Supramolecular design for two-component hydrogels with intrinsic emission in the visible region
P Rajamalli1, Supriya Atta, Sandeepan Maity
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, 600036, India.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 25, 2013
Abstract:
We report, for the first time, an in situ formation of two-component hydrogels from pyridine derivatives of poly(aryl ether) dendrons and tartaric acid. The two-component system (dendron + acid) undergoes J-type aggregation, leading to fibrillar type self-assembly in THF-water mixture along with blue (470 nm) and green (500 nm) intrinsic emissions.
