The present invention provides alginic acid derivatives having a group represented by general formula (I) or general formula (II) (the right side of the dashed line is excluded in each formula) at a portion of the carboxyl groups in an alginic acid. Novel alginic acid derivatives are thereby provided.
Direct Joining of a Heterogeneous Pair of Supramolecular Nanotubes and Reaction Control of a Guest Compound by Transportation in the Nanochannels
作者:Naohiro Kameta、Wuxiao Ding
DOI:10.1246/bcsj.20190046
日期:2019.6.15
Abstract
Four novel amino-acid lipids were synthesized and then self-assembled in water to produce four different types of supramolecular nanotubes. The nanotubes consisted of a single monolayer of amino-acid lipids packed in parallel and had similar inner diameters and membrane wall thicknesses but dissimilarly charged surfaces. Mixing of nanotubes that had cationic exterior surfaces with nanotubes that had anionic exterior surfaces resulted in aggregation of the nanotubes. In contrast, mixing of nanotubes with cationic interior surfaces and nanotubes with anionic interior surfaces resulted in end-to-end joining of the two types of nanotubes via electrostatic attractions at the open ends to form heterogeneous nanotubes. Time-lapse fluorescence microscopy confirmed that a fluorophore could be transported through the heterogeneous nanotubes, which had alternating acidic and basic nanochannel segments. In addition, acid–base reactions of the fluorophore could be precisely controlled during transport. This nanotube-joining technique should be useful not only for the construction of multifunctional hybrid nanotubes but also for the production of nanoreactors for chemical/biological reactions and nanodevices for analysis and separation.
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