Caffeine as a gelator

Nonappa Nonappa; Erkki Kolehmainen

doi:10.3390/gels2010009

Caffeine as a gelator

Nonappa Nonappa, Erkki Kolehmainen

University of Jyväskylä

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Gels
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/gels2010009
Publication status	Published - 2 Mar 2016
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Gels, Caffeine, Supramolecular

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HYBER: The Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Molecular Engineering of Biosynthetic Hybrid Materials research (2014-2019)

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