Varying the hydrophobic spacer to influence multicomponent gelation
Santanu Panja, B. Dietrich, Adriana Trabold, Agata Zydel, Aleena Qadir, Dave J. Adams
Abstract
Mixing low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs) shows promise as a means of preparing innovative materials with exciting properties. Here, we investigate the effect of increasing hydrophobic chain length on the properties of the resulting multicomponent systems which are capable of showing ambidextrous phase behaviour on pH perturbation.
Topics & Concepts
Hydrophobic effectChemical engineeringChemistryMaterials sciencePolymer chemistryOrganic chemistryEngineeringSupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsGlycosylation and Glycoproteins ResearchSupramolecular Chemistry and Complexes