Gels: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications in High Performance Chemistry
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Chemistry and Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 38336
Special Issue Editor
2. Academy of Romanian Scientists, 050094 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: gels; mathematical physics; biophysical modelling; complex systems; nonlinear dynamics; chaos theory; fractal analysis; image processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Organogels, hydrogels, and ionic gels are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Detailed research is focused on both their synthesis and their applications in high-performance chemistry and its important branches. All the gels mentioned above are characterized from structural and supramolecular points of view by FTIR, NMR, X-ray diffraction, and POM.
Articles are expected to focus on one or more of the topics listed above. The central topic can be the refined analysis of hydrogels, with the minting of the coin on chitosan, for example.
The investigation of a hydrogel for wound-healing applications will be well received. The biodegradation of the hydrogel can be monitored in media mimicking the wound exudate by gravimetrical measurements, SEM imaging, and fractal analysis of SEM pictures.
The images can evaluated by calculating the fractal dimension and the lacunarity as a quantitative measure of the homogeneity of the material and its texture through their topological analysis.
Its biocompatibility, antimicrobial properties, and biodegradation can be considered in vitro in scientific papers to be sent.
Finally, we expect you to address in your essay all these reference themes, as well as those associated with them.
Prof. Dr. Viorel-Puiu Paun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organogels
- hydrogels
- ionic gels
- chitosan
- fractal analysis
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