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 …

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 …

Antibacterial hybrid hydrogels

Z Cao, Y Luo, Z Li, L Tan, X Liu, C Li… - Macromolecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial infectious diseases and bacterial‐infected environments have been threatening
the health of human beings all over the world. In view of the increased bacteria resistance …

Supramolecular fluorescent hydrogelators as bio-imaging probes

N Mehwish, X Dou, Y Zhao, CL Feng - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular fluorescent hydrogels (SFH) have shown great potential as detecting
probes for biomedical applications such as cell imaging, disease diagnosis, bio-sensing etc …

High‐strength hydrogels: Microstructure design, characterization and applications

J Hua, PF Ng, B Fei - Journal of Polymer Science Part B …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are a class of polymeric network materials embedded in a water‐rich
environment. They are widely applied in drug delivery, actuator, and sensor. However …

Water-soluble graphene quantum dot‐based polymer nanoparticles with internal donor/acceptor heterojunctions for efficient and selective detection of cancer cells

YH Chang, WH Chiang, FB Ilhami, CY Tsai… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a new, insightful donor–acceptor (DA) energy transfer-based strategy for the
preparation and development of water-soluble multifunctional pH-responsive heterojunction …

Thermo-responsive temporary plugging agent based on multiple phase transition supramolecular gel

G Du, Y Peng, Y Pei, L Zhao, Z Wen, Z Hu - Energy & Fuels, 2017 - ACS Publications
In this study, a thermo-responsive temporary plugging agent was developed with the
property of solution (sol)–gel–sol transition behavior at different temperatures. At low …

Exploring the interfacial phase and π–π stacking in aligned carbon nanotube/polyimide nanocomposites

Q Jiang, Q Zhang, X Wu, L Wu, JH Lin - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
To characterize the interfacial microstructure and interaction at a nanoscale has a significant
meaning for the interface improvement of the nanocomposites. In this study, the interfacial …

Chiral supramolecular gels with lanthanide ions: correlation between luminescence and helical pitch

C Kim, KY Kim, JH Lee, J Ahn, K Sakurai… - … Applied Materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the correlation between the fluorescence intensity and the helical pitch of
supramolecular hydrogels with Tb (III) and Eu (III) as well as their inkjet printing patterning as …

Tuning rheological behaviors of supramolecular aqueous gels via charge transfer interactions

Z Yang, Y Li, C Shen, Y Chen, H Li, A Zhou, K Liu - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Rheological properties are critical for determining real applications of supramolecular gels
in various fields. Correspondingly, the modulation of gel rheology will be very important for …