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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2010
Mridula Nair, Penfield, NY (US);
David D. Putnam, Fairport, NY (US);
Shari L. Eiff, Rush, NY (US);
Cumar Sreekumar, Penfield, NY (US);
Mridula Nair, Penfield, NY (US);
David D. Putnam, Fairport, NY (US);
Shari L. Eiff, Rush, NY (US);
Cumar Sreekumar, Penfield, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for forming surface decorated particles including stabilizing dispersed hydrophobic phase particles in an aqueous phase with fine inorganic particles having a relatively hydrophilic surface; and treating the stabilized dispersed hydrophobic phase particles with a hydrophobic group containing reactant to form hydrophobic groups covalently bonded to surfaces of the fine inorganic particles. In a particular embodiment, the invention provides a limited coalescence process for preparing binder polymer particles using inorganic stabilizer particles that provide a plurality of surface bonding sites and reacting such sites with a plurality of alkoxy silane moieties that contains pendant hydrophobic groups.