Methods, compositions, and biomimetic catalysts for the synthesis of silica, polysilsequioxanes, polysiloxanes, non-silicon metalloid-oxygen networks, polymetallo-oxanes, and their organic or hydrido conjugates and derivatives
US7335717B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 22, 2004 |
| Grant date | Feb 26, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 15, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC08G77/06
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The in vitro polymerization of silica, silicone, non-silicon metalloid-oxane and metallo-oxane polymer networks, by combining a catalyst and a substrate to polymerize the substrate to form silica, polysiloxanes, polymetalloid-oxanes polymetallo-oxanes (metal oxides), polyorganometalloid oxanes, polyorganometallo oxanes, and the polyhydrido derivatives thereof, at about neutral pH. The nanostructure-directing catalysts have a nucleophilic functionality and a hydrogen-bonding acceptor group, and include: silicateins, enzymes that work by a mechanism functionally related to that of the silicateins; self-assembling peptides related to those synthesized and demonstrated capable of acting as biomimetic substitutes for the silicateins; non-peptide-based synthetic polymers containing a nucleophilic group and a hydrogen bonding amine such that the polymer functions by a mechanism of action related to that of the silicateins; materials having such chemical functionality as a nucleophilic group and or a hydrogen bonding amine which, acting in concert with nanoconfinement and or chemical functionality of the surface or matrix to which the functionality is attached, acts catalytically by a mech…
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