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Microencapsulation process

US4272398A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 15, 1979
Grant dateJun 9, 1981
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Expiry dateJun 15, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/2989
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

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.

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