| abstract |
The present invention provides a treatment method for rendering inorganic oxide particles, such as TiO2 pigment, hydrophobic by predispersing a suitably reactive organohalosilane into an aqueous media, using intensive mixing means (such as a rotor stator emulsifier or inline static mixer) to form a reactive dispersion. When this dispersion is combined with inorganic oxide particles, such as TiO2 pigment, under sufficient agitation, a hydrophobic inorganic oxide can be formed. The oxides formed by the present invention have good mechanical properties, such as dispersibility in nonpolar substance (i.e., plastics), and they do not degrade physical properties of the pigmented nonpolar substance, such as lacing resistance of thermoplastics. |