Editorial Board for section 'Gel Chemistry and Physics'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: the design and synthesis of novel polymer or supramolecular hydrogels; chiral biomaterials; three-dimensional tissue engineering materials; the visualization of cell-matrix interaction in three dimensions
* Section 'Gel Chemistry and Physics'
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Centro Interuniversitario Sistemi Medici Avanzati (CRISMA), 53034 Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Italy
Interests: synthesis of polysaccharide hydrogels; modification of metallic materials
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Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: polymer synthesis and characterization; stimuli-responsive and functional polymeric materials; synthetic and reversible hydrogels; optically-labelled polymers; hybrid inorganic/organic soft materials
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School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
Interests: eutectogels; gelation; interfacial gels; lubrication; surface forces; polymer brushes
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Chemistry Department "Ugo Schiff" and CSGI Consortium, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: polymer gels; molecular gels; cultural heritage conservation; rheology; small angle scattering
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"Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Grigore Ghica Voda Alley 41A, 700487 Iasi, Romania
Interests: amphiphilic cationic polysaccharides; micro- and nanoparticles; natural and synthetic polymers-based hydrogels; composite materials; drug delivery systems
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Laboratoire Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7574, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Interests: biomaterials; bionanocomposites; bio-hybrids; hydrogels: silica; collagen; biominerals
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Departamento de Química Orgánica, UMYMFOR (CONICET-FCEN), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Piso 3, pabellón 2, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Interests: development and study of new physical gels; organogels as template for the preparation of nanoparticles; supramolecular chemistry; structure-gelating property relationship; steroid-derived physical gels; development of functional soft materials
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Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Interests: polymers; polyelectrolyte solutions and gels; soft matter; physical chemistry

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Department of Life Science, Universita degli Studi di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
Interests: biomaterials; mechanobiology; polysaccharide chemistry and physical-chemistry
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1. Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Interests: gels; hydrogels; biomaterials; polymer networks

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Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala University, Box 574, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: gel; microgel; amphiphile; surfactant; self-assembly; protein; peptide; drug; drug delivery; controlled release; phase transition; phase separation; volume transition; thermodynamic modelling; binding isotherm

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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: supramolecular polymers; supramolecular gels

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Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
Interests: polymer chemistry; colloid and interfacial chemistry; molecular recognition chemistry; nanogel; drug delivery systems
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Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis #08-03, Singapore 138634, Singapore
Interests: biomaterials; materials chemistry; design and synthesis of biodegradable polymer; polymeric self-assemblies; biomedical materials; tissue engineering
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Laboratory for Cryochemistry of (Bio)Polymers, A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street, 28, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Interests: cryochemistry of polymer systems; cryostructuring of polymers; polymeric cryogels and cryostructurates; applied potential of cryogenically-structured polymeric materials

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School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA
Interests: gels; liquid crystals; polymers; metal nanoparticles; ionic liquids

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School of Biological Sciences, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
Interests: cancer biomaterials; bioengineering; implant design; surface modification; targeted drug delivery; tissue engineering; 3D printing
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Department of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Kansai University, Suita, Osaka 564-8680, Japan
Interests: gels; biomaterials; membranes; polymer surfaces and interfaces
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Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Interests: physics of charged macromolecules; phase transitions; gel physics; coacervation; polymer translocation

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Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
Interests: hydrogels; stimuli responsive materials; cell encapsulation; nanomaterials; biomaterials

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Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Interests: physics of gel and biomaterials
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Institut Charles Gerhardt-Montpellier, Matériaux Avancés pour la Catalyse et la Santé, UMR5253 CNRS-ENSCM-UM2-UM1, 8 rue de l'Ecole Normale, 34296 Montpellier, France
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Interests: gel; phase transition; critical phenomena; sol-gel transition; phase separation; morphogenesis
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Dipartimento di Chimica Giacomo Ciamician, Università di Bologna, 2-40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: organic chemistry; sustainable peptide materials; controlled release; water remediation
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Interests: gels; carbohydrate based gelators

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Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Silvio O. Conte National Center for Polymer Research, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003‑3110, USA
Interests: physically and chemically crosslinking systems; crystallizing polymers; colloidal glasses; microphase-separating block copolymers; drying paints; aging bitumen; structuring nanocomposites

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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Interests: colloidal suspensions; gels; microgels; microfluidics
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Department of Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Interests: polymer gels; functional polymers; self-organization; biomimetic or bio-inspired materials; biomaterials
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