I would like to synthesis materials through soft chemistry method. When I am reading the steps it is mentioned about polymerization process to obtained xerogel. Please kindly anyone could explain about it. Thank you.
There are no methods of soft chemistry. There are methods for synthesizing a soft mutter. Examples of soft substances: surfactant micelles, proteins, enzymes, supramolecular substances .... Solvents are involved in the organization of the volumetric form of these substances. Their shape, volume affects the temperature, pressure, solvents, inorganic electrolytes. Some of them are prepared by polymerization. They are usually water-soluble high-molecular compounds polyethylene oxide, polyacrylamide. When the conditions change, they form globules in the water. Globules combine and form gels.Therefore, they differ from a solid mutter.
It seems that you may be confused with the Soft-template method use to produce xerogels.
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