Sol-Gel is a low cost, well-established and flexible synthetic route to produce a wide range of micro- and nanostructures. Small variations in pH, temperature, precursors, time, pressure, atmosphere, among others, can lead to a wide family of compoun...
A facile strategy to boost anticorrosion potency of graphene oxide/silica hybrid sol-gel coating is developed through fully exploiting the capabilities of graphene oxide (GO). Together with a barrier to corrosives and crack inhibitor, GO was further...
The sol-gel technique has many advantages over the other mechanism for synthesizing metal oxide nanoparticles such as being simple, cheap and having low temperature and pressure. Utilization of waste materials as a precursor for synthesis makes the w...
We report a derivative spectroscopic method for determining insulator-to-semiconductor transition during sol-gel metal-oxide semiconductor formation. When an as-spun sol-gel precursor film is photochemically activated and changes to semiconducting st...
The sol-gel method is an attractive synthetic approach in the design of advanced catalytic formulations that are based on metal and metal oxide with high degree of structural and compositional homogeneity. Nowadays, though it originated with the hydr...
Vanadium phosphorous oxide (VPO) is traditionally manufactured from solid vanadium oxides by synthesizing VOHPO4∙0.5H2O (the precursor) followed by in situ activation to produce (VO)2P2O7 (the active phase). This paper discusses an alternative synthe...
The rapidly growing Li-ion battery market has generated considerable demand for Li-ion batteries with improved performance and stability. All-solid-state Li-ion batteries offer promising safety and manufacturing enhancements. Herein, we examine the e...
This study compares HfO2 ceramics synthesized using sol–gel and combustion methods, emphasizing the impact of the method of synthesis on the resulting properties of the material. The research findings illustrate morphological differences betwee...
Spintronics, an interdisciplinary field merging magnetism and electronics, has attracted considerable interest due to its potential to transform data storage, logic devices, and emerging quantum technologies. Among the materials explored for spintron...
Yttrium oxide (Y2O3) nanocrystallites were synthesized by mean of a sol-gel method using two different precursors. Raw materials used were yttrium nitrate and yttrium chloride, in methanol. In order to promote oxygen vacancies, P-123 poloxamer was in...
Sol-gel-based mesopores allow the entry of target small molecules retained in their cavity and aptamers to bind to target molecules. Herein, sol-gel-based materials are applied to screen-selective aptamers for small molecules, such as pesticides. To...
Zirconium oxide (ZrO2) is a well-studied and promising material due to its remarkable chemical and physical properties. It is used, for example, in coatings for corrosion protection layer, wear and oxidation, in optical applications (mirror, filters)...
To combat infectious diseases, zinc oxide (ZnO) has been identified as an effective antibacterial agent; however, its performance can be adversely affected by harsh application environments. The ozone impact on ZnO antibacterial film needs to be eval...
Rare-earth oxides possess distinctive electronic configurations, tunable oxidation states, and inherent structural robustness, making them highly attractive for advanced energy storage applications. Among these, neodymium oxide (Nd2O3) stands out due...
We proposed the enhancement of the electrical properties of solution-processed indium–tin–oxide (ITO) thin films through microwave irradiation (MWI) and argon (Ar) gas plasma treatment. A cost- and time-effective heat treatment through MWI was applie...
Zinc oxide layers on soda-lime glass substrates were fabricated using the sol-gel method and the dip-coating technique. Zinc acetate dihydrate was applied as the precursor, while diethanolamine as the stabilizing agent. This study aimed to determine...
TiO2, ZnO, and their combination (TiO2–ZnO) at different molar ratios and pH values (Ti–Zn A and B 3:1, 1:1, and 1:3) via the sol–gel method were characterized by SEM, XRD, UV-Vis, and FT-IR. Moreover, antibacterial tests of the nan...
Corrosion induced by defective oxide scales severely compromises the durability of concrete structures. This study develops a dual-mechanism sol-gel protection strategy based on La3+/Ni2+/2-Methylimidazole (2-MI). First, 2-Methylimidazole-catalyzed e...
Nanostructured metal oxides and silicates are increasingly applied in catalysis, either as supports or as active species in heterogeneous catalysts, owing to the physicochemical properties that typically distinguish them from bulk oxides, such as hig...
Solution-processed oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) can lead to a significant cost-effective process and suitable for large-scale fabrication. However, they often face limitations, such as lower field-effect mobility, the use of indium which is tox...
High-entropy ceramics have gained wider attention due to their structural integrity and stability, which can be used in various functional applications. Especially, high-entropy oxides exhibit excellent thermal stability, particularly at high tempera...
In the past few years, corrosion protection of metal materials has become a global challenge, due to its great economic importance. For this reason, various methods have been developed to inhibit the corrosion process, such as surface treatment appro...
Sol-gel graphene oxide-coated polyester fabric platforms were synthesized and used for the on-line sequential injection fabric disk sorptive extraction (SI-FDSE) of toxic (i.e., Cd(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II)) metals in different distilled spirit drinks p...
The application of sol–gel on plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) coatings can increase wear resistance by sealing the surface defects such as pores and cracks in the outer layer of the PEO layer and strengthen the coating. Four different sol&n...
In this study, coatings of different oxides (TiO2, Al2O3, ZrO2) and hydroxyapatite (HAp) as well as sandwich composite hydroxyapatite with an oxides sublayer (oxide+HAp) were deposited on Ti6Al7Nb alloy using the sol–gel dip-coating method. The...
Low-dimensional metal oxides have drawn significant attention across various scientific domains due to their multifaceted applications, particularly in the field of environment monitoring. Their popularity is attributed to a constellation of unique p...
This study effectively reports the influence of experimental incubation period on the sol-gel production of husk-like zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZNPs) and their anti-cancerous abilities. The surface morphology of ZNPs was studied with the help of SEM....
The Ga-doped Mg0.2Zn0.8O (GMZO) transparent semiconductor thin films were prepared using the sol-gel and spin-coating deposition technique. Changes in the microstructural features, optical parameters, and electrical characteristics of sol-gel-synthes...
Low temperature methods have been applied to the synthesis of many advanced materials. Non-hydrolytic sol-gel (NHSG) processes offer an elegant route to stable and metastable phases at low temperatures. Excellent atomic level homogeneity gives access...
Objectives: This study developed a sol–gel tricalcium silicate/graphene oxide (TCS-GO) composite and examined its physicochemical properties, antimicrobial activity, and osteo/odontogenic effect on dental pulp stem cells. Methods: Tricalcium si...
In this investigation, the sol–gel method is employed along with a corrosion inhibitor to seal a plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) coating, aiming to improve the long-term corrosion resistance of the AZ31 Mg alloy. Following an initial screen...
In this study, thin films of Cerium Oxide CeO2 were fabricated using the sol–gel technique and deposited onto a glass substrate. The annealing process was carried out at various temperatures ranging from 200 to 600 °C to investiga...
Hexanary high-entropy oxides (HEOs) were synthesized through the mechanochemical sol-gel method for electrocatalytic water oxidation reaction (WOR). As-synthesized catalysts were subjected to characterization, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fouri...
Cobalt cerium oxide catalysts with small molecular organic acids (SOAs) as chelating agents were prepared via the sol–gel method and investigated for the complete oxidation of toluene. Four kinds of natural SOAs, i.e. malic acid (MA), citric ac...
Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are under consideration for their use as bioimaging probes with enhanced optical performance for real time follow-up under non-invasive conditions. Photostable and core-shell NaYF4:Yb3+, Er3+-SiO2 UCNPs obtained by...
In the last few years, high-entropy oxides (HEOs), a new class of single-phase solid solution materials, have attracted growing interest in both academic research and industry for their great potential in a broad range of applications. This work inve...
A series of BaMnO3 solids (BM-CX) were prepared by a modified sol-gel method in which a carbon black (VULCAN XC-72R), and different calcination temperatures (600–850 °C) were used. The fresh and used catalysts were characterized by ICP-OES,...
In this work we investigate the effect of iron oxide embedded in silica matrices as a function of Fe/Si molar ratio and sol pH. To achieve homogeneous dispersion of iron oxide particles, iron nitrate nonahydrate was dissolved in hydrogen peroxide and...
Although nickel-based alloys are widely used in industries due to their oxidation and corrosion resistance, the pursuit of better performance in harsh environments is still a great challenge. In this work, we developed a sol–gel method to synth...
To improve the electrochromic (EC) properties of sol–gel-derived WO3 films, a series of organic small molecules, such as dopamine (DA), catechol, tyramine, phenol and 2-phenylethylamine, were added into peroxotungstic acid precursor sols as str...
Flexible iridium oxide (IrOx)-based micro-electrodes were fabricated on flexible polyimide substrates using a sol-gel deposition process for utilization as integrated pseudo-reference electrodes for bio-electrochemical sensing applications. The fabr...
In this research, the investigation of sensing properties of non-stoichiometric WO3 (WO3−x) film towards some volatile organic compounds (VOC) (namely: Methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, acetone) and ammonia gas are reported. Sensors were tested a...
The use of heterogeneous catalysts to increase the development of green chemistry is a rapidly growing area of research to save industry money. In this paper, mesoporous SiO2-Al2O3 mixed oxide supports with various Si/Al ratios were prepared using tw...
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is one of the wide-bandgap semiconductors, which may be useful in a plethora of electronic, optical, piezoelectric, and scintillating applications. The following article consists in a structural and luminescence analysis of ZnO micro...
The sol–gel polymerization of alkoxysilanes is a convenient and widely used method for the synthesis of silicon polymers and silicon–organic composites. The development of new sol–gel precursors is very important for obtaining new t...
Sub-monolayers of monodisperse Au colloids with different surface coverage have been embedded in between two different metal oxide thin films, combining sol-gel depositions and proper substrates functionalization processes. The synthetized films were...
A series of silicon-doped lithium manganese oxides were obtained via a sol-gel process. XRD characterization results indicate that the silicon-doped samples retain the spinel structure of LiMn2O4. Electrochemical tests show that introducing silicon i...
The inkjet printing of the functional materials prepared by the sol-gel route is gaining the attention for the production of the variety of the applications not limited to the printed boards, displays, smart labels, smart packaging, sensors and solar...
The study develops an integrated humidity microsensor fabricated using the commercial 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. The integrated humidity sensor consists of a humidity sensor and a ring oscillator circuit on-a-chi...
Heavy metal ions can have a negative impact on human health when they are present in the environment and diet. In order to enhance healthcare globally, simple, dependable, sensitive, rapid, and accurate technologies for their detection must be create...
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