Visible Light Stimulated Bistable Photo-Switching in Defect Engineered Metal-Organic Frameworks

The incorporation of photoactive donor-acceptor Stenhouse adduct (DASA) moieties into Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) provides a new route to the development of visible light switching materials. Herein, a DUT-5 mixed-linker defect series was exploited to produce a derivative group of DASA-modified materials via postsynthetic modification (PSM). The photoactive MOFs exhibited conversion stimulated by visible wavelengths and were stable following multiple cycles. Thermodynamic and metastable states persisted over an extended time period.