Abstract:
The present invention relates to a porous structure of prepared fungal cell wall components, whereby the cell wall material is derived from a fungi selected from the division Zygomycota, the fungal material in the form of a suspension is subjected to drying in such a way that the material obtains a porous structure, the structure has a liquid absorbing property which is at least 15 ml/g of 1 % NaCl (aq) and it has a liquid transporting ability of water, at a density of 0.01 to 0.03 g/cm , in a horizontal direction of at least 10 mm during the first minute of absorption and in a vertical direction of at least 5 mm during a first minute of absorption.
Abstract translation:本发明涉及制备的真菌细胞壁组分的多孔结构,由此细胞壁材料衍生自选自分枝菌纲的真菌,以悬浮液形式的真菌材料以这样的方式进行干燥: 材料获得多孔结构,该结构具有至少15ml / g的1%NaCl(aq)的液体吸收性能,并且其具有水的液体输送能力,密度为0.01至0.03g / cm 3 在吸收的第一分钟期间在至少10mm的水平方向上,在吸收的第一分钟期间在垂直方向上至少为5mm。
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a versatile, macroporous, omniphilic polymeric sponges for absorption of organic liquids of varying polarity as well as water. Particularly, disclosed herein is an ice-templated macroporous omniphilic polymeric sponge as inexpensive versatile absorbents.
Abstract:
Aerogel compositions, methods for preparing the aerogel compositions, articles of manufacture that include or are made from the aerogel compositions are described and uses thereof. The aerogels include a branched polyimide matrix with little to no crosslinked polymers.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides composites comprising an open cell foam and a small pore area material, methods for their preparation, articles of manufacture comprising them and methods for preparing the same.
Abstract:
An optically transparent, infrared-blocking, composite material includes a matrix of transparent, cross-linked, cellulose aerogel nanofibrils having infrared blocking ceramic nanoparticles essentially homogenously dispersed therein. The composite material is both optically transparent and infrared-blocking, and can include an adherent, transparent protective layer disposed on one or both of two opposing surfaces.
Abstract:
The invention relates to processes for preparing a synthetic foam having present therein particles with a controlled particle distribution and the use of said foam, as well as to foams as such. Accordingly the invention is directed to a process for preparing a synthetic foam having present therein particles, wherein the distribution of said particles is controlled by the following steps of dissolving at least one synthetic polymer in one or more solvents to form a solution; contacting particles with said solution to form a polymer/particles mixture; and freeze-drying the polymer/particles mixture by: freezing the polymer/particles mixture; and subsequently subliming the one or more solvents to form a synthetic foam comprising said particles.
Abstract:
[Problems] To provide a thin film-shaped porous bioabsorbable material that is a dense structure in which the pore size average is small and the pore size is uniform and which further has a large maximum stress, in particular, a porous bioabsorbable material extremely useful as an adhesion preventing material.[Means for Solving Problems] A porous bioabsorbable material characterized by being formed of a porosified bioabsorbable polymer which is obtained in a manner that a bioabsorbable polymer is gelled with a good solvent and a poor solvent, compatible with each other, for the bioabsorbable polymer and the gelled bioabsorbable polymer is subjected to freeze-drying to be porosified; and a method of producing the porous bioabsorbable material, the method being characterized in that a bioabsorbable polymer is gelled with a mixed solvent composed of a good solvent and a poor solvent, compatible with each other, for the bioabsorbable polymer and the gelled bioabsorbable polymer is subjected to freeze-drying to be porosified.
Abstract:
A porous material comprising vapor grown carbon fiber in an amount of 10 to 90 mass %, fiber filaments of the carbon fiber forming a three-dimensional network and having a diameter of 1 to 1,000 nm, an aspect ratio of 5 to 15,000, a specific surface area (by BET method) of 2 to 2,000 m2/g, and the ratio of the intensity of the peak at 1,360 cm−1 in a Raman scattering spectrum of the carbon fiber to that of the peak at 1,580 cm−1 in the spectrum(I1360/I1580) is 0.1 to 2.0, wherein the porosity of the porous material (V/V0) is 0.50 to 0.99 and a specific surface area is 5 to 1,000 m2/g; and a production method and use thereof. The vapor grow carbon fiber impregnated in the porous material of the present invention does not contain aggregates and a three-dimensional network is formed between the fiber filaments, wherein length of each of the fiber filaments is maintained. Therefore, the vapor grown carbon fiber enables to readily produce a composite material (porous material), in which even a small amount of addition of vapor grown carbon fiber can exhibit sufficient effect.
Abstract:
A process for producing a porous object is provided that makes it possible to control pore sizes, particularly not only smaller pore sizes but also larger pore sizes. The pore sizes are controlled by: preparing a mixed solution containing a polymer including a copolymer of lactide and caprolactone, a solvent in which the polymer has a relatively low solubility, and a solvent in which the polymer has a relatively high solubility and that is compatible with the solvent in which the polymer has a relatively low solubility; varying the content of the solvent in which the polymer has a relatively low solubility in the mixed solution, when the mixed solution is frozen and dried to produce the porous object; and cooling the mixed solution at a rate of 300° C./hr or lower in freeze-treating. Thus a porous object with a pore size of 30 to 1800 μm can be obtained.