A low-density gel product of the present disclosure has a skeleton containing a polysiloxane chain and an organic polymer chain. In the skeleton, the polysiloxane chain and the organic polymer chain are bonded to each other by covalent bonds at a plurality of positions on both of the chains with silicon atoms of the polysiloxane chain as bonding points. The organic polymer chain may be an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain. The polysiloxane chain may be a polyorganosiloxane chain. The low-density gel product of the present disclosure is a novel low-density gel product with improved mechanical properties including bending flexibility.

A low-density gel product of the present disclosure has a skeleton containing a polysiloxane chain and an organic polymer chain. In the skeleton, the polysiloxane chain and the organic polymer chain are bonded to each other by covalent bonds at a plurality of positions on both of the chains with silicon atoms of the polysiloxane chain as bonding points. The organic polymer chain may be an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain. The polysiloxane chain may be a polyorganosiloxane chain. The low-density gel product of the present disclosure is a novel low-density gel product with improved mechanical properties including bending flexibility.

A silirane-functionalized compound that consists of a substrate to which a least two silirane groups of the formula (1) are covalently bonded, a mixture containing the silirane-functionalized compounds, and a process for preparing siloxanes using the mixture are described herein.

A coating composition is provided herein, wherein the coating composition includes an organic binder and a polyorganosiloxane, optionally with a hardener. There is also provided a process for making the same coating composition.

The present invention relates to processes for making macromolecular networks, macromolecular networks made by such processes, and methods of using such macromolecular networks to make materials such as ceramics. The macromolecular network's formation rate is controlled by using two species of reactants each of which comprised one functionality. This results in decreased macromolecular network processing costs and superior products.

A transparent desiccant for organic EL and methods for using the transparent desiccant are described, which is a cured product of an organopolysiloxane composition that contains (A) an alkenyl-group-containing organopolysiloxane including a linear organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups per molecule, (B) chemical formula (I):
H.sub.aR.sub.bSiO.sub.(4-a-b)/2  (I)
(where R is a C1-10 monovalent hydrocarbon group, a is 0.001-1.0, and b is 0.7-2.1), and (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst. The number of mol Y of silicon-atom-bonded hydrogen atoms (mol) in component (B) satisfies the formula 0.002 (mol)≤(Y-X)≤0.8 (mol) relative to the number of mol X of silicon-atom-bonded alkenyl groups (mol) in component (A). The transparent desiccant for an organic EL is highly transparent, capable of top emission, has low shrinkage growth, suppresses loss of an element light-emitting portion, suppresses the short-circuit phenomenon, and has exceptional defoaming properties in the material curing process.

The present invention relates to two-component (2K) silicone-based adhesive compositions comprising an adhesion promotor, as well as to the use of such compositions. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to the use of a —Si(OR.sup.a).sub.3 terminated polyorganosiloxane prepolymer, as described herein, for improving the adhesive properties of silicone-based adhesive compositions.

A one-part low modulus room temperature vulcamsable (RTV) silicone composition comprising a titanate and/or zirconate catalyst which cures to a low modulus silicone elastomer which has a good adhesion profile and may be used as a non-staining (clean) sealant having high movement capability which compositions contains an aminosilane adhesion promoter having two hydroxyl or hydrolysable groups per molecule in an amount of 0.1-3.75% by weight of the composition.

Exemplary methods of forming a silicon-and-carbon-containing material may include flowing a silicon-and-carbon-containing precursor into a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be housed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include forming a plasma within the processing region of the silicon-and-carbon-containing precursor. The plasma may be formed at a frequency above 15 MHz. The methods may include depositing a silicon-and-carbon-containing material on the substrate. The silicon-and-carbon-containing material as-deposited may be characterized by a dielectric constant below or about 3.0.

The present invention relates to a hard coating film having a multilayer-structure and, specifically, to a hard coating film having a multilayer-structure, which has a low Vickers hardness (Hv) value while having an excellent scratch resistance together with flexibility.