1. Sol–gel one-pot synthesis in soft conditions of mesoporous silica materials ready for drug delivery system

   • Corine Tourne-Peteilh
   • Sylvie Begu
   • Jean-Marie Devoisselle

   OriginalPaper 13 December 2011 Pages: 455 - 462

   

2. Sol–gel technology for functional finishing of PES fabric by stimuli-responsive microgel

   • Brigita Tomšič
   • Pavla Križman Lavrič
   • Dragan Jocić

   Original Paper 06 December 2011 Pages: 463 - 476

   

3. Preparation and characterization of nanorods Sb doped CdO films by sol–gel technique

   • Z. Serbetçi
   • R. K. Gupta
   • F. Yakuphanoglu

   Original paper 10 December 2011 Pages: 477 - 483

   

4. Sol–gel-derived titania-hydroxypropylcellulose hybrid thin films of high refractive indices: solution components affecting the refractive index and uncracking critical thickness

   • Shinya Oda
   • Hiroaki Uchiyama
   • Hiromitsu Kozuka

   Original paper 13 December 2011 Pages: 484 - 493

   

5. Magnetic Fe doped ZnO nanofibers obtained by electrospinning

   • Anna Baranowska-Korczyc
   • Anna Reszka
   • Krzysztof Fronc

   Original Paper Open access 17 December 2011 Pages: 494 - 500

   

6. Enhanced tribology properties of ZnO/Al₂O₃ composite nanoparticles as liquid lubricating additives

   • Qiang Chen
   • Shaohua Zheng
   • Bingqiang Cao

   Original Paper 17 December 2011 Pages: 501 - 508

   

7. Formation and characterization of phosphate-modified silicate materials derived from sol–gel process

   • Anastasia Epiphanova
   • Oleg Magaev
   • Olga Vodyankina

   Original paper 17 December 2011 Pages: 509 - 517

   

8. Effect of Cr doping on the ac electrical properties of MgAl₂O₄ nanoparticles

   • Subhajit Saha
   • Bhaskar Das
   • Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay

   Original Paper 20 December 2011 Pages: 518 - 526

   

9. Rapid synthesis of DyFeO₃ nanopowders by auto-combustion of carboxylate-based gels

   • Linwen Jiang
   • Weiliang Liu
   • Huaijin Zhang

   Original Paper 28 December 2011 Pages: 527 - 533

   

10. Synthesis of multielement ferrites and their silica composites

    • A. A. Rodríguez-Rodríguez
    • O. S. Rodríguez-Fernández
    • Sagrario M. Montemayor

    Original Paper 17 December 2011 Pages: 534 - 540

    

11. Immobilized polyoxometalates onto mesoporous organically-modified silica aerogels as selective heterogeneous catalysts of anthracene oxidation

    • Rami Al-Oweini
    • Shant Aghyarian
    • Houssam El-Rassy

    Original paper 21 December 2011 Pages: 541 - 550

    

12. Catalytic soot combustion of α-Fe/Ce–K–O nanocomposites via citrate-gel route

    • Fenglin He
    • Xiaoxiao Meng
    • Pan Wang

    Original paper 22 December 2011 Pages: 551 - 557

    

13. Tribological performance of fatty acid modification of sol–gel TiO₂ coating

    • Yong Wan
    • Baojian Sun
    • Caixia Qi

    Original Paper 05 January 2012 Pages: 558 - 564

    

14. Preparation of CuAlO₂ thin films with high transparency and low resistivity using sol–gel method

    • Yang Ren
    • Gaoyang Zhao
    • Yuanqing Chen

    Original Paper 28 December 2011 Pages: 565 - 569

    

15. Low temperature synthesis of nanosized ZnNb₂O₆ photocatalysts by a citrate complex method

    • Weiming Wu
    • Shijing Liang
    • Ling Wu

    Original Paper 30 December 2011 Pages: 570 - 576

    

16. Nano silver coated patterned silica thin film by sol–gel based soft lithography technique

    • Saswati Sarkar
    • Prasanta Kumar Biswas
    • Sunirmal Jana

    Original paper 28 December 2011 Pages: 577 - 584

    

17. Structural and optical characterization of Zn doped TiO₂ nanoparticles prepared by sol–gel method

    • Ruby Chauhan
    • Ashavani Kumar
    • Ram Pal Chaudhary

    Original Paper 04 January 2012 Pages: 585 - 591

    

18. Effect of pH and temperature on the morphology and phases of co-precipitated hydroxyapatite

    • H. R. Le
    • K. Y. Chen
    • C. A. Wang

    Original Paper 29 December 2011 Pages: 592 - 599

    

19. Hybrid sol–gel coatings doped with transition metal ions for the protection of AA 2024-T3

    • Alexandra Wittmar
    • Matthias Wittmar
    • Michael Veith

    Original Paper 10 January 2012 Pages: 600 - 612

    

20. The fabrication of TiO₂ nanoparticle/ZnO nanowire arrays bi-filmed photoanode and their effect on dye-sensitized solar cells

    • Meili Wang
    • Yan Wang
    • Jingbo Li

    Original Paper 30 December 2011 Pages: 613 - 619

    

21. ZnO:Al thin films used in ZnO: Al/p-Si heterojunctions

    • N. Baydogan
    • O. Karacasu
    • H. Cimenoglu

    Original Paper 10 January 2012 Pages: 620 - 627