Nanostructure or microstructure and method for producing same
AssigneeThe University of Tokyo
InventorsKohzo Ito, Shuntaro Uenuma, Yumi Shikano
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Abstract
Provided is a nanostructure or a microstructure comprising a plurality of cyclic molecules, each of which is provided with an opening, and a plurality of chain-like molecules, the nanostructure or microstructure being such that each of the plurality of chain-like molecules is included in skewered fashion in some of the plurality of cyclic molecules, whereby a plurality of pseudo-polyrotaxanes and/or polyrotaxanes are formed, wherein some or all of the adjacent cyclic molecules in the nanostructure or microstructure crosslink with each other.
Claims13
A nano or microstructural body comprising:
- a plurality of cyclic molecules each including a cavity;
- and
- a plurality of chain molecules,
- the plurality of chain molecules each being included in part of the plurality of cyclic molecules in a skewered manner to form a plurality of pseudo-polyrotaxanes and/or polyrotaxanes,
- wherein all or part of the adjacent cyclic molecules in the nano or microstructural body are crosslinked to each other,
- wherein the plurality of cyclic molecules arranged in series in the nano or microstructural body form a column, and the number of the columns in which the chain molecules are free from being included accounts for more than 10% of a total number of the columns in the nano or microstructural body.
A method of producing a nano or microstructural body comprising a step of crosslinking a nano or microstructural body, which includes a plurality of cyclic molecules each including a cavity and a plurality of chain molecules, and in which the plurality of chain molecules are each included in part of the plurality of cyclic molecules in a skewered manner to form a plurality of pseudo-polyrotaxanes and/or polyrotaxanes, to provide a nano or
- microstructural body in which all or part of the adjacent cyclic molecules are crosslinked to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.