INTRODUCTION A sol-gel preparation involves f m t the formation of a sol, which is a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, then of a gel, which is a diphasic material with a solid encapsulating a liquid. The liquid can be removed from a gel by either conventional drying (such as by using an oven) to obtain a plojiict kLown as e xercgel, or hy drying with supercritical extraction (often ref...

For detection of phenolic compounds a simple amperometric biosensor based on tyrosinase immobilized in titania sol-gel/Nafion composite was employed. Titania sol-gel was mixed with Nafion (v/v) in ratios 1:1 (TiO2/NF-1/1) and 2:1 (TiO2/NF-2/1), v/v. Morphology of immobilization composites was characterized by scanning electron microscopy. Analytical performance of biosensors with Nafion and bas...

Three kinds of lipases (from Candida antarctica, Pseudomonas cepacia, and Pseudomonas fluorescens) were encapsulated in inorganic matrices by the sol-gel method in order to synthesize chiral compounds by kinetic resolution. Sol-gel lipases prepared with vinyltriethoxysilane had higher hydrolysis activity for 2-octyl acetate than those with other silane precursors: tetramethoxysilane, methyltrim...

Development of optical biosensors is an active area of research in the field of medical technology. Sol-gel matrices made from alkoxide silicates, tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) appear to be suitable glassy host matrix for the sensing system. However, the major problem in the TEOS based sol-gel matrices is stability. So it is important to study dopant-matrix interaction as a function of time. ...

For the first time a top-down process was used to control the spatial location of Metal-Organic Frameworks on a surface. Deep X-ray lithography was utilised to micropattern a Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework layer on a sol-gel surface, with exposure hardening the sol-gel by inducing crosslinking while leaving the frameworks intact.

Titanium gels doped with water-soluble cationic porphyrin were synthesized by the sol–gel polymerization of Ti (OC4H9)4. In this work we investigate the spectroscopic properties along with SEM images of tetra carboxyl phenyl porphyrin when incorporated into porous matrix produced by the sol–gel technique. Keywords—TCPP; Titanium matrix; UV/Vis spectroscopy; SEM.

structural properties and chemical composition change the photocatalytic activity in tio2-sio2 nanopowder composite. the sio2-tio2 nanostructure is synthesized based on sol–gel method. the nanoparticles are characterized by x-ray fluorescents (xrf), x- ray diffraction (xrd), tunneling electron microscopy (tem), field emission scanning electron microscopy (fe-sem), uv-vis. spectrophotometer and ...

in order to improve uv and visible lights photocatalytic activities of the pure anatase tio2, a novel and efficient n-doped tio2 photocatalyst was prepared by sol-gel method. n-doped titania is prepared using triethylamine (with difference molar ratios) as the nitrogen source. the crystalline structure, morphology, particle size, absorbance and band-gap and chemical structure of n-doped tio2 wa...

the silica supported platinum nanoparticles was synthesized by using the sol-gel method. the possibility of using diamminedinitro platinum (ii) as pt precursor and effect of metal precursor concentration on the final pt nanoparticle size was investigated. a stable silica sol was prepared via hydrolysis of tetraethyl orthosilicate (teos) as a metal alcoxide and condensation reaction. subsequentl...

highly crystalline bi3+-doped cadmium oxide (cdo) sub-micron structures were synthesized by calcination the obtained precursor from a sol-gel reaction. the reaction was carried out with cadmium nitrate (cd(no3)2.4h2o), bismuth nitrate (bi(no3)3.5h2o) and ethylene glycol (c2h6o2) reactants without any additives at 80°c for 2h. resulting gel was calcined at 900 °c with increasing temperature rate...