From Unprintable Peptidic Gel to Unstoppable: Transforming Diphenylalanine Peptide (Fmoc-FF) Nanowires and Cellulose Nanofibrils into a High-Performance Biobased Gel for 3D Printing.

ABSTRACT: The growing interest in gel-based additive manufacturing, also known as three-dimensional (3D) gel-printing technology, for research underscores the crucial need to develop robust biobased materials with excellent printing quality and reproducibility. The main focus of this study is to prepare and characterize some composite gels obtained with a low-molecular-weight gelling (LMWG) peptide called Fmoc-diphenylalanine (Fmoc-FF) and two types of cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs). The so-called Fmoc-FF peptide has the ability to self-assemble into a nanowire shape and therefore create an organized network that induces the formation of a gel. Despite their ease of preparation and potential use in biological systems, unfortunately, those Fmoc-FF nanowire gel systems cannot be 3D printed due to the hi

SUBMITTER: Dalloul F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11921036 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature