US Patent 8191162 - Anti-Microbial Compounds Used in Garments for Water Based Activities

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Grune, Guerry

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Anonsen, James

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2023-08-22T18:33:38Z

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2023-08-22T18:33:38Z

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2012-06-05

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2023-08-22T18:33:38Z

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The invention includes compounds used to manufacture garments for use in water based activities that have a rubber, synthetic rubber, or neoprene compound. The compound is primarily polychloroprene or other suitable polymers and at least one metal of nanoparticle size. The compound composition includes a metal concentration that is sufficient to provide anti-bacterial properties that retard or eliminate bacterial growth on any surface of the composition used to produce the garment. The composition may include a sub-micron metal composition including sub-micron sized silver, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide and boron nitride particles as well as a polyol ester, wherein the thermal conductance of the aforementioned submicron composition is >350,000 W/m2° C. for a 0.001 inch layer of the aforementioned metal composition, the thermal resistance is <0.0045° C.-in2/Watt for a 0.001 inch layer of the aforementioned metal composition, and the average particle size is <0.49 microns for a <0.000020 inch layer of the aforementioned metal composition.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/28749

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

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US Patent 8191162 - Anti-Microbial Compounds Used in Garments for Water Based Activities

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Digital publication

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Duke

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Pratt School of Engineering

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