A composition of matter wherein the composition comprises a siliceous substrate having silanols on the surface and a polymer selected from the group consisting essentially of a water soluble polymer, a water soluble copolymer, an alcohol soluble polymer, an alcohol soluble copolymer, and combinations of such polymers, wherein the polymer is chemically bonded to the siliceous substrate by a silane linking material having the general formula
O.sub.3/2SiQY
that is derived from an alkoxy-functional silane having the general formula
(RO).sub.3SiQX
and processes for preparing the crosslinked polymer that is chemically bonded to the surface of the siliceous substrate.

The invention relates to a method for immobilizing nucleic ligands including at least one reactive amine function, by grafting on an activated solid substrate, including a step of coupling said nucleic acids on said activated solid substrate having a pH of less than 6.

The invention relates to regenerative, solid sorbent for adsorbing carbon dioxide from a gas mixture, with the sorbent including a modified polyamine and a nano-structured solid support. The modified polyamine is the reaction product of an amine and an aldehyde. The sorbent provides structural integrity, as well as high selectivity and increased capacity for efficiently capturing carbon dioxide from gas mixtures, including the air. The sorbent is regenerative, and can be used through multiple operations of absorption-desorption cycles.

A method of removing and detecting the presence of substances from at least one of a body of water and the air. The method includes placing into the body of water or into the air an open-cell foam material, removing separate portions of the open-cell foam material from the water or air at different exposure times after the open-cell foam material was placed into the water or air, and determining the presence in the removed separate portions of one or more substances that were removed from the water or air by the open-cell foam material.

The present disclosure provides a preparation method of AM-type polystyrene microsphere ofloxacin imprinted polymer as well as an application thereof. A monomer acrylamide and an initiator ammonium persulfate are subjected to graft polymerization on the surface of modified polystyrene primary amine resin, to get grafted particles; then an adsorption test of a levofloxacin solution by the grafted particles PAM/PSA is conducted, and then a levofloxacin surface molecularly imprinted material MIP-PAM/PSA is prepared by using ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether as the crosslinking agent. The present disclosure can realize the separation and purification of racemic ofloxacin effectively, thus providing a new method and material for separating and enriching s-type ofloxacin in the industry. Because the antibacterial efficacy of S-ofloxacin on Gram-negative bacteria and positive bacteria is 8-128 times that of its enantiomer R-ofloxacin, so the present technology can improve the efficacy of a drug greatly.

Composite materials for removing hydrophobic components from a fluid include a porous matrix polymer, carbon nanotubes grafted to surfaces of the porous matrix polymer, and polystyrene chains grafted to the carbon nanotubes. Examples of porous matrix polymer include polyurethanes, polyethylenes, and polypropylenes. Membranes of the composite material may be enclosed within a fluid-permeable pouch to form a fluid treatment apparatus, such that by contacting the apparatus with a fluid mixture containing water and a hydrophobic component, the hydrophobic component absorbs selectively into the membrane. The apparatus may be removed from the fluid mixture and reused after the hydrophobic component is expelled from the membrane. The composite material may be prepared by grafting functionalized carbon nanotubes to a porous matrix polymer to form a polymer-nanotube composite, then polymerizing styrene onto the carbon nanotubes of the polymer-nanotube composite.

By using a graft polymer comprising a dendritic polymer with a styrene skeleton and a hydrophilic polymer grafted to a terminal thereof, a temperature-responsive substrate for cell culture having a temperature-responsive surface for cell culture that allows cells to be cultured with high efficiency and which yet allows cultured cells to be exfoliated in a short period of time and with high efficiency by simply changing the temperature of the substrate surface can be prepared conveniently. If this temperature-responsive substrate for cell culture is used, cells obtained from a variety of tissues can be cultured with high efficiency. If this culture method is utilized, cultured cells can be exfoliated intact in a short amount of time with high efficiency. In addition, by using this graft polymer, a wide range of peptides and proteins can also be separated by simply changing the temperature of a chromatographic carrier. This allows for convenient separation procedure and improves the efficiency of separating operations. What is more, the stereoregularity of the dendritic polymer per se may be utilized to enable separation of solutes based on differences in their molecular structures.

A chromatography medium includes a porous matrix and nonporous globules bound on the inner and outer surfaces of the porous matrix. The average radius of the microglobules is not more than 30% of the average pore diameter of the porous matrix. The chromatography medium can be used in affinity chromatography. A method for preparing the chromatography medium may include providing a porous starting matrix, providing a polymerization solution, and initiating polymerization of the polymerization solution in the presence of the porous starting matrix to form insoluble nonporous microglobules that are bound to the inner and outer surfaces of the porous starting matrix.

A lithium ion sorbent includes an organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve. The organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve is a reaction product of a lithium ion sieve and an organosilane. The lithium ion sieve is either a delithiated orthosilicate or a delithiated metal oxide. The organosilane reagent is of the general formula: R.sup.1—(CH.sub.2).sub.n—Si—R.sup.4.sub.3 where R.sup.1 is an organic moiety containing a functional group selected from an acrylate, methacrylate or vinyl group or their derivatives, R.sup.4 is either a hydrolysable alkoxy group or a methyl group, where at least one of the three R.sup.4 groups is a hydrolysable alkoxy group and n is 1-3. This lithium ion sorbent is durable and useful for adsorbing lithium from aqueous resources. The lithium ion sorbent can also be used in the manufacture of a composite material where the organosilane-grafted lithium ion sieve is covalently incorporated into a porous crosslinked polymeric support scaffold.

The invention concerns removing advanced glycation end products from a bodily fluid by contacting the bodily fluid with a sorbent.