Maaike de Loos

TL;DR: In this paper, the gelation of aqueous solutions by low molecular weight (LMW) compounds has become an area of increasing interest, owing to developments in the field of LMW organogelators.

TL;DR: The gelation properties of bis-urea compounds derived from opti-cally pure trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane and 1, 2-diminobenzene, with pendant aliphatic, aromatic, or ester groups, as well as the structure of the resulting gels, have been studied by differential scan-ning calorimetry, infrared spectroscopy, small-angle X-ray diffraction, and elec- tron microscopy.

TL;DR: The diastereomeric aggregates formed from (R,R)-2 with (R-R)-1 or (S,S)-1 were found to be truly different in structure and strength.

TL;DR: The reversible photoconversion of self‐assembling dithienylcyclopentene photochromic switches between an aggregated and nonaggregated state is manifest at the macroscopic level by a fully reversible sol–gel phase transition and results in spatially confined structure formation in an inhomogeneous optical field.

TL;DR: In this article, a class of C3-symmetric amino acid based organogelators and thickeners featuring a rigid core have been developed, the aggregation behavior and resulting aggregates and gels of which were studied by FTIR spectroscopy, dropping ball measurements, differential scanning calorimetry and transmission electron microscopy.