Crystalline cellulose gel-based cryptands, surface active agents, emulsions and vesicles
AssigneeUniversity of Saskatchewan
InventorsAndrew A. OLKOWSKI, Bernard LAARVELD
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Abstract
Crystalline cellulose gels useful in the stabilization of emulsions, including nanoemulsions, and for acting as cryptands or clathrates, and methods for their use and production are provided. In some embodiments, the emulsion is an oil-in-water emulsion. In some embodiments, such emulsions and/or vesicles produced in such emulsions, and/or the crystalline cellulose gel itself 15 are useful in the fields of drug delivery, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, feed and food, paints and coatings, mining, or oil and gas recovery.
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An emulsion comprising:
- an aqueous phase;
- an oily phase;
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- a crystalline cellulose gel;
- wherein the emulsion is stabilized by the crystalline cellulose gel.
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A method of producing an emulsion, the method comprising:
- combining an aqueous phase and an oily phase with a crystalline cellulose gel;
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- mixing to produce an emulsion.
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