1. Editorial

   • Sumio Sakka

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 5 - 5

2. Synthesis of Active Porous Silica Gel Matrices and Investigation of Their Properties

   • A.N. Murashkevich
   • V.G. Vashina
   • I.M. Zharskii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 12

3. Atomic-Scale Structure of Water-Based Zirconia Xerogels by X-Ray Diffraction

   • A. Corina Geiculescu
   • H.J. Rack

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 26

4. Low Temperature Synthesis of Nano-Sized Lithium Manganese Oxide Powder by the Sol-Gel Process Using PVA

   • Chung-Hsin Lu
   • Susanta Kumar Saha

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 34

5. X-Ray Spectroscopic Investigation of the Zr-Site in Thin Film Sol-Gel Surface Preparations

   • R.B. Greegor
   • K.Y. Blohowiak
   • F.W. Lytle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 50

6. Textured PLCT Thin Films Prepared on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si Substrate by Metal-Organic Decomposition

   • Zhitang Song
   • Chenglu Lin
   • Xiaorong Fu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 60

7. Structural and IR Spectroscopic Analysis of Sol-Gel Processed CuFeMnO4 Spinel and CuFeMnO4/Silica Films for Solar Absorbers

   • Leon KalužA
   • Angela Šurca-Vuk
   • Primož Pelicon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 83

8. Sol-Gel Derived Bismuth Titanate Thin Films with c-Axis Orientation

   • J.T. Dawley
   • R. Radspinner
   • D.R. Uhlmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 93

9. Monomer-Dimer Equilibrium of Rhodamine B Encapsulated in Si–Al and Si–Ti Binary-Oxide Thin Films

   • Hiromasa Nishikiori
   • Nobuaki Tanaka
   • Tsuneo Fujii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 104

10. SiO2 Xerogel: A Suitable Inert Support for Microbial Growth

    • M.R. Peralta-Perez
    • G. Saucedo-Castañeda
    • A. Campero

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 110