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Rational design and application of a redox-active, photoresponsive, discrete metallogelator
Afrasiabi, Rouzbeh,Kraatz, Heinz-Bernhard
, p. 7695 - 7700 (2015)
A photoresponsive discrete metallogelator was rationally designed by incorporating a photochromic azobenzene subunit in the structure of a redox-active ferrocene-peptide conjugate. The target molecule was purposefully equipped with a dipeptide unit capable of self-assembly in response to sonication. The designed molecule was shown to undergo supramolecular self-assembly and achieve organogelation in response to ultrasound, light, heat, and redox signals. The sol-gel phase transition of the designed gelator was found to be sensitive to a plethora of input stimuli, allowing the application of the sol-gel transition behavior in basic logic gate operations. A gel-based NOT logic gate operation was realized when the redox-active property of the organogel was examined by using different oxidizing agents. The smart response of the gelator was further exploited in designing XOR operations under oxidizing or non-oxidizing conditions.
Small-peptide-based organogel kit: Towards the development of multicomponent self-sorting organogels
Afrasiabi, Rouzbeh,Kraatz, Heinz-Bernhard
, p. 15862 - 15871 (2014/04/03)
The results presented here highlight the extremely useful nature of ultra-short peptides as building blocks in the development of smart multicomponent supramolecular devices. A facile bottom-up strategy for the synthesis of a small library of stimuli-resp
