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Ravi B Shankar

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Jerzy Klosin

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Mark William Beach

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A chemical agent useful for controlling pests is disclosed. The agent can be a thiol, such as a cyclic thiol according to Formula I. The agent can be used to react with a targeted biochemical analyte secreted by pests, such as bed bugs, to provide an adduct. The agent can be useful in a pest control device, system, or method for detecting pests, which can involve use of a controller and a sensor cell coated with composition containing the agent. The disclosure also describes the adduct obtained from the agent and the analyte, as well as a composition containing the agent or adduct.

Selective detection of bed bugs

A masterbatch composition suitable for use as a flame retardant in extruded polymer foams, and process for manufacturing the same, and extruded foams containing same; the composition comprising: (a) 20 to 40 parts by weight base resin comprising styrene homopolymer or copolymer; (b) 1 to 16 parts by weight acid scavenger comprising an epoxy-based compound; (c) 2 to 6 parts by weight antioxidant comprising an alkyl or aryl phosphite; and (d) 45 to 60 parts by weight flame retardant comprising a non-hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) brominated polymer or copolymer, wherein the amounts of (a), (b), (c), and (d) total 100 parts by weight; and (e) 0.6 to 10 parts by weight of pH moderator, based on 100 parts of (a) base resin plus (e) water soluble pH moderator.

Flame retardant masterbatch composition for foams containing a pH moderator

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards β-hydroxyphosphonate functionalized polyols and isocyanate reactive compositions that include the β-hydroxyphosphonate functionalized polyol and a base polyol.

Beta-hydroxyphosphonate functionalized polyols

A device, system, and method of controlling pests are disclosed. A pest control device includes a sensor having a sensor cell and a controller. A surface of the sensor cell is coated with an agent that reacts with a targeted biochemical analyte secreted by pests. The controller is coupled to the sensor and is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor cell indicative of a rate of change in sensor mass detected on the surface of the sensor cell, determine whether the rate of change in the sensor mass based on the received sensor data exceeds a predefined threshold rate, and transmit a pest detection alert notification to a server in response to a determination that the rate of change exceeds the predetermined threshold rate.

A procatalyst for the polymerization of ethylene and optionally one or more alpha-olefins having the structure shown in formula (I) below. Formula (I) is provided. Also provided is a polymerization process using the inventive procatalyst. 

Procatalyst and polymerization process using the same

Selective detection of bed bugs pheromones

An organophosphorus compound useful in a phosphorus containing flame retardant and a flame retardant polyurethane foam, where the organophosphorus compound is shown in Formula (I) where Y is selected from the group consisting of an &#x2014;OH group, an &#x2014;NHgroup, an &#x2014;NHRgroup, and an &#x2014;SH group, where Ris a monovalent hydrocarbyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R is a divalent hydrocarbyl group; X is a heteroatom group; and Rand Rare each independently a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, wherein Rand Rcan be optionally joined to form a ring. 

Organophosphorus compounds for flame retardant polyurethane foams

Battery electrolyte solutions contain certain ester solvents, a lithium salt and vinylene carbonate, vinyl ethylene carbonate or fluoroethylene carbonate. Batteries containing these solvents have excellent specific discharge capacities and reduced weight compared to batteries in which the electrolyte is based on ethylene carbonate.

Battery electrolyte solution containing certain ester-based solvents, and batteries containing such an electrolyte solution

Aluminum carboxylate salt having a formula of Al[OCO(CH)P(O)(OR)(OR)]where Rand Rare hydrocarbyl groups that can optionally be joined and n is independently an integer between one and four is useful for forming an article of manufacture comprising a polymer compounded together the aluminum carboxylate salt to form a flame retardant polymer article.

Phosphorous-containing aluminum carboxylate salt flame retardants

A battery electrolyte solution contains from 0.001 to 20% by weight of certain phosphorus-sulfur compounds. The phosphorus-sulfur compound performs effectively as a solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) forming material. The phosphorus-sulfur compound has little adverse impact on the electrical properties of the battery, and in some cases actually improves battery performance. Batteries containing the electrolyte solution form robust and stable SEIs even when charged at high rates during initial formation cycles.

Battery electrolyte solutions containing phosphorus-sulfur compounds

A battery electrolyte solution contains from 0.01 to 80% by weight of an aromatic phosphorus compound. The aromatic phosphorus compound provides increased thermal stability for the electrolyte, helping to reduce thermal degradation, thermal runaway reactions and the possibility of burning. The aromatic phosphorus compound has little adverse impact on the electrical properties of the battery, and in some cases actually improves battery performance.

Battery electrolyte solutions containing aromatic phosphorus compounds

Phosphorus-sulfur compounds have flame retardant activity in organic polymer systems. The phosphorus-sulfur compounds can be represented by the structure: wherein X is oxygen or sulfur, T is a covalent bond, oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen, provided that at least one of X and T is sulfur, each X' is independently oxygen or sulfur, each m is independently zero or 1 when X&#x2032; is oxygen and zero, 1 or 2 when X&#x2032; is sulfur, n is at least 1 and preferably at least 2, each R is independently an unsubstituted or inertly substituted hydrocarbyl group or the R groups together form an unsubstituted or inertly substituted divalent organic group and A is an organic linking group.

Phosphorus-sulfur FR additives and polymer systems containing same

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