Retracted Article: Two-step naked-eye detection of lectin by hierarchical organization of soft nanotubes into liquid crystal and gel phases

Naohiro Kameta; Mitsutoshi Masuda; Toshimi Shimizu

doi:10.1039/C5CC01464F

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Retracted Article: Two-step naked-eye detection of lectin by hierarchical organization of soft nanotubes into liquid crystal and gel phases†

Naohiro Kameta,*^a Mitsutoshi Masuda^a and Toshimi Shimizu^b

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^a Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
E-mail: n-kameta@aist.go.jp
Fax: +81-29-861-4545
Tel: +81-29-861-4478

^b AIST-Fellow,

Abstract

Depending on the concentration of a lectin analyte, supramolecular soft nanotubes, bearing recognition sites immobilized on the outer surface through ethylene glycol chains, hierarchically organized into naked-eye-detectable liquid crystals and hydrogels.