Self-assembly of peptide-based multi-colour gels triggered by up-conversion rare earth nanoparticles
Junchen Wu1, Qiwei Tian, He Hu
1Department of Chemistry & Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 2, 2009
Abstract:
UCNPs (NaYF4) were efficiently converted to a self-assembled network of a low molecular-weight gelator, thus reinforcing the gel structure and leading to the formation of hybrid multi-colour system through excitation by NIR light.
