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Yong Yao1, Yan Sun2, Huaxu Yu3
1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226019, P.R. China. yaoyong@zju.edu.cn syj@ntu.edu.cn and Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112, USA.
Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
|November 25, 2017
Abstract:
A soft gel based on pillar[5]arene was successfully prepared using a carbazone reaction. Furthermore, dyes such as TPP or TPPE can be incorporated into this gel and were observed to be released in a sustained way in water due to solvent exchange.
