Heat and light dual switching of a single-walled carbon nanotube/thermo-responsive helical polysaccharide complex: a
Tomohiro Shiraki1, Arnab Dawn, Thi Ngoc Lien Le
1Nanotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies (ISIT), 203-1 Moto-oka, Fukuoka, 819-0385, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 31, 2011
Abstract:
A thermo- and light-responsive system consisting of single-walled carbon nanotube and helical polysaccharide modified with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) side-chains has been developed through supramolecular polymer wrapping. Coagulation of the complex can be induced by the external stimuli, which leads to a catch-and-release action of a porphyrin derivative.
