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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Xue P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4853806 | biostudies-other | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20160503
We serendipitously discovered that the tripeptide Asp-Phe-Phe trifluoroacetic acid salt (hereafter abbreviated as β-AspFF) formed a reversible thermotropic gel in chloroform solution (at temperatures higher than the boiling point of chloroform), and a stable gel in toluene solution (at equal to or lower than the room temperature). Experimental results indicate that doping metal ions into β-AspFF toluene gels can trigger morphological variations in the gel skeleton, thereby increasing gel volume ...[more]