Enlightening materials with photoswitches

A Goulet‐Hanssens, F Eisenreich… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Incorporating molecular photoswitches into various materials provides unique opportunities
for controlling their properties and functions with high spatiotemporal resolution using …

Storing energy with molecular photoisomers

Z Wang, P Erhart, T Li, ZY Zhang, D Sampedro, Z Hu… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Some molecular photoisomers can be isomerized to a metastable high-energy state by
exposure to light. These molecules can then be thermally or catalytically converted back to …

Azobenzene-based solar thermal fuels: design, properties, and applications

L Dong, Y Feng, L Wang, W Feng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Development of renewable energy technologies has been a significant area of research
amongst scientists with the aim of attaining a sustainable world society. Solar thermal fuels …

Carbon-based functional nanomaterials: Preparation, properties and applications

Z Li, L Wang, Y Li, Y Feng, W Feng - Composites Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbon-based functional nanomaterials have attracted remarkable attention from the
scientific community for their unique combinations of advantageous chemical and physical …

Photoswitching of glass transition temperatures of azobenzene-containing polymers induces reversible solid-to-liquid transitions

H Zhou, C Xue, P Weis, Y Suzuki, S Huang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The development of polymers with switchable glass transition temperatures (T g) can
address scientific challenges such as the healing of cracks in high-T g polymers and the …

Photoinduced reversible solid‐to‐liquid transitions for photoswitchable materials

WC Xu, S Sun, S Wu - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Heating and cooling can induce reversible solid‐to‐liquid transitions of matter. In contrast,
athermal photochemical processes can induce reversible solid‐to‐liquid transitions of some …

Optically-controlled long-term storage and release of thermal energy in phase-change materials

GGD Han, H Li, JC Grossman - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Thermal energy storage offers enormous potential for a wide range of energy technologies.
Phase-change materials offer state-of-the-art thermal storage due to high latent heat …

Arylazopyrazoles for long-term thermal energy storage and optically triggered heat release below 0° C

MA Gerkman, RSL Gibson, J Calbo, Y Shi… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Arylazopyrazole derivatives based on four core structures (4pzMe, 3pzH, 4pzH, and 4pzH-
F2) and functionalized with a dodecanoate group were demonstrated to store thermal …

Sunlight-activated phase change materials for controlled heat storage and triggered release

Y Shi, MA Gerkman, Q Qiu, S Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the design of photo-responsive organic phase change materials that can absorb
filtered solar radiation to store both latent heat and photon energy via simultaneous phase …

Optically controlled solid-to-liquid phase transition materials based on azo compounds

J Hu, T Song, MM Yu, H Yu - Chemistry of Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phase transition materials can be utilized in a variety of functionalization scenarios,
benefiting from the photoinduced changes in their physicochemical properties. Among them …