Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Dow Chemical Company

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Tao Sun

Jackie Yi-Ru Ying

Juan M Garces

David R Wilson

Donald L Schmidt

Philippe Dubois

Yi-Hung Chiao

Dean M Millar

Lei Zhang

Michael Alexandre

Alexander Kuperman

David M Antonelli

Penny Jo Wallace

Nicholas P Sheridan

Marc Stephen Hirsch

Robert J E G Jerome

Miguel Garcia-Marti

Compositions comprising inorganic particles or inorganic-organic particles, a non-hydrogen Lewis Acid, and an epoxy group-containing silicon compound, articles coated with the cured composition to provide scratch and abrasion resistance.

Inorganic/organic compositions

The present invention is a nanocomposite which is a dispersion of nanofiller particles derived from layered metal oxides or metal oxide salts. The nanocomposite is advantageously prepared by first swelling an untreated clay in water, then removing the water to form an organophilic clay that is dispersible in non-polar organic solvents. The organophilic clay can then be treated with an alkyl aluminoxane and subsequently a catalyst to form a complex that promotes olefin or styrenic polymerization and platelet dispersion. The nanocomposite can be prepared directly by in situ polymerization of the olefin or the styrene at the nanofiller particles without shear, without an ion exchange step, and without the need to incorporate polar substituents into the polyolefin or polystyrene.

Polyolefin nanocomposites

Aluminum-magnesium silicate- or fluorinated magnesium silicate- aerogels which may be calcined, chemically modified, ion-exchanged, agglomerated, used as a component of a catalyst composition for an addition polymerization; supported versions thereof; and processes for polymerization are disclosed.

Ion exchanged aluminum-magnesium silicate or fluorinated magnesium silicate aerogels and catalyst supports therefrom

A system is provided including an article having a surface and a catalytic metal atom, capable of oxidation, covalently immobilized at the surface via a plurality of covalent bonds, but being free of direct covalent bonding to the surface. In particular, the invention relates to inorganic surfaces including silica, alumina, niobium oxide, or tantalum oxide, or a combination thereof and catalytic metal atoms including Fe, Mn, Cr, Ni, Co, Ru, and Os. The catalytic metal atom, covalently immobilized at the surface via a plurality of covalent bonds, can be immobilized via bonding through at least one atom that is bonded directly to the surface. The article preferably is an inorganic, mesoporous structure, in the pores of which are covalently bonded a plurality of metalloporphyrins. In particular, the catalytic metal atom, such as iron, manganese, chromium, nickel, cobalt, rhenium, and osmium are covalently bonded to a porphyrin structure which is bonded to an alumina or silica surface via bonds between the amine groups of the porphyrin structure of the alumina or silica surface. The invention also discloses supporting the catalytic metal atom bonded to the porphyrin structure via amine groups in the porphyrin and dopant atoms of the alumina or silica surface. Dopant atoms can include niobium and tantalum atoms.

Metalloporphyrin oxidation catalyst covalently coupled to an inorganic

The present invention relates to a composition and a method for producing hexagonally-packed mesoporous metal oxides wherein the metal oxide is selected from transition metals and lanthanide metals. The composition includes hexagonally packed metal oxide mesostructures that are resistant to pore collapse upon removal of surfactant and are thermally stable. The composition can include a surfactant complexed with the metal. Also described are methods for producing the hexagonally-packed mesoporous metal oxides. The present invention also relates to compositions and methods for producing porous metal oxides. The compositions include microporous and mesoporous metal oxides that are resistant to pore collapse upon removal of surfactant and are thermally stable. Also described are methods for producing microporous metal oxides.

Methods for preparing porous metal oxides

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