Low Molecular Mass Gelators of Organic Liquids and the Properties of Their Gels
Low Molecular Mass Gelators of Organic Liquids and the Properties of Their Gels
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10.1002/chin.199811319
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1998-03
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P. Terech;R. Weiss
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作者:
P. Terech;R. Weiss
This review explores the properties of thermallyreversible viscoelastic liquidlike or solidlike materials (ie, organogels) comprised of an organic liquid and low concentrations (typically< 2 wt%) of relatively low molecular mass molecules (ie, gelators). The physical characteristics of organogels can range from those of surfactants in solution1 (eg, micellization, lyotropism, and crystallization) to those of polymer solutions2 (eg, swelling and microscopic mass motion); gels are at the interface between “complex fluids” 3 and phase-separated states of matter. Some of the important physical properties of organogels, the techniques used to probe their properties and structures, and the basic thermodynamic concepts involved in gelator aggregation in organic liquids will be discussed.As noted prophetically by Dr. Dorothy Jordon Lloyd nearly 70 years ago,“.... the colloid condition, the gel, is easier to recognize than to define”. 4 This and other empirical definitions of the gelled state, including the first by Thomas Graham in 1861, 5 relied on the