Luke C B Salter, Jonathan P Wojciechowski, Ben McLean, Patrick Charchar, Piers R F Barnes, Adam Creamer, James Doutch, Hanna M G Barriga, Margaret N Holme, Irene Yarovsky, Molly M Stevens
Ionic charge transport is a ubiquitous language of communication in biological systems. As such, bioengineering is in constant need of innovative, soft, and biocompatible materials that facilitate ionic conduction. Low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs) are complex self-assembled materials that have received increasing attention in recent years. Beyond their biocompatible, self-healing, and stimuli responsive facets, LMWGs can be viewed as a "solid" electrolyte solution. In this work, we investigate 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) as a capping group for a small peptide library, which we use as a system to understand the relationship between modes of assembly and charge transport in supramolecular gels...
April 9, 2024: Chemistry of Materials: a Publication of the American Chemical Society