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

The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy
input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for developing …

Photoswitchable fluorescent polymers (PFPs) are emerging as a class of promising systems
for photowritable pattern, optical anti‐counterfeiting, and information encryption. They …

Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches, known for their reversible photoinduced cyclization and
cycloreversion reactions, have shown great promise in various fields such as optical data …

There has been much interest in dual‐emission materials in the past few years for materials
and life science applications; however, a systematic overview of the underlying processes is …

Conspectus Photochromic diarylethenes featuring reversible regulation by external light
irradiation have attracted increasing attention in versatile applications such as logic gates …

Development of robust multi-color photoswitchable fluorescent probes is critical for many
optical applications, but it remains a challenge to rationally design these probes. Here, we …

Fluorescent molecules and materials are widely used in many areas in physics, chemistry,
and biology as emitters, tags, or sensors. The possibility of controlling their fluorescence …

Dual-emissive systems showing color-specific photoswitching are promising in bioimaging
and super-resolution microscopy. However, their switching efficiency has been limited …

On-command changes in the emission color of functional materials is a sought-after property
in many contexts. Of particular interest are systems using light as the external trigger to …