Abstract:
An optically transmissive material and the production of optically transmissive articles therefrom, in particular a bond between two optically transmissive components including optical fibers and planar devices.
Abstract:
This invention has enabled a new, simple nanoporous dielectric fabrication method. In general, this invention uses a glycol, such as ethylene glycol, as a solvent. This new method allows both bulk and thin film aerogels to be made without supercritical drying, freeze drying, or a surface modification step before drying. Prior art aerogels have required at least one of these steps to prevent substantial pore collapse during drying. Thus, this invention allows production of nanoporous dielectrics at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, without a separate surface modification step. Although not required to prevent substantial densification, this new method does not exclude the use of supercritical drying or surface modification steps prior to drying. In general, this new method is compatible with most prior art aerogel techniques. Although this new method allows fabrication of aerogels without substantial pore collapse during drying, there may be some permanent shrinkage during aging and/or drying.
Abstract:
A relaxed sol-gel composition and a coated substrate article which is produced therefrom. A tetrafunctional alkoxide silicate is hydrolyzed in an aqueous solution together with a Lewis acid or metal chelate catalyst with optional protic acid until a viscosity of 2600-3200 cps is obtained to form a crosslinked sol-gel polymer composition. The polymer is relaxed by diluting it with water or water plus alcohol optionally containing a Lewis acid or metal chelate until a viscosity of about 1 cps is obtained while not depolymerizing the polymer. The relaxed polymer has substantially no visible polymer particles. The relaxed polymer composition is uniformly coating a substrate and dried without requiring an in-situ curing.
Abstract:
A thin, room-temperature-curing, ceramic composite for coating and patchingetal substrates comprises a sol gel silica glass matrix filled with finely ground particles or fibers, preferably alumina. The sol gel glass is made by adding ethanol to water to form a first mixture, then separately adding ethanol to tetraethyl orthosilicate to form a second mixture, then slowly adding the first to the second mixture to make a third mixture, and making a slurry by adding the finely ground particles or fibers to the third mixture. The composite can be applied by spraying, brushing or trowelling. If applied to patch fine cracks, densification of the ceramic composite may be obtained to enhance sealing by applying heat during curing.
Abstract:
A process is described for photoinitiated control of inorganic network fotion in the sol-gel process, which comprises eitherA) subjecting one or more hydrolytically polycondensable compounds of constituent elements of glass or ceramic, excluding silicon compounds containing polymerizable organic groups, to hydrolytic polycondensation in a liquid reaction medium to form a sol and irradiating the resulting sol in a structured or unstructured manner in the presence of a photoinitiator which can change the pH of the reaction medium on irradiation, using radiation of a wavelength range in which the photoinitiator absorbs;orB) liberating water in an anhydrous reaction medium which contains an alcohol, one or more hydrolytically polycondensable compounds of constituent elements of glass or ceramic and a photoinitiator which can liberate water by a photochemical reaction or a secondary reaction when irradiated, by structured or non-structured irradiation using radiation of a wavelength range in which the photoinitiator absorbs, and in this way effecting the hydrolytic polycondensation.
Abstract:
Relatively large bodies of low-alkali silicate and other glass can be prepared conveniently by a particulate sol-gel process. The glass comprises at least 85 mole % SiO.sub.2, 1-12 mole % oxide of one or more of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ti and Zr, 0-6 mole % of oxide of Al, and optionally at most 2.5 mole % of oxide of elements other than Si, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ti, Zr and Al. The process comprises forming particles from a first sol that comprises Si and one or more of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ti and Zr, and optionally additionally comprises Al. The process further comprises forming a second sol by dispersing the particles in an aqueous liquid, gelling the second sol, and heat treating the resulting gel body such that the glass results.
Abstract:
Stable magnesium containing silicate sols are produced by preparing a solution of silicon alkoxide and of magnesium alkoxide and optionally of aluminum alkoxide in solvent wherein the atomic ratio of Mg to Si ranges from 0.3:1 to 4:1 and simultaneously reacting said alkoxides with peroxy compound or peroxy compound and water. Water presence, rate of addition of reactant, quantity of solvent and temperature of reaction are controlled to negate formation of precipitate. For a magnesium silicate sol, preferably the silicon alkoxide is tetraethylorthosilicate, the magnesium alkoxide is magnesium methoxide, the solvent is methanol and 30% H.sub.2 O.sub.2 is used as a reactant. For a magnesium aluminosilicate sol, preferably the silicon alkoxide is tetraethylorthosilicate, the magnesium alkoxide is selected from the group consisting of magnesium-s-butoxide and magnesium-2-(2'-methoxyethoxy)ethoxide, the aluminum alkoxide is aluminum isopropoxide, the solvent is sec-butanol and 2-(2'-methoxyethoxy)ethanol and 30% H.sub.2 O.sub.2 is used as a reactant. A magnesium silicate sol containing unreacted alkoxy can be reacted with HF to produce a magnesium fluoride silicate sol. The sols are used for coating by forming a layer thereof on a substrate and drying. The coating can be converted to ceramic by firing in the case of substrates which are not harmed by the firing method. The sols are used to produce fibers by a process comprising the steps of concentrating, converting to gel fibers, drying and firing.
Abstract translation:稳定的含镁硅酸盐溶胶通过制备硅醇盐和烷氧化镁和任选的烷氧基铝溶液在溶剂中制备,其中Mg与Si的原子比范围为0.3:1至4:1,同时使所述醇盐与过氧化合物 或过氧化合物和水。 控制水存在,反应物加入速率,溶剂量和反应温度,以消除沉淀物的形成。 对于硅酸镁溶胶,优选硅醇盐是原硅酸四乙酯,醇盐是甲醇镁,溶剂是甲醇,30%H 2 O 2用作反应物。 对于硅铝酸镁溶胶,优选烷氧基硅烷是原硅酸四乙酯,醇盐选自正丁醇镁和2-(2'-甲氧基乙氧基)乙醇镁,醇铝是异丙醇铝,溶剂 是仲丁醇,使用2-(2'-甲氧基乙氧基)乙醇和30%H 2 O 2作为反应物。 含有未反应的烷氧基的硅酸镁溶胶可与HF反应生成氟化硅硅酸盐溶胶。 该溶胶通过在基材上形成层并进行干燥而被涂覆。 在不受烧成方法伤害的基材的情况下,可以通过烧成将涂层转化为陶瓷。 溶胶用于通过包括以下步骤的方法生产纤维,所述方法是浓缩,转化成凝胶纤维,干燥和焙烧。
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of decorative articles having a patterned coating of an inorganic paint, which comprises coating a solvent having a water solubility of at least 20% or a mixture of said solvent with an organic or inorganic binder or an inorganic filler on a substrate, allowing the coated substrate to stand, coating an inorganic paint of the silicate type on the coated surface of the substrate, and then drying and hardening the coating.
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A semi-transparent coating material for coating glass or glass ceramics includes at least one sol-gel hybrid-polymer coating system having a hybrid-polymer or inorganic sol-gel-based matrix, and nanoparticles and nanoscale pigments and/or dyes are added to the hybrid-polymer or inorganic sol-gel-based matrix.
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A transparent glass or ceramic or glass-ceramic substrate, coated with a functional layer or with a stack of at least two functional layers, the functional layer or at least one of the functional layers of the stack being porous and made of an inorganic material M1, wherein the or at least one of the porous functional layer(s) of inorganic material M1 has, at the surface of at least one portion of the pores thereof, at least one inorganic material M2 different from M1.