Photoisomerisation behaviour of azobenzene crystals hybridised with silica nanoparticles by dry grinding
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1Faculty of Science, Toho University, 2-2-1 Miyama, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan. k-ichimura@sci.toho-u.ac.jp
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 6, 2010
Abstract:
The dry grinding of azobenzene crystals with silica nanoparticles gave nanohybrids, which exhibited reversible photoisomerisation in water through linearly consecutive processes. The hybrids mill-dispersed in an aqueous PVA solution displayed different spectral changes due to the partial dissolution of azobenzene in PVA coils in water.
