Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Gels in 2018

Rigorous peer-review is the corner-stone of high-quality academic publishing. The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who contributed their knowledge and expertise to the journal’s editorial process over the past 12 months. In 2018, a total of 78 papers were published in the journal, with a median time to first decision of 16 days and a median time to publication of 39 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their cooperation and dedication in 2018:

Adams, Dave	Lee, Youngsoo
Arany, Praveen	Lelidis, Ioannis
Arenillas, Ana	Li, Meng
Atrei, Andrea	Lim, Khoon
Auernhammer, Günter	Lin, Chien-Chi
Bae, Ki Hyun	Liu, Fei
Bae, Young Chan	Liu, Yuan
Banquy, Xavier	Liu, Zishun
Berardi, Umberto	Locatelli, Emanuele
Bernards, Matthew	Lúcio, Marlene
Bhosale, Sheshanath	Lyons, John
Bitton, Ronit	Ma, Mingming
Bokias, Georgios	Magda, Jules
Camci-Unal, Gulden	Maia, Fatima
Camerel, Franck	Maki, Yasuyuki
Campanella, Osvaldo H.	Maki, Yasuyuki
Casanovas, Jordi	Malfait, Wim J.
Chamonine, Mikhail	Martens, Penny
Chen, Zhiyong	Matejka, Libor
Chiessi, Ester	Mateos, Miguel Angel
Chronopoulou, Laura	Matsumura, Kazuaki
Ciolacu, Diana	Mikkonen, Kirsi
Cobos, Angel	Miri, Amir K.
Coclite, Anna Maria	Mitsumata, Tetsu
D’Anna, Francesca	Moncho Jorda, Arturo
Dash, Biraja	Moratti, Stephen
Delaney, Colm	Moratti, Steve
Denizli, Adil	Moroni, Lorenzo
Di Chenna, Pablo	Naficy, Sina
Dinu, Maria Valentina	Nahar, Lamia
Divoux, Thibaut	Narsimhan, Ganesan
Dou, Jinbo	Noh, Insup
Douglas, Jack F.	Nyström, Gustav
Drozdov, Aleksey D.	Ohsedo, Yutaka
Dupin, Damien	Ostermann, Rainer
Dziubla, Thomas	Oya, Yuichi
Dzolic, Zoran	Paradossi, Gaio
Eblagon, Katarzyna	Pérez-Luna, Victor H.
El-Safty, Sherif A.	Piao, Xijun
Estrany, Francesc	Pina, Célio Gabriel Figueiredo
Fan, Weizheng	Politano, Antonio
Fare, Silvia	Rachocki, Adam
Finšgar, Matjaž	Raghavan, Srini
Fodor, Csaba	Rajachar, Rupak
Forest, Greg	Ratke, Lorenz
García-González, Carlos A.	Ren, Kaixuan
Gopalan, Sai Anand	Rimondini, Lia
Gradzielski, Michael	Sada, Kazuki
Grajek, Henryk	Sanyal, Amitav
Guenet, Jean-Michel	Schiraldi, David
Gun'ko, Vladimir M	Schultz, Kelly M.
Gurikov, Pavel	Shafiei, Ali
Hanyková, Lenka	Shibayama, Mitsuhiro
Hardy, John G.	Smiatek, Jens
Heo, Yun Jung	Smith Callahan, Laura A.
Hernandez, Rebeca	Snoeck, Didier
Hirokawa, Yoshitsugu	Soares, Paula
Huyghe, Jacques M.	Song, Changsik
Hwang, Seongpil	Sosnik, Alejandro
Hwang, Yongsung	Spelzini, Darío
Ida, Shohei	Stoychev, Georgi
Ijima, Hiroyuki	Ström, Anna
Ino, Kosuke	Suzuki, Atsushi
Inomata, Katsuhiro	Tanchoux, Nathalie
Ionov, Leonid	Tang, Youhong
Ipsen, Richard	Tanyeri, Melikhan
Ishibashi, Jacob	Teramoto, Yoshikuni
Isobe, Noriyuki	Thrivikraman, Greeshma
Jabbari, Esmaiel	Tibbitt, Mark
Jähn, Katharina	Tokita, Masayuki
Jain, Gaurav	Tomasini, Claudia
Jones, Owen G.	Tsitsilianis, Constantinos
Katashima, Takuya	Verdugo, Pedro
Kawaguchi, Haruma	Volker, Körstgens
Khairulina, Kateryna	Wang, Huaimin
Khimyak, Y.Z.	Weiss, Richard
Kirilov, Plamen	Wolf, Bettina
Klein, Lisa C.	Wöll, Dominik
Kloxin, April	Xi, Weixian
Košak, Aljoša	Xin, Hai
Kouwer, Paul	Yamanaka, Masamichi
Krebs, Melissa	Yamanaka, Masamichi
Kressler, Joerg	Yang, Teng-Chun
Kuang, Huihui	Yeom, Junseok
Kuckling, Dirk	Yeon, Jung Heum
Kudaibergenov, Sarkyt	Yoon, Hyunsik
Kumar, Alok	Yoon, Jinhwan
Laity, Peter R	Yuguchi, Yoshiaki
Larobina, Domenico	Zeeb, Benjamin
Larraneta Landa, Eneko	Zeng, Huaqiang
Layek, Buddhadev	Zettel, V.
Le Visage, Catherine	Zhang, Wujie
Lee, Kangwon	Zhao, Weifeng