Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Organogelators Research

Dear Colleagues,

Organogels, as soft materials, play a relevant role in manifold fields, including products employed as drug delivery systems (DDS), tissue regeneration materials, biosensors, cosmetics, lubricants, chiral catalysts, compounds with tunable color emission, materials for eco-friendly oil spill recovery, templates for inorganic materials, gels for the encapsulation of active substances (pharmaceuticals, flavors and fragrances), or selective agents for anion recognition. For this reason, the aim of this Special Issue is to cover the recent advances in the preparation and gelling abilities of organogelators in view of new or improved applications. With this purpose, the control of non-covalent interactions is crucial to achieving the hierarchically ordered structures responsible for the macroscopic properties of gels. Thus, the knowledge of the influence that the structural features and, in some cases, chirality of the organogelator molecules exert on the driving forces involved in their self-assembly is essential to tune the capabilities of the resultant gels.

Communications, full papers and reviews on the aforementioned topics are particularly welcome.

Prof. Dr. Rosa Maria Ortuño
Guest Editor

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