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US 8,343,625 B2Granted
Structures comprising an association agent and processes for making same
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsLarry Neil Mackey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Stephen Wayne Heinzman
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Abstract
Polysaccharides and/or hydroxyl polymers, more particularly, structures, especially fibers, comprising a polysaccharide and/or hydroxyl polymer and an association agent, fibrous structures comprising such structures and processes for making such structures and/or fibrous structures are provided.
Claims10
A non-naturally occurring starch fiber comprising starch and an amine oxide association agent selected from the group consisting of:
- cetyldimethylamine oxide, laurylmethylamine oxide, cocamidopropylamine oxide and mixtures thereof, wherein the starch fiber has an average fiber diameter of less than about 50 um and wherein the starch fiber has an average fiber diameter of less than about 50 um and wherein the starch fiber comprises at least 50% to about 99.5% by weight of starch within the fiber and at least about 0.01% to about 50% by weight of the association agent within the fibers.
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