Inorganic particle gels

In the past year, notable progress has been made in the understanding of the fundamental principles of fractal growth of aggregates and gels. A strong interplay between experimental results involving sol-gel chemistry, precipitated gels and sophisticated computer simulations was extremely useful for finding relations between scattering data and experimental results. Finally, the development of new types of microscopy, such as atomic force microscopy, X-ray microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy, will supply experimental methods that can be used to investigate wet gels, and will be complementary to X-ray and neutron scattering techniques.