Print Email Facebook Twitter Hierarchically Compartmentalized Supramolecular Gels through Multilevel Self-Sorting Title Hierarchically Compartmentalized Supramolecular Gels through Multilevel Self-Sorting Author Wang, Y. (TU Delft ChemE/Advanced Soft Matter) Lovrak, M. (TU Delft ChemE/Advanced Soft Matter) Liu, Q. (TU Delft ChemE/Advanced Soft Matter) Maity, C. (TU Delft ChemE/Advanced Soft Matter) le Sage, V.A.A. (TU Delft ChemE/Advanced Soft Matter) Guo, Xuhong (East China University of Science and Technology; Shihezi University) Eelkema, R. (TU Delft ChemE/Advanced Soft Matter) van Esch, J.H. (TU Delft ChemE/Advanced Soft Matter) Date 2019 Abstract Hierarchical compartmentalization through the bottom-up approach is ubiquitous in living cells but remains a formidable task in synthetic systems. Here we report on hierarchically compartmentalized supramolecular gels that are spontaneously formed by multilevel self-sorting. Two types of molecular gelators are formed in situ from nonassembling building blocks and self-assemble into distinct gel fibers through a kinetic self-sorting process; interestingly, these distinct fibers further self-sort into separated microdomains, leading to microscale compartmentalized gel networks. Such spontaneously multilevel self-sorting systems provide a "bottom-up" approach toward hierarchically structured functional materials and may play a role in intracellular organization. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f75f9555-0f4a-4b08-82ee-01659a56fd69 DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b09596 ISSN 0002-7863 Source Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141 (7), 2847-2851 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Y. Wang, M. Lovrak, Q. Liu, C. Maity, V.A.A. le Sage, Xuhong Guo, R. Eelkema, J.H. van Esch Files PDF jacs.8b09596_1_.pdf 5.83 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f75f9555-0f4a-4b08-82ee-01659a56fd69/datastream/OBJ/view