Provided are hollow particles which have a high void ratio, hardly collapse, and have a reduced amount of volatile compounds. The hollow particles comprising a shell and a hollow portion surrounded by the shell, and having a void ratio of 50% or more and 90% or less, wherein the shell has a thickness of 0.2 μm or more and 0.9 μm or less, and the shell contains a polymer derived from a polymerizable monomer for shell, which is composed of 70% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less of a crosslinkable monomer and 0% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less of a non-crosslinkable monomer, and a polar resin selected from the group consisting of polymers containing a repeating unit which contains a hetero atom.

Disclosed herein is a ceramic membrane for water and/or wastewater treatment, the membrane comprising a ceramic substrate having at least one surface and a membrane layer comprising core-shell particles on the at least one surface, where the core and shell are formed from materials described herein. The core of the core-shell particles is formed from one or more of the group selected from Al.sub.2O.sub.3 and ZrO.sub.2, and the shell of the core-shell particles is formed from one or more of the group selected from SiO.sub.2, TiO.sub.2 and WO.sub.3. In a preferred embodiment, the core is Al.sub.2O.sub.3 and the shell is SiO.sub.2.

A polyHIPE-based substance-releasing system capable of releasably encapsulating a highly concentrated solution and/or a room temperature solid while minimizing or avoiding burst release from the closed-cell microstructure of an elastic polyHIPE.

The present invention provides compositions and methods for determining a saccharide level in a sample. In particular, compositions and methods of the invention include a boronic acid moiety that forms a complex with a saccharide.

Consumer product compositions that include a consumer product adjunct material and a population of delivery particles, where the delivery particles include a core and a polymer wall, preferably a poly(meth)acrylate polymer wall, surrounding the core, where the weight ratio of the core materials and the wall polymer of the delivery particles is relatively high (e.g., at least 95:5). Related methods of making and using such compositions.

A method of forming persistent micelles is described. Particularly, methods disclosed herein include dissolving a block copolymer in a first solvent to form a dispersion containing unimers or dynamic micelles. Further, a method includes contacting the dispersion with a second solvent forming the persistent micelles. The persistent micelles formed by the method of the present disclosure can be used for controlled delivery of dispersions in organic electronic coatings, paint, or drug delivery applications and can also be used to control the pore size of films that include an oxide, a nitride, a carbide, a metal, or a carbon material.

The method produces hollow particles which have a high void ratio, which can reduce the residual amount of a sparingly water-soluble solvent used in the production process, and which are less likely to collapse. The method for producing hollow particles which comprise a shell and a hollow portion and which have a void ratio of 50% or more and 90% or less, wherein a suspension treatment of a mixture liquid containing a polymerizable monomer for shell, a polar resin, a hydrocarbon solvent, a sparingly water-soluble inorganic metal salt as a dispersant, and an aqueous medium is carried out to prepare a suspension in which droplets of a monomer composition containing the polymerizable monomer for shell, the polar resin and the hydrocarbon solvent are dispersed in the aqueous medium; a polymerization reaction of the suspension is carried out; and the hydrocarbon solvent is removed from the obtained hollow particles.

The method produces hollow particles which have a high void ratio, which can reduce the residual amount of a sparingly water-soluble solvent used in the production process, and which are less likely to collapse. The method for producing hollow particles which comprise a shell and a hollow portion and which have a void ratio of 50% or more and 90% or less, wherein a suspension treatment of a mixture liquid containing a polymerizable monomer for shell, a polar resin, a hydrocarbon solvent, a sparingly water-soluble inorganic metal salt as a dispersant, and an aqueous medium is carried out to prepare a suspension in which droplets of a monomer composition containing the polymerizable monomer for shell, the polar resin and the hydrocarbon solvent are dispersed in the aqueous medium; a polymerization reaction of the suspension is carried out; and the hydrocarbon solvent is removed from the obtained hollow particles.

The disclosure relates to a composition comprising amphiphilic Janus particles and a waterborne binder, wherein the particles are self-stratified, and methods of making and using the same. The disclosure also relates to the synthesis of amphiphilic Janus particles.

In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to a facile one-pot reverse emulsion process to assemble core-shell nanoparticles (CS-SMNPs) into bright and noniridescent photonic supraballs. In one or more embodiments, the present invention is directed to core-shell nanoparticles having an inner high refractive index (RI) core and an outer low RI shell. In one or more embodiment, the present invention includes core-shell nanoparticles using high RI (˜1.74) melanin cores and low-RI (˜1.45) silica shells. In various embodiments, these nanoparticles may be self-assembled into bright and noniridescent supraballs using a scalable one-pot reverse emulsion process. According to various embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to generate a full spectrum of structural colors with the combination of only two ingredients, synthetic melanin and silica.