Interplay between hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions in the self-assembly of a gemini amphiphilic pseudopeptide: from nano-spheres to hydrogels
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Preparation of Mechanically Stable Self-Assembled Peptides Hydrogels
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Jenifer Rubio1, Ignacio Alfonso, M Isabel Burguete
1Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universidad Jaume I, Avenida Sos Baynat, s/n, Castellón, Spain.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 19, 2012
Abstract:
The formation of soluble nano-spheres or stable hydrogels through the self-assembling of a simple gemini amphiphilic pseudopeptide can be controlled by the tuning of the hydrophilic/hydrophobic interactions in aqueous medium.
