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Frontispiece: Hydrophobic End‐Modulated Amino‐Acid‐Based Neutral Hydrogelators: Structure‐Specific Inclusion of Carbon Nanomaterials
Author(s) -
Choudhury Pritam,
Mandal Deep,
Brahmachari Sayanti,
Das Prasanta Kumar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201681562
Subject(s) - self healing hydrogels , graphene , nanomaterials , materials science , oxide , carbon nanotube , nanocomposite , carbon fibers , inclusion (mineral) , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , chemistry , polymer chemistry , composite number , composite material , mineralogy , engineering , metallurgy
Modified Neutral Hydrogels Inclusion of 1 D and 2 D allotropes of carbon nanomaterials (single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and graphene oxide (GO), respectively) within neutral hydrogel was investigated. The influence of hydrophobic end modulation on gelator structure was studied and the inclusion of SWNTs/GO in the hydrogel matrix was found to reinforce the mechanical stiffness of the composites compared with that of the native hydrogels. For the complete story see the Full Paper by K. Das et al. on page 5160 ff.