TY - CHAP AU - Habibollah Aminirastabi AU - Hao Xue AU - Dongliang Peng AU - Gouli Ji ED - Guadalupe Valverde Aguilar Y1 - 2018-12-07 PY - 2018 T1 - Sol-Gel Process and Engineering Nanostructure N2 - The sol-gel method is a powerful route of synthesis used worldwide. It produces bulk, nano- and mesostructured sol-gel materials, which can encapsulate metallic and magnetic nanoparticles, non-linear azochromophores, perovskites, organic dyes, biological molecules, etc.. This can have interesting applications for catalysis, photocatalysis; drug delivery for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's and Azheimer's. In this book, valuable contributions related to novel materials synthesized by the sol-gel route are provided. The effect of the sol-gel method to synthesize these materials with potential properties is described, and how the variation of the parameters during the synthesis influences their design and allows to adjust their properties according to the desired application is discussed. BT - Sol-Gel Method SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.79857 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.79857 SN - 978-1-78985-334-6 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -