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Rigid–Flexible Block Molecule-Based Nanotubes

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Rigid–flexible block molecule (RFBM) is a kind of amphiphilic molecule and roughly comprises both hydrophobic, rigid rod-like segments and hydrophilic, flexible coil-like segments. For example, oligo (p-phenylene) and perylenediimide are employed as the rod segments, whereas poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(propylene oxide) as the flexible chains. This chapter addresses the supramolecular self-assembly of the RFBMs into tubular structures. For example, the self-assembly of perylene diimide-derived amphiphiles, perylene diimide–peptide conjugates, amphiphilic porphyrin, porphrin–C60 amphiphile dyad, amphiphilic carbocyanine dye is discussed in terms of their structural characteristics and potent functions. Moreover, the author describes unique self-assembly behavior of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene derivatives that are well-known as one of two-dimensional small-sized graphene molecules. The author also introduces the osmosis-responsive formation of vesicle-encapsulated nanotube structures from thioxanthene-derived amphiphile in the coexistence of an unsaturated phospholipid. Supramolecular self-assembly of rosette-type organic nanotubes from pyrimido pyrimidine derivatives is discussed in terms of functionalization strategy of the rosette nanotubes. In the last part of this chapter, the dynamic morphology switching of nanotube structures self-assembled from bent-shaped aromatic or cyclic aromatic amphiphiles, and nanotube formation from boroxine and trimesic acid derivatives are described in terms of molecular arrangement.

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Shimizu, T. (2021). Rigid–Flexible Block Molecule-Based Nanotubes. In: Smart Soft-Matter Nanotubes. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2685-2_9

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