Conjugating self-assembling rigid rings to flexible polymer coils for the design of organic nanotubes.

Couet, Julien; Biesalski, Markus · Soft Matter · 2006

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Supramolecular polymer-hybrid nanotubes have recently emerged the self-assembly of coil-ring-coil block-copolymers and the surface-initiated polymerization from self-assembled peptide nanotubes. The article describes recent developments in designing functional organic nanotubes.