Stimuli-induced gel–sol transition of multi-sensitive supramolecular β-cyclodextrin grafted alginate/ferrocene modified pluronic hydrogel

• DOI: 10.1039/c2sm25084e
• Publication Date: 2012-03-09T09:33:33Z
• Authors: Lin Tan; Yan Liu; Wei Ha; Li-Sheng Ding; Shu-Lin Peng; Sheng Zhang; Bang-Jing Li
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

This paper studies a kind of biocompatible hydrogel composed of alginate-g-β-cyclodextrin (Alg-β-CD) and ferrocene-terminated pluronic F127 (F127-Fc), which showed gel–sol phase transformations in response to temperature, oxidizing agents, and glucose because of the reversible association–dissociation of Fc-β-CD inclusions and F127 micelles.