Issue 41, 2012
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Folic acid as a versatile motif to construct molecular hydrogelators through conjugations with hydrophobic therapeutic agents†

Xingyi Li,a   Chengbiao Yang,b   Zhaoliang Zhang,a   Zhidan Wu,b   Yun Deng,c   Gaolin Liang,c   Zhimou Yangb  and  Hao Chen*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Biomedical Engineering, School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, 270 Xueyuan Road, Wenzhou 325027, China
E-mail: dragonhaochen@163.com

b State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology and College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China

c CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China

Abstract

We demonstrate that folic acid (FA) is a versatile molecule to construct molecular hydrogelators through conjugation with hydrophobic therapeutic agents.

Graphical abstract: Folic acid as a versatile motif to construct molecular hydrogelators through conjugations with hydrophobic therapeutic agents

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2JM35329F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Aug 2012
Accepted
04 Sep 2012
First published
04 Sep 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 21838-21840

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Folic acid as a versatile motif to construct molecular hydrogelators through conjugations with hydrophobic therapeutic agents

X. Li, C. Yang, Z. Zhang, Z. Wu, Y. Deng, G. Liang, Z. Yang and H. Chen, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 21838 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM35329F

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