Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Gels in 2021

Rigorous peer-reviews are the basis of high-quality academic publishing. Thanks to the great efforts of our reviewers, Gels was able to maintain its standards for the high quality of its published papers. Thanks to the contribution of our reviewers, in 2021, the median time to first decision was 15 days and the median time to publication was 34 days. The editors would like to extend their gratitude and recognition to the following reviewers for their precious time and dedication, regardless of whether the papers they reviewed were finally published:

Aaron Alford	Kun Huang
Abdelhafed Taleb	Kun Liang
Abdulrahman A. Balhaddad	Kun Xue
Ádám Juhász	Kunhao Yu
Adarsh Nayarassery Narayanan	Kunyan Sui
Adéla Melcrová	Kwan Hyi Lee
Adina Santana	Kyohei Fukata
Afang Zhang	Kyoko Kofuji
Agnes Klar	Lacramioara Popa
Agnieszka Gadomska-Gajadhur	Lan Jiang
Agnieszka Kowalczyk	Larisa Tsarkova
Agnieszka Kulawik-Pióro	Laura Chronopoulou
Agnieszka Pilarska	Lauro Bucio
Agnieszka Sobczak-Kupiec	Lei Nie
Ágota Tóth	Leila Roufegarinejad
Ahmad Koohi	Li Na
Ahmed Orabi	Libor Matejka
Akiko Toyotama	Lidija Gradišnik
Akitaka Ito	Lih-Sheng Turng
Alastair N. Cormack	Lin Qiu
Alberto De Iseppi	Lingxiao Xie
Alberto Fraile	Liqing Zhao
Alberto García-Peñas	Luca Burratti
Alcilene Rodrigues Monteiro	Lucia Baldino
Aldo Nicosia	Lucia Catucci
Aleksey Vishnyakov	Lucimara G. De La Torre
Alena Saláková	Luis Felipe De Paula Santos
Alena Vimmrová	Luis García-Fernández
Alessandro Pezzella	Luis Rodrigo
Alessio Bucciarelli	Luqman Ali Shah
Alexander Marras	Luying Xun
Alexander Shcherbakov	Maciej Jarzebski
Alexandros Chremos	Maciej Skotak
Alexey L. Iordanskii	Maciej Szwast
Ali Ayati	Magdalini D. Titirla
Ali Khanjari	Mahboubeh Yeganeh
Ali M. Alqahtani	Mahdi Bodaghi
Ali Olad	Mahsa Salehi
Ali Sedaghat Doost	Mahuya Das
Ali Shaygan Nia	Makoto Takafuji
Ali Tamayol	Mallesh Kurakula
Altaf Hussain Kanhar	Manisha Pandey
Alwar Ramani	Manuel Desco
Alyne Lamy-Mendes	Manuel Piñero
América Chávez-Martinez	Manuela Maria Iftime
Amjad Balange	Marc C. A. Stuart
Ana Alcudia	Marc Schmutz
Ana Cláudia Santos	Marcel Krzan
Ana Corte-Real	Marcelino Maneiro
Ana Luisa Martínez-López	Marek Kieliszek
Ana Maria Putz	Maria De La Luz Reyes-Vega
Ana-Maria Putz	Maria Grazia Raucci
Anastassia Mashentseva	Maria Manconi
Anatoly Zinchenko	Maria Marudova
Anca Dinischiotu	Maria Molina
André Lopes	Maria P. Sokolova
Andrea Atrei	María Sancho-Tello
Andrea Bunea	Maria Valentina Dinu
Andrea Luca Tasca	Mariana E. Ghica
Andreea Pușcaș	Marija Gizdavic-Nikolaidis
Andreea-Teodora Iacob	Marija M. Babić
Andres Ayuela	Marin Micutz
Andrew Gravelle	Marino Lavorgna
Andrew Padalhin	Mario Grassi
Andrey Drozdov	Mariorosario Masullo
Andriati Ningrum	Marta Grochowicz
Angelo Putignano	Marta Tunesi
Ani Baghdasaryan	Martin In
Anirudh Sharma	Martina Šídlová
Anja Engel	Mary Beth Browning Monroe
Anka Trajkovska Petkoska	Marzena Stefaniuk
Anna Florowska	Masamichi Yamanaka
Anna Maria Osyczka	Massimo Mariello
Anna Shipovskaya	Matthew S. Turner
Anna Żbikowska	Mauro Valente
Anna Zimoch-Korzycka	Mayra Aguilar-Zárate
Annalisa Dalmoro	Mayya Uspenskaya
Annarita Stringaro	Mazen Nazal
Anthony Harker	Md. Abul Azad
Antonella Accardo	Meenakshi Dutt
Antonietta S. Quigg	Mehrez E. El-Nagar
Antonio Fernández-Barbero	Meiwen Cao
Anugya Bhatt	Mei-Yu Yeh
Anuj Kumar	Melike Firlak
Anurodh Tripathi	Mesut Uyaner
Apurba Das	Miao Du
Archana Bhaw-Luximon	Michael Dunne
Aris Giannakas	Michael Gradzielski
Arkadi Arinstein	Michael T. Cook
Arkadii Arinstein	Michaela Schulz-Siegmund
Arkadiusz Józefczak	Michail Kastellorizios
Arthur D. Tinoco	Michał Bielejewski
Artur Turek	Michele Marino
Ashveen Nand	Miklós Nagy
Aurel Diacon	Milan Stankovic
Avathamsa Athirasala	Minghao Yao
Ayesha Murtaza	Minhao Xie
Aznan Ismail	Mirna Habuda-Stanic
Babatunde Okesola	Miroslava Dušková-Smrčková
Bahareh Azimi	Miruna Stan
Bapan Pramanik	Miryam Criado Gonzalez
Barkat Khan	Mitsuhiro Shibayama
Beata Anna Zasonska	Mitsumasa Taguchi
Behrouz Ghorani	Mizuho Kondo
Benoit Loppinet	Mohammad Afsar Uddin
Bhawana Thakur	Mohammad Javed Ansari
Bimal Jana	Mohammad Mirazul Islam
Bing Xu	Mohammadreza Shokouhimehr
Bingbing Gao	Mohammed Emran
Bjørn Torger Stokke	Mohammed F. Hamza
Bong Geun Chung	Mohammed Hawash
Borsa Judit	Mohammed Salah Nasr
Boštjan Vihar	Mohd Buraidah
Bouchta Sahraoui	Mônica Feijó Naccache
Bożena Karolewicz	Monica Orellana
Bożena Tyliszczak	Monika Gosecka
Bruno Henrique Vilsinski	Muhammad Adeel
C. K. Abdullah	Muhammad Jamil
C. Patrickios	Muhammad Mujtaba
Cai Yuhang	Murugesan Chandrasekaran
Can Zhang	Muthuchamy Nallal
Carlo Castellano	Myunghwan Byun
Carlo Diaferia	Nader Shehata
Carlo Gonzato	Nader Taheri-Qazvini
Carlos Garcia-Gonzales	Nadir Bettache
Carmen Piras	Naofumi Naga
Caroline Borderon	Naphtali A. O’Connor
Caroline R. Szczepanski	Narendar Dudhipala
Carson J. Bruns	Nathalie Mignet
Catalin I. Pruncu	Nayan Ranjan Singha
Catalin Tuta	Neil Clarke
Catalin Zaharia	Nela Bibire
Cécile Echalier	Nhamo Chaukura
César C. Leyva-Porras	Nicolas Muzzio
Cesare Cametti	Nikita Kuznetsov
Chaenyung Cha	Nikolai Vatin
Changsik Song	Nikolaos A. Vainos
Chen Li	Nileshkumar Dubey
Chen Xie	Nimer Murshid
Chengying Bai	Nirzari Gupta
Cheol-Hee Ahn	Nishant Chakravorty
Chi Bum Ahn	Nonappa Nonappa
Chihching Chung	Nouf Faisal Alharby
Chii-Rong Yang	Nunzio Tuccitto
Chinmay Satam	Nurhasni Hasan
Chi-Ping Li	Octavian Buiu
Chirag Godiya	Oleksandr Tomchuk
Christian Demitri	Olga A. Mostovaya
Christina Tang	Olga Warszawik-Hendzel
Christopher J. Wilson	Omar Azzaroni
Christopher Stephen Andrew Musgrave	Omid Akhlaghi
Christopher V. Hughes	Ornella Ursini
Classius Ferreira Da Silva	Oswaldo Baffa
Cláudia Pellizzon	Ozgul Gok
Claudia Tomasini	P. Abdul Azeem
Concepción Valencia	Pablo Di Chenna
Corneliu Cojocaru	Paolo Boffano
Coro Echeverria	Pasqualina Gallo
Cristian Petcu	Patricia Lopez-Sanchez
Cristina Chircov	Patrícia Nicolucci
Cristina Orbeci	Patricio Santagapita
Cuixia Sun	Patrick C.L. Hui
Daisuke Asai	Patrycja Domalik-Pyzik
Damien Dupin	Paula M. Ferreira
Dana Akilbekova	Paula Malo De Molina
Daniel Fernández-Quiroz	Paula Ossowicz
Daniel Hermida-Merino	Paulo H. S. Picciani
Daniela Franke	Pavel Gurikov
Darinka Christova	Paweł Groch
Dario Pasini	Payam Zarrintaj
Darius Milčius	Pedro Fernandes
David A. Schiraldi	Pedzisai Makoni
David Onoja Patrick	Per Hansson
David Schiraldi	Peter Kasak
Dawang Zhang	Peter Santschi
Da-Wei Huang	Petra Obioma Nnamani
Debasish Haldar	Petri Murto
Debora Campos	Phung Le
Deepankar Kumar Ashish	Pierre Weiss
Demetra Giuri	Pim Walace Doti Do
Demin Cai	Piyanut Pinyou
Deng-Guang Yu	Plamen Kirilov
Di Jia	Ponnusamy Palanisamy
Dimitris Kioupis	Prachi Thareja
Dirk Kuckling	Pradipta Ranjan Rauta
Dishary Banerjee	Pratheep Kumar Annamalai
Dmitriy Berillo	Priyadarshi Chakraborty
Dolores Remedios Serrano	Prokopios Georgopanos
Dominique Larrea-Wachtendorff	Qian Ye
Donghee Son	Qiang Liu
Dorota Kołbuk-Konieczny	Qilin Yu
Dursun Saraydın	Qin Xu
Duyoung Choi	Qixian Chen
E. Joseph	Quansan Yang
Ecaterina Stela Dragan	Qufu Wei
Eduardo Guzmán	Rachel Letteri
Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare	Radu Mitrut
Ehsan Zeimaran	Rafal Kaminski
Ekaterina Prikhozhdenko	Raffaele Pugliese
Ekaterina Zhulina	Rajendran JC Bose
Elena Damiá	Rajesh Kumar
Elena Shchelokova	Rakkiyappan Chandran
Elena Stocco	Raluca Nicu
Eleonora Soco	Rami K. Suleiman
Elham Ahmadian	Ranjit De
Elham Hosseini Nejad	Raquel P. F. Guiné
Elisabete Pereira Dos Santos	Rati Nayak
Elisabeth Gill	Rattapol Pinnaratip
Elodie Guilminot	Raviraj M. Kulkarni
Elsa Galbis	Rebeca Hernandez
Emilia P. Collar	Ren-Jei Chung
Emilija Friganović	Richard Arm
Emilio Bucio	Richard D’Arcy
Emin Yılmaz	Richard Hoogenboom
Eneko Larraneta	Richard Weiss
Eric Freyssingeas	Rita De Zorzi
Esam Bashir Yahya	Robert Luxenhofer
Esam Yahya	Robert W. Huigens III
Etienne Ducrot	Roberta Angelini
Eugenio Garribba	Roberta G. Toro
Eunice Carrilho	Rocio Yaneli Aguirre Loredo
Eva Pinho	Roksana Markiewicz
Ewa Jakubczyk	Rolando Barbucci
Fabio Domenici	Romána Zelkó
Facundo Mattea	Rongcong Luo
Fang Qian	Ruei-Feng Shiu
Fang-Yi Lin	Ruhuai Mei
Farnaz Batool	Rui Tamura
Fatemeh Mokhtari	Ruimeng Zhang
Fatih Puza	Run-Sheng Lin
Fatmanur Tuǧcu-Demiröz	Rupert Kargl
Fayaz Ali	Russo Eleonora
Fei Liu	Rüstem Keçili
Fei Xu	Sabino Aurelio Bufo
Felicity Han	Sai Sagiri
Felix Plamper	Sajjad Sayyar Roudsari
Feng Chen	Salim Albukhaty
Feng Li	Salvatore Gallo
Fernando Notario-Pérez	Salvatore Marullo
Ferry Melchels	Salvatore Verre
Filip Dyčka	Samantha C. Pinho
Filippo Rossi	Samarendra Maji
Fiora Artusio	Sameera Shafi
Fiore Pasquale Nicoletta	Santiago Grijalvo
Fioretta Asaro	Santosh Ghosh
Flavio Rizzolio	Sara Pourshahrestani
Florin Iordache	Sarah Glaß
Francesca Rossi	Saranshu Singla
Francesco Bimbo	Satoshi Migita
Francesco Caddeo	Sekar Vijayakumar
Francesco Piraino	Seong Jung Kwon
Francisco Eroni Paz Dos Santos	Sergei Tarasov
Francisco Fernández-Campos	Sergejs Gaidukovs
Françoise Chuburu	Serwan Rafiq
Frank Alexis	Seung Hun Lee
Fred Burpo	Sevil Savaşkan Yilmaz
Frédéric Chaput	Seyed Ehsan Endermi
Frédéric Delbecq	Shahin Homaeigohar
Fuat Topuz	Shahrokh Ghobadloo
Fu-Gen Wu	Shakeel Ahmed
Fujian Tang	Shantanu Pradhan
Fuyin Hsu	Shaoting Lin
Fu-Yin Hsu	Shaozhi Fu
Gábor Katona	Sharafaldin Al-Musawi
Gabriel Goetten De Lima	Sharif Md Abuzar
Gabriela Dorcioman	Shashank Gorityala
Gabriela Ionita	Shazid Md. Sharker
Gabriele Domenico	Sheeja Saji Varghese
Gaelle Roudaut	Shih-Feng Chou
Gaetano Giammona	Shijian Wu
Gaetano Isola	Shikha Agarwal
Gandhi Rádis-Baptista	Shikha Awasthi
Ganesh Ingavle	Shim Sung Lee
Garry Kerch	Shinji Sakai
Gary Wnek	Shu-Chuan Liao
Gebremariam Birhanu	Shuhua Han
Georgios Bokias	Shujahadeen B. Aziz
Gerald S. Manning	Shuko Suzuki
Gerardo Burton	Shuquan Chang
Gerardo Prieto	Sibel İlbasmiş Tamer
Ghasem Sargazi	Siddharth Gautam
GianCarlo Pecorari	Silvano Geremia
Gianpaolo Serino	Silvia Barbon
Gideon Rotich	Silvia Tampucci
Giorgio Grillo	Simona Căprărescu
Giovanna Rossi-Márquez	Simona Sennato
Gislaine Ferreira Nogueira	Simone S. Silva
Giulia Di Prima	Sitakanta Satapathy
Giulia Ronchi	Siu Hong Dexter Wong
Giuseppe Lazzara	Sizhao Zhang
Gloria Huerta-Angeles	Slawomir Kadlubowski
Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan	Snezana Ilic-Stojanovic
Gratiela Gradisteanu Pircalabioru	Solmaz Hajizadeh
Graziele Grossi Bovi Karatay	Son Nguyen
Grzegorz Kowalski	Sondes Gargoubi
Grzegorz Makomaski	Soodabeh Davaran
Guangxue Chen	Sreekar Babu Marpu
Guijun Wang	Srini Raghavan
Guoliang Ying	Stefan-Ovidiu Dima
Gustavo César Dacanal	Stephen C Moratti
Guy Garty	Stephen Inbraj
Guya Diletta Marconi	Stoyan Gutzov
Gyorgy Szekely	Sudip K. Pattanayek
Gyo-woo Lee	Su-Mi Hur
Hadi Rastin	Sung-Hwan Jang
Hadi Samadian	Supachok Tanpichai
Haitao Yu	Swarup Roy
Haiyi Liang	Syed Haroon Khalid
Hamada Elwan	Syed Shahabuddin
Hanna Kastner	T. Ivanova
Hassan Karimi-Maleh	Tae-Jong Yoon
H.balaji Ragavendra	Tahir Khuroo
Heather A. Colburn	Tahira Pirzada
Helena Kelly	Takashi Miyata
Henri Vahabi	Takehiko Gotoh
Henry Chun Hin Law	Takuji Yamamoto
Himanshu Kathuria	Takuma Kureha
Hiroaki Sai	Tangirala Venkata Krishna Karthik
Hiroshi Nonaka	Tanja Jurkin
Hiroto Ozaki	Tannin Schmidt
Hiroyasu Yamaguchi	Tao Lin Sun
Hiroyuki Ijima	Tarek Ahmed
Hitoshi Tonomura	Tasuku Nakajima
Hong Chul Moon	Tatiana Eliseeva
Hongliang Liu	Teresa Cerchiara
Hongshun Yang	Thais L. T. Da Silva
Hongxiang Hu	Thashree Marimuthu
Horst Henning Winter	Thomas J Boyd
Hossam E. Emam	Thomas M Zydowsky
Huan Wang	Tianyu Zhu
Hui Luo	Tilahun Ayane Debele
Hui Zhang	Ting Wang
Huifang Xu	Tomasz Rebis
Iciar Astiasaran	Tomoki Maeda
Ikram Ullah Khan	Tomonari Sumi
I-Ming Chu	Tomonari Tanaka
Inderbir Singh	Toshiaki Dobashi
Inimfon Udoetok	Toshihisa Tanaka
Intan Rosalina Suhito	Toshikazu Takigawa
Ioana Demetrescu	Tran Ngoc Quyen
Ioanna Mandala	Trichet Lea
Ioannis A. Asimakopoulos	Tzu Hsuan Chiang
Ioannis K. Karabagias	U Gianfranco Spizzirri
Iolanda De Marco	Ulises Gomez-Pinedo
Irene Lara-Sáez	Ursula Windberger
Irina Elena Raschip	Usman Minhas
Irina Savina	Vaclav Slovak
Isabelle Pochard	Vahid Morovati
Isma Liza Mohd Isa	Valery V. Konshin
Isopencu Gabriela	Vanda Serra
István Antal	Vasyl M. Haramus
Iuga Madalina	Vegar Ottesen
Ivan S. Chaschin	Venkata Chevali
Jacek Nowaczyk	Vera V. Budaeva
Jack Douglas	Veronika Pavliňáková
Jack Harrowfield	Victor Eremeyev
Jakub M. Gac	Vijay Kumar
Jamal Uddin	Viktor I. Sevastianov
Jan Labuta	Viktor Korzhikov-Vlakh
Jason T.C. Tzen	Vineet Rai
Jasvir Dalal	Vittorio Checchi
Jatupol Junthip	Vladimir Gegechkori
Javed Ali	Vladimir Lozinsky
Jay Ramapuram	Wansu Park
Jean-Jacques Bonvent	Wanyu Chen
Jean-Paul Jay-Gerin	Wei Han
Jennifer J. Guerard	Wei Shao
Jennifer Patterson	Wei Yu
Jens Gaitzsch	Wei-Chia Su
Ji Hyun Ryu	Wei-Chun Chin
Ji Liu	Wei-Dong He
Jia An	Weijun Zhang
Jiacan Su	Weilue He
Jiancheng Lai	Weiren Cheng
Jianyong Zhang	Weiyi Su
Jin-Feng Xing	Wenbo Han
Jing Liu	Wen-Chao Liu
Jingjing You	Wenguo Cui
Jiri Smilek	Wenjiang Li
Ji-Won Park	Wenjing Song
Joana C. Antunes	Wen-Yu Su
Joana Rolo	Wuge Briscoe
Joanna Cichowska	Wujie Zhang
Joanna Skopinska-Wisniewska	Xiang Li
Joanna Zemła	Xiaodeng Yang
João Paulo Borges	Xiao-Feng Sun
Johann P. Klare	Xiaoliang Qi
Johanna Castaño	Xiaomin Tang
John Bartlett	Xiaoning Zhang
John L. Daristotle	Xiaoqiang Xue
Jolanta Liesiene	Xiao-Wei Chen
Jonathan Steed	Xiaoxia Le
Jong Hwa Jung	Xin Du
Jorge Alegre-Cebollada	Xinda Li
Jorge Cesar Masini	Xing Wang
José A. Martins	Xuan Zhang
José López Castro	Xuanrong Sun
Jose Luis Gerardo-Nava	Xun Song
Josefina Pons	Yakov Lapitsky
Joshua S Boateng	Yan Han
Jothi Varghese	Yan Tao Chen
Józef Haponiuk	Yan Zubavichus
József Kalmár	Yanchuan Guo
Juan Manuel Lázaro-Martínez	Yang Hu
Juan Pedro Fernández	Yan-jie Wang
Jukka Ketoja	Yasumitsu Matsuo
Jules Magda	Yasuyuki Maki
Julian L. Gendreau	Yi Cao
Julian Oberdisse	Yifeng Cao
Juliette Fitremann	Yifeng Lei
Juliusz A. Wolny	Yilin Zhang
Jun Chen	Yi-Ping Fang
Jun Mei	Yishu Yan
Jun Wu	Yi-Ting Chiang
Junbo He	Yoichiro Mori
Jung Seung Lee	Yoko Iwamoto
Jun-ichi Kadokawa	Yonghang Xu
Jun-Xia Xiao	Yonghou Xiao
Justin C. Burrell	Yongjun Men
Kadir Ozaltin	Yoshinori Takashima
Kajal Ghosal	Yosra Toumia
Kamol Dey	Youn Soo Kim
Kampanart Huanbutta	Young-Ho Cho
Kar Wey Yong	Youngho Eom
Karolina Pycia	Yu. F. Zuev
Karthikeyan Venkatachalam	Yuan Jiang
Katarzyna Klimek	Yuan Xu
Katarzyna Marciniak-Lukasiak	Yuichi Oya
Katarzyna Marciniak-Łukasiak	Yujen Chou
Kathryn Taylor-Pashow	Yun Jung Heo
Katyayani Tatiparti	Yuping Wang
Kawee Srikulkit	Yuriy Malyar
Ke Qu	Yury A. Skorik
Kęstutis Baltakys	Yuta Yoshizaki
Kevin Cavicchi	Yutaka Ohsedo
Kevin Dzobo	Zahoor Farooqi
Khaled Elsaid	Zahra Bagheri
Khaled Giasin	Zeeshan Tariq
Khaled Saoud	Zhaogang Yang
Khalid Rabaeh	Zhaoyang Ding
Kinga Korniejenko	Zhexenbek Toktarbay
Klaudia Kaniewska	Zhihong Zhang
Kohzo Ito	Zhongbin Pan
Krishna K Damodaran	Zulamita Zapata-Benabithe
Kulwinder Kaur	Zulhelmi Alif Abd Halim
Kummara Madhusudana Rao