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Inside Front Cover: Selective Construction of Supramolecular Nanotube Hosts with Cationic Inner Surfaces (Adv. Mater. 22/2005)
Author(s) -
Kameta N.,
Masuda M.,
Minamikawa H.,
Goutev N. V.,
Rim J. A.,
Jung J. H.,
Shimizu T.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200590116
Subject(s) - cationic polymerization , materials science , nanotube , supramolecular chemistry , front cover , nanotechnology , nanomaterials , cylinder , chemical engineering , cover (algebra) , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , carbon nanotube , molecule , chemistry , geometry , mechanical engineering , engineering , mathematics
Selective construction of a supramolecular nanotube host with a cationic inner surface consisting of unsymmetrical bolaamphiphiles is reported on p. 2732 by Masuda, Shimizu, and co‐workers. The nanotube, shown schematically on the inside cover, has different inner and outer surfaces covered with amino and sugar functionalities, respectively, and is able to effectively encapsulate anionic nanomaterials, such as sulfate‐latex beads (see TEM image) and spherical proteins, in the cationic hollow cylinder without depending on capillary action.