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SUBMITTER: Piras CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6973155 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Piras Carmen C CC Slavik Petr P Smith David K DK
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20191127 2
With the goal of imposing shape and structure on supramolecular gels, we combine a low-molecular-weight gelator (LMWG) with the polymer gelator (PG) calcium alginate in a hybrid hydrogel. By imposing thermal and temporal control of the orthogonal gelation methods, the system either forms an extended interpenetrating network or core-shell-structured gel beads-a rare example of a supramolecular gel formulated inside discrete gel spheres. The self-assembled LMWG retains its unique properties within ...[more]