Self-immolative dendron hydrogels

Authors

Karanpreet Gill, Western University
Xueli Mei, Western University
Elizabeth Gillies, Western UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 10-21-2021

Journal

Chemical Communications

Volume

57

Issue

84

URL with Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC05108C

Abstract

Smart hydrogels are of great interest in areas such as drug delivery and sensing. Dendrimer-based hydrogels can exhibit tunable properties due to their structural precision. We prepared hydrogels from self-immolative dendrons. Controlled hydrogel degradation in response to light was demonstrated and the hydrogel properties as a function of dendron generation were compared.