Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

Transformer hydrogels: a review

O Erol, A Pantula, W Liu… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

Gels with sense: supramolecular materials that respond to heat, light and sound

CD Jones, JW Steed - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Advances in the field of supramolecular chemistry have made it possible, in many situations,
to reliably engineer soft materials to address a specific technological problem. Particularly …

Functional π-gelators and their applications

SS Babu, VK Praveen, A Ajayaghosh - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry originally defined by Lehn as “chemistry beyond molecules”
exploits noncovalent interactions between molecules to form 1D, 2D, and 3D …

Recent advances in various stimuli-responsive hydrogels: From synthetic designs to emerging healthcare applications

A Roy, K Manna, S Pal - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
With the development of broad interest in the synthesis of unique stimuli-responsive
materials and their various healthcare applications, stimuli-responsive hydrogels have …

Self-assembly of short peptides to form hydrogels: Design of building blocks, physical properties and technological applications

G Fichman, E Gazit - Acta biomaterialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are unique supramolecular solid-like assemblies composed mainly of water
molecules that are held by molecular networks. Physical hydrogels that are formed by a set …

Photoresponsive hydrogels for biomedical applications

I Tomatsu, K Peng, A Kros - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are soft materials composed of a three-dimensional network which contain a high
percentage of water similar to body tissue and are therefore regarded as a biocompatible …

Spatially resolved multicomponent gels

ER Draper, EGB Eden, TO McDonald, DJ Adams - Nature chemistry, 2015 - nature.com
Multicomponent supramolecular systems could be used to prepare exciting new functional
materials, but it is often challenging to control the assembly across multiple length scales …

Stimuli-responsive gels as reaction vessels and reusable catalysts

DD Díaz, D Kühbeck, RJ Koopmans - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
As part of a continuing scientific challenge, a substantial effort during the past few decades
has been devoted towards altering the selectivity of chemical transformations by arranging …

Recent progress in photoswitchable supramolecular self‐assembling systems

X Yao, T Li, J Wang, X Ma, H Tian - Advanced Optical Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of supramolecular chemistry has drawn great attention to the designed self‐
assembly of synthetic molecules. Supramolecular self‐assembly has become an efficient …