Abstract: The invention provides dispersoids having metal-oxygen groups which are suitable for the production of metal oxide thin-films at a low temperature of 200° C. or below and for the production of homogeneous organic-inorganic hybrid materials. The invention also provides metal oxide thin-films and organic-inorganic hybrid materials endowed with various capabilities, particularly organic-inorganic hybrid materials having a high refractive index and high transparency. Use is made of a dispersoid having metal-oxygen bonds which is obtained by mixing a metal compound having at least three hydrolyzable groups with at least 0.5 mole but less than 2 moles of water per mole of the metal compound in an organic solvent, in the absence of an acid, a base and/or a dispersion stabilizer, and at a temperature at or below the temperature at which the metal compound begins to hydrolyze, then raising the temperature to at least the temperature at which hydrolysis begins.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing diantimony pentoxide having a high oxidation purity. A process for producing an aqueous sol of diantimony pentoxide, which comprises mixing diantimony trioxide (Sb2O3) and an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution in an aqueous medium, and after the temperature has reached from 50 to 80° C., reacting the diantimony trioxide with the aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution while keeping the reaction temperature at a level not higher by at least 10° C. than a desired set temperature in the temperature range, to thereby obtain a sol having dispersed in the aqueous medium diantimony pentoxide particles which have a primary particle size of from 2 to 50 nm and which have a diantimony trioxide/diantimony pentoxide weight ratio of not higher than 5 wt %.

Abstract: A process for producing an inorganic oxide organosol that has good dispersibility and low viscosity, has excellent transparency, and shows good compatibility with resin solutions, and includes the steps (A) and (B) of: (A) adding silicon alkoxide having two or more alkoxy groups bonded to a silicon atom or having one or more hydroxy groups bonded to a silicon atom and one or more alkoxy groups bonded to a silicon atom to a hydrophilic inorganic oxide sol containing a hydrophilic solvent having a boiling point (1 atm) of 100° C. or less in an amount of 25 to 100% by weight in a dispersion medium to treat surface of the inorganic oxide particles in the sol; and (B) replacing the dispersion medium of the surface treated inorganic oxide sol obtained in step (A) with a non-alcoholic organic solvent in the presence of a primary alcohol having 3 to 12 carbon atoms.

Abstract: There is provided a sol in which surface-modified colloidal particles are dispersed in a liquid, wherein the surface-modified colloidal particles are obtained by using anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles, metal oxides comprising tin atom, zinc atom, antimony atom and oxygen atom, or tin oxide-doped anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles as nuclei, and by coating the surface of the nuclei with an aluminum-containing substance (e.g., an aluminum chelating agent), a polymer type surfactant (e.g., a polycarboxylic acid ester or polyethylene glycol monoaliphatic acid ester surfactant) or both of them. The anhydrous zinc antimonate sol is used for several purposes such as transparent antistatic materials in the form of resin, plastic, glass, paper, magnetic tape or the like, transparent UV absorbers, transparent heat radiation absorbers, high refractive index hard coating agent, anti-reflective agent and the like.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing nanomaterial dispersions, such as nanomaterial concentrates, and related nanotechnology are provided. The nanomaterial concentrates provided can be more cheaply stored and transported compared to non-concentrate nanomaterial forms.

Abstract: Agglomerated nanoparticles including Ti/Sb mixed oxide nanoparticles having a rutile-like crystalline phase content of at least 20 weight percent, wherein the nanoparticles have at least one organic moiety bound to the nanoparticle surface, and wherein the weight ratio of antimony to titanium in the Ti/Sb mixed oxide nanoparticles is in a range of from at least 0.42 up to and including 2.93. The agglomerated nanoparticles are redispersible into a liguid vehicle.

Abstract: Backside conductive layers with increased conductive efficiency can be provided for thermally developable materials by formulating hydrophilic metal oxide clusters in a hydrophobic environment using low shear mixing conditions. The dry thickness and coating weight of the conductive layer are thereby reduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a diantimony pentoxide sol, characterized in that a diantimony pentoxide sol having a particle size of 5 to 30 nm is used as a nuclear sol and the sol is grown to an arbitrary particle size, preferably a particle size of 40 to 300 nm. The process comprises adding a hydrogen peroxide solution and diantimony trioxide into a sol comprising diantimony pentoxide particles as a raw material, and coating the diantimony pentoxide particles with a resulting antimony compound, preferably diantimony pentoxide. In the process, the coating is preferably carried out in such a manner that a particle size of particles in a sol as a raw material increases by a factor of 1.3 to 60.

Abstract: A stable modified metal oxide sol which contains from 2 to 50 wt %, as calculated as metal oxides, of particles (c) comprising colloidal particles (a) of a metal oxide having primary particle diameters of from 2 to 60 nm, as nuclei, and a coating material (b) consisting of colloidal particles of an acidic oxide coated on the surface of the particles (a), and which has primary particle diameters of from 2 to 100 nm.

Abstract: An anhydrous zinc antimonate sol comprising a surface-modified anhydrous zinc antimonate colloid particles dispersed in a liquid, the surface-modified anhydrous zinc antimonate colloid particles comprising anhydrous zinc antimonate colloid particles as nuclei and a silicon-containing substance coating surfaces of the colloid particles, the sol containing an amine and/or an hydroxycarboxylic acid and a method for producing the same. The anhydrous zinc antimonate sol of the present invention is useful as transparent antistatic materials for resins, plastics, glasses, paper, and magnetic tapes, etc., transparent ultraviolet absorbents, transparent heat wave absorbents, high refractive index hard coating agents, antireflective agents, and the like.

Abstract: Process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of antimony pentoxide sol useful for flame retardancy consisting of the steps forming an aqueous dispersion of phosphated antimony pentoxide sol; mixing the aqueous dispersion with a water-soluble alkanol amine; and concentrating the dispersion to provide an aqueous dispersion containing at least 50 percent by weight of antimony pentoxide; and aqueous antimony pentoxide sol dispersions prepared thereby.