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Synthesis and Characterization of Supramolecular Colloids
Published on: April 22, 2016
Orthogonal photo-switching of supramolecular patterned surfaces
Dongsheng Wang1, Frank Schellenberger2, Jonathan T Pham3
1School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering of UESTC, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 4, Section 2, North Jianshe Road, 610054, Chengdu, China.
Abstract:
We used Azo/α-CD and ipAzo/γ-CD host-guest complexes to demonstrate that four independent stable states can be orthogonally photo-switched by UV (365 nm), blue (470 nm), green (530 nm) and red light (625 nm). A supramolecular patterned surface was fabricated and orthogonally photo-switched by light with different wavelengths.
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