Silicone resin film, method of preparing same, and nanomaterial-filled silicone composition
AssigneeDow Corning Corporation
InventorsMark David Fisher, Bizhong Zhu
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Abstract
A method of preparing a silicone resin film, the method comprising coating a release liner with a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition comprising a hydrosilylation-curable silicone composition and a carbon nanomaterial, and heating the coated release liner at a temperature sufficient to cure the silicone resin; a silicone resin film prepared according to the preceding method; and a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition.
Claims17
A nanomaterial-filled silicone composition, comprising:
- a hydrosilylation-curable silicone composition comprising (A) a silicone resin having the formula (R1R22SiO1/2)w(R22SiO2/2)x(R1SiO3/2)y(SiO4/2)z (I), or (A′) a silicone resin having the formula (R1R52SiO1/2)w(R52SiO2/2)x(R5SiO3/2)y(SiO4/2)z (III), wherein R1 is C1to C10 hydrocarbyl or C1 to C10 halogen-substituted hydrocarbyl, both free of aliphatic unsaturation, R2 is R1 or alkenyl, R5 is R1 or —H, w is from 0 to 0.8, x is from 0 to 0.6, y is from 0 to 0.99, z is from 0 to 0.35, w+x+y+z=1, y+z/(w+x+y+z) is from 0.2 to 0.99, and w+x/(w+x+y+z) is from 0.01 to 0.8, provided the silicone resin (A) has an average of at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl groups per molecule or that the silicone resin (A′) has an average of at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule;
- and a carbon nanomaterial.
The nanomaterial-filled silicone composition according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the hydrosilylation-curable silicone composition further comprises (E) a reactive diluent comprising (i) an organosiloxane having an average of at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl groups per molecule and a viscosity of from 0.001 to 2 Pa·s at 25° C., wherein the viscosity of (E)(i) is not greater than 20% of the viscosity of the silicone resin of the silicone composition and the organosiloxane has the formula (R1R22SiO1/2)m(R22SiO2/2)n(R1SiO3/2)p(SiO4/2)q, wherein R1 is C1 to C10 hydrocarbyl or C1 to C10halogen-substituted hydrocarbyl, both free of aliphatic unsaturation, R2 is R1 or alkenyl, m is 0 to 0.8, n=0 to 1, p=0 to 0.25, q=0 to 0.2, m+n+p+q=1, and m+n is not equal to 0, provided when p+q=0, n is not equal to 0 and the alkenyl groups are not all terminal, and (ii) an organohydrogensiloxane having an average of at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule and a viscosity of from 0.001 to 2 Pa·s at 25° C., in an amount sufficient to provide from 0.5 to 3 moles of silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms in (E)(ii) per mole of alkenyl groups in (E)(i), wherein the organohydrogensiloxane has the formula (HR12SiO1/2)s(R1SiO3/2)t(SiO4/2)v, wherein R1 is C1 to C10 hydrocarbyl or C1 to C10 halogen-substituted hydrocarbyl, both free of aliphatic unsaturation, s is from 0.25 to 0.8, t is from 0 to 0.5, v is from 0 to 0.3, s+t+v=1, and t+v is not equal to 0.
A method of preparing a silicone resin film, the method comprising the steps of:
- coating a release liner with a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition, wherein the silicone composition comprises:
- a hydrosilylation-curable silicone composition comprising (A) a silicone resin having the formula (R1R22SiO1/2)w(R22SiO2/2)x(R1SiO3/2)y(SiO4/2)z(I) or (A′) a silicone resin having the formula (R1R52SiO1/2)w(R52SiO2/2)x(R5SiO3/2)y(SiO4/2)z(III), wherein R1 is C1 to C10 hydrocarbyl or C1to C10 halogen-substituted hydrocarbyl, both free of aliphatic unsaturation, R2 is R1 or alkenyl, R5 is R1or —H, w is from 0 to 0.8, x is from 0 to 0.6, y is from 0 to 0.99, z is from 0 to 0.35, w+x+y+z=1, y+z/(w+x+y+z) is from 0.2 to 0.99, and w+x/(w+x+y+z) is from 1.01 to 0.8, provided the silicone resin (A) has an average of at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl groups per molecule or that the silicone resin (A′) has an average of at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule, and a carbon nanomaterial;
- and heating the coated release liner at a temperature sufficient to cure the silicone resin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.