A Reductive Supramolecular Hydrogel: A Platform for Facile Fabrication of Diverse Metal-Nanoparticle-Decorated Conductive Networks with Spatiotemporal Control.
Chempluschem
; 85(8): 1704-1709, 2020 08.
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Nanoparticle-hydrogel hybrid composites have a great potential for a broad range of applications, such as antibacterial materials, stimuli-responsive materials and catalysis. A novel supramolecular hydrogel system was developed using an amino acid based amphiphile containing a terminal pyrrole moiety as a gelator. The pyrrole moiety could serve as both reducing agent and monomer, and a variety of metal precursors penetrating into the hydrogel could be reduced inâ
situ into metal nanoparticles while the pyrrole moieties preorganized in hydrogel were oxidized into polyprroles, affording metal-nanoparticle-decorated covalent conductive networks. This strategy allows the facile fabrication of diverse mono- or multimetallic nanoparticle-polymer networks from one hydrogel by a simple reaction-diffusion approach. More importantly, besides homogeneous composites, unique multisegment heterogeneous systems with spatiotemporal control were also easily accessible. Furthermore, based on the same multifunctional molecule, the fabrication of hierarchically pore-structured metal-nanoparticles-polymers as well as metal-nanoparticles-carbon structures was also realized.
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