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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2019
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Llc, Golden, CO (US);
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Kelly Marie Meek, Golden, CO (US);
Todd R. Eaton, Denver, CO (US);
Nicholas A. Rorrer, Golden, CO (US);
Eric M. Karp, Denver, CO (US);
Amit Kumar Naskar, Knoxville, TN (US);
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Golden, CO (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method that includes polymerizing a nitrile with an acrylate ester to form a copolymer, in a mixture that includes water and an alcohol (R—OH), according to the following reaction where Rincludes at least one of a first aliphatic group or hydrogen, Rcomprises at least one of a second aliphatic group or hydrogen, 100≤m≤4000, and 1≤n≤4000. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the mixture may be an emulsion.