1 School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK. dave.adams@glasgow.ac.uk.
2 School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK. dave.adams@glasgow.ac.uk and Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, 18071 Granada, Spain.
3 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
4 School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GH, UK.
6 School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
7 School of Physics, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK and Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK.
The micellar aggregates formed at high pH for dipeptide-based gelators can be varied by using different alkali metal salts to prepare the solutions. The nature of the micellar aggregates directly affects the properties of the resulting gels.