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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2007
Guerry L. Grune, Virginia Beach, VA (US);
James Anonsen, Kahaihae, HI (US);
Guerry L. Grune, Virginia Beach, VA (US);
James Anonsen, Kahaihae, HI (US);
Other;
Abstract
The invention includes compounds used to manufacture garments for use in water based activities that have a rubber, synthetic rubber, or neoprene compound. The compound is primarily polychloroprene or other suitable polymers and at least one metal of nanoparticle size. The compound composition includes a metal concentration that is sufficient to provide anti-bacterial properties that retard or eliminate bacterial growth on any surface of the composition used to produce the garment. The composition may include a sub-micron metal composition including sub-micron sized silver, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide and boron nitride particles as well as a polyol ester, wherein the thermal conductance of the aforementioned submicron composition is >350,000 W/m° C. for a 0.001 inch layer of the aforementioned metal composition, the thermal resistance is <0.0045° C.-in/Watt for a 0.001 inch layer of the aforementioned metal composition, and the average particle size is <0.49 microns for a <0.000020 inch layer of the aforementioned metal composition.