Out-of-Equilibrium Mechanical Disruption of β-Amyloid-Like Fibers using Light-Driven Molecular Motors.

Autor: Daou D; SAMS Research Group, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France., Zarate Y; SAMS Research Group, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France., Maaloum M; SAMS Research Group, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France., Collin D; CNRS, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France., Fleith G; CNRS, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France., Constantin D; CNRS, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France., Moulin E; SAMS Research Group, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France., Giuseppone N; SAMS Research Group, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut Charles Sadron UPR 22, Strasbourg, 67000, France.; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, 75005, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) [Adv Mater] 2024 May; Vol. 36 (18), pp. e2311293. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 25.
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202311293
Abstrakt: Artificial molecular motors have the potential to generate mechanical work on their environment by producing autonomous unidirectional motions when supplied with a source of energy. However, the harnessing of this mechanical work to subsequently activate various endoenergetic processes that can be useful in materials science remains elusive. Here, it is shown that by integrating a light-driven rotary motor through hydrogen bonds in a β-amyloid-like structure forming supramolecular hydrogels, the mechanical work generated during the constant rotation of the molecular machine under UV irradiation is sufficient to disrupt the β-amyloid fibers and to trigger a gel-to-sol transition at macroscopic scale. This melting of the gel under UV irradiation occurs 25 °C below the temperature needed to melt it by solely using thermal activation. In the dark, a reversible sol-gel transition is observed as the system fully recovers its original microstructure, thus illustrating the possible access to new kinds of motorized materials that can be controlled by advanced out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics.
(© 2024 The Authors. Advanced Materials published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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