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SUBMITTER: Panja S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7315816 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Panja Santanu S Fuentes-Caparrós Ana M AM Cross Emily R ER Cavalcanti Leide L Adams Dave J DJ
Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society 20200522 12
Supramolecular gels have potential in many areas. In many cases, a major drawback is that the gels are formed at a high rate. As a result, nonoptimal, kinetically trapped self-assembled structures are often formed, leading to gels that can be hard to reproduce and control. One method to get around kinetic trapping is annealing. Thermal annealing is one possibility, but it is not always desirable to heat the gels. Here, we describe a method to anneal pH-triggered gels after they are formed. We em ...[more]