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  • Light-responsive materials are crucial for shape-changing applications.
  • Preconfigurable, multi-stable visible light responsive coatings remain largely unreported.
  • Existing materials often require significant energy and have limited lifespans.

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  • To develop novel rewritable and pre-configurable light-responsive surfaces.
  • To demonstrate multi-stable topographical changes using visible light.
  • To explore the potential of these materials as adaptive biological surfaces.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing fluorinated azobenzenes as the core component for light responsiveness.
  • Employing low-intensity green and blue light for surface structure formation and removal.
  • Investigating the direct link between molecular isomerization and topographical changes.
  • Creating multistable surface topographies, including mask-free configurations.

Main Results:

  • Successfully created rewritable, pre-configurable responsive surfaces with multi-stable topographies.
  • Demonstrated the ability to form and remove surface structures using specific visible light wavelengths (green and blue).
  • Achieved mask-free creation of multistable surface topographies.
  • Established precise control over surface structure modifications tied to molecular isomerization.

Conclusions:

  • Fluorinated azobenzenes enable the creation of advanced multi-stable light-responsive surfaces.
  • The developed method offers energy efficiency and enhanced material longevity.
  • These materials show promise for applications in adaptive biological surfaces.