Light-induced disassembly of self-assembled vesicle-capped nanotubes observed in real time

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 547-552

  Coleman, Anthony C ^a,b   Beierle, John M ^a   Stuart, Marc C A ^a,c   Maciá, Beatriz ^a   Caroli, Giuseppe ^a   Mika, Jacek T ^b   Van Dijken, Derk Jan ^a   Chen, Jiawen ^a   Browne, Wesley R ^a,b   Feringa, Ben L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; MOLECULES; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; YARN;

AMPHIPHILIC MOLECULES; DISASSEMBLY PROCESS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; FUNCTIONAL MOLECULES; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SELF ORGANIZED SYSTEMS; SELF-ASSEMBLED VESICLES;

NANOTUBES;

AMPHOPHILE; NANOTUBE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SELF ASSEMBLED VESICLE CAPPED NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; DISASSEMBLY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80052563625     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.120     Document Type: Article

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