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Photo-dissociation of self-assembled (anthracene-2-carbonyl)amino acid hydrogels
Phillip R A Chivers1, Rebecca S Dookie, Julie E Gough
1Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. S.Webb@manchester.ac.uk.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 20, 2020
Abstract:
Amino acids modified with an N-terminal anthracene group self-assemble into supramolecular hydrogels upon the addition of a range of salts or cell culture medium. Gel-phase photo-dimerisation of gelators results in hydrogel disassembly and was used to recover cells from 3D culture.
