Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces
Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of Shandong Province, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, PR China; School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China. Electronic address:
Published: November 2014
In this study, a hybrid synthetic gelatin-mono epoxy terminated polydimethylsiloxane polymer (PDMS-E grafted gelatin (PGG)) was successfully synthesized on a large scale. Supramolecular structure of gelatin, which was decided by the sophisticated inter- and intra-molecular interactions, significantly affected the self-assembly and phase behavior of PGG. Interestingly, the supramolecular organization of PGG could be tuned finely by negatively charged surfactants, such as sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and sodium tetradecyl sulfonate (STSo), as revealed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), light microscopy (LM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). SEM images exhibited the presence of spherical aggregates in PGG/SDS films while hexagonal array was observed in PGG/STSo films. The results of LM revealed that when PGG/STSo solution was dried, a successive structural transformation from spheres to hexagons, via sticks and butterfly-shaped aggregates as intermediates, was observed. However, the morphologies of the aggregates formed in PGG/SDS system did not exhibit any obvious change upon drying. Attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectra combined with AFM observations indicated that the secondary structure and aggregation behavior of gelatin was modified with the change in the electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions, leading to the formation of diversified solid-state structures of PGG.
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Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces
November 2018
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, PR China. Electronic address:
Understanding the assembly mechanisms of supramolecular architectures in nature is essential for the design and synthesis of novel biomaterials. In the work, self-assembly of gelatin-mono epoxy terminated polydimethylsiloxane polymer (PGG) controlled by electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions between gelatin and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) was investigated in suit. Confocal laser scanning microscopy, circular dichroism spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were conducted to reveal the structure evolution of PGG at a molecular level with the increment of SDS concentration, including micro-sized sphere, core-shell and multi-layer structure.
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November 2014
Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of Shandong Province, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, PR China; School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China. Electronic address:
In this study, a hybrid synthetic gelatin-mono epoxy terminated polydimethylsiloxane polymer (PDMS-E grafted gelatin (PGG)) was successfully synthesized on a large scale. Supramolecular structure of gelatin, which was decided by the sophisticated inter- and intra-molecular interactions, significantly affected the self-assembly and phase behavior of PGG. Interestingly, the supramolecular organization of PGG could be tuned finely by negatively charged surfactants, such as sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and sodium tetradecyl sulfonate (STSo), as revealed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), light microscopy (LM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM).
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