Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Hydrophobic Sio2 Aerogels Prepared with Polyethoxydisiloxanes

DENG Zhong-Sheng1; WEI Jian-Dong1; Wu Ai-Mei2; BAO Yu-Ping1; WANG Jue1; SHEN Jun1; ZHOU Bin1; CHEN Ling-Yan 1   

  1. 1. Pohl Institute of Solid State Physics; Tongji University; Shanghai 200092; China; 2. Shanghai Institute of Chemical Engineering; Shanghai 200062; China
  • Received:1999-05-10 Revised:1999-05-26 Published:2000-04-20 Online:2000-04-20

Abstract: Hydrophobic SiO2 aerogels were produced by the surface modification of alcogels prepared via sol-gel process using polyethoxydisiloxanes (E-40) as
the precursor and followed by ethanol supercritical drying. The structure of the modified silica aerogels was a silica matrix produced by hydrolysis and
condensation of polyethoxydisiloxanes. Si-CH3 was modified on the surface of the silica matrix. The pore size decreased from 23.1nm to 18.2nm, the
specific surface area increased from 477 m2·g-1 to 563 m2·g-1 and the water vapor adsorption decreased from 0.04 to 0.0012(weight ratio)
after the surface modification of silica aerogels. The existence of Si-CH3 was observed using infrared spectra.

Key words: hydrophobic, SiO2 aerogel, sol-gel, surface modification, super critical drying

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