Gels as Templates for Transcription

Dear Colleagues,

The preparation of nanostructured materials with well-defined morphology and properties is of major importance due to their potential high-tech applications, and has become an interdisciplinary field that involves chemistry, solids and soft matter physics, biology, and materials science. The template technique, following the bottom-up approach, is one of the most important methods for the controlled synthesis of defined nanostructured materials in which the nano-object is chemically assembled from smaller elementary components (building blocks). In this area gels, with well-defined nano-dimensional superstructures, have become a versatile soft-material that can be used to guide the transcription of these structures to create inorganic and/or hybrid nanomaterials with a wide variety of morphologies such as nanotubes, helical tubes and ribbons, plates, etc.

This Special Issue focuses on the application of chemical and physical gels as molecular templates for the preparation of mesoporous, nanostructured inorganic, organic and/or hybrid materials and the study of the transcription process.

Prof. Dr. Pablo H. Di Chenna
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Gels is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.