Handbook of Sol-Gel Science and Technology Processing, Characterization and Applications

September 20, 2018

Book Review

Handbook of Sol-Gel Science and Technology

Processing, Characterization and Applications
Second Edition

Editors: Lisa Klein, Mario Aparicio, and Andrei Jitianu

The first edition was edited by Professor Sumio Sakka in 2005. A decade after, Professor Klein, Doctor Aparicio, and Professor Jitianu started to work on the second edition having Professor Sakka as one of the main advisors. The second edition has been significantly updated and enriched and offers a comprehensive view of sol-gel processing, new characterization techniques, and novel applications.

The comprehensive scope and integrated address of topics make this reference volume ideal for scientists and engineers across a wide range of disciplines and professional interests.

The hardcopy of this second edition is expected to be published in early 2018, the online chapters are already available at the following:
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ISGS is an international, interdisciplinary, not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose and objective is the advancement of sol-gel science and technology. ISGS aims are both to represent the particular needs and aspirations of the international sol-gel community and to support this sol-gel community.

Since the inception of the highly successful Sol-Gel Workshop series in Padova during 1981, sol-gel science and technology has evolved from its origins within traditional materials science (mainly glass and ceramics) to become an extraordinarily multidisciplinary area of research, spanning chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and nanotechnology.

ISGS, grouping of scientists who are interested in sol-gel science and technology at the begining, evolved over time in a professional, fully functional, scientific society.