Cleaning process using carbon dioxide as a solvent and employing molecularly engineered surfactants

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PATENT NO 5944996
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08850371

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The separation of a contaminant from a substrate that carries the contaminant is disclosed. The process comprises contacting the substrate to a carbon dioxide fluid containing an amphiphilic species so that the contaminant associates with the amphiphilic species and becomes entrained in the carbon dioxide fluid. The substrate is then separated from the carbon dioxide fluid, and then the contaminant is separated from the carbon dioxide fluid.

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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE300 BYNUM HALL CAMPUS BOX 4100 CHAPEL HILL NC 27599 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Betts, Douglas E Chapel Hill, NC 8 502
DeSimone, Joseph M Chapel Hill, NC 240 8787
McClain, James B Carrboro, NC 141 3182
Romack, Timothy Durham, NC 13 422

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