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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2020

Transient Supramolecular Hydrogels Formed by Aging-Induced Seeded Self-Assembly of Molecular Hydrogelators.

Yiming Wang, Tomasz K Piskorz, Matija Lovrak, Eduardo Mendes, Xuhong Guo, Rienk Eelkema, Jan H van Esch

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Yiming WangState Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Meilong Road 130 200237 Shanghai China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8269-8304
Tomasz K PiskorzDepartment of Chemical Engineering Delft University of Technology van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands.
Matija LovrakDepartment of Chemical Engineering Delft University of Technology van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands.
Eduardo MendesDepartment of Chemical Engineering Delft University of Technology van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands.
Xuhong GuoState Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Meilong Road 130 200237 Shanghai China.
Rienk EelkemaDepartment of Chemical Engineering Delft University of Technology van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands.
Jan H van EschDepartment of Chemical Engineering Delft University of Technology van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6116-4808

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Abstract

Here, transient supramolecular hydrogels that are formed through simple aging-induced seeded self-assembly of molecular gelators are reported. In the involved molecular self-assembly system, multicomponent gelators are formed from a mixture of precursor molecules and, typically, can spontaneously self-assemble into thermodynamically more stable hydrogels through a multilevel self-sorting process. In the present work, it is surprisingly found that one of the precursor molecules is capable of self-assembling into nano-sized aggregates upon a gentle aging treatment. Importantly, these tiny aggregates can serve as seeds to force the self-assembly of gelators along a kinetically controlled pathway, leading to transient hydrogels that eventually spontaneously convert into thermodynamically more stable hydrogels over time. Such an aging-induced seeded self-assembly process is not only a new route toward synthetic out-of-equilibrium supramolecular systems, but also suggests the necessity of reporting the age of self-assembling building block solutions in other self-assembly systems.

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aginghydrogelspathway complexityself‐assemblysupramolecular chemistry

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PMID32274297
PMCPMC7140988

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