This invention relates to aqueous sols and
organic solvent sols containing highly stable hollow silica particles, and further to methods for improving the stability of the aforementioned sols, which have suffered reduced storage stability, and methods for manufacturing such sols. To this end, a hollow silica
sol is provided, containing hollow silica particles with spaces within the outer shell and monovalent
alkali metal ions, wherein the
molar number of these monovalent
alkali metal ions, converted to M₂O (M representing a monovalent
alkali metal atom), is 7.12 × 10⁻⁶ moles of SiO₂ in the hollow silica particles. ‑6 ~285×10 ‑6 The
sol contains hollow silica particles and monovalent alkali
metal ions in a specific ratio. After being stored at 50°C for 48 hours, the average particle size measured by
dynamic light scattering (DLS) is within 2.0 times that of the average particle size measured by DLS before storage. The average particle size measured by DLS is 20–150 nm. A stabilization method involves adding monovalent alkali
metal ions to the hollow silica
sol, where the DLS particle
size value is larger than that during manufacturing, in the aforementioned ratio of monovalent alkali
metal ions to SiO2 in the hollow silica particles, thereby reducing the increased DLS particle
size value.