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A Crown Ether Appended Super Gelator with Multiple Stimulus Responsiveness

  1. Shengyi Dong1,
  2. Bo Zheng1,
  3. Donghua Xu2,
  4. Xuzhou Yan1,
  5. Mingming Zhang1,
  6. Feihe Huang1,*

Article first published online: 18 MAY 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201200837

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 24, Issue 24, pages 3191–3195, June 26, 2012

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Dong, S., Zheng, B., Xu, D., Yan, X., Zhang, M. and Huang, F. (2012), A Crown Ether Appended Super Gelator with Multiple Stimulus Responsiveness. Adv. Mater., 24: 3191–3195. doi: 10.1002/adma.201200837

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China

  2. 2

    State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China

*Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 19 JUN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 18 MAY 2012
  3. Manuscript Revised: 9 APR 2012
  4. Manuscript Received: 28 FEB 2012

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Keywords:

  • crown compounds;
  • sol-gel processes;
  • super gelators;
  • host-guest systems;
  • supramolecular chemistry
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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.

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