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Preparation of DNA-crosslinked Polyacrylamide Hydrogels
Published on: August 27, 2014
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Chemical crosslinking in 'reactive' multicomponent gels
1School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK. dave.adams@glasgow.ac.uk.
Abstract:
We show that the hydrolysis of EDC can be used to construct a reactive system to trigger permanent covalent crosslinking between the components in multicomponent gels comprising gelators with a carboxylic acid and amine group yielding an amide functionalized gel with enhanced mechanical properties.

