Symyx Technologies, Inc.

Zymergen Inc.

Other

Jsr Corporation

Apg Polytech, LLC

US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

University of Michigan

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Kent State University

Amyris, Inc.

Adam Luke Safir

Ralph B Nielsen

Miroslav Petro

Eric D Carlson

Damian A Hajduk

Thomas S Lee

Leonid Matsiev

J Christopher Freitag

G Cameron Dales

Dominique Charmot

Kenji Okamoto

Isao Nishimura

Han-Ting Chang

Oleg Kolosov

Yong Wang

Ravi Srinivasan

Didier G Benoit

James R Engstrom

Richard Tiede

Howard W Turner

Eric W McFarland

Paul Mansky

Gerrit Klaerner

Lynn Van Erden

Bernd Jandeleit

Gianluca Ferrari

Lynn VanErden

D Jeffrey Black

Jean M J Fr&eacute;chet

Peter Huefner

Robert Morford

Wenxia Zhu

Daniel Batzel

Susumu Saito

Gregory William Peterson

Atsushi Watakabe

James W Bennett

Adam Matzger

Erik Jedediah Dean

Derek James McPhee

Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Yunxiao Li

Thomas Harding McWaid

John J McNamara

Pei Wang

Akimasa Soyano

Robert J Twieg

Stephen J Turner

Sigrid C Kuebler

Gregory Michael Werner

Joseph G Doolan

Steven D Lacy

Shantel Leithead

Jialiu Ma

Sigird C Kuebler

Arjan Zoombelt

Shilpa Naresh Raja

Pawan Nepal

Ashani Wedige-Fernando

Jed Dean

Craig Reeder

The disclosure discusses chiral dopants for liquid-crystalline materials. Chiral dopants can be bioreachable compounds, i.e. compounds produced from microbes through fermentation. Chiral dopants can also include bioreachable materials that are further modified by chemical synthetic steps. Chiral dopants as discussed herein can include biomolecules such as glycyrrhetinic acid (1), S-naringenin (2), shikimic acid (3), alpha-phellandrene (4), betulin (5), malic acid (6), valencene (7), or nootkatone (8), and any stereoisomers or chemically modified derivatives thereof. The disclosure further shows optical properties of such compounds in a liquid-crystalline material.

Bioreachable chiral dopants for liquid crystal applications

The present disclosure provides novel metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) useful, for example, for gas adsorption, storage, and/or separation. Also provided are methods of making the MOFs, articles of manufacture incorporating the MOFs and methods for making these, as well as methods of using the MOFs.

Metal-organic framework materials

Described herein are oxygen scavengers, oxygen scavenging polymeric compositions, and oxygen scavenging articles. The polymeric compositions comprising the oxygen scavengers may have utility in packaging, sealing, wrapping, and storing oxygen-sensitive substances, e.g., to preserve freshness of foods, beverages, and the like.

Oxygen scavengers

Systems and methods for enabling construction of complex Boolean chemical substructure queries in a structured graphical user interface are provided. The chemical substructures (molecules) may be represented graphically in standard molecular notation, and may be arranged horizontally and vertically on the interface, along with Boolean logical operators. Boolean logical operators of a first type may logically associate molecules arranged in horizontal fashion to form row queries, whereas Boolean logical operators of a different, second type may logically associate the row queries to form a composite query to be applied to a database of molecules. The operators of the first type may comprise disjunctive operators, whereas the operators of the second type may comprise conjunctive operators.

Complex chemical substructure search query building and execution

Provided herein are polyfarnesenes derived from a farnesene and at least two different vinyl monomers. Also provided herein are polyfarnesenes derived from a farnesene; at least two different vinyl monomers, such as (meth)acrylic acid, (meth)acrylic esters, styrene, and substituted styrenes; and at least one functional comonomer such as maleic anhydride.

Polyfarnesenes

Provided is a process for producing a fluoropolymer containing repeating units based on a fluoromonomer represented by the following formula (m) in an amount of from 5 to 50 mol % based on the entire repeating units in the polymer by polymerization reaction of tetrafluoroethylene and the fluoromonomer, wherein the polymerization reaction is carried out by continuously charging the reactor with tetrafluoroethylene and the fluoromonomer: wherein ml is an integer of from 1 to 6. Also provided is an electrolyte material for an electrolyte fuel cell which can be operated at a high temperature to obtain a high output, wherein the electrolyte material contains the fluoropolymer produced by the process.

Process for producing fluoropolymer

The present invention is directed to the preparation of photoresist polymers via living free radical polymerization techniques. Sterically bulky ester monomers are utilized as the polymerization components. Use of chain transfer agents is included in polymerization processing conditions. Cleavage of polymer terminal end groups that include a heteroatom are described.

Photoresist polymers

Photoresist polymer compositions

Synthesis of photoresist polymers

Computer-implemented methods, programs and apparatus for generating a library design for a combinatorial library of materials. A library design includes a set of sources representing components to be used in preparing the combinatorial library, destinations replying arrangements of cells and mappings, defining one or more distribution patterns for assigning components to cells in the destination arrangement or arrangements. Mappings include gradients and sets of user-defined equations, and are used to calculate the amount of on components to be assigned to a cell or cells in an arrangement. A library design can also include one or more process parameters defined to vary over time or across a plurality of destination cells. The invention outputs a data file defining the library design, including electronic data representing the sources, the destinations and the mapping, in a format suitable for implementing manually or using automated material handling apparatus.

Graphic design of combinatorial material libraries

A method and apparatus for reacting a plurality of different mixtures in parallel in a semi-batch or continuous mode is provided. Each reaction is contained within a reactor vessel, the reactor vessels combined into a reactor block. Reactant(s) to be added during the reaction are kept in a header barrel, which has a plunger to feed reactant(s) from the header barrel through a transfer line into the reactor vessel. The plunger is moved using a drive system. The header barrels are optionally combined in a header block. The header block is sealed to a plate containing the transfer lines, which in turn is sealed to the reactor block. A latch mechanism is provided for easy sealing of the reactor and header blocks to the plate. The entire apparatus may be placed on a rocker or rotating plate for mixture as the reaction is proceeding.

Parallel semi-continuous or continuous reactor system

Parallel semi-continuous or continuous reactors are disclosed. The parallel reactors preferably comprise four or more reaction vessels. The reaction vessels are preferably small volume reaction vessels, preferably pressure reaction vessels, and/or preferably integral with a common reactor block. The reaction vessels can comprise shaft-driven stirrers. At least two, preferably at least three or at least four liquid feed lines can provide selective fluid communication between each of the reaction vessels and one or more liquid reagent sources. Additional features, suitable in connection with parallel reactors or with single reaction vessels are also disclosed.

Parallel semicontinuous or continuous reactors

Rapid characterization and screening of polymer samples to determine average molecular weight, molecular weight distribution and other properties is disclosed. Rapid flow characterization systems and methods, including liquid chromatography and flow-injection analysis systems and methods are preferably employed. High throughput, automated sampling systems and methods, high-temperature characterization systems and methods, and rapid, indirect calibration compositions and methods are also disclosed. The described methods, systems, and devices have primary applications in combinatorial polymer research and in industrial process control.

Apparatus for high temperature withdrawal or dispensing of fluids

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