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Chem. Commun., 2007, 4096 - 4098, DOI: 10.1039/b712971h

Using Congo red to report intracellular hydrogelation resulted from self-assembly of small molecules

Gaolin Liang, Keming Xu, Lihua Li, Ling Wang, Yi Kuang, Zhimou Yang and Bing Xu

This communication reports the use of Congo red to stain the nanofibers of self-assembled small molecules for assaying intracellular supramolecular hydrogels, which provides a convenient method to explore molecular self-assembly inside cells.

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