Patent ID: 7211198

Claim:
A laundry treatment composition comprising: a) 0.001–5%wt of monomeric anionic hybrid organic/inorganic nanoparticles having a particle size of 3–7 nm; b) 10–95% of surfactant; c) optionally, one or more of enzymes, perfumes, bleach, sequesterants; and d) wherein the nanoparticles are polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) species of the general formula (R 1 ) m (—OH) n —O h Si g wherein h=3a, g=2a (for a=4 or 6), m+n=g, and, wherein R 1 is independently selected from C1–C6 alkyl, aryl or cycloalkyl, phenyl, O − , trifluoropropyl, trimethylsiloxy, and phenyl ethyl.