Hybrid materials, organic-inorganic conventional routes

The encapsulation of enzymes in a sol gel matrix is an immobilization method in which the enzymes are incorporated into hybrid organic-inorganic hydrophobic materials (alkylsilanes) [13]. The sol-gel process can easily be recognized because it is the synthesis route in which at a certain time, there is the transition from the sol to the gel system. In contrast to the conventional methods, which require high temperatures for the fusion of vitreous silica, the sol-gel technique uses low temperatures for the hydrolysis and... 

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