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Tuning conductivity while maintaining mechanical properties in perylene bisimide hydrogels at physiological pH
Juan Antonio Mena Jimenez1,2, Jacquelyn Egan1, Rebecca I Randle1
1School of Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. emily.draper@glasgow.ac.uk.
Abstract:
By using different salts as a method to achieve gelation of two different amino-acid-functionalised perylene bisimides, we were able to tune reduction potentials while maintaining the mechanical and optical properties of the system all at pH 7.4.

