Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)-responsive Organic Nanotubes

Abstract
Facilely synthesized thioether amphiphile can self-assemble into nanotubes in water. The nanotubes exhibit quick reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsivity in H2O2 or against the ultraviolet-triggered ROS from the encapsulated corannulene. Oxidation of the thioether amphiphile disassembles the long nanotubes into short ones and eventually into solubilized amphiphile.