BIODEGRADABLE MICROCAPSULES

• Main Authors: XU, Li, WIELAND, Julie, LEI, Yabin, BRAHMS, John, POPPLEWELL, Lewis Michael
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.02.2023
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CANDLES; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; DETERGENTS; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; FISHING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; LAUNDERING; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL; RESIN SOAPS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETPREPARATIONS; TEXTILES; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS,FABRICS, FEATHERS, OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS

A reloadable microcapsule contains a microcapsule core and a microcapsule wall encapsulating the microcapsule core. The microcapsule core contains a hydrophobic core solvent and a hydrophilic core solvent, and the microcapsule wall, formed of an encapsulating polymer, is permeable to the hydrophilic core solvent. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the reloadable microcapsule and consumer products having the microcapsules.