Issue 13, 2008
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Chemical Communications

Photo-responsive gel droplet as a nano- or pico-litre container comprising a supramolecular hydrogel†

Shinji Matsumoto,a   Satoshi Yamaguchi,b   Atsuhiko Wada,a   Toshihiro Matsui,a   Masato Ikedaa  and  Itaru Hamachi*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan
E-mail: ihamachi@sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Tel: +81-75-383-2754

b PRESTO (Synthesis and Control, JST), Japan

Abstract

Photo-responsive gel droplets having nano- or pico-L volume that showed photo-induced gel–sol transition were successfully developed, for which the inter-droplet mass transport and the subsequent enzymatic reactions in the interior of the gel droplets were photo-triggered.

Graphical abstract: Photo-responsive gel droplet as a nano- or pico-litre container comprising a supramolecular hydrogel

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B719004B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Dec 2007
Accepted
05 Feb 2008
First published
25 Feb 2008

Chem. Commun., 2008, 1545-1547

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Photo-responsive gel droplet as a nano- or pico-litre container comprising a supramolecular hydrogel

S. Matsumoto, S. Yamaguchi, A. Wada, T. Matsui, M. Ikeda and I. Hamachi, Chem. Commun., 2008, 1545 DOI: 10.1039/B719004B

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