Contents
A Brief History of Polymeric Cryogels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Vladimir I. Lozinsky
Basic Principles of Cryotropic Gelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Vladimir I. Lozinsky and Oguz Okay
Synthesis and Structure–Property Relationships of Cryogels . . . . . . . . . 103
Oguz Okay and Vladimir I. Lozinsky
Kinetic Analysis of Cryotropic Gelation of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol)/Water
Solutions by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Claudio De Rosa, Finizia Auriemma, and Rocco Di Girolamo
Cryogels via UV Irradiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Petar D. Petrov and Christo B. Tsvetanov
Inorganic Cryogels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Oleg A. Shlyakhtin
Cryogels for Biotechnological Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Bo Mattiasson
Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Cryogels for Biomedical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Wankei Wan, A. Dawn Bannerman, Lifang Yang, and Helium Mak
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
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