Development of hydrophobic and optically transparent monolithic silica aerogels for window panel applications
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In the present paper, highly transparent, monolithic and hydrophobic silica aerogel monoliths were prepared by using tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) as precursor and methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) as co-precursor with different MTES/TEOS molar ratios (M) by two-step acid–base catalyzed sol–gel process followed by supercritical alcohol drying. The molar ratio of TEOS, ethanol (EtOH), water (0.001 M oxalic acid catalyst) and ammonium hydroxide (1 M NH4OH) was kept constant at 1:5:3.5:3.5 respectively, while the molar ratio of MTES/TEOS (M) was varied from 0 to 0.75. It has been observed that as the M value increases, the gelation time increases. It has been found that lower (0.25) M values resulted in highly transparent (optical transmission >90 % for a 10 mm thick sample at 700 nm wavelength) and negligible volume shrinkage (<10 %) but less hydrophobic aerogels, whereas higher (0.75) M values resulted in semitransparent (<25 % optical transmission at 700 nm for a 10 mm thick sample) aerogels with >10 % volume shrinkage but excellent hydrophobicity. A good compromise of acceptable optical transmittance (~87 % optical transmission at 700 nm wavelength for a 10 mm thick sample) with negligible volume shrinkage (6 %) were obtained at M = 0.50. The hydrophobicity of the aerogels was tested by measuring the contact angle between a water droplet and silica aerogel surface. The hydrophobicity was confirmed by Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy and contact angle measurements. the aerogels have been characterized by percentage of volume shrinkage, optical transmittance, scanning electron microscopy, thermal conductivity measurements and thermogravimetric analysis and differential thermal analysis.
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