Publications by authors named "Caroline Ehgartner"
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- Mesoporous titania thin films have potential applications in various fields such as sensors, batteries, and solar cells, but traditional methods of creating these films often require high temperatures that can damage the structures.
- A new approach using UV irradiation is presented as a low-temperature, energy-efficient alternative that achieves comparable crystallinity and size to conventional methods, without the drawbacks of high-temperature calcination.
- This UV method allows for the creation of diverse film morphologies and maintains consistent optical properties, demonstrating its adaptability with different titanium precursors for thin film fabrication.
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- The study investigates the role of solubility in allergen sensitization, focusing on the birch pollen allergen Bet v 1.
- Researchers coupled Bet v 1 to silica particles and tested its effects on IgE-binding and immune responses in mice.
- Results show that insoluble, particle-loaded Bet v 1 has a lower sensitization capacity, highlighting solubility as a key factor in allergen responsiveness.
The usage of a highly efficient, low-cost, and sustainable adsorbent material as an industrial wastewater treatment technique is required. Herein, the usage of the novel, fully sustainable tannin-5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (TH) aerogels, generated via a water-based sol-gel process, as compatible biosorbent materials is presented. In particular, this study focusses on the surface modification of the tannin biosorbent with carboxyl or amino functional groups, which, hence, alters the accessible adsorption sites, resulting in increased adsorption capacity, as well as investigating the optimal pH conditions for the adsorption process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMonolithic Spiropyran-Based Porous Polysilsesquioxanes with Stimulus-Responsive Properties.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
October 2020
Dynamic materials comprising spiropyrans have emerged as one of the most interesting and promising class of stimulus-responsive materials. Spiropyrans are often embedded in polymer matrices; their covalent attachment into porous monolithic silsesquioxane frameworks, however, is virtually unexplored. We demonstrate that a silylated spiropyran derivative can be covalently incorporated into ultralight silsesquioxane-based bulk materials by a two-step co-condensation sol-gel approach without restricting its conformational freedom and thus its stimulus-responsive properties.
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