Silicones

A silane molecule is made up of one central silicon atom attached to a combination of nearly any four organic or inorganic reactive or non-reactive groups. A silane that contains at least one carbon-silicon bond structure is known as an organosilane. 

Silanes react with themselves and any hydroxyl groups within inorganic substrates, often when moisture is present, to form a strong chemical bond that provides protection and durability. They can also be used as intermediates that react to produce silicates and siliconates, which offer stain resistance and improved physical properties in water-dilutable, neat products.

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Silicone cleaning solvents are specially designed to break the polymer bonds that compose silicone products. They are used to remove cured or uncured silicones from tools, pipes, kettles, and other manufacturing equipment to help reduce the risk of production contamination. Silicone cleaning solvents also promote industrial hygiene, worker safety, and equipment performance. Also, they can be used in the manufacturing process to help produce finished products.

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Silicone elastomers are a group of silicone materials that are heat stable and offer good resistance to extreme temperatures (ranging from -100 to 300° C). They come in many different forms and grades. Silicone elastomers are known for their moldability and use across many different industries and applications and are generally available in virtually any color.

Typically, silicone elastomers are used in various applications, from automotive applications, food preparation, electronics, and other industrial uses.

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Silicone emulsions consist of evenly dispersed insoluble silicones in water, most often with the use of a surfactant emulsifier surfactant. Silicone emulsions are either anionic, cationic, or non-ionic. Silicone emulsions are used across an extremely wide industry set with uses such as styling durability in beauty and personal care applications to sealants and film formers in construction and home care.

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Silicone fluids (sometimes referred to as silicone oils) are clear polydimethylsiloxane fluids in the family of silicones with varying viscosities ranging from free-flowing low-viscosity fluids to thicker, more viscous high or ultra-high viscosity fluids. Silicone fluids exhibit excellent thermal stability and resistance to moisture with little viscosity change over a wide range of temperatures. The typical utilization for silicone fluids can range from industrial uses to beauty and personal care applications and more.

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The INCI name for the XIAMETER™ PMX-200 Fluids is dimethicone.

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Silicones are especially effective in the use of foam control. Silicone foam control either acts to control or prevent foam from forming or can react with foam to help minimize it. Silicone foam control products come in a variety of forms from fluids, emulsions, and compounds to powders.

Univar Solutions offers a wide variety of silicone foam control products that are used to perform as processing aids, defoamers, foam preventers and deaeration in such industries as food & beverage processing, cleaning products, water treatment, metal & glass working, textile production, agriculture, and other chemical processing.

Silicone gum blends are siloxanes combined with gums to create a blended material that is used for higher-performing beauty and personal care products. Gum blends provide optimal performance in frizz control, shine, combing force retention, and heat protection.

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Silicone methyl siloxanes are used in a variety of applications to add slips to the application. They can also be used as an emulsifier and a smoothing agent. Silicone methyl siloxanes are often used in the beauty and personal care industry in hair care, antiperspirants and deodorants, cosmetics, and cleansing products.

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Silicone polymers are typically colorless fluids or rubber-like substances. Silicone polymers have a wide application use and are found in sealants, adhesives, lubricants, medicine, cooking utensils, thermal insulation, and electrical insulation.

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Silicone polyurethane additives allow for optimizing the chemistry system by improving emulsification and nucleation, preventing coalescence, stabilizing cell membranes, increasing ingredient compatibility and decreasing surface tension. Silicone polyurethane additives are used in applications from footwear & mattresses to automotive interiors and spray foam insulation, to name a few.
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Silicone pressure sensitive adhesives offer adhesion at ambient temperatures. Silicone pressure sensitive adhesives offer the following benefits: maintain packaging integrity, meet regulatory compliance requirements, increase impact strength, improve clarity and transparency, reduce breakages, lessen reliance on fossil fuels, improve functionality and aesthetic traits, offer wide service-temperature range, provide adhesion to low energy surfaces, enable clean removability, improve weather resistance (moisture resistance / UV resistance).

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Silicone resins are polymers comprised of a siloxane (silicon– oxygen) lattice with at least some portion comprised of the silicate (SiO4/2) or silsesquioxane (R-SiO3/2) structures, where R represents various alkyl or aryl organic groups (most commonly methyl or phenyl).

Silicone resins and binders provide: thermal resistance, moisture resistance, improved weatherability, color and gloss retention, compliance with VOC regulations, and organic resin compatibility.

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Siloxane intermediates can be used as a raw material or as an intermediate in producing other compounds. They have wide use benefits in beauty and personal care applications, coatings and sealants and chemical manufacturing and analytical research and development (R&D).

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Rheology modifiers are compounds or materials added to formulations to change the rheological properties. In formulations, they are used to increase viscosity and to control the finished product's properties and characteristics in a desired manner. Rheology modifiers can come in the form of organic and inorganic modifiers.

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