Abstract:
Disclosed is a process for encapsulating oils and oil-soluble substances in multi-compartmentalized, mechanically stable microcapsules. The process comprises the steps of first forming an emulsion consisting of a continuous phase comprising an aqueous solution of an alkali metal alginate and optionally a water-soluble, alcohol-insoluble filler such as a polysaccharide, and a dispersed phase of an oleophilic substance such as one or more vitamins dissolved in an oil. The emulsion is then formed into droplets which are thereafter immersed in an alcoholic solution of multivalent cations, to produce a shape-retaining alginate matrix filled with precipitated polysaccharide and enclosing plural oil droplets. The vitamins are thereby protected from oxidative degradation and can be handled like conventional crystalline solids.
Abstract:
Microcapsules having walls formed from polyvinyl alcohol are prepared by dispersing a substantially water insoluble nuclear material in an aqueous solution of a polyvinyl alcohol polymer, which solution has a cloud point, phase separating and depositing a concentrated aqueous solution of the polyvinyl alcohol polymer as a separated phase around said nuclear material from the bulk continuous phase by maintaining the temperature of the system above the cloud point of the aqueous polyvinyl alcohol polymer solution, and subjecting the phase separated solution to conditions which substantially solidify or gel said polyvinyl alcohol polymer in said concentrated aqueous solution of said separated phase around said nuclear material but which do not substantially solidify or gel the polyvinyl alcohol in the diluted aqueous solution of the continuous phase.
Abstract:
Ethylcellulose walled microcapsules, obtained from cyclohexane medium are heavily solvated with cyclohexane and tend to form lumps even after drying. Displacements of cyclohexane by pentane, hexane, heptane or octane or mixtures thereof during the isolation of the microcapsules gives a dry product which is essentially all discrete dry microcapsules.
Abstract:
A method is provided for forming encapsulated particles comprising forming a dispersion of core material in a solution of wall material in a solvent; drowning said dispersion in at least one liquid which is miscible with the solvent and in which at least the wall material is substantially insoluble, to effect phase-separation of said wall material, whereby said wall material deposits about said core material forming a dilute dispersion of particles comprising said core material encapsulated with said wall material in said liquid, and recovering said encapsulated particles from said liquid.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of encapsulation by coacervation of fine particles of a very reactive substance such as an alkali metal or a very powerful reducing agent. The said substance is suspended in a polyurethane resin solution made up of constituents which do not react with the substance, the coacervate is obtained by adding more of one of the constituents of the solution, the resulting mixture is dispersed in a slightly polar liquid which does not mix with the mixture and contains in solution an agent for cross-linking polyurethane resin, and the encapsulated substance is then separated from the liquid and dried.
Abstract:
OPACIFIERS COMPRISING AIR-CONTAINING MICROCAPSULES, HAVING AN AVERAGE PARTICLE DIAMETER BELOW ABOUT 2 MICRONS WITH PIGMENT PARTICLES INCORPORATED IN THE MICROCAPSULAR STRUCTURE PROVIDED HIGHLY OPAQUE SURFACES WHEN INCORPORATED INTO FIBROUS SUBSTRATES. THE OPACIFIERS ARE PRODUCED BY HEATING LIQUID-CONTAINING PRECURSOR MICROCAPULES, WHICH CONTAIN THE PIGMENT PARTICLES IN THEIR STRUCTURE, AT TEMPERATURES SUFFICIENT TO EXPEL THE LIQUID AND PROVIDE AIR IN THE MICROCAPSULES.
Abstract:
A MICROENCAPSULATION PROCESS IS DISCLOSED USING A MIXTURE OF SOLUTIONS OF POLYMER MATERIALS USEFUL OVER A WIDE PH RANGE WHICH INCLUDES BRINGING CORE PARTICLES, EITHER OF A WATER-IMMISIBLE LIQUID OR PARTICULATE SOLID, INTO CONTACT WITH AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF GELATIN AND POLYVINYL ALCOHOL, OR THEIR WATER SOLUBLE DERIVATIVES, CAUSING THE GELATING COMPOUND TO UNDERGO PHASE SEPARATION FORMING AN ENCAPSULATING SHELL COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF THE GELATING COMPONENT IS FOMED AROUND THE INDIVIDUAL CORE PARTICLES, THEN LOWERING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE MIXTURE TO CAUSE THE GELATIN COMPONENT THAT SURROUNDS THE INDIVIDUAL CORE PARTICLES TO GEL. SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM NONAGGLOMERATED MICROCAPSULES SO FORMED ARE USEFUL AS SURFACE COATINGS ON A SUBSTRATE MATERIAL SUCH AS A PRESSURE SENSITIVE RECORDING PAPER.
Abstract:
TAINING PRECURSOR MICROCAPSULES, WHICH CONTAIN THE PIGMENT PARTICLES IN THEIR STRUCTURE, AT TEMPERATURES SUFFICIENT TO EXPEL THE LIQUID AND PROVIDE AIR IN THE MICROCAPSULES.
OPACIFIERS COMPRISING AIR-CONTAINING MICROCAPSULES HAVING AN AVERAGE PARTICLE DIAMETER OF PREDETERMINED SIZE WITH PIGMENT PARTICLES INCORPORATED IN THE MICROCAPSULAR STRUCTURE PROVIDE HIGHLY OPAQUE SURFACES WHEN COATED ONTO AND/OR INCORPORATED INTO FIBROUS AND NON-FIBROUS SUBSTRATES. THE OPACIFIERS ARE PRODUCED BY HEATING LIQUID-CON-
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SOLID, FREE-FLOWING SPHERICAL MICROGRANULATES FROM A POLYMER MATRIX CONTAINING SOLID OR LIQUID PARTICLES OF A CORE MATERIAL EMBEDDED THEREIN, WHEREIN IN A SOLVENT SOLUBLE TO AT MOST 15% BY WEIGHT IN WATER AT 20*C., (2) A SOLID OR LIQUID CORE MATERIAL IS DISSOLVED OR DISPERSED IN THIS SOLUTION, (3) THE RESULTING SOLUTION OR DISPERSION ("ORGANIC PHASE A") IS SUSPENDED IN AN AQUEOUS LIQUID (AQUEOUS PHASE B) THAT IS IMMISCIBLE WITH THE ORGANIC SOLVENT, (4) THE ORGANIC SOLENT IS ALLOWED TO MIGRATE SLOWLY AND UNDER CONTROL OUT OF THE ORGANIC PHASE A SO THAT THE DISSOLVED POLYMER IS DEPOSITED ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE PRTICLES DISPERSED IN AQUEOUS PHASE B, AND (5) THE SOLIDIFIED PARTICLES, I.E. THE MICROGRANULATE, ARE SEPARATED OFF.
Abstract:
A PROCESS IS PROVIDED FOR PREPARATION OF MINUTE CAPSULES WHEREIN PARTICLES OF INTENDED INTERNAL PHASE MATERIAL WHICH HAVE BEEN DISPERSED INDIVIDUALLY IN A LIQUID MANUFACTURING VEHICLE ARE COATED BY A SOLID POLYMERIC FILMFORMING MATERIAL. POLYMERIC MATERIAL IS PRECIPITATED FROM SOLUTION IN THE MANUFACTURING VEHICLE OR FROM SOLUTION IN THE INTENDED INTERNAL PHASE MATERIAL DUE TO A "ZONE OF INSOLUBILITY" ESTABLISHED AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE PARTICLES AND THE MANUFACTURING VEHICLE. THE PARTICLES ARE EITHER LIQUID DROPLETS OR SOLID PARTICLES HAVING AN ASSOCIATED LIQUID THEREWITH. THE NOVEL PROCESS IS UTILIZED TO ENCAPSULATE PARTICLES WHICH ARE, TO SOME DEGREE, MISCIBLE WITH THE MANUFACTURING VEHICLE.