Insights into organogelation and its kinetics from Hansen solubility parameters. Toward a priori predictions of molecular gelation

Soft Matter

Volumn 10, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2632-2640

  Diehn, Kevin K ^a   Oh, Hyuntaek ^a   Hashemipour, Reza ^a   Weiss, Richard G ^b   Raghavan, Srinivasa R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRIC SHELLS; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; HANSEN SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTIONS; INSTANT GELATIONS; NON-COVALENT INTERACTION; PRIORI PREDICTIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

GELATION; GELS; HYDROGEN BONDS; MATLAB; MOLECULES; SOLS; SOLUBILITY; SPHERES;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84897910597     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52297k     Document Type: Article

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