Functional π-gelators and their applications

SS Babu, VK Praveen, A Ajayaghosh - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry originally defined by Lehn as “chemistry beyond molecules”
exploits noncovalent interactions between molecules to form 1D, 2D, and 3D …

Gels with sense: supramolecular materials that respond to heat, light and sound

CD Jones, JW Steed - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Advances in the field of supramolecular chemistry have made it possible, in many situations,
to reliably engineer soft materials to address a specific technological problem. Particularly …

Real‐time in‐situ monitoring of a tunable pentapeptide gel–crystal transition

T Guterman, M Levin, S Kolusheva, D Levy… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular gels often become destabilized by the transition of the gelator into a more
stable crystalline phase, but often the long timescale and sporadic localization of the …

Self-assembly of dipeptide Boc-diphenylalanine nanotubes inside electrospun polymeric fibers with strong piezoelectric response

RMF Baptista, E de Matos Gomes, MMM Raposo… - Nanoscale …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Dipeptide biomaterials are strong piezoelectric materials that can convert applied
mechanical forces into electricity. We have developed large-scale hybrid electrospun arrays …

Effect of peptide and guest charge on the structural, mechanical and release properties of β-sheet forming peptides

D Roberts, C Rochas, A Saiani, AF Miller - Langmuir, 2012 - ACS Publications
The effect of peptide charge on the self-assembly, gelation behavior, and model drug
release profiles has been explored here for three octa-peptides, VEVKVEVK (VEK2) …

Synthesis, experimental and theoretical Studies of 8-hydroxyquinolinium 3, 5-dinitrobenzoate single crystal

N Sudharsana, V Krishnakumar, R Nagalakshmi - Journal of crystal growth, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The 8-hydroxyquinolinium 3, 5-dinitrobenzoate crystals were grown using slow
evaporation solution technique. The structure was confirmed by single crystal X-ray …

New archetypes in self-assembled Phe-Phe motif induced nanostructures from nucleoside conjugated-diphenylalanines

D Datta, O Tiwari, KN Ganesh - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
During the last two decades, the molecular self-assembly of the short peptide
diphenylalanine (Phe-Phe) motif has attracted increasing focus due to its unique …

Organophotocatalysis in nanostructured soft gel materials as tunable reaction vessels: comparison with homogeneous and micellar solutions

J Bachl, A Hohenleutner, BB Dhar… - Journal of Materials …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Riboflavin tetraacetate-catalyzed aerobic photooxidation of 1-(4-methoxyphenyl) ethanol
was investigated as a model reaction under blue visible light in different soft gel materials …

Multi-responsive fluorescent switches and iodine capture of porous hydrogen-bonded self-assemblies

X Chen, T Zhang, Y Han, Q Chen, C Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A four-armed divinylanthracene derivative was designed and synthesized to construct
multifunctional porous self-assemblies. It could form stable supramolecular gels, and its …

Cyclohexamer [-(D-Phe-azaPhe-Ala) 2-]: good candidate to formulate supramolecular organogels

MIA Ibrahim, G Pickaert, L Stefan, B Jamart-Grégoire… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular self-assembly is a fascinating process which has become an area of great interest
in supramolecular chemistry, as it leads in certain cases to molecular gels. Organogels …