Encapsulation of actives comprises an area of exploration undergoing rapid growth in both academic and industrial research settings.  Encapsulation processes are employed as a part of product synthesis processes for improved efficiency, enhanced stability, active ingredient compatibility, increased safety, targeted delivery, and novel performance of the end product.  Such technical benefits enable producers to offer products with increased formulation complexity, access new markets, differentiate products, and improve compatibility and stability, while meeting consumer demands with improved performance, reduced costs, and new actives.  With these needs in mind, Dow and the University of Illinois (UIUC) have collaborated for the past five years to develop new materials, systems, and tools for improving the performance of encapsulated systems.  This talk will highlight several of the most exciting advancements from this collaboration, their development at UIUC and how they have impacted continued R&D and product development at Dow.  Short technical vignettes will be offered as examples that describe new chemistries, materials processes, and analytical systems for applications ranging from agriculture to coatings.

Novel encapsulation and triggered-release systems designed by industry-academic collaboration

254th National Meeting (2017)

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