The research group of professors C. V. Santilli and S. H. Pulcinelli (Chemical Institute, Araraquara, SP, Brazil) and the SAMBA (V. Briois) and SWING (F. Meneau) beamline teams at SOLEIL studied, using synchrotron (SAXS, EXAFS) and non-synchrotron (Raman, NMR) techniques, the structural characteristics of solutions of nanoblocks of polyoxotitanate, surface modified by para-toluene sulfonic acid, to give a thermo-reversible sol-gel transition.
