a porous third material is generated, and meanwhile secondary pores communicated with the preliminary pores are generated; 5, the porous thin film is obtained by cooling after the sintering. Due to the fact that at least the preliminary pores and the secondary pores are contained, and therefore the high porosity of the porous thin film is each to be achieve.

A ceramic honeycomb filter comprising a ceramic honeycomb structure having porous partition walls defining a plurality of flow paths for flowing an exhaust gas through the porous partition walls to remove particulates from the exhaust gas, the predetermined flow paths among the flow paths being sealed at their ends, a catalyst being carried by the porous partition walls, the porous partition walls having a porosity of 60-75% and an average pore diameter of 15-25 mum when measured according to a mercury penetration method, and the maximum of a slope Sn of a cumulative pore volume curve of the porous partition walls relative to a pore diameter obtained at an n-th measurement point being 0.7 or more, the Sb being represented by the following formula (1): Sn=-(Vb-Vn-1)/[log Dn-log (Dn-1)] (1), wherein Dn is a pore diameter (mum) at an n-th measurement point, Dn-1 is a pore diameter (mum) at an (n-1)-th measurement point, Vn is a cumulative pore volume (cm3/g) at an n-th measurement point, and Vn-1 is a cumulative pore volume (cm3/g) at an (n-1)-th measurement point.

The invention discloses preparation methods for a macroporous alumina carrier and a hydrodemetallization catalyst. The preparation method for the macroporous alumina carrier includes the following steps: (1) dry pseudoboehmite gel powder is hydrothermally processed under high pressure; (2) the dry pseudoboehmite gel powder obtained in step 1 is kneaded into a plastic, and pore-expanding agent is added in step 1 or step 2; (3) the plastic obtained in step 2 is shaped, the shaped material is dried and baked, and thereby the macroporous alumina carrier is obtained. The impregnation method is adopted to prepare the hydrodemetallization catalyst. The hydrodemetallization catalyst prepared by the method has large pore volume and pore diameter, centrally distributed pores, moderate mechanical strength and high activity and activity stability.

The invention discloses a graphene with a porous structure and a preparation method of the graphene. The porous grapheme consists of a single-layer or multi-layer graphene structure unit, the single-layer or multi-layer grapheme structure unit has a pore-shaped structure (pore diameter is 0.1-200 nm) and a large specific surface area (300-2000 m<2>/g), thus the graphene has potential application value in the aspects of super-capacitors, conductive filling materials and the like. The preparation method of the porous grapheme is characterized in that MgO, Mg(OH)2, Al2O3, Al(OH)3, hydrotalcite compounds and/or corresponding calcined products of the substances are used as catalysts, or MgO, Mg(OH)2, Al2O3, Al(OH)3, hydrotalcite compounds and/or corresponding calcined products of the substances are used as carriers so as to further load one or more active components of Fe, Co, Ni and Mo and then the obtained substance is used as the catalyst ( the pore diameter of the catalyst is 1-200 nm, and the specific surface area is 10-300 m<2>/g); and then at the temperature of 300-1000 DEG C, the graphene is prepared by using inert gases such as nitrogen, argon, helium and the like and using a hydrocarbon chemical gas phase deposition method.