Poly(L -glutamic acid) grafted with oligo(2-(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethyl methacrylate): Thermal phase transition, secondary structure, and self-assembly

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 2665-2676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianxun Ding ◽  
Chunsheng Xiao ◽  
Li Zhao ◽  
Yilong Cheng ◽  
Lili Ma ◽  
...  
Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1470
Author(s):  
Michèle Dai ◽  
Evangelos Georgilis ◽  
Guillaume Goudounet ◽  
Bertrand Garbay ◽  
Jan Pille ◽  
...  

Diblock copolymers based-on elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) have the potential to undergo specific phase transitions when thermally stimulated. This ability is especially suitable to form carriers, micellar structures for instance, for delivering active cargo molecules. Here, we report the design and study of an ELP diblock library based on ELP-[M1V3-i]-[I-j]. First, ELP-[M1V3-i]-[I-j] (i = 20, 40, 60; j = 20, 90) that showed a similar self-assembly propensity (unimer-to-aggregate transition) as their related monoblocks ELP-[M1V3-i] and ELP-[I-j]. By selectively oxidizing methionines of ELP-[M1V3-i] within the different diblocks structures, we have been able to access a thermal phase transition with three distinct regimes (unimers, micelles, aggregates) characteristic of well-defined ELP diblocks.


Langmuir ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 4634-4641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naohiro Kameta ◽  
Mitsutoshi Masuda ◽  
Hiroyuki Minamikawa ◽  
Toshimi Shimizu

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 2065-2073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan V Alegre-Requena ◽  
Marleen Häring ◽  
Isaac G Sonsona ◽  
Alex Abramov ◽  
Eugenia Marqués-López ◽  
...  

We describe the preparation and characterization of two new unsymmetrical squaramide-based organogelators. The synthesis of the compounds was carried out by subsequent amine condensations starting from dimethyl squarate. The design of the gelators involved a squaramide core connected on one side to a long aliphatic chain and on the other side to a glutamic acid residue. The gelator bearing the free carboxylic groups showed a lower gelation capacity than its precursor diester derivative. Some selected gels were further studied by infrared spectroscopy, rheology and electron microscopy. Critical gelation concentrations and gel-to-sol transition temperatures were also determined for each case. In addition, the superior squaramide diester gelator was compared with an analogue triazole-based gelator in terms of critical gelation concentration, gelation kinetics and thermal phase transition.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (5) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitoshi Osawa ◽  
Toshiaki Iwazumi ◽  
Hiroko Tokoro ◽  
Shin-ichi Ohkoshi ◽  
Kazuhito Hashimoto ◽  
...  

Soft Matter ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (41) ◽  
pp. 8224-8228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min-Jun Gim ◽  
Gohyun Han ◽  
Suk-Won Choi ◽  
Dong Ki Yoon

We have investigated dramatic changes in the thermal phase transition of a liquid-crystalline (LC) blue phase (BP) consisting of bent-core nematogen and chiral dopants under various boundary conditions during cooling from the isotropic phase.


Langmuir ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (26) ◽  
pp. 6691-6700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhangxin Ye ◽  
Youcheng Li ◽  
Zesheng An ◽  
Peiyi Wu

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Ghosh ◽  
A. K Jafry ◽  
A Deb ◽  
S Sarkar ◽  
R Chattopadhyay ◽  
...  

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