Caffeine as a Gelator
Abstrakti
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.
Päätekijät
Aineistotyyppi
Artikkelit
Tutkimusartikkeli
Julkaistu
2016
Sarja
Aiheet
Julkaisu tutkimustietojärjestelmässä
Julkaisija
MDPIAG
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201606213266Käytä tätä linkitykseen
Vertaisarvioinnin tila
Vertaisarvioitu
ISSN
2310-2861
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/gels2010009
Kieli
englanti
Julkaisussa
Gels
Viite
- Nonappa, N., & Kolehmainen, E. (2016). Caffeine as a Gelator. Gels, 2(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels2010009
Lisenssi
Copyright© Nonappa & Kolehmainen, 2016. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).