A series of magnesia–silica binary composite catalysts with different molar ratios were
prepared using various preparation methods and evaluated for the one-step production of 1 …

Silica has many industrial (ie, glass formers) and scientific applications. The understanding
and prediction of the interesting properties of such materials are dependent on the …

The two main applications of silica-based materials in medicine and biotechnology, ie for
bone-repairing devices and for drug delivery systems, are presented and discussed. The …

Bare and PEGylated silica spheres have been synthesized and characterized in order to
study their potential application as intravenous drug-delivery vectors. Solubility under …

A new silica-gel nanospheres (SiO2NPs) composition was formulated, followed by
biochemical surface functionalization to examine its potential in urea biosensor …

The growth of silica particles synthesized by the Stöber method was investigated by the co-
condensation of pyrene sulfonyl chloride (PySCl) coupled to (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane …

In this work, three novel MgO-SiO 2 composite catalysts with inverted structure have been
synthesized via a facile and scalable strategy by means of the incipient wetness …

Heat treatment is routinely utilized in preparing nanoporous materials (including Stöber
silica), and can substantially affect their performance in diverse application fields. However …

Bacteriophages, or phages, are receiving increasing interest as recognition tools for the
design of bioactive surfaces. However, to maintain the activity of surface-bound phages, the …

Direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) with near-zero pollution emission, large energy density,
and low operating temperature provides a beneficial and sustainable way for alleviating …