Mechanical properties of self-assembled Fmoc-diphenylalanine molecular gels

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4493-4500

  Dudukovic, Nikola A ^a   Zukoski, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GELATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE (DMSO); DIPEPTIDE DERIVATIVES; ELASTIC BEHAVIOR; FIBROUS NETWORKS; LONG TERM STABILITY; MOLECULAR GELS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; WATER CONCENTRATIONS;

GELS;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DIPHENYLALANINE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; GEL; PHENYLALANINE;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GEL;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUORENES; GELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENYLALANINE;

EID: 84899424974     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la500589f     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Terech, P.; Weiss, R. G. Low Molecular Mass Gelators of Organic Liquids and the Properties of Their Gels Chem. Rev. 1997, 97 (8) 3133-3160
2. Larson, R. G. The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids; Oxford University Press: New York, 1999; pp 238-243.
3. Flory, P. J. Principles of polymer chemistry; Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY, 1953.
4. Patel, S. K.; Malone, S.; Cohen, C.; Gillmor, J. R.; Colby, R. H. Elastic Modulus And Equilibrium Swelling of Poly (Dimethylsiloxane) Networks Macromolecules 1992, 25 (20) 5241-5251
5. Zaccarelli, E. Colloidal gels: Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Routes J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2007, 19 (32) 323101
6. Rueb, C. J.; Zukoski, C. F. Viscoelastic Properties of Colloidal Gels J. Rheol. 1997, 41, 197
7. Ramakrishnan, S.; Gopalakrishnan, V.; Zukoski, C. F. Clustering and Mechanics in Dense Depletion and Thermal Gels Langmuir 2005, 21 (22) 9917-9925
8. Whitesides, G. M.; Grzybowski, B. Self-Assembly at All Scales Science 2002, 295 (5564) 2418-2421
9. Zhang, S. Fabrication of Novel Biomaterials through Molecular Self-Assembly Nat. Biotechnol. 2003, 21 (10) 1171-1178
10. Mart, R. J.; Osborne, R. D.; Stevens, M. M.; Ulijn, R. V. Peptide-Based Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials Soft Matter 2006, 2 (10) 822-835
11. Ulijn, R. V.; Smith, A. M. Designing Peptide Based Nanomaterials Chem. Soc. Rev. 2008, 37 (4) 664-675
12. Vegners, R.; Shestakova, I.; Kalvinsh, I.; Ezzell, R. M.; Janmey, P. A. Use of a Gel-Forming Dipeptide Derivative as a Carrier for Antigen Presentation J. Pept. Sci. 1995, 1 (6) 371-378
13. Jayawarna, V.; Ali, M.; Jowitt, T. A.; Miller, A. F.; Saiani, A.; Gough, J. E.; Ulijn, R. V. Nanostructured Hydrogels for Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Through Self-Assembly of Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-Dipeptides Adv. Mater. 2006, 18 (5) 611-614
14. Tang, C.; Smith, A. M.; Collins, R. F.; Ulijn, R. V.; Saiani, A. Fmoc-Diphenylalanine Self-Assembly Mechanism Induces Apparent pKa Shifts Langmuir 2009, 25 (16) 9447-9453
15. Gazit, E. Self-Assembled Peptide Nanostructures: The Design of Molecular Building Blocks and Their Technological Utilization Chem. Soc. Rev. 2007, 36 (8) 1263-1269
16. Smith, A. M.; Williams, R. J.; Tang, C.; Coppo, P.; Collins, R. F.; Turner, M. L.; Ulijn, R. V. Fmoc-Diphenylalanine Self Assembles to a Hydrogel via a Novel Architecture Based on π-π Interlocked ß-Sheets Adv. Mater. 2008, 20 (1) 37-41
17. Mahler, A.; Reches, M.; Rechter, M.; Cohen, S.; Gazit, E. Rigid, Self-Assembled Hydrogel Composed of a Modified Aromatic Dipeptide Adv. Mater. 2006, 18 (11) 1365-1370
18. Orbach, R.; Adler-Abramovich, L.; Zigerson, S.; Mironi-Harpaz, I.; Seliktar, D.; Gazit, E. Self-Assembled Fmoc-Peptides as a Platform for the Formation of Nanostructures and Hydrogels Biomacromolecules 2009, 10 (9) 2646-2651
19. Orbach, R.; Mironi-Harpaz, I.; Adler-Abramovich, L.; Mossou, E; Mitchell, E. P.; Forsyth, V. T.; Gazit, E.; Seliktar, D. The Rheological and Structural Properties of Fmoc-Peptide-Based Hydrogels: The Effect of Aromatic Molecular Architecture on Self-Assembly and Physical Characteristics Langmuir 2012, 28, 2015-2022
20. Chen, L.; Raeburn, J.; Sutton, S.; Spiller, D. G.; Williams, J.; Sharp, J. S.; Griffiths, P. C.; Heenan, R. K.; King, S. M.; Paul, A.; Furzeland, S.; Atkins, D.; Adams, D. J. Tuneable Mechanical Properties in Low Molecular Weight Gels Soft Matter 2011, 7, 9721-9727
21. Adams, D. J.; Mullen, L. M.; Berta, M.; Chen, L.; Frith, W. J. Relationship between Molecular Structure, Gelation Behaviour and Gel Properties of Fmoc-Dipeptides Soft Matter 2010, 6 (9) 1971-1980
22. Shih, W. H.; Shih, W. Y.; Kim, S. I.; Liu, J.; Aksay, I. A. Scaling Behavior of the Elastic Properties of Colloidal Gels Phys. Rev. A 1990, 42 (8) 4772
23. Grant, M. C.; Russel, W. B. Volume-Fraction Dependence of Elastic Moduli and Transition Temperatures for Colloidal Silica Gels Phys. Rev. E 1993, 47 (4) 2606
24. Wu, H.; Morbidelli, M. A Model Relating Structure of Colloidal Gels to Their Elastic Properties Langmuir 2001, 17 (4) 1030-1036
25. MacKintosh, F. C.; Käs, J.; Janmey, P. A. Elasticity of Semiflexible Biopolymer Networks Phys. Rev. Lett. 1995, 75 (24) 4425
26. Janmey, P. A.; Hvidt, S.; Peetermans, J.; Lamb, J.; Ferry, J. D.; Stossel, T. P. Viscoelasticity of F-Actin and F-Actin/Gelsolin Complexes Biochemistry 1988, 27 (21) 8218-8227
27. Janmey, P. A.; Hvidt, S.; Lamb, J.; Stossel, T. P. Resemblance of Actin-Binding Protein/Actin Gels to Covalently Crosslinked Networks Nature 1990, 345, 89-92
28. Janmey, P. A.; Euteneuer, U.; Traub, P.; Schliwa, M. Viscoelastic Properties Of Vimentin Compared With Other Filamentous Biopolymer Networks J. Cell Biol. 1991, 113 (1) 155-160
29. Morse, D. C. Viscoelasticity of Concentrated Isotropic Solutions of Semiflexible Polymers. 2. Linear Response Macromolecules 1998, 31 (20) 7044-7067
30. Ozbas, B.; Pochan, D.; Rajagopal, K.; Schneider, J. Semiflexible Chain Networks Formed via Self-Assembly of Beta-Hairpin Molecules Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 2005, 26 (1) 268106-268106
31. Veerman, C.; Rajagopal, K.; Palla, C. S.; Pochan, D. J.; Schneider, J. P.; Furst, E. M. Gelation Kinetics of β-Hairpin Peptide Hydrogel Networks Macromolecules 2006, 39 (19) 6608-6614
32. Terech, P.; Sangeetha, N. M.; Maitra, U. Molecular Hydrogels from Bile Acid Analogues with Neutral Side Chains: Network Architectures and Viscoelastic Properties. Junction Zones, Spherulites, and Crystallites: Phenomenological Aspects of the Gel Metastability J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110 (31) 15224-15233
33. Schweizer, K. S.; Yatsenko, G. Collisions, Caging, Thermodynamics, and Jamming in the Barrier Hopping Theory of Glassy Hard Sphere Fluids J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 127, 164505
34. Bergenholtz, J.; Fuchs, M. Gel transitions in colloidal suspensions J. Physics: Condens. Matter 1999, 11 (50) 10171
35. Raeburn, J.; Pont, G.; Chen, L.; Cesbron, Y.; Levy, R.; Adams, D. J. Fmoc-Diphenylalanine Hydrogels: Understanding the Variability in Reported Mechanical Properties Soft Matter 2012, 8, 1168-1174
36. Sciortino, F.; Bianchi, E.; Douglas, J. F.; Tartaglia, P. Self-Assembly of Patchy Particles into Polymer Chains: A Parameter-Free Comparison between Wertheim Theory and Monte Carlo Simulation J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 126, 194903
37. Pusey, P.; Poon, W. C.; Ilett, S.; Bartlett, P. Phase Behaviour and Structure of Colloidal Suspensions J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 1994, 6 (23A) A29
38. Harrington, S.; Zhang, R.; Poole, P. H.; Sciortino, F.; Stanley, H. E. Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition: Evidence from Simulations Phys. Rev. Lett. 1997, 78 (12) 2409
39. He, G.; Tan, R. B.; Kenis, P. J.; Zukoski, C. F. Metastable States of Small-Molecule Solutions J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111 (51) 14121-14129
40. Kulkarni, A. M.; Dixit, N. M.; Zukoski, C. F. Ergodic and Non-Ergodic Phase Transitions in Globular Protein Suspensions Faraday Discuss. 2003, 123, 37-50
41. Jayaraman, A.; Schweizer, K. S. Structure and Assembly of Dense Solutions and Melts of Single Tethered Nanoparticles J. Chem. Phys. 2008, 128 (16) 164904-164913
42. Glotzer, S. C.; Horsch, M. A.; Iacovella, C. R.; Zhang, Z.; Chan, E. R.; Zhang, X. Self-Assembly of Anisotropic Tethered Nanoparticle Shape Amphiphiles Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 2005, 10 (5) 287-295
43. Desvergne, J.-P.; Brotin, T.; Meerschaut, D.; Clavier, G.; Placin, F.; Pozzo, J.-L.; Bouas-Laurent, H. Spectroscopic Properties and Gelling Ability of a Set of Rod-Like 2,3-Disubstituted Anthracenes New J. Chem. 2004, 28 (2) 234-243
44. Pozzo, J.-L.; Desvergne, J.-P.; Clavier, G. M.; Bouas-Laurent, H.; Jones, P. G.; Perlstein, J. The Unusual Molecular Organization of 2,3-bis (n-Hexyloxy) Anthracene in the Crystal. A Hint to the Origin of the Gelifying Properties of 2,3-bis (n-alkyloxy) anthracenes? J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2 2001, 5) 824-826