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SUBMITTER: Wu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5547633 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Yuchao Y Shah Darshil U DU Liu Chenyan C Yu Ziyi Z Liu Ji J Ren Xiaohe X Rowland Matthew J MJ Abell Chris C Ramage Michael H MH Scherman Oren A OA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170710 31
Inspired by biological systems, we report a supramolecular polymer-colloidal hydrogel (SPCH) composed of 98 wt % water that can be readily drawn into uniform ([Formula: see text]6-[Formula: see text]m thick) "supramolecular fibers" at room temperature. Functionalized polymer-grafted silica nanoparticles, a semicrystalline hydroxyethyl cellulose derivative, and cucurbit[8]uril undergo aqueous self-assembly at multiple length scales to form the SPCH facilitated by host-guest interactions at the mo ...[more]