JP2008094646A - Surface-coated zinc oxide and method of manufacturing the same, and ultraviolet light shielding composition using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide zinc oxide from which the elution of zinc to an aqueous solvent is suppressed and which has enhanced thixotropy by coating with silica. <P>SOLUTION: A surface-coated zinc oxide has the surface of the particles of the zinc oxide coated with co-precipitate containing titania and silica and has pH of ≥7 in powder. The above zinc oxide having the coated surface is manufactured by neutralizing a titanium compound and a silicon compound in aqueous slurry of zinc oxide at pH of 8.0-10.0 to form a coating film of the co-precipitate containing titania and silica. The zinc oxide is used as ultraviolet light shielding material blended in cosmetics, coating materials, plastics, papers and the like. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to zinc oxide having a particle surface coated, a method for producing the same, and an ultraviolet shielding composition using the same.

Zinc oxide is used in various applications such as white pigments, UV shielding materials, adsorbents, photocatalysts, catalysts, and is actively used as UV shielding materials for cosmetics, paints, plastics, papers, etc. .
Ultraviolet rays are roughly divided into three regions A, B, and C in order of increasing wavelength. Since the ultraviolet rays in the C region having a wavelength of 200 to 290 nm are shielded by the ozone layer, in general, skin damage such as sunburn and inflammation is caused by the A region having a wavelength of 320 to 380 nm and the B region having a wavelength of 290 to 320 nm. It is said that. It is said that ultraviolet rays in the B region, so-called UVB, have the greatest effect on the skin, and conventionally, sunscreen cosmetics have been focused on protecting the skin from UVB. On the other hand, ultraviolet rays in the A region, so-called UVA, have a gentle effect on the skin compared to UVB, but are contained in a large amount in sunlight, and because they are highly permeable, they easily cause damage in the deep part of the skin. In recent years, attention has also been paid to UVA shielding ability.
Various inorganic oxides are used as materials having UVA shielding ability. Among them, zinc oxide is excellent in protecting the skin from UVA, has high visible light transparency and transparency, and is tanned. Widely used as an ultraviolet shielding material used in cosmetics. However, zinc oxide has a relatively high solubility in water as an inorganic oxide, and has a disadvantage that zinc oxide is easily eluted in an aqueous solvent used in cosmetics. In addition, since zinc oxide has a high photocatalytic activity, it also has a problem of decomposing and altering organic components such as oils and surfactants contained in cosmetics. For this reason, a dense amorphous silica coating is preferably applied by adhering a separate coating of at least two different hydrated metal oxides such as silica, titania, alumina, zirconia, etc. to the zinc oxide particle surface. A technique (Patent Document 1) that inactivates zinc oxide by coating alumina on top is known. In addition, the surface of zinc oxide is coated with an oxide or hydroxide of Al, Si, Zr, Sn (Patent Document 2), or coated with high-density silica (Patent Document 3), thereby improving water elution. Techniques for suppressing or suppressing the photocatalytic activity are known.

JP-A-8-104823 Japanese Patent No. 2851885 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-302015

  In order to suppress the water elution property and photocatalytic activity of zinc oxide, it is preferable to apply silica coating on the surface of zinc oxide particles as in the above prior art, but a large amount of silica is coated to obtain desired characteristics. There is a problem that thixotropy (thixotropy) is remarkably increased with the necessity, and the filtration / cleaning property is lowered, and the productivity of the dehydrated cake is deteriorated, resulting in low productivity.

  As a result of intensive studies to solve these problems, the inventors of the present invention have a thixotropic, thixotropic, dehydrated cake having a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica on the surface of zinc oxide particles. The present inventors completed the present invention by discovering that the mold maintainability was improved, and that the water elution was further improved when the powder pH was 7 or more.

That is, the present invention
(1) Zinc oxide coated with a surface having a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica on the particle surface of zinc oxide, wherein the powder pH is 7 or more,
(2) In an aqueous slurry of zinc oxide, at least a titanium compound and a silicon compound are neutralized in a pH range of 8.0 to 10.0 to form a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica. A method for producing zinc oxide coated on the surface, wherein the powder pH is 7 or more,
(3) An ultraviolet shielding composition comprising zinc oxide covering the surface.

The zinc oxide of the present invention has a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica on the particle surface, and since the powder pH is 7 or more, zinc elution into an aqueous solvent can be suppressed, Even when an acidic solvent is used, the zinc elution amount can be kept low. Moreover, the photocatalytic activity of zinc oxide can also be suppressed.
Moreover, by using fine particles of zinc oxide, the ultraviolet shielding ability and transparency are excellent. For this reason, it is useful as an ultraviolet shielding material to be blended in cosmetics, paints, plastics, paper, etc., and since the amount of zinc elution into an aqueous solvent is low, the amount of blending of non-aqueous solvents such as oils can be reduced. Can be set freely.
Furthermore, since the zinc oxide particle surface is coated with a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica, thixotropy (thixotropic properties) due to the use of silica can be suppressed, and the moldability of the dehydrated cake can be improved. Since solid-liquid separation can be performed by commonly used means such as pressure filtration, vacuum filtration, and suction filtration, productivity can be improved.

The present invention is a zinc oxide having a surface coated with a zinc oxide particle surface having a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica and having a powder pH of 7 or more. The powder pH of zinc oxide can be measured by the following method, and when the powder pH is in the range of 7 or more, the water elution of zinc can be improved, preferably in the range of 7.5 to 12 Is more preferable, and is more preferably in the range of 8 to 11 because it is difficult to elute even in an aqueous solvent whose pH is adjusted to a weakly acidic region as in some cosmetics. The range of is most preferable.
(Powder pH value measurement method)
10 g of a sample is stirred with 50 ml of pure water for 30 minutes, dispersed in pure water, and the pH of the dispersion is measured.

  The zinc oxide used in the present invention can be applied to any size, but the smaller the zinc oxide particle diameter, the better the effect of the present invention can be achieved. For example, the average particle diameter of zinc oxide is 1.0 μm. If it is about or less, it is more preferable, and if it is about 0.1 μm or less, it is more preferable. On the other hand, from the viewpoint of the functionality of zinc oxide, if the average particle diameter (50% cumulative diameter by electron microscopy) is in the range of 0.001 to 0.1 μm, the ultraviolet shielding ability and transparency are excellent. Preferably, the thing of the range of 0.005-0.05 micrometer is more preferable. Further, the particle shape of zinc oxide is not particularly limited, and regular particles such as spherical, substantially spherical, and anisotropic shapes, and irregular particles such as agglomerates can be used. Also, the production method of zinc oxide is not limited, and is obtained by a known method such as a so-called wet method in which a zinc salt is neutralized in a solution and then heated and fired, and metal zinc is heated and melted and evaporated. Thereafter, what is obtained by a so-called dry method of oxidation can be used.

The coprecipitate covering the zinc oxide particle surface is a precipitate containing at least two kinds of titania and silica, and precipitates together under the condition that the components forming the coprecipitate are simultaneously or simultaneously precipitated. Or the phenomenon of co-precipitation (also called co-precipitation, induced precipitation, induced precipitation), that is, under the condition that it does not precipitate if alone, it is accompanied by the precipitation of other components at the same time or simultaneously It is obtained by utilizing the phenomenon of precipitation together. For example, in addition to the coprecipitate of each component constituting the coprecipitate, the coprecipitate, a mixture of each precipitated component, a composite oxide of each component, and the like are included. The coating of the coprecipitate may be in a state in which the coprecipitate is present on at least a part of the zinc oxide particle surface, and is preferably in a state in which almost all of the particle surface is present and can be observed with an electron microscope. The state in which is formed is more preferable.
As a component constituting the coprecipitate, at least titania and silica may be contained, and in addition to titania and silica, for example, metal oxides such as aluminum, zirconium, and tin may be appropriately included. Titania is a compound that includes anhydrous oxides, hydrated oxides, hydrated oxides, and hydroxides of titanium. Silica refers to anhydrous oxides, hydrated oxides, hydrated oxides, and hydroxides of silicon. Including compounds. In addition, metal oxides such as aluminum, zirconium, and tin include those anhydrous metal oxides, hydrated metal oxides, hydrated metal oxides, and metal hydroxides. The coprecipitate may contain a composite oxide of titanium and silicon, and a metal oxide such as aluminum, zirconium, or tin may be appropriately included in the composite oxide of titanium and silicon. Furthermore, a composite oxide of titanium and aluminum, zirconium, tin, or the like and silica may be included, or a composite oxide of silicon and aluminum, zirconium, tin, or the like, and titania may be included.

Although the coating amount of the coprecipitate can be set as appropriate, titania contained in the coprecipitate is preferably in the range of 0.5 to 20% by weight in terms of TiO ₂ with respect to zinc oxide. When the content of titania is less than the above range, it is difficult to suppress thixotropy (thixotropy) due to the use of silica, and even if it is increased, further improvement is difficult to obtain. On the other hand, the photocatalytic activity by titania increases. Is also not preferable. A more preferable coating amount of titania is in the range of 1 to 10% by weight. Although it silica appropriately contained in the coprecipitate, in terms of SiO ₂ with respect to zinc oxide, preferably in the range of 10 to 50 wt%. If the silica content is less than the above range, it is not preferable because it is difficult to obtain the desired water elution properties of zinc and the photocatalytic activity of zinc oxide and titania, and if it is more than the above range, thixotropy is used even when titania is used in combination. This is not preferable because an improvement effect of (thixotropic) is difficult to obtain. A more preferable coating amount is in the range of 20 to 50% by weight, and more preferably in the range of 25 to 40% by weight. It is known that silica takes different modes such as porous silica and high-density silica depending on the coating method. For example, when a water-soluble silicon compound is neutralized at a relatively low temperature in a short time, a porous silica coating is obtained, and when neutralized over a long time at a high temperature, a high-density silica is obtained. In the present invention, any of them can be used to impart the desired water elution property and the effect of suppressing the photocatalytic activity, or both may be used in combination. As described above, porous silica is industrially preferable because it requires less energy for production and can be produced in a short time. Whether the coated silica is porous or dense can be confirmed by measuring and comparing the specific surface areas of those coated with the same amount in terms of SiO ₂ . That is, if the silica coating is porous, the specific surface area is larger than that of high-density silica.

  In addition, an inorganic compound, for example, a metal oxide such as titanium, aluminum, zirconium, tin or the like, or a metal oxide thereof, as long as the effect of the present invention is not impaired between the zinc oxide particle surface and the coprecipitate coating. A coating of phosphate, silica or the like can also be provided.

  In the present invention, on the surface of the coating containing the coprecipitate, an inorganic compound, for example, an oxide of aluminum, zirconium, tin or the like, or a phosphate thereof, as long as the effects of the present invention are not impaired. A coating layer such as silica can also be provided. Further, for the purpose of imparting dispersibility to solvents, paints, plastics, etc., an organic compound may be further coated on the outermost part. Examples of organic compounds to be used include (1) organosilicon compounds ((a) organopolysiloxanes (dimethylpolysiloxane, methylhydrogen polysiloxane, methylmethoxypolysiloxane, methylphenylpolysiloxane, dimethylpolysiloxanediol, dimethylpolysiloxane) Dihydrogen and the like or copolymers thereof), (b) organosilanes (aminosilane, epoxy silane, methacryl silane, vinyl silane, mercapto silane, chloroalkyl silane, alkyl silane, fluoroalkyl silane, etc. or their hydrolysis products ), (C) organosilazanes (hexamethylsilazane, hexamethylcyclotrisilazane, etc.), (2) organometallic compounds ((a) organotitanium compounds (aminoalkoxytitanium, phosphates) Tertitanium, carboxylic acid ester titanium, sulfonic acid ester titanium, titanium chelate, phosphite titanium complex, etc.), (b) organoaluminum compound (aluminum chelate, etc.), (c) organozirconium compound (carboxylate zirconium, zirconium) Chelate etc.), (3) polyols (trimethylolpropane, trimethylolethane, pentaerythritol etc.), (4) alkanolamines (monoethanolamine, diethanolamine, triethanolamine, monopropanolamine, dipropanolamine, Tripropanolamine etc.) or derivatives thereof (organic acid salts such as acetate, oxalate, tartrate, formate, benzoate, etc.), (5) higher fatty acids (stearic acid, lauric acid) Oleic acid, etc.) or metal salts thereof (aluminum salt, zinc salt, magnesium salt, calcium salt, barium salt, etc.), (5) higher hydrocarbons (paraffin wax, polyethylene wax, etc.) or derivatives thereof (perfluorinated products, etc.) These organic compounds may be used singly or in combination of two or more, and when used in cosmetics, it is preferable to use organopolysiloxanes and higher fatty acids. The coating amount of the organic compound is preferably from 0.1 to 50% by weight, more preferably from 0.1 to 30% by weight, based on zinc oxide.

  Next, the present invention provides a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica by neutralizing at least a titanium compound and a silicon compound in a pH range of 8.0 to 10.0 in an aqueous zinc oxide slurry. It is a method for producing zinc oxide having a surface coated with a powder pH of 7 or more.

  When the zinc oxide is slurried, it may be appropriately dispersed by using a wet pulverizer such as a vertical sand mill, a horizontal sand mill, or a ball mill according to the degree of aggregation of the zinc oxide. The concentration of zinc oxide in the aqueous slurry is not particularly limited and is appropriately set according to production equipment, production capacity, etc., but is preferably in the range of 5 to 200 g / liter, more preferably in the range of 20 to 100 g / liter. .

Water-soluble compounds such as titanium chloride and titanium sulfate are preferably used for the titanium compound used for titania precipitation, and sodium silicate, potassium silicate, silica sol, etc. may be used for the silicon compound used for silica precipitation. Water-soluble compounds such as sodium silicate are preferably used. As sodium silicate, sodium orthosilicate, sodium sesquisilicate, sodium metasilicate and the like can be used, and sodium silicate No. 1 (SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio is 2) which is an aqueous solution of sodium silicate, No. 2 (SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio is 2.5), No. 3 (SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio is 3), No. 4 (SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio is 4), N special sodium silicate (SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio: 3.80 to 4.10), C special sodium silicate (SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio: 3.30 to 3.50), AP silicate (SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio: 4.25 to 4.45) (all manufactured by Nippon Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.) can be preferably used, and SiO ₂ / Na ₂ O molar ratio. Use sodium silicate of 3 or more Preferred for sodium content remaining is less. As the neutralizing agent, an acidic compound or a basic compound is appropriately selected and used according to the titanium compound or silicon compound to be used. Examples of acidic compounds include inorganic acids such as sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, and organic acids such as acetic acid and formic acid, and basic compounds include alkali metals or alkaline earth metals such as sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, and calcium hydroxide. And alkali metal or alkaline earth metal carbonates such as sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate, and ammonium compounds such as ammonia, ammonium carbonate and ammonium nitrate.

The titanium compound, silicon compound, and neutralizing agent may be added separately, but when an acidic compound such as titanium chloride or titanium sulfate is used as the titanium compound, the titanium compound and the silicon compound are prevented from being eluted. It is preferable to add the basic compound of the neutralizing agent and the neutralizing agent simultaneously in parallel while maintaining the pH of the aqueous slurry in the above range. The slurry temperature at the time of neutralization is preferably room temperature or higher because the reaction between the titanium compound and the silicon compound and the neutralizing agent is easy to proceed. When the slurry temperature is 100 ° C. or lower, no special equipment such as a pressure vessel is required industrially. preferable. A more preferable temperature range is 40 to 90 ° C. There is no restriction | limiting in particular in neutralization time, It can set suitably.
After neutralizing the titanium compound and the silicon compound, it is preferably aged for a certain period of time, desirably 10 minutes to 1 hour. After aging, confirm that the pH of the slurry is 7 or more, preferably 8.0 or more, and adjust the pH of the surface-coated zinc oxide to be within the above range if the pH is low. Can be adjusted within the range. As the form of silica, porous silica and high-density silica can be selected as appropriate, and they are determined by the temperature during neutralization and the neutralization time. When coating industrially advantageous porous silica, if the coating amount is in the range of 20 to 50% by weight in terms of SiO ₂ described above, the temperature during neutralization is preferably in the range of room temperature to 60 ° C. The time is preferably in the range of 10 to 60 minutes. When coating high density silica, the temperature during neutralization is set to 60 ° C. or higher, and the neutralization time is set to 60 minutes or longer. Further, when a metal oxide such as aluminum, zirconium or tin is appropriately included in the coating of the coprecipitate, these compounds, titanium compound and silicon compound may be neutralized together.

In order to coat the inorganic compound between the coating of zinc oxide and the coprecipitate, the inorganic compound is previously neutralized in an aqueous slurry of zinc oxide and then coated by the above method. The coating can be formed.
In addition, in order to coat the inorganic compound or the organic compound after forming the coating of the coprecipitate, the inorganic compound or the organic compound is added and neutralized in the aqueous slurry of zinc oxide having the coating of the coprecipitate. And can be coated. As another method for coating the organic compound, the organic compound can be added and mixed in the dry pulverization described later.

  After forming the coating of the coprecipitate, if necessary, it is filtered and washed to separate the solid and liquid, followed by drying and dry pulverization to obtain a zinc oxide powder having a coated surface. For solid-liquid separation, a filter that is usually used industrially, such as a filter press or a roll press, can be used. Band-type heaters, batch-type heaters, spray dryers, etc. are used for drying. Impact-type crushers such as hammer mills and pin mills are used for dry-type grinding. For example, a compression pulverizer such as a jet mill or an airflow pulverizer such as a jet mill can be used.

  Next, the present invention is an ultraviolet shielding composition containing at least the surface-coated zinc oxide. When the average particle diameter (50% cumulative diameter by electron microscopy) is in the range of 0.001 to 0.1 μm, zinc oxide used in the ultraviolet shielding composition is excellent in ultraviolet shielding ability and transparency. Therefore, the thing of the range of 0.005-0.05 micrometer is still more preferable. Specific examples of UV shielding compositions include sunscreen cosmetics, cosmetics such as basic cosmetics, paints, plastics, etc. In addition to the conventional ingredients used for them, an appropriate amount of surface-coated zinc oxide is blended Used. For example, for cosmetics, in addition to the surface-coated zinc oxide, known components that are usually used in cosmetics, such as (1) solvents (water, lower alcohols, etc.), (2) oil agents (higher fatty acids, higher grades) Alcohols, organopolysiloxanes (silicone oil), hydrocarbons, oils and fats), (3) surfactants (anionic, cationic, amphoteric, nonionic, etc.), (4) humectants (glycerins) (5) Organic ultraviolet absorbers (benzophenone derivatives, paraaminobenzoic acid derivatives, salicylic acid derivatives, etc.), (6) Antioxidants (phenolic, organic acids, etc.) Or salts thereof, acid amides, phosphates, etc.), (7) thickeners, (8) fragrances, (9) colorants (pigments, dyes, dyes, etc.), (10) physiologically active ingredients (vita) Emissions, hormones, amino acids, etc.), (11) an antibacterial agent or the like may be blended. The form of the cosmetic is not particularly limited, such as solid, liquid, or gel. In the case of liquid or gel, the dispersion may be any of a water-in-oil emulsion, an oil-in-water emulsion, and an oil type. The amount of surface-coated zinc oxide in the cosmetic is preferably in the range of 0.1 to 50% by weight.

  Examples of the present invention are shown below, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Example 1
An uncoated FZO-50 (made by Ishihara Sangyo Co., Ltd., spherical fine particles having an average particle size of 0.017 to 0.023 μm) as zinc oxide was used to prepare an aqueous slurry of 50 g / liter. After heating up 2 liters of this aqueous slurry to a temperature of 70 ° C., 50 g / liter of titanium tetrachloride aqueous solution corresponding to 5% by weight as TiO ₂ and 50 g / liter of silica corresponding to 25% by weight as SiO ₂ are stirred. A sodium acid aqueous solution and a 10% sodium hydroxide solution are simultaneously added over 40 minutes so that the pH is in the range of 8.0 to 9.5 to form a coating layer of coprecipitate containing titania and silica. did. In this state, it was aged by holding for 60 minutes.
Subsequently, 2% sulfuric acid aqueous solution was added to this slurry, pH was adjusted to the range of 8.0-8.5, and it filtered and wash | cleaned, and obtained the dewatering cake (sample a). Thereafter, drying and dry pulverization were performed to obtain a coprecipitate-coated zinc oxide (sample A) of titania and silica of the present invention.

Comparative Example 1
After heating 2 liters of the aqueous slurry of zinc oxide (FZO-50) used in Example 1 to a temperature of 50 ° C., 40 g of 50 g / liter aqueous sodium silicate solution corresponding to 20% by weight as SiO ₂ was stirred. After adding for 20 minutes and stirring for 20 minutes, a 2% sulfuric acid aqueous solution was added over 40 minutes to neutralize the pH to be in the range of 9.0 to 9.5 to neutralize the coating layer containing porous silica. Formed. In that state, the mixture was aged for 20 minutes, adjusted to pH in the range of 8.0 to 8.5, filtered and washed to obtain a dehydrated cake (sample b). Thereafter, drying and dry pulverization were performed to obtain a silica-coated zinc oxide (sample B) for comparison.

Comparative Example 2
A comparative dehydrated cake (sample c) and a silica-coated zinc oxide (sample C) were obtained in the same manner as in Comparative Example 1 except that the pH after aging was adjusted to 7.0 in Comparative Example 1.

Comparative Example 3
In Comparative Example 1, after forming a coating layer of porous silica, the slurry temperature was raised to 70 ° C., and 50 g / liter of titanium tetrachloride aqueous solution corresponding to 5% by weight as TiO ₂ and 10% water were added while stirring. A sodium oxide solution was simultaneously added in parallel over 40 minutes so that the pH was in the range of 9.0 to 9.5 to form a second coating layer containing titania. In this state, it was aged for 60 minutes, pH was adjusted in the range of 8.0 to 8.5, and stirred for 30 minutes. Thereafter, filtration, washing, drying, and dry pulverization were performed to obtain a dehydrated cake (sample d) and a silica / titania-coated zinc oxide (sample D) for comparison.

Comparative Example 4
Zinc oxide FZO-50 used in Example 1 was used as a comparison target (sample E).

Evaluation 1 (Evaluation of thixotropy of thawed cake)
The dehydrated cakes (samples a to d) of Example 1 and Comparative Examples 1 to 3 are placed in a disposable syringe having a discharge nozzle diameter of 2.0 mmΦ, and are applied and molded on a glass plate in a mesh shape. After application, a vibrator is applied from below the glass plate, and vibration is applied for 1 minute, and the properties of the cake are visually determined.
(Visual judgment example)
(Excellent) ○ (cake keeps almost mesh shape after vibration)>△> × (cake shape collapses after vibration) (inferior)

Evaluation 2 (Evaluation of water elution)
In the present invention, in order to promote water elution of the sample, the water resistance was evaluated based on the elution amount of zinc in the strongly acidic aqueous solution. Zinc oxide (Samples A to E) of Example 1 and Comparative Examples 1 to 4 was dispersed in 100 ml of pure water in which 1.0 g of each was adjusted to pH 3 with sulfuric acid. After 1 minute, the dispersion was centrifuged, and the zinc concentration in the resulting supernatant was measured by atomic absorption analysis.

Evaluation 3 (Measurement of powder pH)
For samples A to E of Example 1 and Comparative Examples 1 to 4, powder pH was measured by the method described in paragraph 0008.

  The results are shown in Table 1. It can be seen that the zinc oxide of the present invention is superior in water elution of zinc as compared with sample E (zinc oxide without surface coating) of Comparative Example 4, and particularly excellent in water elution of zinc in the acidic region. It was. In addition, the zinc oxide of the present invention was improved in thixotropy (thixotropic property) as compared with samples B and C (porous silica-coated zinc oxide) of Comparative Examples 1 and 2. From these results, the zinc oxide of the present invention can suppress thixotropy (thixotropy) due to the use of silica and improve the shape retention of the dehydrated cake. It turns out that you can.

Evaluation 4 (Measurement of UV-visible light transmittance)
For Samples A and E of Example 1 and Comparative Example 4, the transmittance of ultraviolet-visible light of the coating prepared with the following liquid paraffin / petroleum / stearic acid paste was measured.
(Paste formulation)
Sample (Zinc oxide sample A or E) 1.2g
Binder (liquid paraffin / petroleum / stearic acid = 40 / 26.7 / 1 (weight ratio)) 40.0 g
Glass beads 50.0g
(Paste preparation method)
The formulation was charged into a glass bottle with a 225 cc lid, sealed, and then dispersed using a paint conditioner (manufactured by Red Devil (USA), Quick Mill).

The paste was applied onto a transparent triacetate film using a doctor blade so that the film thickness was 25 μm, and then air-dried for 30 minutes. The transmittance of the obtained measurement sample was measured with a spectrophotometer.
From this ultraviolet-visible light transmittance curve, the zinc oxide of the present invention (sample A) has the same level of ultraviolet absorptivity and visible light transmittance as zinc oxide (sample E) without surface coating. I found out.

  Next, as a result of evaluating the photocatalytic activity and the action of oxidizing vitamin C (vitamin C oxidation activity) for samples A to E of Example 1 and Comparative Examples 1 to 4, the surface of Sample D of Comparative Example 3 was titania. The photocatalytic activity is high and the vitamin C oxidation activity is also high, but the samples A to C and E of Example 1, Comparative Examples 1, 2, and 4 are compared with the sample D of Comparative Example 3, It was confirmed that both photocatalytic activity and vitamin C oxidation activity were low.

Since the present invention can suppress zinc elution into an aqueous solvent and also can suppress the photocatalytic activity of zinc oxide, it can be used in various applications such as white pigments, ultraviolet shielding materials, adsorbents, and catalysts. Can do.
In addition, by using fine particles of zinc oxide, it is excellent in ultraviolet shielding ability and transparency, and thus is useful as an ultraviolet shielding material to be blended in cosmetics, paints, plastics, paper and the like.
Furthermore, thixotropy (thixotropic properties) due to the use of silica can be suppressed, and the mold maintainability of the dehydrated cake can be improved, so that zinc oxide excellent in water elution can be efficiently produced.

Claims (8)

A zinc oxide coated with a surface, wherein the zinc oxide particle surface has a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica, and the powder pH is 7 or more. Zinc oxide coating amount of silica was coated surface according to claim 1, wherein in the range of 10 to 50% by weight in terms of SiO _{2. 2. The} zinc oxide coated on the surface according to claim 1, wherein the coating amount of titania is in the range of 0.5 to 10% by weight in terms of TiO2. The surface-coated zinc oxide according to claim 1, wherein the silica is porous silica. The zinc oxide coated with a surface according to claim 1, wherein the pH of the powder is in the range of 8.5 to 10. In an aqueous slurry of zinc oxide, at least a titanium compound and a silicon compound are neutralized in a pH range of 8.0 to 10.0 to form a coating of a coprecipitate containing at least titania and silica. A method for producing zinc oxide having a surface coated with a powder pH of 7 or more. An ultraviolet shielding composition comprising the surface-coated zinc oxide according to claim 1. A sunscreen cosmetic comprising zinc oxide coated on the surface according to claim 1.