683 results about "Inert" patented technology

This invention comprises an apparatus and method for the manipulation of materials, including particles, cells, macromolecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids and other moieties, in fluid samples. The apparatus comprises an enclosed chamber on a chip having an internal microstructure with surface area substantially greater than the facial surface area of the internal structure. Generally the internal microstructure comprises a continuous network of channels, each of which has a depth substantially greater than its width. The network may comprise a single channel, a single channel with multiple branches, multiple channels, multiple channels with multiple branches, and any combination thereof. The internal structure may present an inert, non-reactive surface, or be coated with a reactive ligand, or be electrically conductive and optionally be coated with an electrical insulator. Discrete portions of the internal structure may differ in structural and surface properties. Multiple chips may be linked together to create a multiplexed array of chambers, optionally linked to other analytical devices.

A method and system for manufacturing a spacer layer in a magnetoresistive element are described. The spacer layer resides between a free layer and a pinned layer. The method and system include providing a first metallic layer and oxidizing the first metallic layer in a first environment including at least oxygen and a first gas inert with respect to the first metallic layer. The method and system further include providing a second metallic layer and oxidizing the second metallic layer in a second environment including at least oxygen and a first gas inert with respect to the first metallic layer.

A method and system for providing a magnetic element are described. The method and system include providing a pinned layer, fabricating a metallic spacer layer and oxidizing a portion of the spacer layer in an environment including at least oxygen and a gas inert with respect to the spacer layer to provide an oxide layer. The method and system also include creating a free layer. The oxide layer is between a remaining metallic portion of the spacer layer and the free layer. In one aspect, the system includes a chamber and a gas diffusion apparatus within the chamber. The gas diffusion apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles and defines a plane. The gas exits each of the plurality of nozzles in a cone having an apex angle. The nozzles are directed at a nozzle tilt angle of at least half of the apex angle from the plane and the spacer layer.

Presently disclosed is a hydraulic pump device and its use thereof, especially in a fluid delivery system. In one embodiment, the fluid delivery system is an inexpensive, single-use device for slow dosing medicament applications. The fluid delivery system may employ a spring-compressed bellows crank or other combination of simple mechanisms operating according to the well-known peristaltic principle to force a volume of ultrapure bio-inert hydraulic fluid through an aperture, thereby expanding one chamber of a two chamber hydraulic cylinder. The second, fluid storage chamber, containing the medicament, is emptied through a conventional orifice in response to the expansion of the pump chamber. The medicament may thence flow through any suitable infusion set into a patient removeably attached thereto.

A process for the removal of inert gases, such as nitrogen and carbon dioxide, from methane-containing gases, such as natural gas, including a first stage removal which lowers the total combined inert content to about less than 30% and a second stage removal utilizing a pressure swing adsorption process comprising one or more adsorbent beds comprising contracted titanosilicate-1 adsorbent, wherein the purified methane-containing gas contains less than about 6% total combined inerts.

A set of alloy formulations is disclosed to use with thorium based nuclear fuels in a fast spectrum reactor; with thorium based nuclear fuels in existing thermal spectrum power reactors; for medical isotope production in the epithermal, the fast, the fission spectrum and the thermal spectra; and to use as fuel in test and experimental reactors that are non proliferative. The alloys form inert metal matrixes to hold fine particles of dispersed thorium containing fuel. The formulations also are useful for the production of medical and commercial isotopes in the high energy, fast and epithermal neutron spectra.

The invention provides a two-dimensional code and a vision-inert combined navigation system and method for a robot. A sealed assistant frame is arranged at the periphery of the two-dimensional code, and the sealed assistant frame and the two-dimensional code are both applied to vision navigation. The two-dimensional code is used in the vision-inert combined navigation system for the robot; the vision-inert combined navigation method for the robot comprises the following steps: paving a plurality of two-dimensional codes with the sealed assistant frames at the peripheries on a ground; when the robot walks forwards, taking images by using imaging equipment; acquiring the absolute position and the absolute direction angle of the imaging equipment, and acquiring the absolute coordinates of the two-dimensional codes, and the absolute position and the absolute direction angle of the imaging equipment; confirming the relative position of the robot relative to a present starting point and the relative direction angle of the robot relative to a present starting direction angle; acquiring the absolute position of the robot, and taking the absolute position as a next starting point; acquiring the absolute direction angle of the robot, and taking the absolute direction angle as a next starting direction angle.

Presently disclosed is a hydraulic pump device and use thereof, especially in a fluid delivery system. In one embodiment, the fluid delivery system is an inexpensive, single-use device for slow dosing medicament applications. The fluid delivery system may employ a spring-compressed bellows crank or other combination of simple mechanisms operating according to the well-known peristaltic principle to force a volume of ultrapure bio-inert hydraulic fluid through an aperture, thereby expanding one chamber of a two chamber hydraulic cylinder. The second, fluid storage chamber, containing the medicament, is emptied through a conventional orifice in response to the expansion of the pump chamber. The medicament may thence flow through any suitable infusion set into a patient removeably attached thereto.

The present invention involves fibers of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and a process for making the same. The present invention provides a method for effectively dispersing single-wall carbon nanotubes. The process for dispersing the single-wall carbon nanotubes comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring under an inert, oxygen-free environment. The single-wall carbon nanotube / acid mixture is wet spun into a coagulant to form the single-wall carbon nanotube fibers. The fibers are recovered, washed and dried. The single-wall carbon nanotubes were highly aligned in the fibers, as determined by Raman spectroscopy analysis.

An improved Transdermal Delivery System (TDS) comprising a backing layer inert to the components of the matrix, a self-adhesive matrix containing rotigotine and a protective foil or sheet to be removed prior to use, characterized in that the self-adhesive matrix consists of a solid or semi-solid semi-permeable polymer (1) wherein rotigotine in its free base form has been incorporated, (2) which is saturated with rotigotine and contains said rotigotine as a multitude of microreservoirs within the matrix, (3) which is highly permeable for the free base of rotigotine, (4) which is impermeable for the protonated form of rotigotine, (5) wherein the maximum diameter of the microreservoirs is less than the thickness of the matrix. is provided. Said TDS provides for enhanced flux of rotigotine across the TDS / skin interface.

An improved Transdermal Delivery System (TDS) comprising a backing layer inert to the components of the matrix, a selfadhesive matrix containing an amine-functional drug and a protective foil or sheet to be removed prior to use, characterized in that the self-adhesive matrix consists of a solid or semi-solid semi-permeable polymer (1) wherein an amine functional drug in its free base form has been incorporated, (2) which is saturated with the amine functional drug and contains said drug as a multitude of microreservoirs within the matrix, (3) which is highly permeable for the free base of the amine functional drug, (4) which is impermeable for the protonated form of the amine functional drug, (5) wherein the maximum diameter of the microreservoirs is less than the thickness of the matrix. is provided. Said TDS provides for enhanced flux of the amine functional drug across the TDS / skin interface.

The invention provides an aluminum electrolysis inert anode of which the material is a high-entropy alloy. The high-entropy alloy contains 5-10 alloy elements of which the mole ratio can be identical or different; and the atomic percent of each main element is 5-35%. The high-entropy alloy inert anode has the characteristics of favorable high-temperature oxidation resistance, high aluminum electrolysis salt corrosion resistance, high electric conductivity and the like. The high-entropy alloy prepared by the smelting method has the advantages of simple technique and low cost, and is easy for connection. When being used for aluminum electrolysis, the high-entropy alloy can avoid the consumption of the carbon anode and the emission of the CO2 gas, and has the advantages of energy saving and emission reduction.

Nanomaterials of the JT phase of the titanium oxide TiO2-x, where 0≦x≦1 having as a building block a crystalline structure with an orthorhombic symmetry and described by at least one of the space groups 59 Pmmn, 63 Amma, 71 Immm or 63 Bmmb. These nanomaterials are in the form of nanofibers, nanowires, nanorods, nanoscrolls and / or nanotubes. The nanomaterials are obtained from a hydrogen titanate and / or a mixed sodium and hydrogen titanate precursor compound that is isostructural to the JT crystalline structure. The titanates are the hydrogenated, the protonated, the hydrated and / or the alkalinized phases of the JT crystalline phase that are obtained from titanium compounds such as titanium oxide with an anatase crystalline structure, amorphous titanium oxide, and titanium oxide with a rutile crystalline structure, and / or directly from the rutile mineral and / or from ilmenite. The titanates are submitted to dynamic thermal treatment in an inert, oxidizing or reducing atmosphere to produce the JT phase of the TiO2-x, where 0≦x≦1 with an orthorhombic structure.

The present invention discloses a composition and method of providing ionic forms or compounds of any combination of three metals to produce a product that can be used as a antimicrobial as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) such as a hard surface disinfectant and as a foliar spray or water treatment for the control of various diseases in garden row, field and tree crops, on hard surface areas such as equipment from infected fields or in hospitals, homes, etc. as well as against a wide range of human, plant and animal diseases. Additionally, the composition of the present invention is able to be used to coat and otherwise treat and disinfect food products such as but not limited to fish and shellfish, meat, milk, poultry, eggs and irrigated crops (both food and nonfood crops) as well as non food products as defined in the EPA exemption from tolerance for copper and copper products. The composition may include inerts such as surfactants, detergents and buffers to adjust the pH. The composition remains soluble in water and is useful efficacious against the spread of bacteria, viruses and fungi and other pathogens within a source of water such as a reservoir or pool. Alternatively, the composition may be in aerosolized, misted, vaporized, fogged, humidified forms to produce micronized particles which are able to remain in suspension in the air for long periods of time in order to act on air-borne fungal spores and / or pathogens.

The invention belongs to the field of functional materials and discloses a preparation method of porous carbon nanofiber. The preparation method comprises steps as follows: a polymer is added to a solvent and stirred, and a spinning precursor solution is obtained; parameters are set, the spinning precursor solution is subjected to electrostatic spinning, and nanofiber is obtained; at the temperature rise speed of 1 DEG C / min-5DEG C / min, the nanofiber is preoxidized in air for 2-5 hours at the temperature of 100 DEG C-300 DEG C, and the preoxidized nanofiber is obtained; finally, at the temperature rise rate of 3DEG C / min-10DEG C / min, the preoxidized nanofiber is carbonized for 2-5 hours at the temperature of 600 DEG C-1,400 DEG C in an inert or reducing atmosphere, and the carbon nanofiber is obtained. The method is simple in technology, low in cost, high in yield, environment-friendly and beneficial to industrial production; meanwhile, pore diameter distribution and the specific surface area of the prepared carbon nanofiber are controllable; the carbon nanofiber can be applied to the fields of supercapacitors, batteries, catalysts, catalyst carriers, adsorption and filtration materials and the like.

An improved wafer transfer apparatus is provided that allows the ambient atmosphere within a modified front open unified pod (“FOUP”) while the FOUP is positioned on a loading stage provided on an equipment front end module (“EFEM”). In particular, the wafer transfer apparatus includes both an injection assembly and an exhaust assembly that will be engaged when the door of the FOUP is docked to a door holder provided on the EFEM. The injection assembly may include a mass flow controller (“MFC”) for controlling the injection of purge gas(es) into the container. Similarly, the exhaust assembly may include a MFC for controlling the removal of fluid from the container. While the door is docked to the door holder, inert or less reactive gases may be introduced into the container, thereby reducing the likelihood of oxidation or contamination of the wafers therein.

A one-part spray foam formed by Michael addition chemistry is provided. The foamable composition includes at least one electron donor, at least one electron acceptor, an encapsulated catalyst, and one or more blowing agents. The catalyst is a weak or strong base. The encapsulation of the catalyst controls the polymerization of the Michael addition compounds such that the catalyst can be added and / or activated at a desired time to begin the foaming reaction. The catalyst may be encapsulated in a high molecular weight inert polymer or wax. In some embodiments, the chemical blowing agent(s) are also encapsulated. To produce a foam according to the invention, a single stream of the foamable composition is fed into an application gun where the slurry is heated and mixed. The heat and / or mixing in the gun releases the catalyst, which initiates the reaction between the Michael donor and Michael acceptor to form the foam.

A novel filtration media employing polymeric absorbents comprising a material selected from the group consisting of styrene, pentadiene, cyclopentadiene, butylene, ethylene, isoprene, butadiene, propylene and mixtures thereof; and a filtration enabler intimately mixed with the polymeric absorbent. Preferably, the filtration enabler comprises clay, ground glass, talc, mica, recycled rubber, sand, gravel, vermiculite, recycled plastic chips, an inert, non-absorbent material, or mixtures thereof. Preferably, the polymeric absorbent may be further compounded to incorporate about 10 to 50% recycled or waste plastic scrap, scrap polyolefins, inorganic fillers, or other inexpensive, relatively inert solids. Other compounding materials may include clay, talc, mica, ground glass, silica, and mixtures thereof. Upon contact with a hydrocarbon containing liquid, the liquid partially dissolves the polymeric absorbent forming a partial filtration barrier prior to the filtration media substantially absorbing the hydrocarbons, and allowing hydrocarbon-free liquid to flow through the filtration media. In situations of a leak or spill wherein an excess of hydrocarbons are present, the filtration media forms a plug to seal and prevent further discharge of the hydrocarbons. The filtration media may be placed inside a portable container for insertion into an existing drain such that hydrocarbon containing liquid is filtered through the device allowing hydrocarbon-free liquid to flow from the device. The filtration media has a thickness within the container adapted to substantially filter out hydrocarbons while capable of forming a plug in an excess of hydrocarbons. The filtration media of the present invention may be employed in pits, pipes, and self-contained cartridges of various sizes to remove and contain hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon containing liquid or a hydrocarbon spill or leak, and that the absorbent will form a plug in an excess of hydrocarbons entering the pit, pipe or cartridge. Also described are methods of filtering and preventing discharge of a hydrocarbon containing liquid.

A method for forming an integrated circuit interconnect pad is described. In one embodiment a method of forming an integrated circuit comprises screen printing a conductive paste onto a terminal metalization pad and curing the conductive paste in an inert or reducing atmosphere at an elevated temperature to form an under-bump metalization layer of an interconnect pad. The elevated temperature is below a melting temperature of the terminal metalization pad.

A high quality 3,4-dihydro-1,2,3-oxathiazin-4-one-2,2-dioxide compound or a salt thereof is obtained easily and efficiently.When the compound represented by the following formula (2)(wherein, R1, R2, and R3 are hydrogen atom or an organic group inert to the reaction, and X is hydrogen atom) or a salt thereof is produced by cyclization of a mixture of β-ketoamide-N-sulfonic acid represented by the following formula (1)or a salt thereof and an inert solvent and a mixture of acid anhydride and an inert solvent, and by subsequent hydrolysis of the product, a step of (A) hydrolyzing the reaction product obtained by the cyclization by mixing with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid so as a concentration of sulfuric acid in an aqueous phase after the hydrolysis would become 30% by weight or more, and then separating an organic phase and an aqueous phase, or a step of (B) washing the organic phase liquid after the hydrolysis with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid with a concentration of 30% by weight or more is at least carried out.

A light emitting device having an hermetically sealed package that includes a light source positioned in a metal can container on which is placed an optically-transparent cover. An enclosed space formed by the metal can container and the optically-transparent cover may be filled with an inert, heat-conducting gas or liquid and the inner surface of the metal can container may be coated with a high-reflector material that prevents absorption of the light emitted by the light source. A method of producing a light-emitting device having an hermetically-sealed package and a method of dissipating heat from a light-emitting device having an hermetically-sealed package is also provided.

The invention discloses a graphene-reinforced magnesium-aluminium matrix composite material and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of composite materials. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dissolving graphene in an appropriate amount of ethanol solution and ultrasonically dispersing, then intermittently adding a metal powder in the solution, and ultrasonically dispersing and mechanically stirring simultaneously to obtain graphene / metal particle mixed solution with high dispersibility; sequentially carrying out the operations of heating in a low-temperature water bath to remove a solvent, drying in vacuum to obtain a powder, and continuously manually grinding the powder under an inert atmosphere, on the mixed solution, so as to obtain a graphene / metal particle composite powder with uniform dispersion; and carrying out hot-pressing on the composite powder into blocks, carrying out hot extrusion, and finally obtaining the graphene / metal matrix composite material. The preparation process disclosed by the invention is simple, environment-friendly, and free from addition of a non-volatile organic dispersant; low-temperature inert protection is adopted during the process of preparing the composite powder, and high own dispersion of graphene and high dispersion thereof in a metal matrix are achieved while the structural integrity of a graphene reinforcement is kept; and the preparation method is suitable for preparing the high-performance graphene-reinforced metal matrix composite material.

A catalyst for the manufacture of alkylene oxide, for example ethylene oxide, by the vapor-phase epoxidation of alkene containing impregnated silver and at least one efficiency-enhancing promoter on an inert, refractory solid support, said support incorporating a sufficient amount of zirconium component (present and remaining substantially as zirconium silicate) as to enhance at least one of catalyst activity, efficiency and stability as compared to a similar catalyst which does not contain the zirconium component.

A system to continuously produce fully carbonized or graphitized carbon fibers using microwave-assisted plasma (MAP) processing comprises an elongated chamber in which a microwave plasma is excited in a selected gas atmosphere. Fiber is drawn continuously through the chamber, entering and exiting through openings designed to minimize in-leakage of air. There is a gradient of microwave power within the chamber with generally higher power near where the fiber exits and lower power near where the fiber enters. Polyacrylonitrile (PAN), pitch, or any other suitable organic / polymeric precursor fibers can be used as a feedstock for the inventive system. Oxidized or partially oxidized PAN or pitch or other polymeric fiber precursors are run continuously through a MAP reactor in an inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere to heat the fibers, drive off the unwanted elements such as oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen, and produce carbon or graphite fibers faster than conventionally produced carbon fibers.

This invention relates to a method for electrowinning of titanium metal or titanium alloys from electrically conductive titanium mixed oxide compounds in the liquid state such as molten titania slag, molten ilmenite, molten leucoxene, molten perowskite, molten titanite, molten natural or synthetic rutile or molten titanium dioxide. The method involves providing the conductive titanium oxide compound at temperatures corresponding to the liquid state, pouring the molten material into an electrochemical reactor to form a pool of electrically conductive liquid acting as cathode material, covering the cathode material with a layer of electrolyte, such as molten salts or a solid state ionic conductor, deoxidizing electrochemically the molten cathode by direct current electrolysis. Preferably, the deoxidizing step is performed at high temperature using either a consumable carbon anode or an inert dimensionally stable anode or a gas diffusion anode. During the electrochemical reduction, droplets of liquid titanium metal or titanium alloy are produced at the slag / electrolyte interface and sink by gravity settling to the bottom of the electrochemical reactor forming, after coalescence, a pool of liquid titanium metal or titanium alloy. Meanwhile carbon dioxide or oxygen gas is evolved at the anode. The liquid metal is continuously siphoned or tapped under an inert atmosphere and cast into dense and coherent titanium metal or titanium alloy ingots.

A method for producing an activated carbon material includes forming an aqueous mixture of a natural, non-lignocellulosic carbon precursor and an inorganic compound, heating the mixture in an inert or reducing atmosphere, cooling the heated mixture to form a first carbon material, and removing the inorganic compound to produce an activated carbon material. The activated carbon material is suitable to form improved carbon-based electrodes for use in high energy density devices.

Hypotonic formulations were evaluated for delivering water-soluble drugs and for drug delivery with muco-inert (that is, non-adhesive) mucus-penetrating nanoparticles (MPP). Hypotonic formulations markedly increased the rate at which drugs and MPP reached the epithelial surface, including deep into the vaginal folds. Minimally hypotonic formulations, preferably ranging from 20-220 mOsm / kg, provided rapid and uniform delivery of MPP to the entire vaginal surface, with minimal risk of epithelial toxicity. Data also show that there is a higher osmolality in the colon, such that vehicles with an osmolality above that of blood plasma (generally considered isotonic at ˜300 mOsm / kg), still lead to improvements in distribution in the colon due to rapid, osmotically-induced fluid absorption. The range for improved colon distribution with a hypotonic vehicle in the colon is ˜20 mOsm / kg-450 mOsm / kg.

The invention provides a single-metal vulcanized hydrogenation catalyst and a double-metal vulcanized hydrogenation catalyst, and a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method for the single-metal vulcanized hydrogenation catalyst comprises the following steps: (1) subjecting a dispersant and a solution A containing group-VIB metal salt and a sulfur source to contacting, wherein the solution A is acidic; the dispersant is a water-soluble organic solvent with a boiling point of 15 DEG to 90 DEG C; and the sulfur source is a sulfur-contained substance capable of hydrolyzing at 50 to 100 DEG C under the condition of acidity; (2) subjecting the product obtained by contacting in the step (1) and a catalyst carrier to contacting at 60 to 150 DEG C under a sealed condition for 5 to 30 hours; and (3) subjecting a solid material obtained by contacting in the step (2) to calcinating in an inert or reducing atmosphere. The invention also provides the single-metal vulcanized hydrogenation catalyst prepared by using the above-mentioned method, and application of the single-metal vulcanized hydrogenation catalyst in hydrodesulfurization and / or hydrodenitrification. Compared with the prior art, the hydrogenation catalyst provided by the invention has the characteristics of high metal activation grade, high active metal dispersity, high activity, etc.