Sol-gel materials for sustainable applications

Corrosion is a key problem affecting all type of metals in their wide range of applications. Different solutions have been designed and developed for protecting diverse metals, from stainless steels to carbon steels and light alloys of aluminium and [...]

The design and development of new mesoporous and meso-structured materials showing a periodic distribution of pores of uniform size has become one of the most dynamic fields for the preparation of photocatalytic and/or biocides coatings. The porosity structure is [...]

Transparent glass-ceramics (GCs) own interesting optical properties for several photonic applications. The melt-quenching (MQ) method is routinely used to prepare OxGCs but the high melting temperatures (1400-1700°C) greatly affect the fluoride content. Thus, the sol-gel (SG) route appears as [...]

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) is the main candidate to power electric vehicles. Modification of Nafion type membranes and development of new inorganic and hybrid organic/inorganic nanostructured membranes through a combination of inorganic alkoxides, organically modified alkoxides and [...]

Li-ion micro-batteries made-up using only solid-state materials by a thin-film process have recently become a topic of widespread research for use in low power applications. Novel mesoporous nanocrystalline architectures thin films such as Li4Ti5O12 (anode) and LiFePO4 (cathode) and solid [...]