ZeoCol - Encapsulated Dyes

NanoScape’s ZeoCol technology platform combines large-pore, nanocrystalline host materials (specially designed for encapsulation of dyes or other functional molecules) with a range of encapsulation and loading techniques. This allows a wide variety of molecules with differing molecular dimensions, chemistry and functionality, to be encapsulated within the host material.

The aim of the encapsulation process is to incorporate functional molecules into the pore space of the nanomaterial host. This serves two main functions:

• to protect the guest molecule against chemical / thermal / mechanical attack
• to extend the range of application (by increasing dye compatibility with different matrices)

As with other NanoZeo-additives, the ZeoCol host particles can be surface modified for ease of dispersion into organic matrices, or suspended in water.