Provides comprehensive descriptions of various gels and their driving interactions

Describes various supramolecular interactions and their effects on the formation and properties of gels

Discusses the relationship between the structures and properties of gels

Autorentext

Jianyong Zhang received his PhD in Chemistry from the National University of Singapore in 2003 after obtaining a B.Sc. from Central South University of Technology, China in 1996 and an MSc from Nankai University, China in 1999. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (CNRS), France from 2002 to 2003 and at Queen's University Belfast from 2003 to 2006. He joined Sun Yat-Sen University, China where he currently serves as a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, in 2006. His research interests and activities are mainly in the interdisciplinary areas of supramolecular chemistry, materials chemistry, catalysis, and organometallic/coordination chemistry. His recent work primarily focuses on dynamic covalent gels, metal-organic gels and coordination-based supramolecular materials.

Inhalt

Introduction (gels and intermolecular interactions).- Supramolecular Gels.- Polymer Gels.- Metal-Organic Gels.- Dynamic Covalent Gels.- Other Gels.