Composites having novel organic components and methods of manufature
OwnerMarcos Gonzalezinventor
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Abstract
Various methods for making material capable of forming structural composites are disclosed. For example, a particular method may include growing an amount of cyanotic organisms, separating cell walls of the cyanotic organisms from internal portions of the cyanotic organisms to form a purified algae extract, the purified algae extract being from the internal portions of the cyanotic organisms, and applying an effective amount of alkaline water to the purified algae extract to form a balanced algae extract having little or no chemical reactivity, wherein a pH of the alkaline water is a function of a pH of the purified algae extract.
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A method of forming an algae-based extract, comprising:
- (a) growing an amount of cyanotic organisms;
- (b) separating cell walls of the cyanotic organisms from internal portions of the cyanotic organisms to form a purified algae extract, the purified algae extract being from the internal portions of the cyanotic organisms;
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- (c) adding an effective amount of alkaline water to the purified algae extract to form a balanced algae extract having little or no chemical reactivity, wherein the pH of the alkaline water is a function of the pH of the purified algae extract;
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- (d) coating substrate particles with the balanced algae extract to form a dry-form plasticizer.
A method of forming an algae-based extract, comprising:
- (a) growing an amount of cyanotic organisms, wherein the cyanotic organisms include a cyanobacterium;
- (b) separating cell walls of the cyanotic organisms from internal portions of the cyanotic organisms to form a purified algae extract, the purified algae extract being from the internal portions of the cyanotic organisms;
- (c) adding an effective amount of alkaline water to the purified algae extract to form a balanced algae extract having little or no chemical reactivity, wherein the pH of the alkaline water is a function of the pH of the purified algae extract, the viscosity of the purified algae extract and the salinity of the purified algae extract, and wherein the volume of the alkaline water added to the purified algae extract is a function of the volume of the purified algae extract and the viscosity of the purified algae extract;
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- (d) coating substrate particles with the balanced algae extract to form a dry-form plasticizer.
A method of forming a hard composite, comprising:
- (a) growing an amount of cyanotic organisms that include at least cyanobacteria;
- (b) separating cell walls of the cyanotic organisms from internal portions of the cyanotic organisms to form a purified algae extract, the purified algae extract being from the internal portions of the cyanotic organisms;
- (c) adding an effective amount of alkaline water to the purified algae extract to form a balanced algae extract having little or no chemical reactivity, wherein the pH of the alkaline water is a function of the pH of the purified algae extract;
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- (d) adding an effective amount of the balanced algae extract to an aggregate mixture so as to provide both a plasticizer and a bonding agent that causes covalent bonds to form in the aggregate mixture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.