2014 Silicon tetraethoxyde (TEOS) monomers are dissolved in a water/ethanol mixture. Through hydrolysis and condensation they aggregate to form branched siloxane polymers ; in a few hours these polymers build a gel throughout the solution. The patterns formed by the growing polymers are studied through small angle neutron scattering. In the reaction bath, these patterns result from repulsive in...

A siliceous porous material containing nickel was synthesized by means of an intercalation treatment method using a layered sodium octosilicate ilerite as a starting base material. The sodium ions between the crystalline silicate sheets in the octosilicate were exchanged for hydrogen ions in dilute hydrochloric acid, and then the basal spaces between the silicate sheets were extended by introdu...

Vinasse was successfully utilized to synthesize carbon–silica composite with a low-cost silica source available in Thailand (sodium silicate, Na2SiO3) and most commonly used source, tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS). The composites were prepared by simple one-step sol–gel process varying the vinasse (as carbon source) (Na2SiO3 or TEOS) weight ratio. resulting characterized N2 adsorption, moisture...

In the present work, a study was carried out to compare morphology and electrochemical properties of pure graphene-modified hybrid silica sol–gel coatings deposited on anodized AZ31B magnesium alloys. The precursor solution prepared using tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) 3-glycidoxypropyl-trimethoxysilane (GPTMS), with addition chemically modified graphene nanosheets (GN-chem). Homogeneous adherent wer...

By manipulating the interfacial interactions between the peptide templates and the silicate species derived from TEOS and APTES, a facile biomimetic method was developed for the fabrication of silica nanostructures exhibiting "string-of-beads" and fibrillar morphologies of varied sizes.