Optimizing biomimetic gelators constructed from amino acid building blocks |
| |
Authors: | Coates Ian A Hirst Andrew R Smith David K |
| |
Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. |
| |
Abstract: | This paper reports the use of a range of amino acids to construct diverse gelators, employing structures in which Boc-protected amino acids are attached to either end of an aliphatic diamine spacer chain. The choice of amino acid determines whether nanoscale self-assembly takes place and controls the properties of the resultant material, while the function of the amino acid (e.g., the optical properties of tryptophan) is translated into the self-assembled nanostructured gel. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 PubMed 等数据库收录! |
|