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Besides porous media, microemulsions, colloïdal aggregates, physical gels are also an example of finely divided matter. The physical gels are binary solutions made of a polymer + a solvent which acquire in some particular conditions., remarkable mechanical properties, due to an aggregation process of the polymer chains, This can be induced by a modification of the thermodynamieal parameters of the medium, such as the ionic strength, the temperature... The gel state is reversible: the system recovers its fluidity when these parameters are changed back. Numerous examples of such systems are known, either of natural (agarose, pectin,...) or synthetic (polyethylene, polyacrylonitrile,...) polymers.
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Djabourov, M. (1985). Gelation of Physical Gels: The Gelatin Gels. In: Boccara, N., Daoud, M. (eds) Physics of Finely Divided Matter. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93301-1_3
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