Perspectives on recent advancements in energy harvesting, sensing and bio-medical applications of piezoelectric gels

T Vijayakanth, S Shankar, G Finkelstein-Zuta… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of next-generation bioelectronics, as well as the powering of consumer
and medical devices, require power sources that are soft, flexible, extensible, and even …

A review on recent advances in polymer and peptide hydrogels

S Mondal, S Das, AK Nandi - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we focus on the very recent developments on the use of the stimuli responsive
properties of polymer hydrogels for targeted drug delivery, tissue engineering, and …

Pros and cons: supramolecular or macromolecular: what is best for functional hydrogels with advanced properties?

R Eelkema, A Pich - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are fascinating soft materials with unique properties. Many biological systems are
based on hydrogel‐like structures, underlining their versatility and relevance. The properties …

Low molecular weight self-assembling peptide-based materials for cell culture, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, anticancer, drug delivery, bioimaging …

AK Das, PK Gavel - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we have focused on the design and development of low molecular weight self-
assembling peptide-based materials for various applications including cell proliferation …

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon‐based Soft Materials: Applications in Fluorescent Detection, Gelation, AIEE and Mechanochromism

H Goyal, P Kumar, R Gupta - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The present review discusses selected compounds based on polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs); mainly those containing naphthalene, anthracene, fluorene, pyrene …

Luminescent assemblies of pyrene-containing bent-core mesogens: Liquid crystals, π-gels and nanotubes

M Martínez-Abadía, S Varghese, J Gierschner… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Bent-shaped molecules incorporating terminal pyrene moieties were designed and
synthesized aiming at promoting a variety of luminescent self-assembled materials. The …

[HTML][HTML] Microporosity engineered printable silk/graphene hydrogels and their cytocompatibility evaluations

P Dorishetty, R Balu, A Gelmi, JP Mata, A Quigley… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, regenerated silk fibroin (RSF)/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) hybrid ink system
was fabricated in aqueous phase, extrusion printed and photocrosslinked to hydrogels with …

Molecular design of amphiphiles for Microenvironment-Sensitive kinetically controlled gelation and their utility in probing alcohol contents

D Biswakarma, N Dey, S Bhattacharya - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pyrene-laced 'fluorescent'amphiphiles have been designed with a C4-alkyl chain as
'hydrophobic spacer'and sugar moiety as hydrophilic residue. The amphiphile containing …

Tuning rheological behaviors of supramolecular aqueous gels via charge transfer interactions

Z Yang, Y Li, C Shen, Y Chen, H Li, A Zhou, K Liu - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Rheological properties are critical for determining real applications of supramolecular gels
in various fields. Correspondingly, the modulation of gel rheology will be very important for …

A “self-shrinking” supramolecular hydrogel with a 3D shape memory performance from an unnatural amino acid derivative

DK Duraisamy, PD Sureshbhai, P Saveri… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A supramolecular hydrogel with 3D self-shrinking, without any assistance, and a shape
memory performance at room temperature is discovered from an unnatural amino acid …