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JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 8-13Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10971-011-2583-8
Keywords
Superhydrophobic silica; Microwave; Nanoparticles
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- Basque Government (Ayudas a grupos de investigacion del sistema universitario vasco) [ITT444-10]
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Hydrophobic silica nanoparticles were obtained by microwave assisted sol-gel method using a two-step procedure. In the first step different size silica particles were generated from tetraethyl orthosilicate and in the second one the silica particles were hydrophobized using hexadecyl trimethoxysilane (HDTMOS). Under microwave irradiation, high conversion degrees were obtained at relatively short reaction times. The HDTMOS added in the second step instead of coating the silica nanoparticles generated new ones and therefore the final product showed a bimodal size distribution. All the synthesized nanoparticles gave rise to high water contact angles (a parts per thousand 150A degrees) and low hysteresis values.
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