Abstract
Recently, nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes, polymer nanotubes, and metal nanotubes have received a great deal of attention due to their unique physical and chemical properties. Among them, polymer nanotubes have not been studied sufficiently though various functions can be comparatively easily introduced into them by introduction of the functional groups. Consequently, we succeeded in the synthesis of the various polymer nanotubes from polythiophene and then, have studied their functionalization. In this symposium, we present the synthesis and the properties of the new chiral polythiophene nanotubes with introduced asymmetric functional groups, and the synthesis of the new nanocomposites in the inclusion nanospace of the polymer nanotubes.
