Acid-catalysed liquid-to-solid transitioning of arylazoisoxazole photoswitches
Luuk Kortekaas, Julian Simke, Niklas B. Arndt, Marcus Böckmann, Nikos L. Doltsinis, Bart Jan Ravoo
Abstract
of the acid not only opens up new reactivity in solution, but also the solid-state photoswitching of azoisoxazoles can be efficiently reversed with selected acid vapours, enabling acid-gated photoswitchable surface adhesion.
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ChemistryNanotechnologyCombinatorial chemistryMaterials sciencePhotochromic and Fluorescence ChemistryPhotoreceptor and optogenetics researchSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials