The concepts of excited-state aromaticity and antiaromaticity have in recent years with
increasing frequency been invoked to rationalize the photochemistry of cyclic conjugated …

The metastable trilacunary heteropolyoxomolybdate [PMo9O31 (py) 3] 3−–{PMo9}; py=
pyridine) and the ditopic pyridyl bearing diarylethene (DAE)(C25H16N2F6S2) self-assemble …

Dithienylethene photoswitches with an aromatic π-linker as the bridge between the two
thiophene units are attractive starting materials for developing molecular solar thermal …

A novel supramolecular photoactuator in the form of a thin film of centimetric size has been
developed as an alternative to traditional liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) involving …

The structural evolution as a function of temperature of a supramolecular copolymer
assembly based on multiple hydrogen bonds has been investigated. Ureidopyrimidinone …

A dithienylethene (DTE) photochromic compound functionalized by ureidopyrimidinone
(UPy) quadruple hydrogen bonding blocks was synthesized by Takeshita and coworkers …

Some diarylethene molecular switches have a low quantum yield for cycloreversion when
excited by a single photon, but react more efficiently following sequential two-photon …

Time‐resolved absorption spectroscopy measurements were performed to study the
dynamics of photochromic 1, 2‐Bis (2, 4‐dimethylthiophene‐3‐yl) perfluoro‐cyclopentene …

Photonastic materials present a directional and repeatable deformation of the material
shape due to transduction from light energy to mechanical energy. Among these materials …

The excited state dynamics of constrained photochromic benzodithienylethenes were
addressed by considering the bridging with polyether chains (from x= 4 to 6 units) at the …