1. A method of making a coated substrate, comprising the steps:
preparing a silk peptide with a particle size of from 50 to 250 nm by degumming silk fiber, and dissolving the silk fiber in an organic solvent;
adding said peptide to a treated bath containing a building block polymer having a particle size of from 50 to 500 nm;
polymerizing said peptide with said building block; and
applying the peptidebuilding block polymer to a cellulosic substrate,
wherein the building block is a soft segment that is selected from the group consisting of silicon-oxygen backbone polymers, amino amide derivatives, imidazoline, alkyl aryl sulphonate, thermoplastics, ethylene oxide, aminoethylamine propylsiloxone, and dimethyl siloxone, and
wherein the ratio of said peptide to said soft segment is from about 4:1 to about 10:1.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of drying said peptidebuilding block polymer-coated substrate.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of curing said peptidebuilding block polymer-coated substrate.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said peptide is derived from the group consisting of silk fibroin, cocoon, raw silk, waste cocoon, raw silk waste, bisu, silk fabric waste, and bourette.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said treatment bath can be an aqueous solution, organic solvent, or an aqueousorganic solvent mixture.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein polymerization of said peptide with said building block is brought about by an initiator selected from the group comprising metal chlorides or metal nitrates.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein polymerizing occurs between a temperature of 110\xb0 C. to 180\xb0 C. for a period of 2 minutes to about 30 minutes.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of adding a dispersing or wetting agent prior to applying said polymer to said substrate.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein applying said polymer may occur by means selected from the group consisting of immersion, padding, spraying, coating, and calendaring.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said substrate is selected from the group comprising cotton, wool, angora, flax, silk, jute, modal, velvet, fur, leather, and natural materialsynthetic material blends.
11. A polymer-coated substrate, comprised of a cellulosic fabric and silk peptidesoft segment polymer, wherein said soft segment is selected from the group consisting of silicon-oxygen backbone polymers, amino amide derivatives, imidazoline, alkyl aryl sulphonate, and thermoplastics, wherein said polymer-coated substrate possesses a wrinkle recovery angle between 250-290 (W+F,o), and wherein said polymer-coated substrate does not comprise N-methylol compounds.
12. A polymer-coated substrate, comprised of a cellulosic fabric and silk peptidehard segment polymer, wherein said hard segment is selected from the group consisting of polyethers and crystalline entities, wherein said polymer-coated substrate possesses a tear strength of from 4.7 to 7lbs, and wherein said polymer-coated substrate does not comprise N-methylol compounds.
13. A method of making a coated substrate, comprising the steps:
preparing a silk peptide with a particle size of from 50 to 250 nm by degumming silk fiber, and dissolving the silk fiber in an organic solvent;
adding said peptide to a treated bath containing a building block polymer having a particle size of from 50 to 500 nm;
polymerizing said peptide with said building block; and
applying the peptidebuilding block polymer to a cellulosic substrate,
wherein said building block is a hard segment that can be selected from the group consisting of polyethers and crystalline entities, and
wherein the ratio of said peptide to said hard segment is from about 1:1 to about 10:1.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of drying said peptidebuilding block polymer-coated substrate.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of curing said peptidebuilding block polymer-coated substrate.
16. The method of claim 13, wherein said peptide is derived from the group consisting of silk fibroin, cocoon, raw silk, waste cocoon, raw silk waste, bisu, silk fabric waste, and bourette.
17. The method of claim 13, wherein said treatment bath is an aqueous solution, organic solvent, or an aqueousorganic solvent mixture.
18. The method of claim 13, wherein said polyethers can be selected from the group consisting of polyoxymethylene, poly(ethylene oxide), poly(propylene oxide), poly (styrene oxide), polyhexamethylene adipamide, and poly (ethylene trephthalate).
19. The method of claim 13, wherein polymerization of said peptide with said building block is brought about by an initiator selected from the group comprising metal chlorides or metal nitrates.
20. The method of claim 13, wherein said substrate is selected from the group comprising cotton, wool, angora, flax, silk, jute, modal, velvet, fur, leather, and natural materialsynthetic material blends.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1: LEDs Any Color control circuit is achieved by constructing a lighting circuit comprising:
a. Required wavelength input device.
b. One DC power supply step-down sampler chip,
c. LEDs Any Color control circuit processor micro-computer chip,
d. LEDs Any Color control circuit algorithm, which is programmed into the LEDs Any Color control circuit processor micro-computer chip,
e. LEDs Any Color control circuit switching chips.
f. The 6 required LEDs are as follows:
i. BLUE: 470 nm
ii. CYAN: 505 nm
iii. GREEN: 530 nm
iv. AMBER: 590 nm
v. RED: 627 nm
vi. WHITE: (NA)
2: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, different types of devices can be used to input the wavelength of the light required.
3: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, the LEDs Any Color control circuit processor chip selects 2 of the LEDs assigned intensity from 1 to 100.
4: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, the LEDs Any Color control circuit switching chips will send DC current to 2 LEDs in each set of 6 LEDs.
5: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, 2 LEDs from the set of 6 LEDs will generate light.
6: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, a lens blends the light from the 2 LEDs to produce the required wavelength of light.
7: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, when a greater amount of LEDs Any Color lighting is required, multiple sets of LEDs are used.
8: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, when a lesser amount of LEDs Any Color lighting is required, smaller LEDs are used.
9: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, although the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, numerous modifications and variations can be made and still fall within the scope of the invention.
10: Based on the LEDs Any Color control circuit from claim 1, increasing or decreasing the scale of the preferred embodiment andor increasing the number of instances of the embodiment will still fall within the scope of the invention.