New desiccant can be moulded
19 October 2006Silica gel bags, which have been keeping packaging and sensitive technology dry for generations, could soon be a thing of the past, with Brownell Ltd's new and far more practical desiccant VMAP. VMAP, which stands for Versatile Moisture Adsorbent Polymer is made from silica gel molecular sieves bound into a polymer, and was developed through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Brownell and Reading University. Over the past three years, Brownell funded research by graduate student Pierre Tchale, supervised by Reading's Professor Howard Calquhoun and Dr Wayne Hayes.