title: A crown ether appended super gelator with multiple stimulus responsiveness.
abstract: A crown ether appended super gelator is designed and synthesized. It can gel a variety of organic solvents and shows excellent gelation properties with both low critical gelation concentration and short gelation time. Due to the introduction of the crown ether moiety and a secondary ammonium unit, the supramolecular gels show reversible gel-sol transitions. The supramolecular gels can also be molded into shape-persistent and free-standing objects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China.
authors.forename: Shengyi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Donghua
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xuzhou
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Mingming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Feihe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D043844:Crown Ethers / Q000737:chemistry*; D005782:Gels; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D043844:Crown Ethers; D005782:Gels; D012997:Solvents