Microencapsulation process
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
InventorHoward Jaffe
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Abstract
Pesticides, insect growth regulators and other substances are encapsulated by dissolving the substance to be encapsulated and a biodegradable polymer in a suitable organic solvent, dispersing the solution in an aqueous medium and stirring until the solvent evaporates to form a matrix of the substance in the polymer.
Claims5
A process for one-phase encapsulation of organic compounds selected from the group consisting of famphur and stirofos systemic tick pesticides for oil suspension formulations and of methoprene and 2-ethoxy-9(p-isopropylphenyl)-2,6-dimethylnonane insect growth regulators comprising dissolving said compound and a biodegradable polymer selected from the group consisting of polylactic acid and copolymers of lactic and glycolic acids in methylene chloride, agitating until complete solution of the compound-polymer mixture is affected, dispersing said solution in an aqueous medium containing an anionic surfactant, and stirring said dispersion until the solvent evaporates, thereby forming a soapy white suspension of said compound in said polymer, filtering, washing, drying and sizing to white powder one-phase particles.
An encapsulation process for one-phase encapsulation of compounds and mixtures of compounds soluble in volatile organic solvents comprising dissolving said compound and a biodegradable polymer selected from the group consisting of polylactic acid and copolymers of lactic and glycolic acids in a suitable organic solvent, dispersing the solution in an aqueous medium containing an anionic surfactant, and stirring said dispersion until the solvent evaporates, thereby forming a soapy white suspension of said compound in said polymer, filtering, washing, drying and sizing to aggregates of one-phase particles.
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