Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress and developments of the
photoswitchable spiropyran-based polymers, owing to distinctive and particular …

Molecular recognition in water using macrocyclic synthetic receptors constitutes a vibrant
and timely research area of supramolecular chemistry. Pioneering examples on the topic …

Confining molecules to volumes only slightly larger than the molecules themselves can
profoundly alter their properties. Molecular switches—entities that can be toggled between …

Photoswitchable molecules are employed for many applications, from the development of
active materials to the design of stimuli-responsive molecular systems and light-powered …

This review focuses on the recent growth in the photo triggered molecular receptors for
heavy metal ions. The photochromic unit in such molecular receptors performs as a trigger …

Come on in, the water's fine! Non-photoresponsive nanoparticles can be reversibly
assembled using light by placing them in an aqueous solution of a photoacid. Upon …

Semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) have recently emerged as a novel type of ultrabright
fluorescent probes that can be widely used in analytical sensing and material science. Here …

Photoresponsive supramolecular switches refer to these host‐guest systems that can be
reversibly shifted between different states by light stimuli. Such photoswitchable systems …

Two novel isomeric Cd-viologen coordination polymers [Cd (CV) 0.5·(p-BDC)· H 2 O](1) and
[Cd (CV) 0.5·(m-BDC)· H 2 O](2)(CV= N, N′-4, 4′-bipyridiniodipropionate, p-BDC 2 …

Reversible and remote cell manipulation with high spatiotemporal precision is now a highly
attractive subject in various biological applications such as tissue engineering and cell …