Small-molecule hydrogels based on amino acid derivatives have promising applications in many biological fields,including cell culture,drug delivery,and tissue engineering.Although these hydrogels have been widely repo...Small-molecule hydrogels based on amino acid derivatives have promising applications in many biological fields,including cell culture,drug delivery,and tissue engineering.Although these hydrogels have been widely reported to have low cytotoxicity,biocompatibility,and tunable bioactivity,problems such as harsh preparation conditions and complex material design hinder their application.Herein,by adjusting pH to induce non-covalent interactions between small-molecule tryptophan derivatives(N-[(phenylmethoxy)carbonyl]-L-tryptophan,Mw:338.35),we developed a self-assembled three-dimensional network hydrogel that can be rapidly formed in seconds.And the supramolecular self-assembly mechanism of the hydrogels was also investigated in detail through experimental characterizations and density functional theory calculation.As-prepared hydrogels also exhibit reversible pH-stimulated response and self-healing properties.This study details a research process for the simple and rapid preparation of tryptophan derivative-based hydrogels,which provides more reference ideas for the future development of materials based on other amino acid derivatives.展开更多
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21773311 and 21972169)Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Plan Project(No.2017TP1001)Thanks for the software support provided by the High Performance Computing Center of CSU and NMR data support provided by the Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘Small-molecule hydrogels based on amino acid derivatives have promising applications in many biological fields,including cell culture,drug delivery,and tissue engineering.Although these hydrogels have been widely reported to have low cytotoxicity,biocompatibility,and tunable bioactivity,problems such as harsh preparation conditions and complex material design hinder their application.Herein,by adjusting pH to induce non-covalent interactions between small-molecule tryptophan derivatives(N-[(phenylmethoxy)carbonyl]-L-tryptophan,Mw:338.35),we developed a self-assembled three-dimensional network hydrogel that can be rapidly formed in seconds.And the supramolecular self-assembly mechanism of the hydrogels was also investigated in detail through experimental characterizations and density functional theory calculation.As-prepared hydrogels also exhibit reversible pH-stimulated response and self-healing properties.This study details a research process for the simple and rapid preparation of tryptophan derivative-based hydrogels,which provides more reference ideas for the future development of materials based on other amino acid derivatives.
