Abstract: A zero emmission device and method for delivering constant concentration of a vaporized substance allows for the regulated use of chemical or biological substances, such as calibrating, exposure or therapeutic substances.

Abstract: A device is provided for the sequestration and concentration of polar chemicals from water. The device includes a microporous hydrophilic membrane enclosure formed by a tube or facing membranes. A mixed sequestration media, contained within the enclosure, transforms dissolved polar organic chemicals into non-mobile species. The sequestration media is a triphasic admixture of a hyper-crosslinked polystyrene-divinylbenzene resin, and a carbonaceous sorbent dispersed on a size exclusion styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer.

Abstract: A liquid soil pesticide composition containing tetrahydro-3,5-dimethyl-2H-1,3,5-thiadiazine-2-thione. The composition contains 1,3-dichloropropene as a first co-solvent and a second co-solvent selected from the group consisting of dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethylformamide.

Abstract: A device is provided for the sequestration and concentration of polar chemicals from water. The device includes a microporous hydrophilic membrane enclosure formed by a tube or facing membranes.

Abstract: A device is provided for capturing ionic metal species (e.g., Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) dissolved in water. The device includes a nonporous polymeric tube for capturing the dissolved ionic metal species. The tube is formed from a membrane having transient cavities therein having an average pore size greater than 10 Å. A sequestration medium, contained within the tube, transforms the ionic metal species captured by the tube into a complexed, non-mobile metal species. The sequestration medium is capable of diffusing through the nonporous polymeric membrane at a controlled rate to form the complexed, non-mobile species and can comprise a mixture and metal complexing agent (e.g., a quinoline) and a long chain organic acid (e.g., oleic acid).

Abstract: A device is provided for removing and concentrating neutral mercury species from air and water. The device includes a nonporous polymeric membrane, preferably in the form of a flattened tube, for capturing and removing the neutral mercury species from the environment and a sequestration medium contained within the tube for transforming the neutral mercury species captured by the tube into a stabilized mercury species. The sequestration medium can comprise an acidic oxidant for transforming the neutral mercury species into a ionic soluble mercury species or a complexing agent for transforming the mercury species into a complexed soluble mercury species. The nonporous membrane can be made of a number of different synthetic polymers including polyethylene. The device is ideally suited for the passive integrative sequestration of neutral mercury species from a wide variety of environments.

Abstract: A device and method for removing, concentrating and analyzing airborne organic compounds. The device includes a nonporous membrane which contains a collection media. The liquid collection media typically includes a component which has a molecular weight that is too large to pass through transport corridors in the nonporous membrane and a component which has a molecular weight which is sufficiently small enough to pass through the transport corridors in the nonporous membrane and thereby forming a thin film on the exterior surface of the device. The collection media can consist of only components too large to pass through the membrane transport corridors. Organic contaminants are trapped in the thin film on the exterior surface of the device or the membrane and transported by concentration gradient diffusion forces into the bulk of the collection media within the nonporous membrane.

Abstract: A packing media for column chromatography having multiple separation characteristics comprises adsorbent carbon powder particles adhered to the surfaces of individual particles of a molecular size exclusion gel polymer.