It is a great pleasure for us to present a collection of papers read at the Toyoichi Tanaka
Memorial Symposium on Gels held on 10-12 September 2008 in Tokyo. Professor Toyoichi …

This book covers various molecular, metal-organic, dynamic covalent, polymer and other
gels, focusing on their driving interactions, structures and properties. It consists of six …

We are accustomed to thinking of matter as being in one of three states: solid, liquid, or gas.
Nature, however, has provided us with a marvelous intermediate state, the gel. Industrial …

Over the past decade, research on molecular gels has expanded and progressed rapidly.
This timely book presents the latest developments and understanding of the topic, covering …

A balance of forces maintains this state of affairs; disturbing it infinitesimally can bring on a
phase transition and collapse the gel i\gel is a form of matter intermedi ate between a solid …

To avoid the confusion of the concept of a gel frequently encountered in daily markets of
food, cosmetics, and other industrial products, the definition of a gel is revisited. Recent …

It is shown how the control of the area “ah” which the head group of a surfactant molecule
requires at a surfactant film or at a micellar interface can be used to modify the macroscopic …

The study of polymer network systems can be traced back to the series of experiments on
rubbers by Gouth in 1805 (1). These experiments demon strated that a stretched rubber …

This Special Issue of Langmuir is, in some senses, an acknowledgment of the rapid growth
that has occurred in the interest in1 and the understanding of gels with fibrillar networks …