@misc{10481/59273,
year = {2019},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/59273},
abstract = {Annealing is widely used as a means of changing the physical properties of a material. The rate of heating
and cooling used in the annealing process controls the final properties. Annealing can be used as a means
of driving towards the, or at least a, thermodynamic minimum. There is surprisingly little information on
annealing kinetically-trapped supramolecular gels. Here, we show that annealing multicomponent gels can
be used to prepare materials with tunable mechanical properties. We show that annealing in a two-component
gel leads to a self-sorted network, which has significantly different mechanical properties to the asprepared
gels. Whilst the fibres are self-sorted, we show that the annealing of this system leads to significant
change in the network level of assembly, and it is this that leads to the increase in storage modulus. We also
show that it is possible to selectively anneal only a single component in the mixture},
organization = {AMFC thanks the University of Glasgow for funding. FPGF
acknowledges an Erasmus traineeship. DJA thanks the EPSRC
for a Fellowship (EP/L021978/1), which funded BD.
MarvinSketch 16.11.28.0 was used for naming chemical structures.
This work benefitted from SasView software, originally
developed by the DANSE project under NSF award
DMR-0520547. SasView also contains code developed with
funding from the EU Horizon 2020 programme under the
SINE2020 project Grant No. 654000. The X-ray scattering
apparatus was purchased under (EP/K035746/1).},
publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
title = {Annealing multicomponent supramolecular gels},
doi = {10.1039/c8nr09423c},
author = {Fuentes Caparrós, Ana M. and Gómez Franco, Francisco de Paula},
}