Patent ID: 9700872
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B01D,B01J,G01N

Claim:
1. A superpolar sorbent network, comprising a sol-gel network of at least one metal oxide precursor condensed with at least one polyhydroxy molecule where the network comprises units with metal-oxygen-metal groups and units with metal-oxygen-carbon groups respectively bonded to the at least one polyhydroxy molecule of one or more of the structures: where there is a random placement of units within the network, where units from tetraalkoxysilanes are 0-100 weight percent of the network, where units from trialkoxysilanes are 0 to 100 weight percent of the network, and optionally comprising units from dialkoxysilanes at 0 to 99 weight percent of the network, where the polyhydroxy molecule has differing patterns and degrees of condensation, where optionally, the silicon-oxygen-silicon groups and the silicon-oxygen-carbons groups of the structure are replaced with metal-oxygen-metal groups and metal-oxygen-carbon groups of another metal where the another metal is aluminum, titanium, zirconium, or germanium from at least one aluminate precursor, titanate precursor, zirconate precursor, or germinate precursor, and where, optionally, the polyhydroxy units from sucrose are replaced with the polyhydroxy units of an another organic molecule comprising a multiplicity of hydroxyl groups.