A filler for electronic material according to the present invention has a silica particle material produced by a dry method, wherein D50 is 0.2 ?m or greater and 7.0 ?m or less. Further, in the filler for electronic material according to the present invention, (BET specific surface area)/(theoretical specific surface area calculated from D50) is 0.85 or greater and 1.2 or less (requirement 1), and/or D10/D50 is 0.55 or greater and 0.75 or less (requirement 2). When at least one of the requirements 1 and 2 is satisfied, electric characteristics such as a Df value are improved. Here, the BET specific surface area is a value measured by using nitrogen, and D50 is a 50 mass % cumulative diameter, i.e., a median diameter, and means a particle diameter at 50 mass % when the masses of particles are sequentially integrated from smaller particle diameters. Similarly, D10 is a 10 mass % cumulative diameter.

A modified bitumen composite includes bitumen, a multiplicity of particles comprising silicate, and a modifier comprising one or more organosilanes, one or more bio-oils, or both, wherein the modifier at least partially coats each particle of the multiplicity of particles. Making the modified bitumen composite includes combining bitumen, the multiplicity of particles comprising silicate, and the modifier to form a mixture, and heating the mixture to yield the modified bitumen composite.

In order to provide pigment particles and coating compositions comprising them that are suitable for demanding industrial protective coatings and coatings in the automobile sector, a proposal is made for pigment particles having a surface coating for use in a stratifying coating composition, where the surface coating of the pigment particles is formed using an organic, amino-functional component, which in particular has two or more amino groups, and a reactive, silane-functional component different from the aforesaid component.

A composite filler comprising thermally processed porous inorganic mixed particles of silica and at least one heteroparticle selected from the group consisting of zirconia, hafnia, or yttria and a polymer occupying the pores of the porous inorganic mixed particles, wherein the porous inorganic mixed particles are thermally processed at a temperature of from 650 to 900 C., as well as a dental restorative comprising a resin and a composite filler, and optionally other fillers, wherein said resin has a refractive index that increases upon curing, and wherein the opacities of the both uncured and cured restorative are less than 45.

Process for the preparation of a particulate dental filler composition, comprising the following steps: (a) introducing a mixture containing (al) a silica precursor component, and (a2) a solution or dispersion of one or more compounds selected from compounds of aluminum, zinc, titanium, zirconium, tungsten, ytterbium, hafnium, bismuth, barium, strontium, silver, tantalum, lanthanum, tin, boron, and cerium, into a pulsed reactor; (b) converting the silica precursor component and the compounds into a particulate mixed oxide with a pulsed gas flow resulting from flameless combustion; (c) isolating the particulate mixed oxide from the pulsed reactor; (d) optionally subjecting the particulate mixed oxide to a heat treatment step; and (e) treating the optionally heat-treated particulate mixed oxide with a silane treatment agent for obtaining a particulate dental filler composition.

This invention relates to a process for the preparation of a silica-treated functionalized resin composition comprising the steps of reacting a polymer backbone with a hydrosilylation agent to produce a silane-functionalized resin composition, wherein the polymer backbone is selected from at least one of dicyclopentadiene (DCPD)-based polymers, cyclopentadiene (CPD)-based polymers, DCPD-styrene copolymers, C.sub.5 homopolymers and copolymer resins, C.sub.5-styrene copolymer resins, terpene homopolymer or copolymer resins, pinene homopolymer or copolymer resins, C.sub.9 homopolymers and copolymer resins, C.sub.5/C.sub.9 copolymer resins, alpha-methylstyrene homopolymer or copolymer resins, and combinations thereof; and mixing the silane-functionalized resin composition with a silica to produce a silica-treated functionalized resin composition.

Hollow silica-based particles having cavities inside the outer shell having a low refractive index. The method of producing the silica-based particles comprises the following steps (a) and (b): (a) a step in which, when an aqueous silicate solution and/or an acidic silicic acid solution and an aqueous solution of an alkali-soluble inorganic compound are simultaneously added in an alkali aqueous solution to prepare a dispersion liquid of composite oxide particles, an electrolytic salt is added at the molar ratio of a mole number of the electrolytic salt (M.sub.E) versus that of SiO.sub.2 (M.sub.S) [(M.sub.E)/(M.sub.S)] in the range from 0.1 to 10, and (b) a step of furthermore adding an electrolytic salt, if necessary, to the dispersion liquid of composite oxide particles and then removing at least a portion of elements constituting the composite oxide other than silicon by adding an acid to prepare a dispersion liquid of silica-based particles.

A composite polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) preservative film, a preparation method and an application thereof are provided. The film includes PVA of 9-12 parts, modified silicon dioxide nanoparticles of 2-5 parts, antimicrobial of 0.3-2 parts and deionized water of 100 parts. Fruits and vegetables sensitive to sunlight have lower requirements for illumination while preserving. With PVA as matrix and silicon dioxide (SiO.sub.2) nanoparticles as modified materials, composite PVA is obtained by controlling a particle size of SiO.sub.2 and modifying its surface. The composite PVA preservative film takes advantages of different refractive indexes between PVA and SiO.sub.2 and controlling the particle size of SiO.sub.2, thereby having a low luminous transmittance. The preservative film has an effect of light-proof on fruits and vegetables suitable for light-proof storage, and improves its gas transmission and water resistance because of adding SiO.sub.2, thereby facilitating packaging preservation of the fruits and vegetables.

A method for manufacturing a modified silica product includes admixing a mercapto silane and a silica to form a hydrophobated silica, and treating the hydrophobated silica with an oxidizing agent. Likewise, a method for manufacturing a silica masterbatch with the modified silica product includes the admixing a mercapto silane solution and a silica slurry to form a hydrophobated silica slurry, and then treating the hydrophobated silica slurry with an oxidizing agent to form a modified silica slurry. The modified silica slurry is blended with a rubber latex, which is then coagulated to form the silica masterbatch. Rubber formulations and articles manufactured with one of the modified silica product and the silica masterbatch are also disclosed.

Forsterite particles have an average size of 0.1 m to 10 m and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0003 to 0.0025. Sphericity=(Average particle size (m) measured with a laser diffraction particle size distribution analyzer)/(Average primary particle size (m) calculated by conversion using specific surface area measured by a nitrogen gas adsorption method) may be from 1.0 to 3.3. This method for producing forsterite particles may include: step (A): mixing a magnesium compound as a magnesium source and a silicon compound as a silicon source so MgO/SiO.sub.2 has a molar ratio of 1.90 to 2.10 to prepare particles; step (B): putting the particles prepared in step (A) into a hydrocarbon combustion flame to recover the resulting particles; and step (C): firing the particles obtained in step (B) at 700 C. to 1100 C. The ratio between a resin and the particles may be 1:0.001 to 1000 by mass ratio.