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Multi-color emission with orthogonal input triggers from a diarylethene pyrene-OTHO organogelator cocktail
Mark D Johnstone1, Chien-Wei Hsu1, Nicolas Hochbaum1
1Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Kemivägen 10, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden. sundenh@chalmers.se a-son@chalmers.se.
Abstract:
We report on a pyrene-decorated supramolecular gelator based on an oxotriphenylhexanoate (OTHO) that can switch emission profiles between the solution and gel phase. A cocktail of the gelator and a photochromic diarylethene derivative enables four distinct emissive states to be obtained, which are modulated with light and heat as orthogonal input triggers.
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