Caffeine as a Gelator
Abstract
Caffeine (a stimulant) and ethanol (a depressant) may have opposite effects in our body, but
under in vitro conditions they can “gel” together. Caffeine, being one of the widely used stimulants,
continued to surprise the scientific community with its unprecedented biological, medicinal and
physicochemical properties. Here, we disclose the supramolecular self-assembly of anhydrous
caffeine in a series of alcoholic and aromatic solvents, rendering a highly entangled microcrystalline
network facilitating the encapsulation of the solvents as illustrated using direct imaging, microscopy
analysis and NMR studies.
Main Authors
Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2016
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
MDPIAG
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201606213266Use this for linking
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2310-2861
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/gels2010009
Language
English
Published in
Gels
Citation
- Nonappa, N., & Kolehmainen, E. (2016). Caffeine as a Gelator. Gels, 2(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels2010009
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Copyright© Nonappa & Kolehmainen, 2016. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).