title: A method for making inorganic and hybrid (organic/inorganic) fibers and vesicles with diameters in the submicrometer and micrometer range via sol-gel chemistry and electrically forced liquid jets.
abstract: Electrically driven liquid jets are combined with sol-gel methods to design vesicles and fibers made from inorganic oxides and hybrid materials with diameters in the micrometer and submicrometer range. The proposed materials synthesis method benefits greatly from the maturity of sol-gel chemistry and the generalities of a structure-directing phenomenon that is physical in nature.
authors.affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Chemical Engineering, 207 "O" Othmer Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA. glarsen@unlserve.unl.edu
authors.forename: Gustavo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Larsen
authors.forename: Raffet
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Velarde-Ortiz
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minchow
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barrero
authors.forename: Ignacio G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Loscertales