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Supramolecularly Knitted Tethered Oligopeptide/Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube Organogels
Author(s) -
Zou Jiong,
He Xun,
Fan Jingwei,
Raymond Jeffery E.,
Wooley Karen L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201403027
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , monomer , ethylene oxide , polymer chemistry , polymerization , oligopeptide , materials science , chemical engineering , copolymer , oxide , peptide , chemistry , polymer , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , biochemistry , engineering
A facile polymerization of an allyl‐functionalized N ‐carboxyanhydride (NCA) monomer is utilized to construct an A‐B‐A‐type triblock structure containing β‐sheet‐rich oligomeric peptide segments tethered by a poly(ethylene oxide) chain, which are capable of dispersing and gelating single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) noncovalently in organic solvents, resulting in significant enhancement of the mechanical properties of polypeptide‐based organogels.