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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 136, Issue 8, Pages 2970-2973Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja4127399
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- NIH HFSP [R01CA142746]
- Brandeis University
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Anisotropy or alignment is a critical feature of functional soft materials in living organisms, but it remains a challenge for spontaneously generating anisotropic gel materials. Here we report a molecular design that increases intermolecular aromatic-aromatic interactions of hydrogelators during enzymatic hydrogelation for spontaneously forming an anisotropic hydrogel. This process, relying on both aromatic aromatic interactions and enzyme catalysis, results in spontaneously aligned supramolecular nanofibers as the matrices of a monodomain hydrogel that exhibits significant birefringence. This work, as the first example of monodomain hydrogels formed via an enzymatic reaction, illustrates a new biomimetic approach for generating aligned anisotropic soft materials.
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