Patent 7226953 was granted and assigned to Los Alamos National Security on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is directed to solid composites including colloidal nanocrystals within a sol-gel host or matrix and to processes of forming such solid composites. The present invention is further directed to alcohol soluble colloidal nanocrystals useful in formation of sol-gel based solid composites.