Molecular photoswitches enable dynamic control of processes with high spatiotemporal
precision, using light as external stimulus, and hence are ideal tools for different research …

Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitch is a new and promising family of photochromic molecules
and has shown superior performance as a smart trigger in stimulus‐responsive materials …

Due to their similarity to some bio‐architectures, for example, extracellular matrix, hydrogels
are considered as bio‐inspired networks with bio‐mimetic and bio‐functional properties …

Light offers unique opportunities for controlling the activity of materials and biosystems with
high spatiotemporal resolution. Molecular photoswitches are chromophores that undergo …

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

The ability to influence key properties of molecular systems by using light holds much
promise for the fields of materials science and life sciences. The cornerstone of such …

Polymer networks can have a range of desirable properties such as mechanical strength,
wide compositional diversity between different materials, permanent porosity, convenient …

In recent years, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have become an area of intense
research interest because of their adjustable pores and nearly limitless structural diversity …

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have attracted tremendous research interest over the
last two decades. Their unique optical, electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties make …

In order to perform chemical work, molecular systems have to be operated away from
thermodynamic equilibrium and therefore require the input of energy. Light is perhaps the …