The need of an inorganic gel for the preparation of microbiological media arises frequently in nutritional studies. The isolation of fastidious microorganisms, such as the nitrifying bacteria, may be facilitated by the use of solid media prepared with silica gel rather than with agar. Until recently, the procedures available for the preparation of silica gel were time-consuming and inconsistent...

Pesticides are widely used in agriculture, although they may create hazards both to humans and to the environment. In order to reduce the harmful effects of their administration, there has been made a great effort to find solutions. The porous sol-gel silica materials which are able to entrap different organic molecules represent new studied controlled release carriers. The aim of the present w...

In this paper, the synthesis of dicalcium silicate (C2S) via sol-gel (acid-catalyzed) process including aqueous route, non-aqueous and Pechini method is reported. The composition C2S (α, β, γ) polymorphs, by-products, amorphous content established by employing QXRD (quantitative X-ray diffraction) studies. attention has been focused to comprehend assay-amorphous relationships yield. intermediat...

A new precursor, tetrakis(2-hydroxyethyl) orthosilicate (THEOS), introduced by Hoffmann et al. (J. Phys. Chem. B 106 (2002) 1528-1533), was used to synthesize monolithic hybrid biomaterials on the basis of silica and three main types of carrageenans, kappa-, iota-, and lambda-carrageenans. The advantage of THEOS over the currently applied TEOS and TMOS is in its complete solubility in water. Th...

Sugarcane leaves were used to produce high-purity and low-density silica xerogels through a sol–gel method. The biogenic produced thermochemical method was reacted with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) form silicate the titrated 1 M citric acid gel. formed gel washed, subjected solvent exchange process later dried at 80 °C xerogels. characterized energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), diffraction (...