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Stimuli‐Responsive Gels from Reversible Coordination Polymers
Author(s) -
Kim HoJoong,
Lee JungHoon,
Lee Myongsoo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200501270
Subject(s) - zigzag , polymer , aqueous solution , aqueous medium , materials science , crystallography , chemistry , organic chemistry , geometry , mathematics
Sol–gel switching is triggered by counteranion guest exchange. The secondary structures of reversible coordination polymers can interconvert from a folded helical conformation (gel) into an unfolded zigzag conformation (sol) and back again in aqueous media (see picture).