Controlling the properties of the micellar and gel phase by varying the counterion in functionalised-dipeptide systems

Kate McAulay; Pedro Agís Ucha; Han Wang; Ana M. Fuentes-Caparrós; Lisa Thomson; Osama Maklad; Nikul Khunti; Nathan Cowieson; Matthew Wallace; Honggang Cui; Robert J. Poole; Annela Seddon; Dave J. Adams

doi:10.1039/D0CC01252A

Controlling the properties of the micellar and gel phase by varying the counterion in functionalised-dipeptide systems†

Kate McAulay,^a Pedro Agís Ucha,^ab Han Wang,^c Ana M. Fuentes-Caparrós,^a Lisa Thomson,

^a Osama Maklad,

^d Nikul Khunti,^e Nathan Cowieson,^e Matthew Wallace,

^f Honggang Cui,

^c Robert J. Poole,

^d Annela Seddon^gh and Dave J. Adams

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^a School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
E-mail: dave.adams@glasgow.ac.uk

^b Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, 18071 Granada, Spain

^c Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

^d School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

^e Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK

^f School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK

^g School of Physics, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, UK

^h Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, UK

Abstract

The micellar aggregates formed at high pH for dipeptide-based gelators can be varied by using different alkali metal salts to prepare the solutions. The nature of the micellar aggregates directly affects the properties of the resulting gels.

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Controlling the properties of the micellar and gel phase by varying the counterion in functionalised-dipeptide systems†

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