Controlled self-assembly-synthetic tunability and covalent capture of nanoscale gel morphologies.
Tuning structures: We report a synthetically simple yet structurally rich gelator that self-assembles through hydrogen bonding under different cooling regimes into different nanoscale morphologies (see figure), which can be covalently captured and stabilised by alkene metathesis.
Coates
Ian A
IA
Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Smith
David K
DK