To gel or not to gel: Correlating molecular gelation with solvent parameters

Y Lan, MG Corradini, RG Weiss… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Rational design of small molecular gelators is an elusive and herculean task, despite the
rapidly growing body of literature devoted to such gels over the past decade. The process of …

Comparing and correlating solubility parameters governing the self-assembly of molecular gels using 1, 3: 2, 4-dibenzylidene sorbitol as the gelator

Y Lan, MG Corradini, X Liu, TE May, F Borondics… - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
Solvent properties play a central role in mediating the aggregation and self-assembly of
molecular gelators and their growth into fibers. Numerous attempts have been made to …

Enantiomeric organogelators from D-/L-arabinose for phase selective gelation of crude oil and their gel as a photochemical micro-reactor

D Chatterjee, A Paul, S Banerjee, S Yadav - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Enantiomeric D-or L-arabinose based low molecular-weight organogelators (LMOGs),
accessible in a single synthetic step from D-/L-arabinose have been found to be efficient …

Molecular gels: improving selection and design through computational methods

MG Corradini, MA Rogers - Current Opinion in Food Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Computational tools can aid in the selection and design of edible molecular
gelators.•Computational tools can provide insights into forming mechanisms in molecular …

Factors influencing the erosion rate and the drug release kinetics from organogels designed as matrices for oral controlled release of a hydrophobic drug

SR Pereira Camelo, S Franceschi, E Perez… - Drug development …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article proposes solid-like systems from sunflower oil structured with a fibrillar network
built by the assembly of 12-hydroxystearic acid (12-HSA), a gelator molecule for an oil …

Self-assembly of 12-hydroxystearic acid molecular gels in mixed solvent systems rationalized using Hansen solubility parameters

C Liu, M Corradini, MA Rogers - Colloid and Polymer Science, 2015 - Springer
Recent advances in understanding the underlying mechanisms of self-assembly in
molecular gels using Hansen solubility parameters (HSPs) have focused on gelator-single …

Novel supramolecular organogels based on a hydrazide derivative: non-polar solvent-assisted self-assembly, selective gelation properties, nanostructure, solvent …

M Bielejewski, J Kowalczuk, J Kaszyńska, A Łapiński… - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we report the complementary studies of supramolecular organogels composed
of a newly synthesized low molecular mass gelator 4-(4-morpholinyl)-3-nitro …

The gelling ability of some diimidazolium salts: effect of isomeric substitution of the cation and anion

F D'Anna, P Vitale, F Ferrante, S Marullo… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The gelling ability of some geminal imidazolium salts was investigated both in organic
solvents and in water solution. Organic salts differing either in the cation or anion structure …

The solvent–gelator interaction as the origin of different diffusivity behavior of diols in gels formed with sugar-based low-molecular-mass Gelator

J Kowalczuk, M Bielejewski, A Łapiński… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Organogels are soft materials consisting of low-molecular-mass gelators (LMOGs) self-
assembled through noncovalent interactions into 3D structures, in which free spaces are …

Thermal properties, conductivity, and spin-lattice relaxation of gel electrolyte based on low molecular weight gelator and solution of high temperature ionic liquid

M Bielejewski, A Puszkarska, J Tritt-Goc - Electrochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Gel electrolyte based on low molecular weight organic gelator methyl-4, 6-O-(p-
nitrobenzylidene)-α-D-glucopyranoside was formed by the self-assembly phenomena in …