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Soft Optical Devices from Self‐Healing Gels Formed by Oil and Sugar‐Based Organogelators
Author(s) -
Vidyasagar Adiyala,
Handore Kishor,
Sureshan Kana M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201103584
Subject(s) - transmittance , sugar , materials science , refractive index , self healing , optoelectronics , optics , chemistry , food science , medicine , alternative medicine , physics , pathology
Sweet and low : Two sugar‐based supergelators can congeal oils to produce highly transparent gels with glass‐like refractive indices showing low UV transmittance and high visible transmittance and remarkable self‐healing properties. This unique blend of properties can be exploited to make soft optical devices from these gels.