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Cover Picture: Sugar‐Derived Phase‐Selective Molecular Gelators as Model Solidifiers for Oil Spills (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42/2010)
Author(s) -
Jadhav Swapnil R.,
Vemula Praveen Kumar,
Kumar Rakesh,
Raghavan Srinivasa R.,
John George
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201004589
Subject(s) - oil spill , sugar , phase (matter) , land reclamation , cover (algebra) , crude oil , environmental science , chemistry , petroleum engineering , pulp and paper industry , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , environmental engineering , engineering , biology , ecology , mechanical engineering
In the near future … … molecular gels may serve in the ecologically sound cleanup of oil spills. In their Communication on page 7695 ff., G. John and co‐workers describe how newly developed sugar alcohol gelators can be used for the unprecedented phase‐selective gelation of various crude‐oil fractions from oil–water mixtures at room temperature. The gels facilitate both the containment and the reclamation of oil.