Wheeldon, E., Dennis, M.R., Mao, N. orcid.org/0000-0003-1203-9773 et al. (1 more author) (2025) Self-sorting multi-scale materials by self-assembling multi-component nanostructured gels in nonwoven fabrics. Chemical Communications. ISSN 1359-7345
Abstract
Two supramolecular gelators self-sort, creating hybrid gels with small (ca. 15 nm) and large (ca. 500 nm) nanofibres that reinforce one another rheologically. When assembled in a nonwoven fabric, self-sorting yields a multi-scale material with fibres on multiple length-scales. The nanofibres control the air permeability of the fabric and the smaller nanofibres enhance the robustness of the larger nanofibre network under forcing airflow conditions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2025. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 3.0). |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Design (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number DSTL (Defence Science & Technology Laboratory) R1613202 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2025 14:31 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2025 14:31 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
Identification Number: | 10.1039/d5cc02616d |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:228464 |