Chemists develop compounds capable of forming heath-resistant, economic and biocompatible gels

摘要

Eating a yogurt or a jelly, using a pharmaceutical or cosmetic cream or shampoo are just some of the numerous everyday actions in which we use gels developed through a process of gelation. Researchers from Universitat Jaume I have patented a new family of compounds that enables to develop gels more resistant to high temperatures with a higher level of biocompatibi-lity and able to work with a variety of organic solvents, and all this with an easy synthesis, scalable and low cost.This family of compounds has significant applications in industries such as pharmaceu-ticals and cosmetics or food industry, among others.