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When Horace Walpole coined the word “serendipity” in 1754 he probably did not realize to what extent this word would apply to many scientific discoveries. Organogels are certainly among these “pleasant surprises” and/or “unexpected discovery occurring by design” that have triggered a growing enthusiasm amidst researchers these past 15 years.
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It is here worth stressing that the proper term for physical gels prepared from polymers or biopolymers is Polymer/biopolymer thermoreversible gels and not polymer organogels.
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In the case of polymers there exists “chemical gels” where chains are chemically-cross-linked by covalent bonds. These gels are then thermally-irreversible.
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Guenet, JM. (2016). Introduction. In: Organogels. SpringerBriefs in Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33178-2_1
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