Composition comprising modified organosilicones
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current organosilicones used in consumer products face challenges due to high costs and instability issues, such as creaming and discoloration, which are linked to the lack of functional groups, leading to expensive emulsification processes and reduced chemical and physical stability.
Innovation Solution
The development of organosilicones with specific low-cost functional groups that can be easily emulsified, providing enhanced stability and care benefits, including the use of certain surfactants and organosilicone polymers with specific structures to improve emulsification and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional organosilicones are used in consumer products, then they provide basic silicone benefits, but they exhibit poor chemical and physical stability leading to creaming and discoloration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent modifies the chemical structure of organosilicones by incorporating specific functional groups (amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, ether, ester) to change the chemical and physical parameters of the silicone. This structural modification enables better stability and prevents creaming and discoloration without sacrificing silicone performance benefits.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates composite organosilicone structures by combining silicone backbones with various functional groups. These composite structures integrate the stability benefits of functional groups with the performance benefits of silicones, resolving the contradiction between basic silicone benefits and stability.
2Ease of manufacture
If expensive silicone emulsification processes are used, then organosilicones can be used in consumer products, but production costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs organosilicones with built-in functional groups that provide self-emulsification capabilities. The amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, ether, and ester groups inherently provide water solubility and emulsification properties, eliminating the need for separate expensive emulsification processes and reducing production costs.
Solution Approach 2:
By modifying the chemical structure to include functional groups with different polarity and solubility characteristics, the organosilicones gain inherent emulsification capabilities. This parameter change in molecular structure enables cost-effective manufacturing without external emulsifiers.
3Ease of manufacture
If functional groups are added to improve emulsification, then emulsification becomes easier and costs decrease, but the silicone structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces functional groups at specific locations on the silicone molecule (terminal positions or side chains) rather than uniformly throughout the structure. This localized modification provides emulsification benefits while maintaining the simplicity of the core silicone structure and minimizing overall molecular complexity.
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 new organosilicones offer improved chemical and physical stability, reducing production costs and enhancing the performance of consumer products by providing better emulsification and care benefits, such as improved feel and conditioning.
Implementation Method 1
certain low cost functional groups can be attached to a silicone to yield an organosilicone that can be easily emulsified
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AI summary
The present application relates to organosilicones and compositions such as consumer products comprising such organosilicones, as well as processes for making and using such organosilicones and such compositions. Such compositions comprising such organosilicones are easier to formulate, and provide more economical and superior care benefits when compared to current silicone containing compositions.