Self-supporting superconducting replicas of pasta shapes are reported, yielding products of differing 3D architectures. Functioning high-temperature superconductor wires are developed and refined from replicas of spaghetti, demonstrating a unique sol-gel processing technique for the design and synthesis of novel macroscopic morphologies of complex functional materials.

A conductometric urea biosensor based on sol–gel-immobilized urease on a screen-printed inter-digitated array (IDA) electrode has been developed. The screen-printed thick-film IDA electrode has proven to be an excellent conductometric transducer in which the admittance signal was dominated by the conductance signal and the resulting dynamic range was wide enough to be employed for the construct...

Selecting a proper support in the catalyst system plays an important role in hydrogen production via ethanol steam reforming. In this study, sol gel made alumina supports prepared for nickel (Ni) catalysts were calcined at different temperatures. A series of (Ni/AlS.G.) catalysts were synthesized by an impregnation procedure. The influence of varying the calcination temperature of the sol gel m...

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...

Sol-gel processing of TiO2, ZrO2 and mixed Ti/Zr oxide thin films has been studied as application of these coatings in electrochromic devices. Their structural transformations as a function of annealing temperatures were analyzed by XRD and FTIR techniques. Electrochromic behavior of the three kind materials was investigated by cyclic voltammetry and the basic electrochromic characteristics wer...

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...

Research into supported palladium complexes is described. The complexes are immobilised on porous silica supports using both grafting and templated sol-gel techniques. The resultant complexes are efficient catalysts for various C-C bond forming reactions, including Heck, Suzuki and allylic substitution. The catalysts are stable and can be easily recovered and reused, making them suitable for cl...

We report our development of biomaterials for information processing and signal transduction by incorporation of photodynamic proteins into conducting polymer and sol-gel matrices. Our aim is to develop biomaterials with high optical quality, good thermal and mechanical stability, and superior opto-electronic characteristics for applications in biosensor, signal transduction, and information pr...

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...