Silica and silica-titania sol-gel materials: synthesis and analytical application

Abstract

This review describes last decade progress in the synthesis of sol-gel materials with analytically relevant properties and their application for the determination of metal ions, non-metal and organic compounds. The following types of materials are discussed: silica sol-gel materials doped with various analytical reagents, organofunctional silica sol-gel materials, and silica titania sol-gel materials. The variety of obtained materials allows their application for a wide range of analytical systems: electrochemical sensors, solid phase spectrophotometrical and SIA determination, and also for test determination including the employment of "length-of-stain" indicator tubes. This review surveys the results of studies on mentioned above subjects and summarizes the works accomplished in the field by author's team in Moscow State University.