Silica composite materials

In Anderson et al. [20], they reported composite aerogels of colloidal metal (either gold or platinum) and silica that had the optical transparency of silica aerogels, combined with the surface and optical properties of the metal colloid. The metal colloids are dispersed throughout the mixture and, therefore, isolated from each other. At the same time, the porosity of the silica matrix renders the metal colloids accessible to species that traverse 

We note that the relatively low temperature of the CSCE extraction process was important to the retention of protein function in this application an RSCE process would not be expected to yield comparable results because the protein would not likely survive the higher temperatures required. 

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Carrying out experiments with equal ratios of starting material 47 to sulfonic acid group of the specific catalysts reveals the same pattern as obtained in the experiments described above. Figure 5.2 shows the results obtained over some Nafion/silica composite materials with different amounts of Nafion compared to the Amberlyst ion-exchange resin. 

Interesting reactivity has recently been found in the use of Nafion/silica composite material [30]. Nafion resins are active in the acylation of anisole with acetyl chloride, but entrapping highly dispersed nanosized Nafion particles in a silica matrix leads to a much more active catalyst, as indicated in Table 5. 

Heidekum, A., Harmer, M. A., and Hoelderich, W. F. 1999. Nafion/silica composite material reveals high catalytic potential in acylation reactions. 

Silica composite materials constituted by Nafion entrapped in a highly porous silica matrix (13% and 40% Nafion) are utilized as catalysts for the Fries rearrangement of PA. The conversions of the reactions performed in cumene are 10% and 16%, respectively, and the selectivity with respect to para- and ortho-HAF ranges from 20% up to 56%, phenol being the main side product accompanied by deposition of carbonaceous materials these... 

In situ polymerization inside mesoporous silica has been investigated a lot in order to make functional polymer/silica composite materials with well-defined mesoporosity... 

Joly C, Smaihi M, Porcar L, Noble RD (1999) Polyimide-Silica composite materials how does silica influence their microstructure and gas permeation properties Chem Mater 11... 

The third line of development was to increase the selectivity in order to achieve the highest possible resolution to address difficult separations. This may be achieved by a very narrow pore size distribution of the media, e.g., such as achieved by porous silica microspheres (PSM) or by modifying the porous phase by a composite material, e.g., as for Superdex. In practice, this material shows a maximum selectivity over the separation range (e.g., see Fig. 2.2). 

Recently, Mark and co-workers also reported on organophilic silica formed by the combination of the sol-gel procedure and water-in-oil micro-emulsion method, in which methacryloyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane was used as one component of silica matrix [8]. The size of the silica particle was controlled by the content of water and emulsifier used. The surface of the particles was effectively covered with methacryloyl. organic groups. This organophilic silica is expected to be used as a novel component of composite materials. 

Molecular hybrids between organic polymers and silica gel are expected to show many possibilities as new composite materials. First, the hybrids may show intermediate properties between plastics and glasses (ceramics). In addition, the composition of the hybrids can be widely varied. In other words, the hybrids can be used to modify the organic polymer materials or to modify the inorganic glassy materials. The hydrophilic modification as described before is a typical example. 

Such new materials should reveal various possibilities for application. Molecular hybrids between organic polymers and silica gel may become a novel type of composite material. 

Zeolites have ordered micropores smaller than 2nm in diameter and are widely used as catalysts and supports in many practical reactions. Some zeolites have solid acidity and show shape-selectivity, which gives crucial effects in the processes of oil refining and petrochemistry. Metal nanoclusters and complexes can be synthesized in zeolites by the ship-in-a-bottle technique (Figure 1) [1,2], and the composite materials have also been applied to catalytic reactions. However, the decline of catalytic activity was often observed due to the diffusion-limitation of substrates or products in the micropores of zeolites. To overcome this drawback, newly developed mesoporous silicas such as FSM-16 [3,4], MCM-41 [5], and SBA-15 [6] have been used as catalyst supports, because they have large pores (2-10 nm) and high surface area (500-1000 m g ) [7,8]. The internal surface of the channels accounts for more than 90% of the surface area of mesoporous silicas. With the help of the new incredible materials, template synthesis of metal nanoclusters inside mesoporous channels is achieved and the nanoclusters give stupendous performances in various applications [9]. In this chapter, nanoclusters include nanoparticles and nanowires, and we focus on the synthesis and catalytic application of noble-metal nanoclusters in mesoporous silicas. 

D.W. Schaefer, J.E. Mark, D.W. McCarthy, L. Jian, C.-C. Sun and B. Farago, Structure of microphase-separated silica/siloxane molecular composites. In D.W. Schaefer and J.E. Mark (Eds.), Polymer-Based Molecular Composites, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 1990, Vol. 171, p. 57. 

Regardless of the composition, the synthesis conditions also play an important role in the bioactivity and mechanical properties [ 101 ]. When PCL/silica hybrid materials... 

A strain of yeast and a strain of bacterium were co-immobilized to fabricate a biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) sensor based on sol-gel derived composite materials97. This novel type of biosensor was developed for water monitoring and was used to determine the BOD values of OECD synthetic wastewater, domestic wastewater, and lake waters. The microorganisms Trichosporon cutaneum and Bacillus subtilis were coimmobilized in the sol-gel composite material, which was composed of silica and the grafting copolymer of poly (vinyl alcohol) and 4-vinylpyridine (PVA-g-P(4-VP)). 

Hybrid polymer silica nanocomposites formed from various combinations of silicon alkoxides and polymers to create a nanoscale admixture of silica and organic polymers constitute a class of composite materials with combined properties of polymers and ceramics. They are finding increasing applications in protective coatings (Figure 7.1), optical devices, photonics, sensors and catalysis.1... 

Inorganic Hybrid Materials Based on Mesoporous Silica Composites for Humidity Sensing Applications... 

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