Fabrication of hydrophobic alumina aerogel monoliths by surface modification and ambient pressure drying |
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| Authors: | Lina Wu Zhijiang Wang Li Liu |
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| Institution: | a School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 410, Harbin 150001, PR China
b School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 407, Harbin 150001, PR China |
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| Abstract: | Hydrophobic crack-free alumina aerogel monoliths were fabricated by -Si(CH3)3 (trimethylsilyl substituent) modification of alcogels followed by an ambient pressure drying procedure. One-step solvent exchange and surface modification were simultaneously progressed by immersing alumina alcogels in trimethylmethoxysilane (TMMOS)/hexane solution. It is found that the hydrophobic property of alumina aerogels is affected by the contents of TMMOS from the measurements of contact angle and Fourier transform infrared spectrometry. Thermogravimetry/differential scanning calorimetry analyses reveal that the modified aerogels maintain their hydrophobic behavior up to a temperature of 260 °C. The structure and morphology of the obtained hydrophobic alumina aerogels were characterized by the measurements of N2 physical adsorption and scanning electron microscopy, which showed that they were highly porous materials with narrow slit-like pore geometry and a high degree of pore size uniformity. |
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| Keywords: | Hydrophobic Alumina aerogel Surface modification Siloxane |
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