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April 22, 2026Materials Horizons2 citationsOpen Access

Programmable Ion-Protein Networks from Sodium Caseinate: A Sustainable Platform for Soft Functional Materials

PTPietro TordiVLVirginia LosassoPSPaolo Samorı́

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore ion–protein coordination for developing multiresponsive, soft materials.
  • Constructing hydrogels using sodium caseinate with ionic crosslinking.
  • Selecting multivalent cations to control the properties of the materials.
  • Successfully created programmable ionically crosslinked hydrogels.
  • Demonstrated the ability to tailor the properties of the hydrogels through cation selection.

Abstract

Ion–protein coordination represents an underexploited design principle to assemble multiresponsive, soft, sustainable materials. Here, we harness sodium caseinate to construct programmable ionically crosslinked hydrogels in which multivalent cation selection governs...

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Tordi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e8661d6e0dea528ddea84ahttps://doi.org/10.1039/d6mh00390g
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