Gelling
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The term gel is very familiar to many of us. Whether it is when cooking a sauce or for applying in your hair, gel is often seen at its simplest form.
Silica particles can form a gel by linking together along siloxane bridges in branched chains that fill the volume of the colloidal dispersion limiting liquid and solid transport. The overall medium becomes viscous and is solidified by a coherent network of particles which, by capillary forces, retains the liquid component. This function is applied in soil stabilization and VRLA batteries. Often this function is used in combination with other functions (i.e. gelling and binder functions in ceramics).
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