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US 12,408,680 B2Granted
Compounds and formulations for protective coatings
AssigneeApeel Technology, Inc.
InventorsJustin Ryan, Stanley Zhang, Charles Patrick Frazier
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to protective coatings e.g., on agricultural products, that can include a glycerophospholipid bilayer structure formed on the surface of the agricultural product.
Claims19
A method of reducing the ripening rate of an agricultural product, the method comprising:
- applying a solution comprising a coating agent to a surface of the agricultural product, wherein the coating agent comprises one or more glycerophospholipids, a temperature of the solution is between 10° C. and 80° C., and a total concentration of the one or more glycerophospholipids in the solution is between 100 g/L and 150 g/L;
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- drying the solution on the surface of the agricultural product under a flow of air having a temperature between 20° C. and 100° C. to promote self-assembly of a multiplicity of glycerophospholipid bilayers on the surface of the agricultural product, thereby forming a coating on the agricultural product.
A method of preparing an agricultural product having a coating disposed thereon, the method comprising:
- applying a solution comprising a coating agent to a surface of the agricultural product, wherein the coating agent comprises one or more glycerophospholipids, a temperature of the solution is between 10° C. and 80° C., and a total concentration of the one or more glycerophospholipids in the solution is between 100 g/L and 150 g/L;
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- drying the solution on the surface of the agricultural product under a flow of air having a temperature between 20° C. and 100° C. to promote self-assembly of a multiplicity of glycerophospholipid bilayers on the surface of the agricultural product, thereby forming a coating on the agricultural product.
A coated agricultural product comprising:
- an agricultural product;
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- a coating on the surface of the agricultural product, wherein the coating comprises one or more glycerophospholipids,
- wherein the coating has a hexagonal cylindrical phase structure comprising repeating cylindrical units arranged on a hexagonal close-packed lattice on the surface of the structure, and the coating is applied to the surface of the agricultural product as a solution comprising one or more glycerophospholipids in a total concentration between 100 g/L and 150 g/L.
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