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Method for preventing leaching of contaminants from solid surfaces

Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co Ltd
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Filing: 1979-12-06
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Granted: 1983-05-24
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Expires: 1999-12-06
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Abstract

Abstract An efficient method is proposed for preventing leaching of contaminants from the surface of a solid, such as sodium ions from the surface of soda glass or nickel, chromium or iron from the surface of stainless steel in order to minimize detrimental contamination of highly pure substances in contact with the solid surface. The effect is basically obtained by providing a coating film of oxidized silicon on to the solid surface and the coating film is formed by applying a coating solution containing a hydroxysilane compound to the surface followed by baking of the coating layer at a temperature not lower than 150° C., the coating solution being prepared by the equilibration reaction of an alkoxysilane with a carboxylic acid and an alcohol, of an acyloxysilane with an alcohol, or of an alkoxysilane with water in an alcohol where the molar ratios of the individual reactants are in the specified ranges.

Inventors

  • 👤 Muneo Nakayama
  • 👤 Hisashi Nakane
  • 👤 Akira Yokota
  • 👤 Shingo Asaumi

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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CPC Classifications
C; C09; C09D; C09D5/00; C03; C03C; C03C17/00; C03C17/001; C03C17/003; C03C17/004; C03C17/22; C03C17/23; C09D4/00; C23; C23C; C23C18/00; C23C18/02; C23C18/12; C23C18/1204; C23C18/1208; C23C18/1216; C23C18/1229; C23C18/1241; C23C18/1245; C23C18/125; C23C18/1283; C03C2217/00; C03C2217/20; C03C2217/21; C03C2217/213; C03C2217/70; C03C2217/78; C03C2218/00; C03C2218/10; C03C2218/11

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim 118 words
A method of preventing leaching of a contaminant from the surface of a solid which comprises (a) providing a coating layer on the surface of the solid with a coating solution containing a hydroxysilane compound represented by the general formula R.sub.n Si(OH).sub.4-n where R is a group selected from the class consisting of hydrocarbon groups, alkoxy groups and acyloxy groups and n is a number of 0, 1, 2 or 3, and (b) heating the thus coated solid under oxidizing conditions at a temperature not lower than 150° C. to form on the surface a coating film of oxidized silicon which prevents leaching, and wherein the hydroxysilane compound is a reaction product of an acyloxysilane with an alcohol.
Claim 2
Independent Claim 118 words
A method of preventing leaching of a contaminant from the surface of a solid which comprises (a) providing a coating layer on the surface of the solid with a coating solution containing a hydroxysilane compound represented by the general formula R.sub.n Si(OH).sub.4-n where R is a group selected from the class consisting of hydrocarbon groups, alkoxy groups and acyloxy groups and n is a number of 0, 1, 2 or 3, and (b) heating the thus coated solid under oxidizing conditions at a temperature not lower than 150° C. to form on the surface a coating film of oxidized silicon which prevents leaching, and wherein the hydroxysilane compound is a reaction product of an acyloxysilane with an alcohol.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 13 words
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the acyloxysilane is an acetoxysilane.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 23 words
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the amount of the alcohol is at least 4 moles per mole of the acyloxysilane.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 22 words
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the heating in the step (b) is carried out for at least 10 minutes.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 23 words
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the coating film of the oxidized silicon has a thickness of at least 0.1 μm.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 19 words
A method according to claim 1 wherein said step (b) of heating comprises heating the coated solid in air.
Claim 8
Independent Claim 120 words
A method of preventing leaching of a contaminant from the surface of a solid which comprises (a) providing a coating layer on the surface of the solid with a coating solution containing a hydroxysilane compound represented by the general formula R.sub.n Si(OH).sub.4-n where R is a group selected from the class consisting of hydrocarbon groups, alkoxy groups and acyloxy groups and n is a number of 0, 1, 2 or 3, and (b) heating the thus coated solid under oxidizing conditions at a temperature not lower than 150° C. to form on the surface a coating film of oxidized silicon which prevents leaching, and wherein the hydroxysilane compound is a reaction product of a tetraalkoxysilane with water in an alcohol.
Claim 9
Independent Claim 120 words
A method of preventing leaching of a contaminant from the surface of a solid which comprises (a) providing a coating layer on the surface of the solid with a coating solution containing a hydroxysilane compound represented by the general formula R.sub.n Si(OH).sub.4-n where R is a group selected from the class consisting of hydrocarbon groups, alkoxy groups and acyloxy groups and n is a number of 0, 1, 2 or 3, and (b) heating the thus coated solid under oxidizing conditions at a temperature not lower than 150° C. to form on the surface a coating film of oxidized silicon which prevents leaching, and wherein the hydroxysilane compound is a reaction product of a tetraalkoxysilane with water in an alcohol.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 36 words
The method as claimed in claim 7 wherein the amounts of water and the alcohol are in the ranges from 2 to 5 moles and from 3 to 30 moles per mole of the tetraalkoxysilane, respectively.

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