Issue 41, 2020
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Soft Matter

Transient supramolecular hydrogels formed by catalytic control over molecular self-assembly†

Hucheng Wang,‡a   Liqun Liu,‡a   Shengyu Bai,a   Xuhong Guo, ORCID logo a   Rienk Eelkema, ORCID logo b   Jan H. van Esch ORCID logo *b  and  Yiming Wang ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
E-mail: yimingwang@ecust.edu.cn

b Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, van der Maasweg 9, Delft 2629 HZ, The Netherlands
E-mail: j.h.vanesch@tudelft.nl

Abstract

The present work shows how transient supramolecular hydrogels can be formed by catalytically controlled molecular self-assembly. Catalysis formation of molecular gelators leads the self-assembly along a kinetically favored pathway, resulting in transient hydrogels. This work demonstrates an effective approach towards pathway-dependent supramolecular materials.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM01584A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Sep 2020
Accepted
21 Sep 2020
First published
22 Sep 2020

Soft Matter, 2020,16, 9406-9409

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Transient supramolecular hydrogels formed by catalytic control over molecular self-assembly

H. Wang, L. Liu, S. Bai, X. Guo, R. Eelkema, J. H. van Esch and Y. Wang, Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 9406 DOI: 10.1039/D0SM01584A

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