1. Organophosphorus Dendrimers as New Gelators for Hydrogels
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Christelle Marmillon, Anne-Marie Caminade, Jean-Pierre Vors, Elmar Rump, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Fabienne Gauffre, Christophe Loup, and Tadek Gulik-Krzywicki
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Hydrogen bond ,Chemistry ,Stacking ,Supramolecular chemistry ,General Medicine ,General Chemistry ,Catalysis ,symbols.namesake ,Dendrimer ,Polymer chemistry ,Self-healing hydrogels ,symbols ,Molecule ,van der Waals force ,Macromolecule - Abstract
They can be considered as compositematerials made of a three-dimensional (3D) supramolecularnetwork imprisoning a large quantity of liquid. The drivingforce for the formation of gels can be van der Waals, hydro-phobic, fluorophobic, p–p stacking, dipole–dipole, weakcoordination interactions, or hydrogen bonds. A number ofsmall molecules are able to form gels such as steroids, fattyacids, copper chelates, fluorinated alkanes, peptides, cyclicdipsipeptides, anthracene derivatives, amino pyridines, calix-arenes. More sophisticated macromolecules such as bisarbor-ols (bidirectional molecules with a lipophilic central chainsubstituted on the end with polyalcohol groups) were found toact also as gelators in water
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- 2001