Molecular Gels

Richard G. Weiss is Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Pierre Terech is Research Director, CNRS – Atomic Energy Center – Grenoble University, Grenoble, France.

• Materials-Chirality.- Theory.- Theory of Molecular Association and Thermoreversible Gelation.- Growth and Chirality amplification in Helical Supramolecular Polymers.- Self-Assembling Peptide Gels.- Kinetics of Nucleation, Aggregation and Ageing.- Soft Glassy Rheology.- Rheological Chaos in Wormlike Micelles and Nematic Hydrodynamics.- Wetting of Fibers.- Techniques.- Gel Formation: Phase Diagrams Using Tabletop Rheology and Calorimetry.- Direct-Imaging and Freeze-Fracture Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy of Molecular Gels.- Molecular Gels and Small-Angle Scattering.- X-Ray Diffraction of Poorly Organized Systems and Molecular Gels.- Optical Spectroscopic Methods as Tools to Investigate Gel Structures.- Circular Dichroism for Studying Gel-Like Phases.- Systems — Organogels.- Low Molecular-Mass Organic Gelators.- Design and Function of Low Molecular-Mass Organic Gelators (LMOGs) Bearing Steroid and Sugar Groups.- Safin Gels with Amphiphilic Molecules.- Systems — Hydrogels.- Advances in Molecular Hydrogels.- Aqueous Gels Made of Chiral Lipid- and Porphyrin-Amphiphiles.- Analyses of Specific Systems.- Rheology of Wormlike Micelles: Equilibrium Properties and Shear Banding Transitions.- Cryo-Tem, X-Ray Diffraction and Modeling of an Organic Hydrogel.- Gelation of a Liquid-Crystalline L? Phase Induced by the Proliferation of Topological Defects.- Applications.- Gels of Liquid Crystals and Ion-Conducting Fluids.- Electron Conducting and Magneto-Sensitive Gels.- Photoresponsive Gels.- Gels of Low Molecular-Mass Organic Gelators as Templates for Transcription.- Responsive Molecular Gels.- Gels as Cleaning Agents in Cultural Heritage Conservation.