Humans are hardwired to recognize different scents and attach them to psychological feelings. Many detergent, personal hygiene, cologne, and perfume companies exploit this phenomenon to entice customers to buy their product. The undergraduate research project at Georgia College investigates the effects of encapsulating a scent into a silica sol-gel matrix. Due to sol-gels properties of heat resistance, humidity resistance, and porous nature, they make the perfect tool for companies to use to ensure the longevity of their products. Fragrances and essential oils were encapsulated into tertramethoxysilane sol-gel matrices to investigate the functionality and potency of fragrance as time passes using gas chromatograph/mass spectrometry. This presentation highlights the experimental design, synthesis, and characterization of the sol-gels, the preliminary results and future work.

Synthesis and characterization of fragrance encapsulated in silica sol-gels

255th National Meeting (2018)

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