Gels: Structures, Properties, and Functions Fundamentals and Applications

Competitive Hydrogen Bonds and Cononsolvency of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)s in Mixed Solvents of Water/Methanol.- Rheological Properties of Solutions of a Polyampholytic Block Copolymer.- Helix-Coil Transition and Association Behavior of Water-Soluble Polypeptides Having Hydrophobic Alkyl Side Chains.- Effects of Surfactants on the Linear Rheology of Telechelic Associating Polymers.- Time-Dependent Flow Properties of Transient Hydrogels with Temporal Network Junctions.- Stress Growth in Transient Polymer Networks under Startup Shear Flow.- Self-assembling Structures and Sol-Gel Transition of Optically Active and Racemic 12-Hydroxystearic Acids in Organic Solvents.- The Gel Point and Network Formation in the Polymerisation of an Epoxy-Amine System Including Ring Formation.- The Effective Surface Roughness Scaling of the Gelation Surface Pattern Formation.- Discontinuous Growth of Onion Structure under Shear.- Study on Self-Assembly of Telechelic Hydrophobically Modified Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in Water.- Some Thoughts on The Definition of a Gel.- Structural Transition of Non-ionic Poly(acrylamide) Gel.- Swelling Equilibrium of a Gel in Binary Mixed Solvents.- Revisit to swelling kinetics of gels.- Effect of Residual Swelling Solvent on Nanopore Formation in Replication of Swollen Hydrogel Network.- Swelling Properties of Physically Cross-linked PVA Gels Prepared by a Cast-drying Method.- Influence of Heating Temperature on Cooking Curve of Rice.- Effects of Thickness and Curvature on the Adhesion Properties of Cylindrical Soft Materials by a Point Contact Method.- Electrophoresis of Dyes and Proteins in Poly(Acrylamide) Gel Containing Immobilized Bilayer Membranes.- An Application of Microcapsules Having Enzyme-degradable Gel Membrane to Cell Culture.- Development of a Novel Hydrogel to Prevent Bacterial Infectious Diseases.- Effect of Particles Alignment on Giant Reduction in Dynamic Modulus of Hydrogels Containing Needle-Shaped Magnetic Particles.- Molecular Diffusion in Polysaccharide Gel Systems as Observed by NMR.- Chain Release Behavior of Gellan Gels.- Gel Formation of Recombinant Fibrinogen Lacking ?C Termini.- Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Pig Vitreous Body.- The Relationship Between the Changes in Local Stiffness of Chicken Myofibril and the Tenderness of Muscle During Postmortem Aging.