The University of Melbourne

Gradipore Limited

Life Therapeutics Limited

Polymers Crc Limited

David Henry Solomon

Greg Guanghua Qiao

Grace Chan

Mark Graham Looney

Greg GuangHua Qiao

Peter Agapitos Kambouris

Marcus Julian Caulfield

Simmi Abrol

Raymond Walter Shaw

Drago Dragutin Juric

Ian John Dagley

Grace Yim Ngan Chan

Helen Katherine Purss

Anton Blencowe

Devi Sunartio

Emma Louise Prime

Sue Ann Gooley

Nicola Sarah Frances Boyd

Georgia Patras

Peter Agapitus Kambouris

Ian Dagley

The present invention relates to a method for controlling evaporation from a body of water. The method of the invention uses a water insoluble compound and a water soluble polymer, which interact with each other by non-covalent bonding interactions.

Method for controlling water evaporation

A polymeric membrane suitable for use in electrophoresis formed from a pre-polymer having a plurality of crosslinkable moieties and the crosslinkable moieties being crosslinked with a polyfunctional crosslinking agent.

Polymeric membranes and uses thereof

The apparatus includes a container () having a base () and sides () adapted to receive a plurality of plastic gel cassettes. An inlet port () is positioned in the base of the container and in fluid communication with the chamber and a baffle () is positioned over the inlet port, such that, in use, when gel forming fluid passes through the inlet port into the chamber, the baffle substantially reduces fluid turbulence and vertical fluid movement in the vicinity of the inlet port during flow of the fluid into the chamber. Pretreatment of the plastic cassette to remove polymerisation inhibitors prior to filling the same with fluid is by exhaustive vacuum treatment, optionally with nitrogen gas purging. This can be achieved conveniently using a vacuum chamber in which one or more plastic cassettes are placed. Optionally the vacuum chamber may be the container in which the cassettes are filled with fluid. No barrier films or chemical scavengers are required.

Electrophoresis gel and gel-forming apparatus

The invention relates to a composition suitable for the preparation of a carbon-containing material including: (i) a binder phase containing organic resin component or polymer composite; (ii) mesophase carbon; and (iii) optionally filler particles. The invention further relates to a method for preparing a carbon-containing material including the steps of: (a) mixing a binder phase containing an organic resin component or polymer composite with mesophase carbon and optionally filler particles; (b) curing the mixture; and (c) heating the cured mixture. The invention also provides an article which is wholly or partly manufactured from the carbon-containing material defined above.

Carbon-containing materials

Electrophoresis gels and cross-linking agents for their preparation

A polymeric membrane system containing a polymeric membrane and a substrate with interstitial gaps. Polymeric membrane components reside within the interstitial gaps of the substrate and below the surface of the substrate. Also, the layer of polymeric membrane components is thinner than the cross-sectional thickness of the substrate.

Membranes and methods of manufacture thereof

A polyacrylamide gel utilizing a buffer system comprising Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane at the concentration range 0.15 to 0.25 M titrated with hydrochloric acid to a pH between 6.5 and 7.5. The gel is substantially stable to polyacrylamide hydrolysis during storage for at extended periods and has an acceptable shelf-life of at least 6 months after storage at about 4&deg; C.

Electrophoresis gels

Polymer gels and methods for their preparation

A process for producing a microgel composition particles having a core of cross-linked polymer at a multiplicity of polymeric arms appended to the core, the process comprising reacting a living prepolymer component with a monomer component wherein the monomer component includes a multi-olefininc monomer.

Process for microgel preparation

A process for preparation of a microgel comprising reacting an alkoxyamine with an unsaturated monomer composition comprising a cross-linking agent comprising at least two double bonds and optionally one or more further monomers selected from monounsaturated monomers and conjugated diene monomers.

Process for preparing polymeric microgels

This invention relates to the separation of molecules on polymer gels, in particular to novel cross-linked polymer gels comprising the cross-linking moiety of for formula (1)

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