Advances and opportunities in the exciting world of azobenzenes

FA Jerca, VV Jerca, R Hoogenboom - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Azobenzenes are archetypal molecules that have a central role in fundamental and applied
research. Over the course of almost two centuries, the area of azobenzenes has witnessed …

Advances in application of azobenzene as a trigger in biomedicine: Molecular design and spontaneous assembly

HB Cheng, S Zhang, J Qi, XJ Liang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Azobenzene is a well‐known derivative of stimulus‐responsive molecular switches and has
shown superior performance as a functional material in biomedical applications. The results …

Quasi‐1D Polymer Semiconductor–Diarylethene Blends: High Performance Optically Switchable Transistors

Y Chen, H Wang, H Chen, W Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optically switchable field‐effect transistors (OSFETs) are non‐volatile photonic memory
devices holding a great potential for applications in optical information storage and …

Multichromophoric photoswitches for solar energy storage: from azobenzene to norbornadiene, and MOST things in between

RJ Salthouse, K Moth-Poulsen - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The ever-increasing global demands for energy supply and storage have led to numerous
research efforts into finding and developing renewable energy technologies. Molecular solar …

A wavelength‐tunable multi‐functional transistor with visible‐light detection and inverse photomemory for logic gate and retina emulation

Q Shi, D Liu, S Dai, J Huang - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The multi‐functional phototransistor is essential for the realization of highly‐integrated multi‐
functional electronics. Herein, inverse photomemory is discovered from the organic …

Light‐Controlled Regioselective Synthesis of Fullerene Bis‐Adducts

L Ðorđević, L Casimiro, N Demitri… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐functionalization and isomer‐purity of fullerenes are crucial tasks for the development
of their chemistry in various fields. In both current main approaches—tether‐directed …

Multiple Azoarenes Based Systems–Photoswitching, Supramolecular Chemistry and Application Prospects

P Kumar, D Gupta, S Grewal, A Srivastava… - The Chemical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the recent decades, the investigations on photoresponsive molecular systems with
multiple azoarenes are quite popular in diverse perspectives ranging from fundamental …

Spontaneous chirality induction in the assembly of a single layer 2D network with switchable pores

B Shen, C Pan, X Feng, J Kim, M Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Although two‐dimensional (2D) chiral sheet structures are attractive because of
their unique chemical and physical properties, single layer 2D chiral network structures with …

Spontaneous polarization induced electrostatic charge in washable electret composite fabrics for reusable air-filtering application

S Ding, Y Cao, F Huang, Y Wang, J Li… - Composites Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance of disposable face masks in blocking pathogenic microbes mainly relies
on the ability of melt-blown fabrics to electrostatically adsorb air droplets. While their easy …

Wavelength-gated photoreversible polymerization and topology control

H Frisch, K Mundsinger, BLJ Poad, SJ Blanksby… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We exploit the wavelength dependence of [2+ 2] photocycloadditions and-reversions of
styrylpyrene to exert unprecedented control over the photoreversible polymerization and …