Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for collecting oil with a modified clay. By mixing the modified clay and oil, the oil can be adsorbed to the clay. The modified clay is obtained by intercalating a hydrophobic polymer such as acidified poly(oxyalkylene)-amine into layered silicate clay, mica or talc to enlarge the interlayer space. The modified clay thus becomes hydrophobic and adsorption to the oil is promoted.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for reducing the CO2 content of a gas by contacting the gaseous effluent to be treated with an absorbent that contains a CO2 trapping agent in the impregnated state on a substrate made of a solid composite material (M) containing a polymer (P) and a compound (C) selected from mineral oxides, silico-aluminates, and activated carbon, wherein said material (M) has an average particle size (D50) higher than or equal to 100 μm, and a pore space (Vd1) defined by pores having a diameter of between 3.6 and 1000 nm and which is at least 0.2 cm3/g. The invention also relates to specific absorbents used in said method.
Abstract:
Described is an affinity microcolumn comprising a high surface area material, which has high flow properties and a low dead volume, contained within a housing and having affinity reagents bound to the surface of the high surface area material that are either activated or activatable. The affinity reagents bound to the surface of the affinity microcolumn further comprise affinity receptors for the integration into high throughput analysis of biomolecules.
Abstract:
A method for capturing CO2 from the ambient air by the use of solid tethered amine adsorbents, where the amine adsorbents are tethered to a substrate selected from the group of silica, metal oxides and polymer resins. The tethered amines are joined to the substrate by covalent bonding, achieved either by the ring-opening polymerization of aziridine on porous and non-porous supports, or by the reaction of mono-, di-, or tri-aminosilanes, with silica or a metal oxide having hydroxyl surface groups. The method includes the adsorption of CO2 from ambient air, the regeneration of the adsorbent at elevated temperatures not above 120° C. and the separation of purified CO2, followed by recycling of the regenerated tethered adsorbent for further adsorption of CO2 from the ambient atmosphere.
Abstract:
Improved CO2 sorbents comprised of a mesoporous silica functionalized with a polyamine are obtained by the in-situ polymerization of azetidine. Also included herein are processes utilizing the improved CO2 sorbents wherein CO2 is chemisorbed onto the polyamine portion of the sorbent and the process is thermally reversible.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus to capture and release microbe particles using amino-functionalized silica substrates are described. An example apparatus adapted to capture a microbe particle includes a silica substrate and a positively charged material to at least partially coat the silica substrate. The positive charged material includes an aminopropyl functional group.
Abstract:
Coated particles according to the present invention are comprised of particles each having a surface. At least the vicinity of the surface of the particle is constituted of a calcium phosphate-based compound. The particles are coated with a polyamine-based compound, and an average particle size of the particles is 1 μm or more. Furthermore, such coated particles are produced by preparing a preparation liquid containing a liquid containing at least one of water and an alcohol, the coated particles and the polyamine-based compound and then heating the preparation liquid to coat the particles with the polyamine-based compound. Furthermore, it is preferred that the liquid used in preparing the preparation liquid contains methanol as a main component thereto.
Abstract:
A separating agent which combines a high optical resolving power inherent in polysaccharide derivatives with sufficient solvent resistance and a method with which the separating agent can be produced efficiently in short steps. The separating agent for enantiomeric isomers is characterized in that a polymerizable polysaccharide derivative of a polysaccharide derivative having polymerizable functional groups and a polymerizable monomer having polymerizable unsaturated groups are copolymerized with a carrier having polymerizable functional groups to be chemically bound mutually. The separating agent is preferably used for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and has an excellent solvent resistance.
Abstract:
A inner-wall-coated capillary in which a zwitterionic polymer including a phosphate group including, for example, a phosphorylcholine group, is fixed on a wall surface including, for example, silanol by ionic interaction, is obtained by flowing a polymer solution including a phospholipid polymer combining, for example, MPC and BMA or MPC and SMA, through a capillary that includes silanol on the wall surface, for example. Consequently, adsorption of phosphorylated compounds can be prevented simply and highly durably.
Abstract:
The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a monolith adsorbent which can adsorb a target sample easily in a short time or regardless of whether the amount of the sample is small or large and extract the sample with a small amount of solvent, and easily secure the sample necessary for analysis, and a method and an apparatus for adsorption and retention using the same. The present invention, as the means for solving the problem, is a monolith adsorbent formed by allowing a monolith structure body to contain an adsorbing material such as activated carbon or graphite, exposing the adsorbing material on the surface of the structure body and further surface-treating the surface of the monolith structure body with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic compound or a resin.