The viscosity and crowding of biological environment are considered vital for the correct
cellular function, and alterations in these parameters are known to underly a number of …

Self-assembled nanofibers are ubiquitous in nature and serve as inspiration for the design
of supramolecular hydrogels. A multicomponent approach offers the possibility of enhancing …

Low-molecular-weight gels are formed by the self-assembly of small molecules into fibrous
networks that can immobilize a significant amount of solvent. Here, we focus on our work …

When evaluating soft self-assembling materials for use in any application, the structural or
morphological characterisation is highly important. We know that the hierarchal molecular …

Recently, peptide and sugar-based multicomponent systems have gained much interest in
attaining the sophisticated structure and biofunctional complexity of the extracellular matrix …

Self-assembling peptide-based hydrogels have become a highly attractive scaffold for three-
dimensional (3D) in vitro disease modeling as they provide a way to create tunable matrices …

We show that the same low molecular weight gelator can form gels using three different
methods. Gels were formed from a high pH solution either by adding a salt or by adding an …

Controlling the self-assembly pathways can be an effective means to create complex
multifunctional structures based on a single gelator design. To this direction, an ion …

Self-assembled peptide-based hydrogels are promising materials for biomedical research
owing to biocompatibility and similarity to the extracellular matrix, amenable synthesis and …

Among the diversity of existing supramolecular hydrogels, nucleic acid-based hydrogels are
of particular interest for potential drug delivery and tissue engineering applications because …