LEI LIU
Medical Practice in Pittsburgh, PA

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Pennsylvania MT194630
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Medicine
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Graduate Medical Trainee
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Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Lei Liu
935 Penn Cir, Kng Of Prussa, PA 19406
(610) 762-0095
Lei Liu
826 Ward St APT 7, Allentown, PA 18103
(610) 820-9357

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Hydrogel Materials With Crystalline Colloidal Array Of Watervoids For Detection And Macromolecule Separations

US Patent:
6414043, Jul 2, 2002
Filed:
Jun 25, 1999
Appl. No.:
09/344741
Inventors:
Sanford A. Asher - Pittsburgh PA
Lei Liu - Pittsburgh PA
Assignee:
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh PA
International Classification:
C08J 926
US Classification:
521 61, 521 64, 521142, 521150, 521183
Abstract:
A method of making a novel composition of a porous medium comprising volume elements of both voids and pores wherein the voids are much larger than the mean size of the pores. The method includes a first step of preparation of a porous medium comprising solid particles the approximate size selected for the voids and pores as volume elements and a second step of removing the particles by etching out with hydrofluoric acid or other means to form a porous medium comprising both voids and pores. In another embodiment, the voids are prepared from Bow etching out of a polymeric hydrogel silica particles which were allowed to self-assemble as a crystalline colloidal array prior to formation of the polymeric hydrogel around them, thereby forming a porous medium containing a crystalline colloidal array of voids containing aqueous solution. In another embodiment, a method of partitioning macromolecules between a solution comprising the macromolecules, and the voids and pores of a porous medium. The method includes partitioning of macromolecules between voids, pores and the adjacent solution as used in chromatography, electrophoresis, filtration, extraction, other separation process, drug delivery devices, timed-release devices, and semi-homogeneous catalytic reactors.