A single phase, organic-inorganic sol-gel with controlled rheology that can be solidified readily and converted into a ceramic material is provided. The organic-inorganic sol-gel may be uranium-based or cerium-based. Highly spherical ceramic microspheres such as uranium or cerium gel microspheres are fabricated and are able to be converted to homogeneous ceramics after thermal decomposition at high temperatures. Pure phase UC.sub.2 can be obtained upon carbothermal reaction. Pure phase U.sub.2N.sub.3 can also be obtained after converting UC.sub.2 to U.sub.2N.sub.3.

A sol of inorganic oxide particles is stably dispersed in a hydrophilic organic solvent containing a hydrocarbon such as a paraffinic hydrocarbon or a naphthenic hydrocarbon. The sol contains a dispersion medium containing an organic solvent containing a C.sub.6-18 paraffinic hydrocarbon, a C.sub.6-18 naphthenic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of these, a C.sub.4-8 alcohol having a carbon chain with a carbon-carbon bond in the molecule in an amount of 0.1 to 5% by mass in the entire dispersion medium, and inorganic oxide particles having an average particle diameter of 5 to 200 nm as measured by dynamic light scattering as a dispersoid, wherein the inorganic oxide particles contain a C.sub.1-3 alkyl group bonded to a silicon atom and a C.sub.4-18 alkyl group. The paraffinic hydrocarbon is a normal paraffinic hydrocarbon or an isoparaffinic hydrocarbon. The naphthenic hydrocarbon is a saturated aliphatic cyclic hydrocarbon substitutable with a C.sub.1-10 alkyl group.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a core-shell structure including a CdSe core based on a glyme solvent. The method of the present invention enables the production of a core-shell structure including a CdSe core in a simple and economical manner. The present invention also relates to a core-shell structure including a CdSe core produced by the method. The core-shell structure of the present invention includes a large amount of CdSe and is uniform in size. Particularly, the core-shell structure of the present invention can be coated on a flexible plastic substrate of an optical device or semiconductor device due to its high stability.

The present disclosure relates to a method for making a carbon aerogel electrode material. The method involves initially making a wet organic sol-gel form. The sol-gel form is carbonized at a temperature of from about 900° C. to about 1000° C., for from about 2 hours to about 4 hours. The carbonized sol-gel is then activated under carbon dioxide flow, for from about 0.5 hour to about 1.5 hours, at from about 900° C. to about 1000° C.

[Problem] Provided is a method for producing a silica sol capable of providing consistent production of the silica sol having a uniform particle size of silica particles in any particle size of the silica particles. [Solution] A method for producing a silica sol is a method including a step of mixing liquid (A) containing an alkaline catalyst, water, and a first organic solvent with liquid (B) containing an alkoxysilane or its condensate and a second organic solvent, and liquid (C1) having a pH of 5.0 or higher and lower than 8.0 and containing water or liquid (C2) containing water and being free of an alkaline catalyst to make a reaction liquid.

A colloid comprising a plurality of nanocrystals, each nanocrystal comprising rubidium, a group 11 element of the Periodic Table of Elements such as copper, silver or gold, and a halogen. A method for preparing said colloid via a room temperature ligand assisted re-precipitation (LAPP) method, wherein the ligand is an acidic ligand such as oleic acid. The precursor solution is formed in a polar organic solvent such as DMSO or DMF, and the precursor solution is contacted with a non-polar organic solvent and said ligand to precipitate the nanocrystals. A polymer comprising a plurality of nanocrystals, each nanocrystal having a particle size in the range of 1 nm to 50 nm; and a use of said colloid in optoelectronic devices, etc. are also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a colloid comprising functionalised liquid colloidal particles. The invention also relates to such a colloid and to the uses thereof.

The present invention relates to a nanocluster liquid dispersion where nanoclusters with a predetermined number of atoms are dispersed.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a core-shell structure including a CdSe core based on a glyme solvent. The method of the present invention enables the production of a core-shell structure including a CdSe core in a simple and economical manner. The present invention also relates to a core-shell structure including a CdSe core produced by the method. The core-shell structure of the present invention includes a large amount of CdSe and is uniform in size. Particularly, the core-shell structure of the present invention can be coated on a flexible plastic substrate of an optical device or semiconductor device due to its high stability.

The present invention relates to a method for producing zeta positive hydrogenated nanodiamond particles, and to a method for producing zeta positive single digit hydrogenated nanodiamond dispersions. The present invention further relates to zeta positive hydrogenated nanodiamond powder and zeta positive single digit hydrogenated nanodiamond dispersion.