Metal-doped organic gels and method thereof

Patent · Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2003

OSTI ID:1174474

Satcher, Jr., Joe H.; Baumann, Theodore F.

Disclosed herein is a sol-gel polymerization process for synthesizing metal-doped organic gels. The process polymerizes metal salts of hydroxylated benzenes or hydroxylated benzene derivatives with alkyl or aryl aldehydes to form metal-doped, wet, organic gels. The gels can then be dried by supercritical solvent extraction to form metal-doped aerogels or by evaporation to form metal-doped xerogels. The aerogels and xerogels can then be pyrolyzed.

• Research Organization: Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Assignee: The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
• Patent Number(s): 6,613,809
• Application Number: 10/132,783
• OSTI ID: 1174474
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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