Titanium hybrid

Table IV lists the mechanical stress-strain data for a series of hybrid TEOS-PTMO materials containing different levels of Ti-isop in the starting reaction mixture. These materials, with the exception of the first one, were all made using a modified reaction scheme (see experimental section) in order to incorporate the titanium into the network. The starting reaction mixtures in all cases contained 50% by weight of the glass precursors (TEOS and Ti-isop) and 50% by weight of PTMO(2000) (endcapped with triethoxysilane). One set of samples without titanium was made in order to compare the effects of the reaction scheme on the observed mechanical properties.

Comparison of the tanS curves (Figure 10b) results in similar conclusions the titanium containing TEOS-PTMO hybrids are distinctly different from the pure TEOS-PTMO hybrids. Both the 15 and 30wt% Ti materials exhibit broad tanS transitions centered at approximately -30°C while the comparable 0wt% Ti material exhibited a "sharper" tanS transition at approximately -5°C. Furthermore, the magnitude of the transitions decreased (from 0.5 to less than 0.2) upon the addition of titanium. The decrease in the magnitude of the glass transition could... 

N anomaterials have been around for hundreds of years and are typically defined as particles of size ranging from 1 to 100 nm in at least one dimension. The inorganic nanomaterial catalysts discussed here are manganese oxides and titanium dioxide. Outside the scope of this chapter are polymers, pillared clays, coordination compounds, and inorganic-organic hybrid materials such as metal-organic frameworks. 

Since the hybridization and structure of the nitrile group resemble those of alkynes, titanium carbene complexes react with nitriles in a similar fashion. Titanocene-methylidene generated from titanacyclobutane or dimethyltitanocene reacts with two equivalents of a nitrile to form a 1,3-diazatitanacyclohexadiene 81. Hydrolysis of 81 affords p-ketoena-mines 82 or 4-amino-l-azadienes 83 (Scheme 14.35) [65,78]. The formation of the azati-tanacyclobutene by the reaction of methylidene/zinc halide complex with benzonitrile has also been studied [44]. 

The sol-gel methodology can also be applied to non-hydrolytic processes. The preparation of methylsilsesqui-oxane-titanium oxide hybrid by the etherolysis-condensation of a mixture of methyltrichlorosilane and metal chloride,353 354 and by the condensation of preformed poly(methylsilsesquioxane) carrying Si-OH and Si-OCHj groups with titanium(iv) -butoxide,355 has been reported. 

Polyacrylic acid Hybrid organic/inorganic network polymers were formed via the reaction of polyacrylic acid with tin(IV). titanium(IV), and silicon (IV) alkoxides and subsequent hydrolysis to form mesoporous materials. Treatment by nitric acid removed the polyacrylate template and produced microporous inorganic hydrous metal oxides Surface areas characterized by BET measurements 130... 

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