1991 Volume 99 Issue 1146 Pages 178-179
Preparation of SiO2-TiO2 fibers containing various TiO2 contents by a new method was investigated. In order to obtain polytitanosiloxanes (PTS), a precursor, partially hydrolyzed tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) was brought into reaction with bis (2, 4-pentanedionato) titanium diisopropoxide (PTP) in methanol in various molar ratios of TEOS/PTP from 1 to 15. Concentration of the resultant methanol solutions of PTS gave sols with spinnability, from which SiO2-TiO2 ceramic fibers containing 5-50 TiO2 mol% were prepared.