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Silicone Elastomers - Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) Systems... 

Silicone elastomers find use as gaskets and seals, wire and cable insulation and hot gas and liquid conduits. They also find use in surgical and prosthetic devices. The RTV elastomers are used for sealing and encapsulating. 

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At present polyorganosiloxanes are manufactured in the form of 1) oligomers with linear or cyclic chains (silicone liquids) 2) polymers with linear chains (silicone elastomers) 3) polymers with cyclolinear, ladder and branched chains. 

Low-molecular silicone elastomers are viscous liquids which do not contain solvents and solidify at room temperature. The specific properties of SKTN allow one to use them as insulation against heat, moisture and electricity in various miniature and large units of machines, mechanisms and devices, as well as for thermal, electrical and vibration sealing of various devices. The physiological inertness of elastomers accounts for their wide applications in medicine. 

Prior to the introduction of the LPS process, the low consistency liquid silicone rubber was not considered for use in fabricated parts because of the inadequate physical properties. Recent advancements in the low consistency silicone elastomer technology, however, have led to the development of high strength material. 

Elastomeric shield materials (ESM) have been developed as low density flexible ablators for low shear applications (49). General Electric s RTV 560 is a foamed silicone elastomer loaded with silicon dioxide /7631-86-9] and iron oxide [1317-61-9] particles, which decomposes to a similar foam of Si02, SiC, and FeSi03- Silicone resins are relatively resistant to thermal decomposition and the silicon dioxide forms a viscous liquid when molten (50) (see... 

Perfluoropyridine (3.0 g, 17.8 mmol), anhyd KF (3.0 g, 55.9 mmol), and sulfolane (15 mL) were introduced into a Carius tube (ca. 100 mL) and hexafluoropropene (5.0 g, 33.3 mmol) was introduced from a vacuum system. The tube was sealed under vacuum and heated for 12 h at 130 C. It was then cooled in liquid air and opened to a vacuum system. The volatile components were fractionated in the vacuum system to give hexafluoropropene (0.5 g) and higher boiling material (8.0 g). The latter was separated by GC (silicone elastomer on Celite) to give derivatives of hexafluoropropene (2.7 g), perfluoropyridine (0.3 g), and per-fluoro(4-isopropylpyridine) yield 4.8 g (94%). 

These are silicones in liquid or paste form that can be transformed into cross-linked elastomers at or near room temperature. There are two basic types, one component and two component. The one-component room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) elastomers cure upon exposure to air. A typical material of this type is synthesized from a dihydroxy-terminated siloxane oligomer and methyltriacetoxysilane (Scheme 2). The resulting tetraacetoxy compound will flow as a paste and so can be molded into shape. Hydrolysis of the acetoxy groups takes place over a period of hours. Condensation of the resulting silanols gives a highly cross-linked end product. 

As compared with their low water absorption, silicone elastomers show an extremely high rate of water vapour transmission. The positive aspect of this property permits one to apply sihcone systems over concrete masonry and other substrates upon which other polymeric coatings blister, crack and peel (Cash, 1970). The negative aspect is that silicone rubber cannot be used as a vapour barrier. The permeabihty to liquids is less compared with that to vapours. 

The remaining tetrachlorosilane is predominantly used for the production of firmed silica [20], which finds wide use in a variety of industrial applications. Most important are reinforcement of silicone elastomers as active filler and thickening of liquids as a rheological additive. A highly dispersed particle structure, high surface area and surface energy are the main characteristics of firmed silica. 

Linear and cyclic polydimethylsiloxanes were determined on a column of silicone elastomer (Lukopren M) on Rysorb BLK at various temperatures according to the components to be determined. The relative error of measurement of a single component was less than + 7.5%424,425. The determination of methylphenylpolysiloxanes of boiling point up to 500 °C has been reported426 on silanised crushed firebrick containing various amounts of polymethylsiloxane liquid. A katharometer detector was used. With a mixture of ten methylphenylpolysiloxanes (b.p. 100-500 °C) satisfactory separation without decomposition was obtained. 

For example, in heat-cured mbber systems a common loading with synthetic silica is around 30%. For economic reasons, precipitated silicas are used in increasing volumes in silicone elastomers such as high-consistency mbber (HCR), liquid silicone mbber (LSR), and two-component room temperature vulcanized elastomers (RTV2). The reinforcement provided by precipitated silicas is only slightly lower than that provided by fumed silicas. However, fumed silicas are necessary in silicone sealants and other high-end applications because of their desirable properties like low moisture content. 

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