Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Lori A Eslinger

Vasily Aramovich Topolkaraev

Neil T Scholl

Antonio J Carrillo Ojeda

Jian Qin

Cathleen Mae Uttecht

Charles Wilson Colman

Davis Dang H Nhan

Deborah Joy Calewarts

Yuriy Galabura

Dave Allen Soerens

Mark Michael Mleziva

Ryan J McEneany

Gregory James Wideman

WanDuk Lee

Theodore T Tower

Brent Merrik Thompson

Kazuhiro Takahashi

Austin N Pickett

Peter Shawn Lortscher

Karen Goeders

David W Hall

Juha P Kemppinen

Yusuke Ueda

Megumi Tomioka

Ryan J Mceneany

A method for making a high topography nonwoven substrate includes generating a foam including water and synthetic binder fibers; depositing the foam on a planar surface; disposing a template form on the foam opposite the planar surface to create a foam/form assembly; heating the foam/form assembly to dry the foam and bind the synthetic binder fibers; and removing the template from the substrate after heating the foam/form assembly, wherein the substrate includes a planar base layer having an X-Y surface and a backside surface opposite the X-Y surface; and a plurality of projection elements integral with and protruding in a Z-direction from the X-Y surface, wherein the projection elements are distributed in both the X- and Y-directions, and wherein the density of a projection element is the same as the density of the base layer.

Process for making three-dimensional foam-laid nonwovens

Superabsorbent particles have a median size of from about 50 to about 2,000 micrometers and contain a porous network that includes a plurality of nanopores having an average cross-sectional dimension of from about 10 to about 500 nanometers, wherein the superabsorbent particles exhibit a Vortex Time of about 80 seconds or less and a free swell gel bed permeability (GBP) of 5 darcys or more, of 10 darcys or more, of 20 darcys or more, of 30 darcys or more, of 60 darcys or more, or of 90 darcys or more. A method for forming such superabsorbent particles includes forming a composition that contains a superabsorbent polymer and a solvent system; contacting the composition with a non-solvent system to initiate formation of the porous network through phase inversion; removing non-solvent from the composition; and surface crosslinking the superabsorbent particles.

Nanoporous superabsorbent particles

A polymeric material that includes a thermoplastic composition containing a continuous phase that includes a matrix polymer and a siloxane component is provided. The siloxane component contains an ultrahigh molecular weight siloxane polymer that is dispersed within the continuous phase in the form of discrete domains. A porous network is defined within the thermoplastic composition that includes a plurality of nanopores.

Polymeric material

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Lori A Eslinger