Hydrogels have recently garnered tremendous interest due to their potential application in
soft electronics, human–machine interfaces, sensors, actuators, and flexible energy storage …

This review explores supramolecular gels as materials for environmental remediation.
These soft materials are formed by self-assembling low-molecular-weight building blocks …

A Perspective is presented on the history and current understanding of molecular gels and
the factors that must be considered to characterize them. The abilities of the most important …

Low molecular weight gelators (LMWG) self-assemble in solution into one-dimensional
objects such as fibres or tapes. The entanglement of these fibres or tapes results in the …

Recently, stimuli-responsive supramolecular gels have received significant attention
because their properties can be modulated through external stimuli such as heat, light …

Dibenzylidene-D-sorbitol (DBS) has been a well-known low-molecular-weight gelator of
organic solvents for over 100 years. As such, it constitutes a very early example of a …

Low molecular weight gels can be responsive to a range of external stimuli. The use of light
as an external stimulus to modify gels is of particular interest for a number of reasons. Light …

Supramolecular low molecular weight gels have potential in many areas from medicine to
optoelectronics. Of the different applications, visual sensing of chemical analytes using gels …

Low molecular weight gels are formed by the self-assembly of a suitable small molecule
gelator into a three-dimensional network of fibrous structures. The gel properties are …

π-Gels are a promising class of functional soft materials formed out of short π-conjugated
molecules. By utilizing the chemistry of noncovalent interactions, researchers have created a …