Valerie Rapson Greece Olympia High School Advisor: Kenneth L. Marshall University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics Summer High School Research Program 2005 1. Abstract Sol-gel coatings are used on the OMEGA laser optics as anti-reflection (AR) coatings to maximize their transmittance. Over time, trace organic compounds in the laser bay contaminate these sol-gel coatings, reducing th...

The sol-gel process has emerged as an effective route for the fabrication of optical waveguides and guided wave devices and circuits. In particular, it is possible to incorporate active dopants like neodymium, erbium, and cesium for integrated optical active devices and circuits. In this paper, a review of recent research on active devices and circuits based on sol-gel process is made. Specific...

Active protein micropatterns and microarrays made by selective localization are popular candidates for medical diagnostics, such as biosensors, bioMEMS, and basic protein studies. In this paper, we present a simple fabrication process of thick (approximately 20 microm) protein micropatterning using capillary force lithography with bifunctional sol-gel hybrid materials. Because bifunctional sol-...

A wide variety of enhanced and modified sol-gel bulk and thin film processes for the development of sensors and biosensors have been witnessed in the last two decades. The porous silica glass material prepared by the sol-gel process is a promising host matrix for the encapsulation of various biomolecules viz. proteins, antibodies, enzymes. The entrapped biomolecules have shown to retain their f...

the nanostructured anatase tio2 with high thermal stability was prepared by polymeric sol-gel method without any additives. the particle size distribution of polymeric titania sol was determined by dynamic light scattering (dls). then properties of obtained titania were investigated by tg-dta, xrd, fesem and tem. also, the decolorization capability of resultant anatase was evaluated using methy...

in this paper, a modified sol-gel method using peroxotitanic acid sol (pta) was applied for the preparation of tio2 nanostructured thin films on glass plates. the peroxotitanic acid sol was synthesized using titanium isopropoxide, isopropylalchol, h2o and hydrogen peroxide. tio2 films were then calcined at 500oc and characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem)...

the synthesis of titania via sol-gel method has been widely studied. in the present work, titania was deposited onto a titanium substrate via sol-gel method. different processing parameters such as the repetition number of dipping/heat treatment process and dipping time have been studied to obtain the homogenous titania coating. phase and microstructural evaluation of the powder and coating sam...

Since 1997 [1,2], water-solubilized and positively charged organo-building blocks of aminoclay nanoparticles (ACNPs) have attracted intensive academic and industrial interest for their multifaceted applications [3]. Engineered organic-inorganic ACNPs constituted of high-density amine groups and approximately 10% total amines in aqueous solution, when protonated, acquire a cationic surface prope...

Spectrally resolved infrared stimulated vibrational echo spectroscopy is used to measure the fast dynamics of heme-bound CO in carbonmonoxy-myoglobin (MbCO) and -hemoglobin (HbCO) embedded in silica sol-gel glasses. On the time scale of approximately 100 fs to several picoseconds, the vibrational dephasing of the heme-bound CO is measurably slower for both MbCO and HbCO relative to that of aque...

cotio3-clay nano-composites were synthesized via a conventional sol-gel method; the gel was calcinated at 500 - 800°c for 2 hours. the presence of rhombohedra phase of cotio3 in clay matrix was confirmed by xrd, ftir, sem. cobalt titanate-clay nano-composites were prepared with 5-20%(w/w) by sol-gel method. the spectra results were investigated at 20% (w/w) concentration .the optimum condition ...