US 12,110,376 B2
Soft matter having an Anderson transition to a localized phase
Bernard R. Matis, Alexandria, VA (US); Nicholas T. Gangemi, Washington, DC (US); Jeffrey W. Baldwin, Fairfax, VA (US); Steven W. Liskey, Odenton, MD (US); Aaron D. Edmunds, Alexandria, VA (US); William B. Wilson, Pasadena, MD (US); and Douglas M. Photiadis, Alexandria, VA (US)
Assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed by The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/583,697.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/141,175, filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0251322 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. C08J 3/075 (2006.01); C08J 9/236 (2006.01); G01N 29/032 (2006.01); G01N 29/036 (2006.01)
CPC C08J 9/236 (2013.01) [C08J 3/075 (2013.01); C08J 2203/22 (2013.01); C08J 2205/02 (2013.01); C08J 2300/26 (2013.01); G01N 29/032 (2013.01); G01N 29/036 (2013.01); G01N 2291/02433 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article comprising:
an elastomeric jacket;
a gel within the jacket; and
a plurality of gas-filled, polymerically-encapsulated microbubbles suspended in the gel;
wherein the microbubbles have a Gaussian particle size distribution; and
wherein the largest microbubble has a diameter at least 10 times the diameter of the smallest microbubble.