Rheo-SANS study of peptide gels

DOI

Low molecular weight gelators (LMWG) form hydrogels via self-assembly in water under specific conditions to form long, fibrillar structures. Non-covalent forces interactions which facilitate the directional assembly include hydrogen-bonding, electrostatic interactions, pi-stacking and van der Waals interactions between the molecules drive the assembly. The fibrillar structures entangle, forming a three-dimensional network and immobilise the solvent, resulting in gel formation. This proposal focuses on determining how the assembly of LMWG leads to the rheological properties of the gel. Coupling the rheological measurements with small-angle neutron scattering is essential to address this question.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088603
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088603
Provenance
Creator Professor Dave Adams; Dr Alison Paul; Professor Peter Griffiths; Miss Jaclyn Raeburn; Dr Lin Chen; Miss Jamie Hurcom; Dr Alun Davies; Mr Owen Sellick
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-03-13T08:57:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-03-16T09:11:27Z