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20080311072 | Preparation of Soluble and Colloidal Molecularly Imprinted Polymers by Living Polymerization - The present invention describes a method for synthesis of relatively low molecular weight imprinted polymers using living polymerization, and their application in analytical chemistry, pharmacology, medicine and the food industry. Specifically the low-molecular weight polymers are synthesized by the polymerization of functional monomers in the presence of a template, such as a biological receptor, enzyme, nucleic acid, cell, virus, microorganism, tissue sample or drug using living initiator. The conditions of living polymerization ensure a relatively small size of synthesized molecules. Synthesized in this way molecules (dimers, oligomers, polymers, or their mixture) have a higher affinity to the template than the original monomers and can rebind it in vitro and/or in vivo. As a further aspect of the present invention, polymers synthesized as described above can be used as drugs in pharmacology and medicine, as receptor-specific ligands in analytical chemistry (sensors, assays), and for separations in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and food industries. | 12-18-2008 |
20090068758 | SYNTHETIC RECEPTOR - A polymer capable of selectively binding alfentanil is prepared from one or more suitable monomers (e.g. ethylene glycol methacrylate phosphate) and a cross-linker. It may be a molecularly imprinted polymer. An element ( | 03-12-2009 |
20090082480 | POLYMERIC BINDING MATERIALS - A monomer having a pair of hydroxy groups held in a fixed relationship (e.g. a dihydroxybenzene) is diesterified with a compound having a polymerisable group, e.g. to form a diacrylate. After polymerisation with a crosslinker, the polymer is hydrolysed. The dihydroxy-monomer is removed, leaving a polymer with pair of carboxyl groups held in spatial relationships determined by the dihydroxy monomer. Thus a range of subtly different polymers can be prepared by using different dihydroxy-monomer templates. The polymers are desirably swellable. They can be used as selective binding materials, e.g. in chromatography or analysis. | 03-26-2009 |
20090200240 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING DOMOIC ACID BY SELECTIVE ADSORPTION USING A HALOGENATED CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE - Domoic acid is selectively bound by an adsorbent which comprises units derived from one or more halogenated carboxylic acids (preferably having an α-trihalomethyl group) or derivatives thereof. The adsorbent may be a polymer, or a solid support onto which the carboxylic acid, derivative or polymer has been grafted. The preferenced acid is 2-trifluoromethyl acrylic acid. Domoic acid can be selectively bound from a mixture (e.g. seafood extract, seawater or urine) in the presence of potential interferents such as aminoacids, and recovered using an eluant comprising an organic acid. | 08-13-2009 |
20100304421 | OPTICAL MONITORING METHOD - A mixture of dyes each having an optical property (e.g. fluorescence intensity) which is sensitive to an external factor is caused to interact with a system that is to be monitored, such that the system provides the external factor and therefore influences the optical properties of the dyes. The optical properties of the individual dyes are individually measurable (e.g. being spectral intensities at different wavelengths). Their values are subjected to pattern analysis, e.g. using an artificial neural network analysis, leading to an output that characterises the system or its state. | 12-02-2010 |
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20090149607 | SYNTHETIC RECEPTOR - A polymer capable of selectively binding propofol is prepared from one or more suitable monomers (e.g. N,N-diethylaminoethyl methacrylate) and a cross-linker. It may be a molecularly imprinted polymer. An element ( | 06-11-2009 |
20100179242 | PHOTO-ACTIVATION BY SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE - In general, the present invention describes the initiation of photochemical reactions at a metal-solution interface irradiated by light. Surface plasmon energy is used to initiate reaction of species in solution, the reaction occurring at, on or near a surface which is in contact with the solution. The present invention describes an application of this effect e.g. for polymerization purposes. | 07-15-2010 |
20110111350 | Conjugated Polymers - A monomer M-S has a first polymerisable moiety (M) capable of forming a conjugated polymer, and a second polymerisable moiety (S) with a double bond susceptible to addition polymerisation. Polymerisation of the M-moieties is caused, generally by electropolymerisation or chemical oxidation. Polymerisation of the S-moieties is also caused, generally by a radical mechanism, before, after or simultaneously with the M-polymerisation. Suitable monomers include N-(methacrylamidoethyl)-aniline, N-(acrylamidoethyl)-aniline, N-(methacryloyloxyethyl)-aniline and N-(acryloyloxyethyl)-aniline. | 05-12-2011 |