Journal
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 95, Issue 2, Pages 423-431Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.08.005
Keywords
Pigment surface modification; Open POSS; Selective paint
Funding
- Slovenian Research Agency [3211-09-000029]
- R&D project Hybrid Nanocomposites for Multifunctional and Intelligent Paint Coatings (HNA)
- [P1-0030]
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Thickness Insensitive Spectrally Selective (TISS) paint coatings based on black pigment (PK 3060, Ferro Company) dispersed in a fluoropolymeric resin binder (Lumiflon, Asahi Company, Japan) have recently been made without added aluminium flakes and their properties have been reported for the first time. In this study we investigated in more detail the effect of trisilanol isobutyl (IB7 T-7(OH)(3)) polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (trisilanol POSS) on the surface modification of PK 3060 pigment. Infrared spectral analysis of the surface modified pigment particles provided firm evidence for the formation of a POSS layer on the surface of the pigment particles, substantiated by the corresponding TEM and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDXS) measurements of functionalized and as-received pigments. SEM micrographs of the diluted dispersions in fluoropolymeric resin binder revealed uniform distribution of pigment particles with an average size of similar to 300 nm and the beneficial effect of the pigment functionalization was assessed from the measured spectral selectivity of coatings of various thicknesses. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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