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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles M Garner, McGregor, TX (US);
Assignee:
Baylor University, Waco, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ; C07C / ; C10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2523151 ; 44268 ; 210925 ; 501201 ; 501403 ; 568807 ; 568808 ; 588252 ; 588901 ;
Abstract
The present invention generally relates to the formation of organic gels by dissolving organic gelling agents in organic solvents. The aryl cyclohexanol gelling agents employed in this invention are not structurally related to previously known gellation agents and they exhibit potent gellation activity, for example, from 0.2-5%, by weight, of gelling agent is able to immobilize a variety of organic solvents. The gels formed range from optically transparent to slightly translucent, and complete fluidity can be restored by either increasing the temperature (reversible) or by chemical treatment (irreversible).