US 12,286,380 B2
Shaped artificial polymer articles
Gerard R. Finnegan, Tarrytown, NY (US); Thomas F. Thompson, Tarrytown, NY (US); Juan Carlos Capote, Tarrytown, NY (US); and Rupa Hiremath Darji, Tarrytown, NY (US)
Assigned to BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Appl. No. 17/605,482
Filed by BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/056173
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/182709, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/817,192, filed on Mar. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144712 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. C04B 38/00 (2006.01); C04B 35/626 (2006.01); C04B 38/06 (2006.01)
CPC C04B 38/009 (2013.01) [C04B 35/62655 (2013.01); C04B 38/0054 (2013.01); C04B 38/0655 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3232 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3284 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3418 (2013.01); C04B 2235/528 (2013.01); C04B 2235/5436 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shaped artificial polymer article, wherein the polymer is a synthetic polymer and/or a natural or synthetic elastomer, and wherein the polymer contains porous metal oxide microspheres, wherein the porous metal oxide microspheres have:
an average diameter of from 0.5 μm to 100 μm,
an average porosity of from 0.10 to 0.80, and
an average pore diameter of from 50 nm to 999 nm.