This volume contains the proceedings of Symposium E, 'Fundamentals of Gels and Self-Assembly Systems', from the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting held December 1-6, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts.

This volume contains the proceedings of Symposia LL and MM of the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting, held November 28-December 2 in Boston, Massachusetts. 'Synthetic and Biological Gels' (Symposium LL) focused on advances made in the field and demonstrated the…

Gels are ubiquitous both in materials science and biology. Interest in the behavior of this class of soft materials has increased significantly in the last decades as new experimental approaches have been developed to synthesize and characterize gel…