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Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Oligoolefin Functional Substance
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 19, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 19 -- Takashi Sawaguchi of Yokohama, Japan, has developed an oligoolefin functional substance.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "An amphiphilic functional substance with lipophilicity, affinity for supercritical CO sub 2, and if necessary hydrophilicity comprising an oligoolefin chain and a perfluoroalkyl group(s) at a single end thereof or at both ends thereof with or without the intervention of a poly(oxyalkylene) chain, which enables the utilization of supercritical CO sub 2 as a reaction medium; a photopolymerizable functional substance comprising an oligoolefin chain and a reversible ...