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Light-controlled smart nanotubes based on the orthogonal assembly of two homopolymers
Qiang Yan1, Yan Xin, Rong Zhou
1Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 17, 2011
Abstract:
Two homopolymers can orthogonally self-assemble into pseudo-copolymer based on terminal host-guest interactions, and these supramolecular copolymers further fabricate one-dimensional nanotubes in water. By applying alternate UV/visible light, the aggregates can reversibly assemble and disassemble by means of the association and disassociation of active connection.
