Keratin material
AssigneeWool Research Organisation of New Zealand, Inc.
InventorsRobert James Mcclelland Kelly, Ben James Edwards, Gail Louise Krsinic, Alisa Dawn Roddick-Lanzilotta
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a thermoset biopolymer derived from separated keratin fibre cellular components, a composite keratin material comprising the thermoset biopolymer, processes for the preparation thereof and uses thereof.
Claims40
A thermoset biopolymer derived from separated keratin fibre cellular components.
A composite keratin material comprising a thermoset biopolymer, wherein the thermoset biopolymer is derived from separated keratin fibre cellular components.
A process for preparing a composite keratin material comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a mixture comprising separated keratin cellular fibre components, and
- b) subjecting the mixture to elevated temperature and elevated pressure such that the separated keratin cellular fibre components form a thermoset biopolymer to provide the composite keratin material.
The composite keratin material of any one of claims 3 to 5 and 20 to 30 or the process of any one of claims 6 to 31, wherein the composite keratin material has a Cobb30 value below about 90 g/m2, about 80 g/m2, about 70 g/m2, about 60 g/m2, about 50 g/m2, about 45 g/m2 or about 40 g/m2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.