Self-healing supramolecular gels formed by crown ether based host-guest interactions

  • Mingming Zhang
  • , Donghua Xu
  • , Xuzhou Yan
  • , Jianzhuang Chen
  • , Shengyi Dong
  • , Bo Zheng
  • , Feihe Huang

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Abstract

Automatic repair: A polymer with pendent dibenzo[24]crown-8 units (purple in picture) was cross-linked by two bisammonium salts (green) to form two supramolecular gels based on host-guest interactions. These two gels are stimuli-responsive materials that respond to changes of the pH value and are also self-healing materials, as can be seen by eye and as evidenced by rheological data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7011-7015
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume51
Issue number28
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Jul 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • gels
  • host-guest systems
  • molecular recognition
  • self-assembly
  • self-healing

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