DLS and SAXS investigations of organic gels and aerogels

Autor: Cyrille Rochas, Patrick Achard, Anne-Marie Hecht, Nicolas Pinto, Gerard Pajonk, Sandrine Berthon, Françoise Bley, Erik Geissler, Frédéric Livet, Arnaud Rigacci, Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle, Olivier Barbieri
Přispěvatelé: Centre Énergétique et Procédés (CEP), MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut de chimie des surfaces et interfaces de Mulhouse (ICSIM), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique (LSP), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de thermodynamique et physico-chimie métallurgiques (LTPCM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Laboratoire d'Application de la Chimie à l'Environnement (LACE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Elsevier, 2001, 285 (1-3), pp.Pages 154-161. ⟨10.1016/S0022-3093(01)00447-1⟩
ISSN: 0022-3093
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3093(01)00447-1
Popis: 6th International Symposium on Aerogels (ISA-6) Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 08-11, 2000; International audience; Recent investigations have shown that the structure of organic aerogels can be significantly modified by changing the precursors, the solvent and the nature of the catalyst involved in the sol-gel reaction. It is therefore highly desirable to investigate the sol-gel mechanism. For this purpose, dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements have been performed at different stages of the reaction for base- or acid-catalyzed gelation of resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) using water or acetone as solvents. The structure of aged gels was investigated by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and compared to that of the aerogels obtained after exchange of solvent by supercritical CO2 and drying of the aged gels. It is shown that acid-catalyzed gelation of RF in acetone can be described by percolation, which explains that this series of aerogels consists of mass fractal aggregates (Dm = 2.5). The partial collapse of this polymeric gel yielding colloidal particles in the aerogel can be attributed to deswelling in supercritical CO2. DLS indicates that gelation of RF with a base catalyst yields a colloidal gel whose structure remains practically unchanged in the aerogel, as shown by SAXS.
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