Publications by authors named "Maziar Matloubi"
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- Sequence-defined polymers are being explored for materials identification and traceability due to their ability to create many unique identification sequences using few coded monomers.
- Traditional methods of incorporating these taggants into materials have problems like leakage and degradation, but this study uses covalent attachment to acrylamide hydrogels to overcome these issues.
- The process involves synthesizing specific polyurethanes with a disulfide linker, which allows for selective detachment and subsequent analysis of the taggants using mass spectrometry.
Mechanical aspects of the cellular environment can influence cell function, and in this context hydrogels can serve as an instructive matrix. Here we report that physicochemical properties of hydrogels derived from polysaccharides (agarose, κ-carrageenan) having an α-helical backbone can be tailored by inducing a switch in the secondary structure from α-helix to β-sheet through carboxylation. This enables the gel modulus to be tuned over four orders of magnitude (G' 6 Pa-3.
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