PROCESS FOR ENCAPSULATING AN INORGANIC PIGMENT BY POLYMERIZATION IN AN ORGANIC MEDIUM

• Main Authors: BROCHON, CYRIL, HADZIIOANNOU, GEORGES, CHARBONNIER, ANTOINE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 20.08.2014
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; CHEMISTRY; COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES ORLACQUERS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; DYES; FILLING PASTES; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; INKS; LAKES; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; MORDANTS; NATURAL RESINS; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICS; ORGANIC DYES OR CLOSELY-RELATED COMPOUNDS FOR PRODUCING DYES; PAINTS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; POLISHES; PREPARATION OF CARBON BLACK; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF INORGANIC MATERIALS, OTHER THAN FIBROUS FILLERS,TO ENHANCE THEIR PIGMENTING OR FILLING PROPERTIES; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR; WOODSTAINS

The present invention relates to the field of inks for electrophoretic display devices, and more particularly to a process for encapsulating at least one inorganic pigment by dispersion polymerization in an organic medium. The process consists in dispersing the inorganic pigment in the organic medium, then in synthesizing at least one stable polymer latex in said organic medium, said latex precipitating around said inorganic pigment in order to form a protective shell and to thus obtain a particle, said synthesis of the latex being carried out by polymerization, in said organic medium, of an electrostatically chargeable functional monomer, based on use of a macroinitiator capable of stabilizing said particle obtained.