Patent 7045106 was granted and assigned to Tokuyama Corporation on May, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A process for producing an inorganic porous material, comprising the steps of preparing an aqueous medium solution containing water-glass as a silica source, a water-soluble polymer and an acid, causing phase separation and gelation in the solution at the same time to form a wet gel, and washing and drying the gel.