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Application of PET deprotection for orthogonal photocontrol of aqueous solution viscosity
J Brian Borak1, Hee-Young Lee, Srinivasa R Raghavan
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Abstract:
Photorelease and photoisomerization of trans-cinnamic acid in aqueous CTAB solutions induces a bulk solution viscosity increase and decrease, respectively, triggered by orthogonal irradiation wavelengths.

