Nano-polymeric encapsulation of a key reactant to control chemo-fluorescent active reaction period for chemiluminescent paint
OwnerMatthew Mark Zuckermaninventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a method for making a chemiluminescent paint whose chemo-fluorescent reaction's active period is controllable as a first-order function of humidity, thus reducing to a second order function the prior art's dependency on ambient temperature, through encapsulating a key reactant in a moisture-sensitive, nano-polymeric structure and combining that encapsulating structure and encapsulated reactant with the other elements necessary for both the excitative and fluorescing reactions of the chemiluminescent paint.
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A method of manufacture of a chemo-fluorescent paint that exhibits chemiluminescence controlled by ambient conditions of humidity rather than temperature, comprising:
- choosing as the ingredients for producing chemiluminescence a reactant, a solvent, a catalyst, and a dye, that when combined will undergo both excitation and fluorescent reactions;
- selecting at least one of the reactant, solvent, catalyst, and die as an activating ingredient;
- encapsulating the activating ingredient in a nano-polymeric structure that will release the activating ingredient as the nano-polymeric structure is hydrolyzed by ambient moisture after the chemo-fluorescent paint is applied to a surface;
- incorporating both the remaining, non-encapsulated, ingredients and the activating ingredient after encapsulating it into a base paint that will, upon application to a surface and consequent exposure to humidity, combine the encapsulated activating ingredient with the other non-encapsulated ingredients thereby creating excitation and fluorescent reactions such that the chemo-fluorescent paint will exhibit chemiluminescence.
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