Organogels

Preface.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Gels: adefinition.- Chapter 2: Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects.- Chapter 3: Molecularstructure, Morphology.- Chapter 4: Solvent role, current approaches.- Chapter 5:Rheological aspects.- Chapter 6: Hybrid gels.- Chapter 7: Current and potentialapplications.- General Summary.- Index.

Professor Jean-Michel Guenet is Directeur deRecherche at CNRS and former head of the Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg,France, a CNRS-owned laboratory associated with the Université of Strasbourg.He has a degree in materials science engineering from Paris XIII University(1974), and obtained a PhD degree in 1980 at Université de Strasbourg (formerlyUniversité Louis Pasteur). He spent a year at Bristol University, UK, under theguidance of Professor A. Keller as a post-doctoral fellow. He was a visitingscientist at NIST with Professor G.B. McKenna, Gaithersburg, USA, in 1985; avisiting professor at Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, with Professor M.Dosière from 1995 to 2004; and an invited professor at Shizuoka University,Japan, with Professor H. Itagaki in 2002 and 2009. He has authored about 170papers, and has also written two books on ThermoreversibleGelation of Polymers and Biopolymers (Academic Press, 1992), and on Polymer-solvent Molecular Compounds(Elsevier, 2008). In 1990, he was awarded the Dillon Medal of the AmericanPhysical Society for his work on polymer gels. He has also founded in 1996 of aseries of conferences formerly entitled Polymer-solventComplexes and Intercalates which has been renamed POLYSOLVAT in 2008. Since2008 this series of conferences is sponsored by IUPAC as being one of its kind.