A light-driven supramolecular nanowire actuator
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Published on: March 13, 2019
Junho Lee1, Seungwhan Oh, Jaeyeon Pyo
1X-ray Imaging Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea. jhje@postech.ac.kr.
Abstract:
A single photomechanical supramolecular nanowire actuator with an azobenzene-containing 1,3,5-tricarboxamide derivative is developed by employing a direct writing method. Single nanowires display photoinduced reversible bending and the bending behavior follows first-order kinetics associated with azobenzene photoisomerization. A wireless photomechanical nanowire tweezers that remotely manipulates a single micro-particle is also demonstrated.
