Encapsulation is very important in a wide range of industry applications including pharma, agriculture and food processing as it protects the core material and safeguards it from an aggressive environment and/or enables timely release of the cargo material to a targeted area.
Conventionally, such protection has been achieved either by creating a thin coating layer of Polymers/Nano-particles/ surfactants/ powders around the core material or by wrapping it in a thin bendable solid polymer sheet. However, in addition to their high cost and intrinsic complexity, existing methods have limitations such as reduced cargo volumes, encapsulating layer(s) thickness control and encapsulating layer(s) functional properties which limits their applicability in pharmaceutical and food processing industry due to lack of precise (quality) control and operational flexibility.
Description of the invention
By exploiting liquid-liquid interfacial energy differences, researchers at the University of Waterloo have invented a simple and low-cost method for accurately encapsulating a liquid core material with a thin liquid film(s) with controllable thickness. The new method allows a wide range of “core-shell” combinations and enables the design of surface-active, multi-layered (liquid/ solid/ colloid) capsules which enables maximum flexibility in designing unique capsules.
Advantages
The invention provides:
Potential applications
Patent status
- Patent pending
Stage of development
- Prototype built and tested
- Ongoing research
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