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Preparation and investigation of temperature-responsive calix[4]arene-based molecular gels

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RSC ADVANCES
卷 7, 期 45, 页码 28476-28482

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ra02076g

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  1. International Science Technology Cooperation Program of China [2015DFR50350]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province of China [2014JQ2-2008, 15jk1235]
  3. Foundation of Weinan Normal University [14YK001, 15ZRRC11]

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A novel calix[4]arene-based tetracholesteryl derivative was synthesized, and its gelation behaviours in 30 organic solvents were studied. It showed that 1 gelled long chain alkane, some of alcohol, kerosene, ethyl acetate benzene and toluene. Interestingly the gel of 1/kerosene possessed special property, which was that the mixture solution of the compound 1/kerosene heating for a while was put on the flat contact heater and formed a gel film at 25 degrees C and 65 degrees C. Unlike ordinary film, gel film had higher strength and toughness at 65 degrees C, by contrast other was fragile and broken easily at 25 degrees C, this phenomenon was few reported before. In order to explore the phenomenon, the mechanism of the gel of 1/kerosene was discussed by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), High Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (H NMR), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (IR) and micro-rheology. SEM revealed that the xerogel of 1/kerosene assembled network through some long and thick fibers at 65 degrees C, with concentration reducing fibers become thin and its networks were clearly observed. In contrast the morphology of xerogel was porous at low concentration and was a bulk at high temperature system. According to EI data in micro-rheology, the gelation process could be divided into three stages at 65 degrees C and they could be that some cholesterol segments in the gelator interacting with each other formed some small aggregation in the first stage, and other cholesterol section of the gelator sufficiently were cross-linked with time and assembled into large assembly in the second plateau. In the final moment the large assembly build gel network and the system of gel tended to stable. But there are two stages at low temperature and could be some cholesterol segments that didn't take part in assembly, which may be the cause that the performance of gel was fragile.

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