Dissolved C60 Production via Limonene Solvent Heating
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
C60 molecules have low solubility in edible oils like olive oil, leading to inefficient dissolution and agglomeration, which limits their therapeutic, nutritional, and medicinal applications due to the time-consuming and costly process of breaking up clumps, resulting in only a trivial amount being bioactive and unstable mixtures.
Innovation Solution
Combining C60 molecules with limonene or carvone compositions and heating them to dissolve C60 molecules, achieving a stable and homogenous mixture with significantly higher solubility, allowing for efficient and rapid production of a bioactive, edible, and stable C60 solution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If C60 is mixed with olive oil to prepare for therapeutic usage, then the mixture can be used for therapeutic applications, but the solubility is extremely low (no more than 0.9 mg/ml) and the process is extremely time consuming (five to ten days of sonication and stirring)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the chemical parameters of the solvent system by replacing pure olive oil with a composition containing limonene (at least 10% by volume) and/or carvone (at least 10% by volume). This parameter change in solvent composition dramatically increases C60 solubility from 0.9 mg/ml to at least 16.67 mg/ml and reduces dissolution time from five to ten days to a matter of hours or days, while maintaining therapeutic applicability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite solvent system combining limonene and/or carvone with olive oil or other edible oils. This composite material approach leverages the solubility-enhancing properties of limonene and carvone while maintaining the edible and therapeutic properties of the base oil, achieving both high solubility and therapeutic reliability
2Reliability
If C60 is mixed with olive oil, then the mixture can be prepared for therapeutic usage, but the C60 tends to agglomerate and resist dissolution, resulting in only a trivial amount being bioactive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent modifies the chemical composition parameters of the solvent to include limonene and/or carvone, which fundamentally changes the interaction between solvent and C60 molecules. This parameter change prevents agglomeration by improving molecular-level dissolution, ensuring that C60 remains dispersed and bioactive rather than forming clumps, thereby maintaining both therapeutic benefit and compositional stability
3Reliability
If C60 is mixed with olive oil, then the mixture can be prepared for therapeutic usage, but the mixture is subject to settling and reagglomeration, making it unstable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the solvent composition parameters by incorporating limonene and/or carvone, which fundamentally alters the stability characteristics of the C60 mixture. This parameter change prevents settling and reagglomeration by ensuring complete molecular dissolution, creating a stable homogeneous mixture that maintains its therapeutic properties over time without separation or clumping
4Object-affected harmful factors
If C60 is dissolved in edible oils, then the mixture is safe for consumption, but the solubility is extremely low and the process is expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a composite edible solvent system by combining limonene and/or carvone with edible oils like olive oil. This composite material approach maintains the safety for consumption (as limonene and carvone are edible terpenes) while dramatically increasing the solubility concentration from 0.9 mg/ml to at least 16.67 mg/ml, achieving both safety and high concentration simultaneously
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the chemical composition parameters of the edible solvent to include specific concentrations of limonene (at least 10%) and/or carvone (at least 10%). This parameter change in the edible solvent composition enables high C60 solubility while maintaining safety for consumption, as the terpenes are naturally occurring and edible
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The method results in a highly bioactive and stable C60 mixture with solubility over 18 times that of previous methods, enabling effective therapeutic, nutritional, and medicinal applications without altering the C60 molecule's nature, and providing a convenient, safe, and inexpensive solution.
Implementation Method 1
heating the C60 mixture to a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time period to dissolve the C60 molecules into the limonene composition
Implementation Method 2
dissolve the C60 molecules into the limonene composition to form a dissolved C60 mixture
Data Source
AI summary
A method of dissolving C60 molecules including combining C60 molecules with a limonene composition to form a C60 mixture, and heating the C60 mixture to a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time period to dissolve the C60 molecules into the limonene composition to form a dissolved C60 mixture. The dissolved C60 mixture is homogenous and includes at least 16.67 mg of the dissolved C60 molecules per milliliter of the limonene composition.