Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

Recent progress in sodium alginate based sustainable hydrogels for environmental applications

S Thakur, B Sharma, A Verma, J Chaudhary… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, there is a growing research interest in the applications and development of novel
sustainable hydrogel materials in waste water treatment because of radically distinctive …

Peptide self-assembly: thermodynamics and kinetics

J Wang, K Liu, R Xing, X Yan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembling systems play a significant role in physiological functions and have therefore
attracted tremendous attention due to their great potential for applications in energy …

Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced fabrication for electrospun three-dimensional nanofiber aerogels and scaffolds

Y Chen, M Shafiq, M Liu, Y Morsi, X Mo - Bioactive Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is a versatile strategy for creating nanofiber materials with various
structures, which has broad application for a myriad of areas ranging from tissue …

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 …

Design of nanostructures based on aromatic peptide amphiphiles

S Fleming, RV Ulijn - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Aromatic peptide amphiphiles are gaining popularity as building blocks for the bottom-up
fabrication of nanomaterials, including gels. These materials combine the simplicity of small …

Rethinking the term “pi-stacking”

CR Martinez, BL Iverson - Chemical Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
It has become common to reference “pi-stacking” forces or “pi–pi interactions” when
describing the interactions between neighbouring aromatic rings. Here, we review …

Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for biomedical applications

AP Blum, JK Kammeyer, AM Rush… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nature employs a variety of tactics to precisely time and execute the processes and
mechanics of life, relying on sequential sense and response cascades to transduce …

Amino acids and peptide‐based supramolecular hydrogels for three‐dimensional cell culture

XQ Dou, CL Feng - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular hydrogels assembled from amino acids and peptide‐derived hydrogelators
have shown great potential as biomimetic three‐dimensional (3D) extracellular matrices …