Controlled self-sorting in the assembly of 'multi-gelator' gels.

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Jamie R Moffat

David K Smith

چکیده

Self-sorting processes in the assembly of gel-phase materials from mixtures of different molecular-scale building blocks can lead to the spontaneous orthogonal assembly of two different nanoscale gel-phase networks at the same time.

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