Porous materials and method of production thereof

• Main Authors: FOSTER ALISON JAYNE, DUNCALF DAVID, COOPER ANDREW IAN, HAIFEI ZHANG, RANNARD STEVEN PAUL
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 08.06.2011
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; DETERGENTS; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL; RESIN SOAPS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; WORKING-UP

The invention provides a method for preparing water dispersible or water soluble porous bodies and the bodies themselves The bodies have an intrusion volume as measured by mercury porosimetry of at least about 3 ml/g and comprise a three dimensional open-cell lattice containing less than 10% by weight of a water soluble polymeric material and 5 to 90% by weight of a surfactant, with the proviso that said porous bodies are not spherical beads having an average bead diameter of 0.2 to 5 mm. The method comprises the steps of: a) providing an intimate mixture of the polymeric material and the surfactant in a liquid medium b) providing a fluid freezing medium at a temperature effective for rapidly freezing the liquid medium; c) cooling the liquid medium with the fluid freezing medium at a temperature below the freezing point of the liquid medium for a period effective to rapidly freeze the liquid medium; and d) freeze-drying the frozen liquid medium to form the porous bodies by removal of the liquid medium by subl