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Microfabrication of Nanoporous Gold Patterns for Cell-material Interaction Studies
Published on: July 15, 2013
Switching the enantioselectivity of nanoporous host materials by light
Anemar Bruno Kanj1, Jochen Bürck, Sylvain Grosjean
1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. Lars.Heinke@kit.edu.
Abstract:
A chiral photoswitchable nanoporous material with remote-controllable enantioselective adsorption capacity is presented. This metal-organic framework possesses both homochiral d-camphoric acid and light-responsive azobenzene moieties. Although the structure at the chiral moieties is unaffected, the trans-cis-azobenzene-photoisomerization changes the pore environment and, thus, switches the enantioselective adsorption behavior of the homochiral MOF.
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