Abstract:
A process includes: (a) providing an initial cellulose ether powder containing 0.5 to 10 weight-percent water based on total cellulose ether powder weight; (b) heating the initial cellulose ether powder to a temperature in a range of 30 to 130 degrees Celsius; (c) before, during and/or after heating in step (b), adding solid base to the cellulose ether powder and mixing with the initial cellulose ether powder to form a cellulose ether/base mixture; (d) adding volatile acid to the cellulose ether/base mixture and mixing; and (e) allowing the volatile acid to hydrolyze the initial cellulose ether to form a final cellulose ether having a lower viscosity than the initial cellulose ether.
Abstract:
This invention relates to absorbent materials useful in the manufacture of absorbent articles, in particular dressings for the advanced wound care market. The absorbent materials of the present invention are sulfonated polysaccharides, particularly water-insoluble cellulose alkyl sulfonates in which the cellulose is substituted by one type of alkyl sulfonate group. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of such materials. The preferred cellulose alkyl sulfonate described herein is cellulose ethyl sulfonate. Reinforcing fibers and/or antimicrobial agents are optionally applied to the cellulose alkyl sulfonate.
Abstract:
Inhibitors against the absorption of sodium ion containing as the active ingredient metal salts (excluding sodium salt) of cellulose derivatives of the general formula (I): R-O-A, which effectively inhibit excess common salt existing in the body from being absorbed into the body system and excrete the common salt outside the body actively and safely; preventive or therapeutic agents for disease attributed to the existence of excess common salt or those necessitating restriction on the ingestion of common salt, containing the above metal salts as the active ingredient; and foods containing the same. In said formula R is a cellulose residue; and A is a functional group having an ability to exchange cations.
Abstract:
A new method for preparing a supported catalyst is herein provided. A carbon nanotube structure such as a rigid porous structure is formed from single walled carbon nanotubes. A metal catalyst is then loaded or deposited onto the carbon nanotubes structure. The loaded carbon nanotube is preferably ground to power form.
Abstract:
The invention relates to novel cellulose ethers with a specific substitution pattern. The cellulose ethers are predominantly substituted in the C3 position of the anhydroglucose unit of the cellulose.
Abstract:
Polysaccharide derivatives in which some or all of the hydroxyl groups have been substituted by hydrophobic substituent(s) (A) having as the partial structure a C8-43 hydrocarbon group, and ionic hydrophilic substituent(s) (B) having as the partial structure at least one group selected from the group consisting of sulfonate, carboxyl, phosphate and sulfate groups and salts thereof, which have an average degree of substitution per constituting monosaccharide residue by the substituent (A), determined by Zeisel's method or the diazomethane method, of at least 0.0001 but less than 0.001 and an average degree of substitution per constituting monosaccharide residue by the substituent (B), determined by the colloidal titration method, of from 0.01 to 2.0. These derivatives are useful as chemical admixtures for hydraulic materials and give hydraulic compositions excellent in dispersibility and stability.
Abstract:
This invention relates to absorbent materials useful in the manufacture of absorbent articles, in particular dressings for the advanced wound care market. The absorbent materials of the present invention are sulfonated polysaccharides, particularly water-insoluble cellulose alkyl sulfonates in which the cellulose is substituted by one type of alkyl sulfonate group. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of such materials. The preferred cellulose alkyl sulfonate described herein is cellulose ethyl sulfonate. Reinforcing fibers and/or antimicrobial agents are optionally applied to the cellulose alkyl sulfonate.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a cross-linked polysaccharide gel comprising contacting a polysaccharide with a cross-linking agent and a masking agent to form a cross-linked polysaccharide gel having resistance to degradation under physiological conditions.
Abstract:
A process for oxidising cellulose, in which a nitroxyl compound such as TEMPO is oxidised using an oxidising agent in the presence of a complex of a transition metal such as Mn, Fe, Cu, and a complexing agent such as a polyamine, or an oxidative enzyme, and the resulting nitrosonium ion is used to selectively oxidise the cellulose 6-hydroxy-methylene groups to carbaldehyde groups and carboxylic acid groups.