Absorbent fibrous composites and resulting high performance products
AssigneeSoane Materials LLC
InventorsDavid S. Soane, Juan Sebastian Colmenares, Allison Greene, Alexander Soane
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Abstract
The invention encompasses composite materials having a fibrous core that is at least partially covered by a water-swellable coating layer in which the water-swellable coating layer includes a water-swellable polymer. The invention also encompasses methods for manufacturing such a composite material, and further encompasses articles of manufacture made from such composite materials and methods for manufacturing such articles.
Claims15
A composite material, comprising a fluff pulp fiber that is at least partially coated by a water-swellable coating layer, wherein the water-swellable coating layer comprises a first water-swellable polymer and a second water-swellable polymer, wherein the first water-swellable polymer is a carboxyalkyl cellulose and the second water-swellable polymer is xanthan gum.
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