Photoswitching of conductance of diarylethene-Au nanoparticle network
Masumi Ikeda1, Naoki Tanifuji, Hidehiro Yamaguchi
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 23, 2007
Abstract:
A network composed of gold nanoparticles covered with diarylethene dithiophenols was prepared on an interdigitated nanogapped gold electrode to show the reversible photoswitching of the conductance due to the photochromism of the diarylethene molecules induced by UV and visible light.
