Smart Soft-Matter Nanotubes

Toshimi Shimizu received his B.S. (1975), M.S. (1977), and Ph.D. (1983) in polymer chemistry from Kyoto University, Japan. He was the director of the Nanoarchitectonics Research Center (NARC), AIST (2000–2007). He also directed a Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) project (2001–2005) and the succeeding Solution-Oriented Research for Science and Technology (SORST) project (2005–2009) funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). His research has focused on functional high-axial-ratio nanostructure assemblies for nano-space engineering. He has received several awards including the Award of the Society of Polymer Science (SPSJ) (2001), Japan, and the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Creative Work (2006). In 2017, he was elected as a SPSJ fellow. He is the volume editor and author of Self-Assembled Nanomaterials I (Springer,  2008) and Molecular- and Nano-Tubes (Springer, 2011).

1. Introduction.- 2. Lipid Nanotubes.- 3. Bolaamphiphile-Based Nanotubes.- 4. Diphenylalanine-Based Nanotubes.- 5. Peptide-Based Nanotubes.- 6. Cyclic Peptide-Based and Cyclic Peptide-Polymer-Based Nanotubes.- 7. Protein-Based Nanotubes.- 8. Bottle-Brush Copolymer-Based Nanotubes.- 9. Rigid-Flexible Block Molecule-Based Nanotubes.- 10. Summary and Outlook.