Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

The Dow Chemical Company

Tearclear Corp.

Michael T Malanga

Aleksander Jozef Pyzik

Eugene R Moore

Michael S Williams

Paul C Vosejpka

Stephen W King

Xue Chen

Michael Wilson

Robin Paul Ziebarth

James J O'Brien

Jun Jason Cai

Nicholas M Shinkel

Thomas D Traugott

Kwanho Yang

Clifford S Todd

Deniz Hay

Shaoguang Feng

Jean-Paul Masy

Thomas H Newman

Jian Zou

Dwight D Latham

Ping Zhang

Pankaj Gupta

Zhengming Tang

Jiguang Zhang

Kamesh R Vyakaranam

George J Frycek

Liangkai Ma

Jeffery D Zawisza

Degang Zhang

Jeffrey D Wenzel

Wenbin Yao

Sabrina Fregni

Sadeka Onam

Daniel Grohol

Jie Feng

Srini Venkatesh

Brian D Dalke

Rujul M Mehta

Steve J Martin

Mark L Dreibelbis

Gary M Poindexter

Jun Cai

Mark W Brown

Alexsander Josef Pyzik

Yang Kwanho

A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of oxidized polyolefin (OxPO). The microparticles are irregular-shaped rigid aggregates and are sized and packed to yield a hydraulic permeability greater than 0.01 Da. The OxPO have absorbed portions of a preservative to be removed and/or a drug for delivery in solution, as can the copolymer.

Preservative removal from eye drops

A system comprising a preservative-removing polymeric matrix comprising an active matrix component and an inactive matrix component. A method for administering an ophthalmic agent comprises providing a solution, emulsion, or suspension comprising an ophthalmic agent, and a preservative; and providing a preservative-removing polymeric matrix comprising an active matrix component and an inactive matrix component, and wherein the polymeric matrix is configured to selectively absorb the preservative when the solution, emulsion, or suspension is passed therethrough.

Systems and methods for preservative removal from ophthalmic formulations

Polyurethane foams are made by curing a reaction mixture that contains an aromatic polyisocyanate, at least one isocyanate-reactive material having an average functionality of at least 2 and an equivalent weight of at least 200 per isocyanate-reactive group, at least one blowing agent, at least one surfactant and at least one catalyst, at least one polyacetoacetate compound and least one antioxidant. Foams so produced emit low levels of both formaldehyde and acetaldehyde.

Polyurethanes having reduced aldehyde emissions

The present invention discloses a polymeric polyol composition useful for making polyurethane polymers, especially polyurethane foams. Said polyurethane polymer foams demonstrate a good balance of mechanical properties, physical properties, and low emissions. The polymeric polyol composition is the reaction product(s) of (i) a polyamine initiator composition comprising the polymerization product(s) of aminoethylpiperazine with (ii) at least one epoxide compound, at least one glycidyl ether compound, or mixtures thereof.

Autocatalytic polyols

A porous ceramic composition having improved thermal stability is comprised of ceramic grains bonded together by grain boundary phase comprised of silica, yttrium and oxygen wherein the amount of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and other transition metals not including rare earth metals is at most 2% by weight of the grain boundary phase.

Porous mullite bodies having improved thermal stability

A porous ceramic composition having improved thermal stability is comprised of ceramic grains bonded together by a grain boundary phase comprised of silica, rare earth element that is Eu, Gd, Nd or mixture thereof and oxygen and optionally yttrium, wherein the grain boundary phase has a amount of an alkali, an alkaline earth metal and a transition metal other than yttrium that is at most 2% by weight of the grain boundary phase.

A skin is applied to a ceramic honeycomb. The skin is formed by applying a skin-forming composition and drying it. The skin-forming composition includes a carrier liquid, colloidal silica and/or colloidal alumina, and an inorganic filler. The filler includes an inorganic fiber. The filler may contain low aspect ratio particles that have the same or nearly the same CTE as the inorganic fiber. The filler may include a small proportion of a low aspect ratio filler particle that has a different CTE than the inorganic fiber.

Ceramic honeycomb structure with applied inorganic skin

Porous composites of acicular mullite and tialite are formed by firing an acicular mullite body in the presence of an oxide of titanium. In some variations of the process, the oxide of titanium is present when the acicular mullite body is formed. In other variations, the oxide of titanium is applied to a previously-formed acicular mullite body. Surprisingly, the composites have coefficients of linear thermal expansion that are intermediate to those of acicular mullite and tialite alone. Some of the tialite is believed to form at grain boundaries and/or points of intersection between acicular mullite needles, rather than merely coating the needles. The presence of the titanium oxide(s) during acicular mullite formation does not significantly affect the ability to produce a highly porous network of mullite needles.

Method for making porous mullite-tialite composites

A ceramic honeycomb structure comprised of at least two separate smaller ceramic honeycombs that have been adhered together by a cement comprised of inorganic fibers and a binding phase wherein the smaller honey-combs and fibers are bonded together by the binding phase which is comprised of an silicate, aluminate or alumino-silicate. The fibers have a multi-modal size distribution in which some fibers have lengths of up to 1000 micons and other fibers have lengths in excess of 1 mm. The cement composition may be made in the absence of other inorganic and organic additives while achieving a shear thinning cement, for example, by mixing oppositely charged inorganic binders in water together so as to make a useful cement composition for applying to the smaller honeycombs to be cemented.

Cement containing multi-modal fibers for making thermal shock resistant ceramic honeycomb structures

A process for preparing improved yields of styrene polymers by means of polymerization with a Ziegler-Natta type polymerization catalyst wherein the styrene monomer is first contacted with a hydrogenating agent under hydrogenation conditions such that substantially all phenylacetylene contained in the monomer stream is hydrogenated and thereafter contacting with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst.

Ziegler-Natta polymerization of styrene monomer

Vinyl aromatic polymers having stereo regular structure of high syndiotacticity are prepared utilizing coordination catalysts in a suspension polymerization process.

Suspension polymerization of vinyl aromatic monomers to polymer having

Blends of polyarylene ether resins and anionically-polymerized monovinylidene aromatic compounds having a molecular weight distribution not greater than 1.8 are characterized by a lowered melt viscosity without significant loss in mechanical properties. The incorporation of elastomeric toughening agents does not significantly negatively affect processability or other properties of the blends.

Polyphenylene ether/polystyrene blends

The specification discloses a monovinylidene aromatic polymer having a molecular weight of at least 50,000 and an extremely narrow molecular weight distribution of less than 1.5, preferably with at least 80% by weight of the polymer having a molecular weight within plus or minus 30% of the weight average molecular weight. This polymer is produced through anionic polymerization of a pure feed stock which is first cooled to a temperature at which an anionic initiator preferentially reacts with impurities present in the feed stock and initiates the polymerization reaction but does not substantially propagate styrene polymerization. The initiator is uniformly dispersed into the feed stock while maintaining it at the lower temperature and the feed stock temperature is subsequently increased to a temperature at which polymerization of the sytrene proceeds normally. The resulting polymer is especially well adapted to injection molding in that exceptional strength properties are achieved in combination with good processability, e.g., melt flow rate.

Anionic polymerization of purified monovinylidene aromatic monomer feed

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