1. A Study by FTIR and WDXRF
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Rodrigues, Alexandra P., Santos, Pedro M. P., Veiga, João Pedro, Casimiro, Maria Helena, Ferreira, Luís M., DCR - Departamento de Conservação e Restauro, and CENIMAT-i3N - Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Lab. Associado I3N)
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electron beam ,Materials Science(all) ,PDMS ,hybrid materials ,TEOS ,radiation processing ,zirconium ,Condensed Matter Physics - Abstract
Funding Information: This research was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT-IP) grant number PD/BD/114410/2016; International Atomic Energy Agency Research contract numbers 23186 of CRP F22070 and 18982 of CRP F23032; and FEDER funds through the COMPETE 2020 Programme and National Funds through FCT-IP under the projects refs. UIDB/04349/2020 and UIDB/50025/2020-2023. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors. Sol-gel production of hybrid materials has, to some extent, revolutionised materials’ engineering and the way science and technology perceive the creation of new materials. Despite that, the method presents some limitations that are circumvented by radiation processing. Electron beam irradiation was used to promote synthesis of hybrid structures while using silanol-terminated PDMS, TEOS and TPOZ as precursors. Evaluation of the method’s performance was executed by gel fraction determination, WDXRF and FTIR-ATR. Results showed that, although there is some pre-irradiation reactivity between precursors, radiolysis induces scission on multiple sites of precursor’s structures, which induces hybrid network formation to a greater extent. Characterisation allowed determining electron beam irradiation to be effective in the creation of Si–O–Zr bonds, resulting in the production of a Class II hybrid material. publishersversion published
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- 2023