Silicates are a useful backbone for creating reinforced layered materials because sheets within the silicate are flexible and extremely organized. Apophyllite, which is the silicate modified in this study, is a single layer sheet silicate that has the ability to be chemically modified to have new organic groups attached on both sides of the silicate sheet; these single sheets can be modified into organosilicate systems. The resulting organosilicate system, with covalently bound siloxy groups on the surface of the silicate, has properties from both the parent silicate and the attached pendant groups. The new materials have functionalized groups that allow for additional reactions and further modifications to occur.<br/><br/>In this experiment, a series of systems with various pendant R groups were produced and characterized. New materials were synthesized to study how the various R groups would react when attached to the backbone of the starting material. The library of different compounds was investigated further in order to find their ability to form uniform suspensions in a variety of solvents and be spin coated.

Synthesis and spin-coating studies of a series of organosilicate systems

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