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End-to-end assembly and disassembly of gold nanorods based on photo-responsive host-guest interaction
1Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. maxiang@ecust.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 8, 2017
Abstract:
The host-guest interaction based on thiol-β-cyclodextrin and a symmetric compound containing two azobenzene units on ends has been utilized to form end-to-end assembly of gold nanorods. Both UV light irradiation and guest competition can be used to transform the GNR alignments in a disassembled manner.