Chromatide is continually building on its know-how and IP portfolio and has recently filed a patent describing a novel encapsulation technology that the company has developed which allows any suitable polymer to be encapsulated within a glass (or other material) bead.  The polymer is covalently bound to the bead enabling chemistries to be performed on the bound polymer.  The unique benefits of this bead-form of the polymer include lower cost manufacture of the polymer without the problems of sieving and other laborious post-polymerization work-up steps.  Additionally soft-gel polymers particularly benefit from this encapsulation technology since it allows flow-through systems to be amenable to the polymer plug without the problems of back-pressure.  These encapsulated polymers have direct application in the following market areas:

  • Peptide Synthesis Supports
  • Oligonucleotide Synthesis Supports
  • Affinity Purification
  • Chiral Purification
  • Enzyme & Chemo Catalysis
  • Combinatorial Chemistry
  • Slow Release Systems
  • Adsorbents

This IP underpins a number of commercial opportunities and Chromatide have a broad and varied range of expertise which the company is already using this to develop additional new technologies in the areas of polymer synthesis, biomolecule purification and instrument design.

  

 

Intellectual Property