Paul - Mario Pagliaro's blog

Imagine a smooth, thin glassy surface on which oxygen-containing hydrocarbons -- or alcohols -- are cleanly converted to fragrances, vitamins and drugs and paints precursors by simply applying a modest voltage to a solution of the oxygenated hydrocarbon in water.

And then, look at our sol-gel molecular electrode electrodeposited on the surface of an ITO-coated glass developed at Mario Pagliaro's Lab. We named it TEMPOatDE and -- we believe -- it will soon find ubiqutuous use in the fine chemicals industry.

That is to put in action the words: Sol-gels, better materials for a better chemistry.