	US 12,186,724 B2
	Methods and systems for transporting viscous fluids in a moving hydrogel tube
Jordan Mackenzie, Vancouver (CA); Dominic Mark Martinez, Vancouver (CA); Sean Matthew Delfel, Vancouver (CA); Michael Buchen, Vancouver (CA); and Rami Younes, Vancouver (CA)
Assigned to The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (CA)
Filed by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (CA)
Filed on May 2, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/653,698.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/499,692, filed on May 2, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0367133 A1, Nov. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. B01J 14/00 (2006.01); C08J 3/02 (2006.01)

CPC B01J 14/00 (2013.01) [C08J 3/02 (2013.01); C08J 2205/022 (2013.01)]

21 Claims

1. A method for transporting a material in a conduit defined by a conduit-defining surface, the method comprising:

flowing a first fluid and a second fluid in a flow direction within the conduit;

contacting the first and second fluids to one another at a contact region to thereby facilitate a reaction creating a reaction product in an interface region that extends downstream from the contact region, wherein the reaction product is an elastic-solid; and

transporting the material in the flow direction within the conduit;

wherein, at locations downstream of the interface region, the reaction product creates a barrier between the material and the conduit-defining surface.