Overview
- Contains in one place the collected wisdom of the field accumulated over the last 20 years
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Materials-Chirality
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Theory
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Front Matter
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Techniques
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Front Matter
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Systems — Organogels
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
"Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks" is a comprehensive treatise on gelators, especially low molecular-mass gelators and the properties of their gels. The structures and modes of formation of the self-assembled fibrillar networks (SAFINs) that immobilize the liquid components of the gels are discussed experimentally and theoretically. The spectroscopic, rheological, and structural features of the different classes of low molecular-mass gelators are also presented. Many examples of the application of the principal analytical techniques for investigation of molecular gels (including SANS, SAXS, WAXS, UV-vis absorption, fluorescence and CD spectroscopies, scanning electron, transmission electron and optical microscopies, and molecular modeling) are presented didactically and in-depth, as are several of the theories of the stages of aggregation of individual low molecular-mass gelator molecules leading to SAFINs. Several actual and potential applications of molecular gels in disparate fields (from silicate replication of nanostructures to art conservation) are described. Special emphasis is placed on perspectives for future developments.
This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners either already researching self-assembly and soft matter or new to the area. Those who will find the book useful include chemists, engineers, spectroscopists, physicists, biologists, theoreticians, and materials scientists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Gels
Book Subtitle: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks
Editors: Richard G. Weiss, Pierre Terech
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3689-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3352-0Published: 12 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7632-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3689-7Published: 30 June 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 978
Topics: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems, Nanotechnology