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Published on: August 18, 2012
Construction of supramolecular hydrogels using photo-generated nitric oxide radicals
Matthew Mulvee1, Natasa Vasiljevic, Stephen Mann
1Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry and Centre for Protocell Research, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK. Avinash.patil@bristol.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Photo-generated nitric oxide radicals (NO˙) derived from sodium nitroprusside dihydrate (SNP) are employed for the construction of supramolecular hydrogels based on an amino acid derivative precursor, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl tyrosine phosphate (FYP), which through dephosphorylation produces the gelator, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl tyrosine (FY). Self-assembly of the amphiphilic gelator yields high-aspect ratio nanofilaments that entangle to form self-supporting, viscoelastic hydrogels. The presence of photolyzed SNP yields periodically twisted nanofilaments with opposite chirality to filaments formed through conventional hydrogelation routes.
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