An oil-resistant agent containing an amide compound including a bio-based material modified with a long-chain hydrocarbon group having 7 to 40 carbon atoms and an amide group. Also disclosed is a fiber product containing the amide compound, and a water dispersion containing the amide compound.

A compound having Formula (I) or Formula (II):

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or a mixture thereof,

in which R is —H; —CH.sub.3; —CH—(CH.sub.3).sub.2; —CH.sub.2—CH—(CH.sub.3).sub.2; —CH—(CH.sub.3)—CH.sub.2—CH.sub.3; —CH.sub.2—(C.sub.6H.sub.5); —CH.sub.2—(3-indole); —CH.sub.2—CH.sub.2—S—CH.sub.3; —CH.sub.2—OH; —CH—(CH.sub.3)—OH; —CH.sub.2—SH; —CH.sub.2-(p-C.sub.6H.sub.40H); —CH.sub.2—CH.sub.2—CH.sub.2—CH.sub.2—NH.sub.2; —CH.sub.2—CO—NH.sub.2; —CH.sub.2—CH.sub.2—CO—NH.sub.2; —CH.sub.2—CH.sub.2—COOH; —CH.sub.2—COOH; or —CH.sub.2—CH.sub.2—NH—C═NH.sub.2(NH.sub.2);

and X is a suitable non-interfering anion, a process for making the compound having Formula (I) or Formula (II), and a process for reacting the compound having Formula (I) or Formula (II) or a mixture thereof with a (poly)saccharide to form a cationized (poly)saccharide.

The use of at least one modified polysaccharide selected from starch, amylose, amylopectin and dextrin or a mixture thereof substituted with one or more amine and/or ammonium groups, as an antimicrobial agent, is provided by the present invention, as well as compositions comprising a polymer material blended with the modified polysaccharide. Also provided by the present invention are antimicrobial articles produced from the compositions of the invention and antimicrobial surface, fabric, foam or sponge produced by coating, soaking or dipping in a solution comprising modified polysaccharides. The present invention further provides non-therapeutic methods for killing microorganisms, inhibiting their growth, and/or preventing formation of a biofilm, and for producing an antimicrobial surface, article, fabric, foam or sponge from modified polysaccharides.

Cationic and silicon substituents are introduced into polysaccharides thereby producing modified polysaccharides cationically substituted by quaternary ammonium groups and having a charge density of about 0.1 to about 2.5 meq/g, and further substituted by siliconate groups such that the modified polysaccharide has a silicon content of about 300 to about 5000 ppm. The modified polysaccharides have application in industrial, home care and personal care surface modifying formulations.

The invention relates to a papermaking agent system in liquid form, which comprises (i) cationic starch solution, prepared by cooking a starch mixture comprising a starch component and a water component, and (ii) polymer composition, which has anionic and cationic groups and a cationic net charge of >0.1 meq/g. The polymer composition comprises or originates from at least one of constituents a), b) or c). Constituent a) contains an amphoteric polymer, which is a copolymer comprising structural units derived from acrylamide and/or methacrylamide monomers, and anionic and cationic groups attached to the copolymer. Constituent b) contains a first polymer, which is a copolymer comprising structural units derived from acrylamide and/or methacrylamide monomers, and anionic or cationic groups attached to the copolymer, as well as a second polymer, which comprises groups with opposite charge than the first polymer. Constituent c) contains a third polymer, which comprises a copolymer comprising structural units derived from acrylamide and/or methacrylamide monomers, as well as hydrolytically unstable cationic groups attached to the copolymer. Constituent a), b) or c) is added to one of the components of the starch mixture or to the starch mixture before the cooking of the starch mixture, and/or constituent a) or b) is added to the cationic starch solution after cooking of the starch mixture. The invention relates also to the use of the papermaking agent system and to a method for its preparation.

The present disclosure relates more particularly to calcium sulfate-based slurries useful, for example, in making gypsum boards for building construction, as well as methods for using them, e.g., to make gypsum boards, in one aspect, the present disclosure provides a calcium sulfate slurry composition comprising calcium sulfate present substantially in the form of one or more hydrates, the calcium sulfate being present in an amount in the range of 70-99.8 wt % on a dry basis, calculated as stucco; and a cationic starch present in an amount of 0.10-10 wt % of the amount of calcium sulfate as stucco on a dry basis, the cationic starch being substituted with amine and/or ammonium groups and having a % N value in the range of 0.10 wt. % to 2 wt %, and an RVA viscosity value of at least 100 cP at 65° C. and 16 wt %; and water, in an amount sufficient to form a slurry. The disclosure also provides gypsum-based materials useful as building materials, e.g., for use as building boards in construction of walls and ceilings of buildings.

Compositions and methods related to powdered hemostats that crosslink during and/or after application to a bleeding site are generally described.

Compositions are disclosed for dewatering mixtures of petroleum and water. The compositions comprise one or more of the following: an unreacted polysaccharide component; and one or both of a polysaccharide component reacted with a hydrophilic component and a polysaccharide component reacted with a hydrophobic component. The compositions may also include viscosifying agents or stabilizers to stabilize the compositions against separation, for example, prior to use. In particularly preferred embodiments the invention is drawn to compositions for breaking an emulsion; such compositions comprising a carbohydrate component containing a cationic starch joined to a hydrophobic moiety, providing the carbohydrate component oil solubility. The composition may optionally comprise one or more additional demulsifier selected from, without limitation, salts (such as a polyaluminum chloride, an aluminum chlorohydrate, an alum, etc.), metal salts (such as iron and zinc salts), dithiocarbamate, tannin, and organic demulsifiers such as poly-DADMAC and similar compounds.

Compositions and methods related to powdered hemostats that crosslink during and/or after application to a bleeding site are generally described.

Disclosed are a M-cell targeting and pH-responsive starch-based carrier material, and a preparation method and application thereof. The starch-based carrier material has a molecular structure as follows, a molecular weight of 7.04×10.sup.4 to 2.11×10.sup.6 g/mol, a degree of substitution of carboxymethyl groups of 0.04 to 0.28, and a grafting amount of targeting peptide GRGDS of 0.01% to 1.12% (calculated based on the content of N). The material is not dissolved in water when protonated at pH (pH=1.2) of the stomach, and is slowly dissolved in water when deprotonated at pH (pH=6.8) of the small intestine, therefore it has good responsiveness to pH of the gastrointestinal tract. The material can efficiently encapsulate a positively charged active substance by means of electrostatic interaction, therefore it can protect the active substances from being destroyed and inactivated in the gastrointestinal tract. Meanwhile, the material can target M cells to improve the transport efficiency of the active substance by M cells, thereby improving the bioavailability of the active substance.