Ultra-stretchable hydrogels with hierarchical hydrogen bonds

Extremely Stretchable and Fast Self-Healing Hydrogels.

Dynamic crosslinking of extremely stretchable hydrogels with rapid self-healing ability is described. Using this new strategy, the obtained hydrogels are able to elongate 100 times compared to their initial length and to completely self-heal within 30 s without external energy input.

Stretchable supramolecular hydrogels with triple shape memory effect.

Shape memory polymers based on reversible supramolecular interactions have invoked growing research interest, but still suffer from limitations such as poor mechanical strength and finite shape memory performance. Here, we present a novel mechanical stretchable supramolecular hydrogel with a triple shape memory effect at the macro/micro scale. The introduction of a double network concept into s...

Hydrogen Bonds

Designing ternary cocrystals with hydrogen bonds and halogen bonds.

A graded selection of hydrogen bonds and halogen bonds allows for the isolation of 2 : 1 : 1 ternary cocrystals of the general form 4-nitrobenzamide : diacid : 1,4-dihalogenated benzene, which are mediated by the amide-acid and I···O2N supramolecular synthons.

Scoring Docked Protein Complexes with Hydrogen Bonds

Finding the structure of proteins and protein-protein complexes is an important problem in the field of computational biology. Determining protein structures can be done successfully with various experimental methods like x-ray crystallography, but determining protein-protein structures experimentally is more difficult. Instead, these structures are frequently predicted computationally. One app...