Ariga Katsuhiko
Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8561, Japan.
Materials (Basel). 2025 Nov 15;18(22):5196. doi: 10.3390/ma18225196.
Methodological fusion of materials chemistry, which enables us to create materials, with nanotechnology, which enables us to control nanostructures, could enable us to create advanced functional materials with well controlled nanostructures. Positioned as a post-nanotechnology concept, nanoarchitectonics will enable this purpose. This review paper highlights the broad scope of applications of the new concept of nanoarchitectonics, selecting and discussing recent papers that contain the term 'nanoarchitectonics' in their titles. Topics include controls of dopant atoms in solid electrolytes, transforming the framework of carbon materials, single-atom catalysts, nanorobots and microrobots, functional nanoparticles, nanotubular materials, 2D-organic nanosheets and MXene nanosheets, nanosheet assemblies, nitrogen-doped carbon, nanoporous and mesoporous materials, nanozymes, polymeric materials, covalent organic frameworks, vesicle structures from synthetic polymers, chirality- and topology-controlled structures, chiral helices, Langmuir monolayers, LB films, LbL assembly, nanocellulose, DNA, peptides bacterial cell components, biomimetic nanoparticles, lipid membranes of protocells, organization of living cells, and the encapsulation of living cells with exogenous substances. Not limited to these examples selected in this review article, the concept of nanoarchitectonics is applicable to diverse materials systems. Nanoarchitectonics represents a conceptual framework for creating materials at all levels and can be likened to a method for everything in materials science. Developing technology that can universally create materials with unexpected functions could represent the final frontier of materials science. Nanoarchitectonics will play a significant part in achieving this final frontier in materials science.
材料化学能够使我们制造材料，纳米技术能够使我们控制纳米结构，二者在方法学上的融合能够使我们制造出具有精确可控纳米结构的先进功能材料。作为一种后纳米技术概念，纳米构筑学将实现这一目标。这篇综述文章突出了纳米构筑学这一新概念广泛的应用范围，挑选并讨论了标题中包含“纳米构筑学”一词的近期论文。主题包括固体电解质中掺杂原子的控制、碳材料框架的转变、单原子催化剂、纳米机器人和微型机器人、功能性纳米颗粒、纳米管材料、二维有机纳米片和MXene纳米片、纳米片组装体、氮掺杂碳、纳米多孔和介孔材料、纳米酶、聚合物材料、共价有机框架、合成聚合物的囊泡结构、手性和拓扑结构可控的结构、手性螺旋、朗缪尔单分子层、LB膜、层层组装、纳米纤维素、DNA、肽、细菌细胞成分、仿生纳米颗粒、原始细胞的脂质膜、活细胞的组织以及用外源物质包裹活细胞。纳米构筑学的概念并不局限于本文所选取的这些例子，而是适用于多种材料体系。纳米构筑学代表了一个在各个层面制造材料的概念框架，可以比作材料科学中一切事物的一种方法。开发能够普遍制造具有意外功能材料的技术可能代表着材料科学的最终前沿。纳米构筑学将在实现材料科学的这一最终前沿方面发挥重要作用。
