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US 10,390,531 B2Granted
Materials incorporating light actuated fluoroazobenzenes
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMatthew S. Doyle, Jeffrey N. Judd, Joseph Kuczynski, Scott D. Strand, Timothy J. Tofil
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Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure generally provide compositions and methods involving textiles that repel insects by vibrations and oscillations. The random and chaotic oscillations are caused by molecular bond isomerizations in the textile material driven by visible light, such as sunlight.
Claims20
An insect repellant textile, comprising:
- a plurality of woven fibers, comprising fluoroazobenzene groups, which vibrate when exposed to visible light, wherein at least one of the fluoroazobenzene groups comprises one or more of the following moieties:
- wherein the —OR group comprises a sugar.
An insect repellant textile, comprising:
- a plurality of woven fibers, comprising fluoroazobenzene groups, which vibrate when exposed to visible light, wherein at least one of the fluoroazobenzene groups comprises one or more of the following moieties:
- wherein the —OR group comprises a sugar, and wherein one or more of the fluoroazobenzene groups are covalently bonded to the plurality of woven fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.