Abstract
It is unnecessary to add alcohol to a polymerizing silicon tetramethoxide-H2O sol-gel system as a co-solvent. The alcohol released during the reaction is sufficient to convert the initially biphasic system into a homogeneous one, resulting in the usual highly transparent, porous xerogel. We suggest that the alcohol-free sol-gel system may replace in many cases the traditional H2O-alcohol-alkoxide system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 180-182 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2 Jun 1987 |
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