121 results about "Liquid matrix" patented technology

The invention is directed to structuring systems suitable for incorporation into liquid fabric treatment compositions. Such structuring systems comprise, as added components, (A) a non-polymeric, crystalline, hydroxyl-containing structuring agent, which can crystallize to form a thread-like structuring network throughout liquid matrices; (B) a nonionic emulsifier; (C) an anionic emulsifier; and (D) a liquid carrier. The anionic emulsifier is present in such structuring systems, at concentrations from 0.1% to 8.0% by weight of the structuring system. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing such structuring systems and to the use of the structuring system of the present invention to control the particle size of a thread-like structuring material by mixing an anionic emulsifier with a structuring agent. Liquid fabric treatment compositions containing such structuring systems are also disclosed.

Mass spectrometry of large nucleic acids by infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption / Ionization (MALDI) using a liquid matrix is reported.

Disclosed are aqueous liquid laundry detergent compositions which are in the form of an externally structured aqueous liquid matrix having dispersed therein a plurality of visibly distinct beads. Such beads are prepared so as to be in the form of a liquid core surrounded by a semi-permeable membrane formed by interaction of a cationic polymeric material with an anionic polymeric material. Such beads are stable in the aqueous liquid detergent compositions herein yet disintegrate substantially upon their introduction via the composition into agitated dilute aqueous laundering liquors.

A thixotropic, smooth-flowing liquid, bulk-water-free dentifrice gel / paste that contains a stable mixture of at least one of amylopectin containing discrete solid particles and modified amylopectin containing discrete solid particles, uniformly suspended in and wetted by an inert essentially anhydrous organic hydroxylated liquid matrix material, and which dentifrice gel / paste is characterized by a high surface sheen. Preferably, the modified homopolysaccharide discrete particles contain esterified amylopectin and / or esterified amylose. The dentifrice gel / paste can be used as a toothpaste, a bleaching gel and a brushing gel.

A structured liquid detergent composition in the form of a liquid matrix made up of an external structuring system of a bacterial cellulose network; water; and surfactant system including an anionic surfactant; a nonionic surfactant; a cationic surfactant; an ampholytic surfactant; a zwitterionic surfactant; or mixtures thereof, wherein said liquid matrix has a yield stress of from about 0.003 Pa to about 5.0 Pa at about 25° C. and provides suitable particle suspension capabilities and shear thinning characteristics.

An emitter package comprising a light emitting diode (LED) mounted to the surface of a submount with the surface having a first meniscus forming feature around the LED. A matrix encapsulant is included on the surface and covering the LED. The outer edge of the matrix encapsulant adjacent the surface is defined by the meniscus forming feature and the encapsulant forms a substantially dome-shaped covering over said LED. A method for manufacturing an LED package by providing a body with a surface having a first meniscus holding feature. An LED is mounted to the surface with the meniscus holding feature around the LED. A liquid matrix encapsulant is introduced over the LED and the surface, the first meniscus holding feature holding the liquid matrix encapsulant in a dome-shape over the LED. The matrix encapsulant is then cured.

A structured liquid detergent composition in the form of a liquid matrix made up of an external structuring system of a bacterial cellulose network; water; and surfactant system including an anionic surfactant; a nonionic surfactant; a cationic surfactant; an ampholytic surfactant; a zwitterionic surfactant; or mixtures thereof, wherein said liquid matrix has a yield stress of from about 0.003 Pa to about 5.0 Pa at about 25° C. and provides suitable particle suspension capabilities and shear thinning characteristics.

Disclosed are aqueous liquid laundry detergent compositions which are in the form of an externally structured aqueous liquid matrix having dispersed therein a plurality of visibly distinct beads. Such beads are prepared so as to be in the form of a liquid core surrounded by a semi-permeable membrane formed by interaction of a cationic polymeric material with an anionic polymeric material. Such beads are stable in the aqueous liquid detergent compositions herein yet disintegrate substantially upon their introduction via the composition into agitated dilute aqueous laundering liquors.

The invention provides an electrically operated aerosol generating system (100) for receiving an aerosol - forming substrate (115). The system comprises a liquid storage portion (113) for storing liquid aerosol - forming substrate, an electric heater (119) comprising at least one heating element for heating the liquid aerosol - forming substrate, and electric circuitry (109) configured to monitor activation of the electric heater and estimate an amount of liquid aerosol - forming substrate remaining in the liquid storage portion based on the monitored activation. There is also provided a method in an electrically operated aerosol generating system comprising a liquid storage portion for storing liquid aerosol - forming substrate and an electric heater comprising at least one heating element for heating the liquid aerosol - forming substrate, the method comprising: monitoring activation of the electric heater and estimating an amount of liquid aerosol - forming substrate remaining in the liquid storage portion based on the monitored activation.

A personal cleansing composition comprising a liquid matrix comprising water; a lathering surfactant; and an external structurant comprising a bacterial cellulose network and a cationic polymer; wherein a particulate material is suspended within the liquid matrix and the composition has a compositional pH of less than about 7. Methods of use and making are also provided.

A liquid detergent composition comprising a liquid matrix having dispersed therein a plurality of visibly distinct beads and wherein the visibly distinct beads comprise a hueing agent.

A method of manufacturing a composite material, the method comprising: providing a first layer (14) of CNTs reinforcement elements (13) with liquid matrix material in interstitial gaps between the reinforcement elements; dipping a second layer of reinforcement elements into the liquid matrix material in the interstitial gaps such that the reinforcement elements in the second layer become partially embedded in the first layer of reinforcement elements and partially protrude from the first layer of reinforcement elements, impregnating the protruding parts of the reinforcement elements in the second layer with liquid matrix material; and curing the liquid matrix material.

Compositions and methods are disclosed for liquid storage of biological samples with recovery of substantially all biological activity and without refrigeration. Also disclosed are compositions and methods for automated storing, tracking retrieving and analyzing of such liquid-storable biological samples, including nucleic acids and proteins (including enzymes). RFID-tagged liquid-storable biological sample storage devices featuring liquid matrices are disclosed, as also are computer-implemented systems and methods for managing sample data.

An apparatus and process for making a foam having a controlled size distribution of gas bubbles in a liquid matrix. The invention utilizes a porous material having a controlled pore size and pore distance to produce a substantially uniform size distribution of gas bubbles; a gas pumping device for directing a flow of gas to and through the porous material to form the gas bubbles; a fluid pumping device for directing a flow of liquid matrix past the porous material and a rotating element moving in the vicinity of the membrane surface causing an additional flow to detach, collect accumulate and entrain the gas bubbles in the liquid matrix to form a foam having gas bubbles of generally uniform size and a substantially uniform gas bubble size distribution. Advantageously, the pore size and pore distance of the porous material, the gas flow from the gas pumping device, the flow field generated by the rotating element and the liquid flow from the fluid pumping device cooperate to provide gas bubbles having a mean diameter X50,0 that is less than 2-2.5 times, preferably less than 1.25-1.5 times the mean pore diameter of the membrane and to provide the foam with a gas bubble diameter distribution ratio X90,0 / X10,0 that is less than 5, preferably less than 3.

A method for making a composite material with non-spherical reinforcing particles embedded in a matrix, is disclosed. In this method, in a first step magnetic and / or superparamagnetic nanoparticles are attached to the non-spherical reinforcing particles, in a second step the resulting reinforcing particles are introduced into a liquid matrix material and / or a liquid matrix-precursor material, and in a third step the material of the matrix is solidified and / or polymerized and / or cross-linked. In accordance with the proposed invention prior to and / or during solidification and / or polymerization and / or cross-linking of the matrix material or the matrix precursor material, respectively, a magnetic field is applied so as to align the reinforcing particles in the matrix and this alignment is fixed in the matrix during and after the third step, wherein the non-spherical reinforcing particles preferably have a length (l) in one dimension of at least 0.5 μm and wherein the weight ratio of the nano-particles to the non-spherical reinforcing particles is below 0.25.

It is intended to provide a liquid matrix for medicinal use in which medicine can be easily solubilized, dispersed or suspended and which can be easily swallowed because of being liquid, has favorable working properties in sterilization and so on and a high stability, also exhibits an effect of masking bitterness, and gels in vivo so as to control the release speed of the medicine, and liquid oral preparations using the same. Namely, a liquid matrix which is a liquid assistant for facilitating swallowing medicine characterized in comprising a water-soluble polymer gelling under acidic conditions, and the breaking stress of the gel is about 3.00×103 N / m2 or more. Liquid oral preparations have favorable slow release properties even though being a liquid.

The invention relates to a capsule containing a heterogeneous mixture of active agents in the form of particles suspended in a liquid matrix and optionally active ingredients in the liquid matrix; the liquid matrix occupying less than the total internal volume of the capsule. The present invention further describes a capsule to allow the controlled-release of one or more active agents for specific desired benefits.

A structured liquid composition having a liquid matrix having water and a fibrous network structurant, the fibrous network structurant having a non-polymeric crystalline hydroxyl-functional materials; a bacterial cellulose network; and mixtures thereof; and an encapsulated active. The encapsulated active is suspended within the liquid matrix of the structured liquid composition such that the encapsulated actives do not undesirably sink, float, or collect in any discrete portion of the composition. Further, the structured liquid composition can be in the form of a raw material such as an encapsulated active slurry, in the form of an additive such as a laundry additive, and as a consumer end product. In one embodiment, the encapsulated active is a perfume microcapsule.

A stable foam of a liquid matrix, gas bubbles and a structuring agent that forms a lamellar or vesicular cage structure without generating a gel imparting a rubbery texture to the foam. The lamellar cage structure entraps at least a substantial portion of the gas bubbles and liquid matrix therein to retain and stabilize the gas bubbles and liquid in a sufficiently compact structure that substantially prevents drainage of the liquid matrix as well as coalescence and creaming of the gas bubbles to maintain stability of the foam even when the foam is subjected to multiple heat shocks.

A CNT composite (10) includes a matrix (14) and a number of CNTs (12) embedded in the matrix. The matrix has a surface (102) and an opposite surface (104). Head portions of the respective CNTs are consistently oriented, parallel to the surfaces of the matrix. A method for manufacturing the composite includes (a) providing a substrate and depositing a catalyst film on the substrate; (b) forming the array of CNTs via the catalyst film on the substrate; (c) immersing the CNTs in a liquid matrix material, infusing the liquid matrix material into the array of CNTs; (d) taking the carbon nanotubes with the infused matrix out of the liquid matrix; (e) pressing the still-soft matrix and the CNTs therein, in order to arrange the CNTs consistently and parallel to the surfaces of the matrix; and (f) solidifying and peeling away the matrix to produce the CNT composite.

A method of manufacturing a composite element. A stack of plies is assembled on a lay-up table, each ply comprising a plurality of reinforcement elements such as dry-fibres. A first part of the stack of plies is bound to form a partially bound stack of plies, a second part of the stack of plies remaining unbound. The partially bound stack of plies is press-formed in a mould cavity between a pair of mould tools to form a shaped pre-form, plies in the second part of the stack sliding against each other during the press-forming. A liquid matrix material is injected into the shaped pre-form in the mould cavity and subsequently cured.

A foamed delivery system having at least two components: a foam and an additive that is associated with, carried by or delivered by the foam. The foam is a stable foam that has a liquid matrix, gas bubbles and a structuring agent that forms a lamellar or vesicular cage structure without generating a gel imparting a rubbery texture. The lamellar cage structure entraps at least a substantial portion of the gas bubbles and liquid matrix therein to retain the gas bubbles and liquid in a sufficiently compact structure that substantially prevents drainage of the liquid matrix and coalescence and creaming of the gas bubbles to maintain stability of the foam even when the foam is subjected to heat shock. Combined with the stable foam structure the distribution and release of the additive during application is significantly improved.

A bushing is disclosed with a duct for accommodating a conductor which is surrounded by an electrical field grading insulation. The bushing includes a core with a shell encapsulating the grading insulation and a flange surrounding the shell and carrying through holes distributed over its circumference for allowing the bushing to be attached to a wall. The shell and the flange can be in one piece and include an insulating matrix material. The through holes can be surrounded by metal inserts each forming an annular surface flush with a surface of the flange. A test tap can include a contact pin which is electrically conductively connected to an outermost layer of the grading insulation and surrounded by a contact ring connected to every second metal insert by connection wires for grounding the contact pin via the contact ring when the test tap is not in use and covered. The core can be produced by filling a mold with the liquid matrix material after components of the grading insulation and other parts have been fixed in the liquid matrix material.

The present invention relates to a composition in a water-soluble pouch, said pouch comprises at least two compartments, and each compartment contains a different component of said composition, wherein a first compartment contains a first component and said first component comprises a liquid matrix and a source of peracid.

The invention discloses an amine modified fibrous membrane adsorption material and a preparation method thereof and belongs to the field of synthesis and application of environment function materials. Polyacrylonitrile powder is taken as a matrix, a liquid matrix is prepared through solid phase graft polymerization and amination, electrostatic spinning is performed, and the novel fibrous membrane adsorption material is prepared. The synthetic method is simple, the amination efficiency is high, a large quantity of swelling agents and amination reagents can be saved, and the prepared membrane adsorption material has a high hydrophilic surface and can be applied to a flat sheet membrane filtration assembly; when water passes through a fibrous membrane, surface groups can efficiently adsorb and remove multiple heavy metal ions in water, and the fibrous membrane which is saturated after adsorption can be reused after desorption and regeneration.

A personal cleansing composition comprising a liquid matrix comprising water; a lathering surfactant; and an external structurant comprising a bacterial cellulose network and a cationic polymer; wherein a particulate material is suspended within the liquid matrix and the composition has a compositional pH of less than about 7. Methods of use and making are also provided.

A method for making a composite material with non-spherical reinforcing particles embedded in a matrix, is disclosed. In this method, in a first step magnetic and / or superparamagnetic nanoparticles are attached to the non-spherical reinforcing particles, in a second step the resulting reinforcing particles are introduced into a liquid matrix material and / or a liquid matrix-precursor material, and in a third step the material of the matrix is solidified and / or polymerized and / or cross-linked. In accordance with the proposed invention prior to and / or during solidification and / or polymerization and / or cross-linking of the matrix material or the matrix precursor material, respectively, a magnetic field is applied so as to align the reinforcing particles in the matrix and this alignment is fixed in the matrix during and after the third step, wherein the non-spherical reinforcing particles preferably have a length (l) in one dimension of at least 0.5 μm and wherein the weight ratio of the nano-particles to the non-spherical reinforcing particles is below 0.25.

An improved nanophosphor scintillator liquid comprises nanophosphor particles in a liquid matrix. The nanophosphor particles are optionally surface modified with an organic ligand. The surface modified nanophosphor particle is essentially surface charge neutral, thereby preventing agglomeration of the nanophosphor particles during dispersion in a liquid scintillator matrix. The improved nanophosphor scintillator liquid may be used in any conventional liquid scintillator application, including in a radiation detector.

A method of encapsulating an integrated-circuit component supported on a substrate comprises depositing on the component a thermally curable liquid organic matrix in sufficient quantity to form a layer covering the component. The liquid matrix layer is irradiated by laser radiation having a wavelength between about 600 and 1000 nanometers. The liquid matrix includes one or more additive materials that are strongly absorbing for the wavelength of the laser radiation. The liquid matrix layer is irradiated with the laser radiation for a time period sufficient to cure the matrix layer.