1. This article is an editorial on a special issue of gels titled “Advancements in Gel Science”, which was published from MDPI in 2019.
2. The Special Issue was planned for the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the volume phase transition of gels by Professor Toyoichi Tanaka of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
3. The articles in this Special Issue discuss the problems of the volume phase transition of gels and aim to promote a better understanding of the volume phase transition of gels.
This article is an editorial on a special issue titled “Advancements in Gel Science”, which was published from MDPI in 2019. The Special Issue was planned for the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the volume phase transition of gels by Professor Toyoichi Tanaka of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The authors state that although his theory based on the analogy with the van der Waals picture seems to explain experimental results, there are some criticisms even in his time due to oversimplification and neglecting non-linear effects due to elasticity. The articles in this Special Issue discuss these problems and aim to promote a better understanding of the volume phase transition of gels.
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