A dual thermal and photo-switchable shrinking-swelling supramolecular peptide dendron gel
Fan Xie1, Long Qin1, Minghua Liu2
1CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 20, 2015
Abstract:
A supramolecular dendron gel was fabricated through the co-assembly of an L-glutamic acid terminated amphiphilic dendron and a positively charged azobenzene derivative, which showed a dual thermal and photo-switched reversible volume phase transition or shrinking/swelling.
