Molecular solar thermal (MOST) fuels have attracted enormous research enthusiasm in solar
energy conversion and storage, which can generate high-energy isomers upon harvesting …

Molecular solar thermal (MOST) systems have attracted tremendous attention for solar
energy conversion and storage, which can generate high‐energy metastable isomers upon …

Phase transition materials can be utilized in a variety of functionalization scenarios,
benefiting from the photoinduced changes in their physicochemical properties. Among them …

Photochemical crystal↔ liquid transitions (PCLTs) are interesting phenomena that couple
reversible photochemical transformations with thermophysical phase transitions. A potential …

The development of polymers with efficient photoinduced reversible solid-to-liquid
transitions is desirable for the design of healable materials, reconfigurable devices, and …

Herein, we introduce a variety of azopolyesters (azobenzene‐based polyesters) with
remarkable intrinsic crystallinity and photoinduced reversible solid‐to‐liquid transition …

The development and utilization of switchable adhesives are considered to be an essential
target to solve the problems of their separation and recycling in some specific service …

Photomechanical effects in liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) functionalized with
photochromic moieties, such as azobenzene, have been widely studied. This prior work has …

Photoinduced transitions between the solid, glass, and liquid states based on molecular
photoswitches promise a wide variety of applications. Photoswitchable adhesives are …

Over the past three decades, significant efforts have been dedicated to developing
polymeric materials with exciting healable ability; however, stiff and healable plastics with …