Issue 23, 2004
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Chemical Communications

Biomimetic thermo-responsive star diblock gelators†

Yuting Li,‡a   Ravin Narain,a   Yinghua Ma,a   Andrew L. Lewisb  and  Steven P. Armes‡*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
E-mail: S.P.Armes@sheffield.ac.uk
Fax: +44 114-2229346
Tel: +44 114-2229342

b Biocompatibles, Chapman House, Farnham Business Park, Weydon Lane, Farnham, Surrey, UK

Abstract

We report the synthesis of novel biomimetic gelators with star diblock copolymer architectures by sequential monomer addition via alcoholic ATRP at 20 °C; free-standing gels can be formed from 5% aqueous copolymer solutions at 37 °C.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B410150B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Jul 2004
Accepted
19 Aug 2004
First published
18 Oct 2004

Chem. Commun., 2004, 2746-2747

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Biomimetic thermo-responsive star diblock gelators

Y. Li, R. Narain, Y. Ma, A. L. Lewis and S. P. Armes, Chem. Commun., 2004, 2746 DOI: 10.1039/B410150B

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