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LUDOX® TM-50 colloidal silica

50 wt. % suspension in H2O

Synonym(s):

Silica preparation

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About This Item

Linear Formula:
SiO2
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
60.08
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352309
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.22

description

colloidal

form

viscous liquid

concentration

50 wt. % suspension in H2O

surface area

~140 m2/g

pH

9.0

density

1.4 g/mL at 25 °C

SMILES string

O=[Si]=O

InChI

1S/O2Si/c1-3-2

InChI key

VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

LUDOX® TM-50 colloidal silica is an aqueous dispersion of silica particles with intermediate particle size and narrow particle size distribution.

Application

LUDOX® TM-50 colloidal silica can be used:
  • As a silica source to synthesize tetrapropylammonium(TPA)-silicate-1 colloidal particles.
  • As a removable template to prepare mesoporous carbon materials by using a resorcinol-formaldehyde resin as a carbon precursor.
  • As a separation layer to synthesize non-spherical flexible poly(butylacrylate) (PBA) polymer particles by concentrated emulsion polymerization.

Legal Information

LUDOX is a registered trademark of W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn.

Storage Class Code

12 - Non Combustible Liquids

WGK

nwg

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Templating synthesis of non-spherical polymer particles and their effect on the fracture toughness of an epoxy-amine network.
Du Z, et al.
Polymer International, 56(1), 82-87 (2007)
Preparation of Pt supported on mesoporous carbons for the reduction of oxygen in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC).
Joo JB, et al.
Journal of electroceramics, 17(2-4), 713-718 (2006)
The synthesis of discrete colloidal particles of TPA-silicalite-1.
Persson AE, et al.
Zeolites, 14(7), 557-567 (1994)
David M Brown et al.
Toxicology letters, 224(1), 147-156 (2014-01-28)
We investigated the effects of silica particles and nanoparticles (NPs) (50 nm and 200 nm) with a neutral and positively charged surface when dispersed in saline, bovine serum albumin (BSA) or lung lining fluid (LLF) 24 h post instillation into
Richard Hayes et al.
Journal of chromatography. A, 1357, 36-52 (2014-05-27)
The challenges in HPLC are fast and efficient separation for a wide range of samples. Fast separation often results in very high operating pressure, which places a huge burden on HPLC instrumentation. In recent years, core-shell silica microspheres (with a

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