Iron(III) Monoglycerolate as a New Biocompatible Precursor in the Synthesis of Bioactive Nanocomposite Glycerohydrogels.

Background: Nanocomposite glycerohydrogels based on biocompatible elementcontaining glycerolates are of practicular interest for biomedical applications.

Objective: Using two biocompatible precursors, silicon and iron glycerolates, a new bioactive nanocomposite silicon‒iron glycerolates hydrogel was obtained by sol-gel method.

Methods: The composition and structural features of the hydrogel were studied using a complex of modern analytical techniques, including TEM, XRD, and AES.

Biocompatible Silica-Polyethylene Glycol-Based Composites for Immobilization of Microbial Cells by Sol-Gel Synthesis.

Biocatalysts based on the methylotrophic yeast VKM Y-2559 immobilized in polymer-based nanocomposites for the treatment of methanol-containing wastewater were developed. The organosilica composites with different matrix-to-filler ratios derived from TEOS/MTES in the presence of PEG (SP-composite) and from silicon-polyethylene glycol (STP-composite) differ in the structure of the silicate phase and its distribution in the composite matrix. Methods of fluorescent and scanning microscopy first confirmed the formation of an organosilica shell around living yeast cells during sol-gel bio-STP-composite synthesis.

Mechanism of structural networking in hydrogels based on silicon and titanium glycerolates.

Formation of organic/inorganic hydrogels based on silicon- and titanium-glycerol precursors synthesized by transesterification of alkoxy derivatives in excess of glycerol was investigated. The precursors in excess of glycerol and obtained gels were studied by chemical and physical methods including gelation kinetics, IR spectroscopy, XRD, dynamic and electrophoretic light scattering, mechanical deformation, which disclosed the basic difference in the gelation mechanism and structure of network in the hydrogels. Due to this difference, the gelation time of silicon- and titanium-glycerol precursors depended on pH or electrolyte addition in an opposite way.