Everything about Silicone Resin totally explained
Silicone resins are a type of
silicone material which is formed by branched, cage-like oligosiloxanes with the general formula of R
nSiX
mO
y, where R is a non reactive substituent, usually
Me or
Ph, and X is a functional group
H,
OH,
Cl or
OR. These groups are further condensed in many applications, to give highly crosslinked, insoluble
polysiloxane networks.
When R is methyl, the four possible functional siloxane monomeric units are described as follows:
- "M" stands for Me3SiO,
- "D" for Me2SiO2,
- "T" for MeSiO3 and
- "Q" for SiO4.
Note that a network of only Q groups becomes
fused quartz.
The most abundant silicone resins are built of D and T units (DT resins) or from M and Q units (MQ resins), however many other combinations (MDT, MTQ, QDT) are also used in industry.
Silicone resins represent a broad range of products. Materials of molecular weight in the range of 1000-10 000 are very useful in pressure sensitive adhesives, silicone rubbers, coatings and additives.
Silicone resins are prepared by
hydrolytic condensation of various silicone s. In early processes of preparation of silicone resins
sodium silicate and various
chlorosilanes were used as starting materials. Although the starting materials were the least expensive ones (something typical for industry), structural control of the product was very difficult. More recently, a less reactive
tetraethoxysilane - (TEOS) or
ethyl polysilicate and various disiloxanes are used as starting materials.
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