Contrast variation studies of novel binary polypeptide gels

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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, π-π 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 the characterization of the structures formed from on mixing a novel series of dipeptide based molecules and seeks to determine whether self-sorting or intimate mixing occurs. Small-angle neutron scattering employing contrast variation is essential to address this question.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088090
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088090
Provenance
Creator Professor Dave Adams; Dr Alison Paul; Professor Peter Griffiths; Miss Jaclyn Raeburn
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-10-20T07:50:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-11-07T13:56:08Z