Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Control of seed formation allows two distinct self-sorting patterns of supramolecular nanofibers

  • Ryou Kubota,
  • Kazutoshi Nagao,
  • Wataru Tanaka,
  • Ryotaro Matsumura,
  • Takuma Aoyama,
  • Kenji Urayama,
  • Itaru Hamachi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17984-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Regulation of self-sorted nanofiber network patterns in double network hydrogels comprising supramolecular nanofibers is considered as key for potential applications. Here, the authors describe a selective construction of two distinct self-sorting network patterns, by controlling the kinetics of seed formation with dynamic covalent chemistry.