“…The position and shape of these bands undergo very slight changes with later treatments. The high intensity adsorption band at 1092 cm − 1 , corresponding to Si-O asymmetric stretching characteristic of silica gels, and a shoulder at 1199 cm − 1 , are indicative of a degree of disorder in the silica network (Murgia, Farfán Torres, Gottifredi, & Sham, 2006). The shoulder observed at 960 cm − 1 (Fig.…”