Enlightening materials with photoswitches

A Goulet‐Hanssens, F Eisenreich… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Incorporating molecular photoswitches into various materials provides unique opportunities
for controlling their properties and functions with high spatiotemporal resolution using …

Optically switchable transistors by simple incorporation of photochromic systems into small-molecule semiconducting matrices

ME Gemayel, K Börjesson, M Herder, DT Duong… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The fabrication of multifunctional high-performance organic thin-film transistors as key
elements in future logic circuits is a major research challenge. Here we demonstrate that a …

Connecting wires: photoinduced electronic structure modulation in metal–organic frameworks

EA Dolgopolova, VA Galitskiy, CR Martin… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electronic structure modulation of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) through the connection
of linker “wires” as a function of an external stimulus is reported for the first time. The …

A cross-climate assessment of the visual and energy performance of flexible photochromic films for in-situ window retrofits

K Khaled, U Berardi - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Driven by their low thermal resistance and static transmittance to solar radiation, existing
static clear windows are often considered the least-efficient components in the building …

Room temperature control of spin states in a thin film of a photochromic iron (II) complex

L Poggini, M Milek, G Londi, A Naim, G Poneti… - Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Thin films of a molecular spin crossover iron (II) complex featuring a photochromic
diarylethene-based ligand have been grown by sublimation in ultra-high vacuum on an Au …

Light‐controlled reversible modulation of frontier molecular orbital energy levels in trifluoromethylated diarylethenes

M Herder, F Eisenreich, A Bonasera… - … A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Among bistable photochromic molecules, diarylethenes (DAEs) possess the distinct feature
that upon photoisomerization they undergo a large modulation of their π‐electronic system …

Photoluminescence switching in quantum dots connected with fluorinated and hydrogenated photochromic molecules

ES Sarabamoun, JM Bietsch, P Aryal, AG Reid… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate switching of photoluminescence (PL) from PbS quantum dots (QDs)
crosslinked with two different types of photochromic diarylethene molecules, 4, 4'-(1 …

Dynamic photoswitching of electron energy levels at hybrid ZnO/organic photochromic molecule junctions

Q Wang, G Ligorio, V Diez‐Cabanes… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The functionality of interfaces in hybrid inorganic/organic (opto) electronic devices is
determined by the alignment of the respective frontier energy levels at both sides of the …

Dynamically Switching the Electronic and Electrostatic Properties of Indium–Tin Oxide Electrodes with Photochromic Monolayers: Toward Photoswitchable …

Q Wang, V Diez-Cabanes, S Dell'Elce… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The chemical modification of electrodes with organic materials is a common approach to
tuning the electronic and electrostatic landscapes between interlayers in optoelectronic …

Surface effects on a photochromic spin-crossover iron (ii) molecular switch adsorbed on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite

L Poggini, G Londi, M Milek, A Naim, V Lanzilotto… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Thin films of an iron (II) complex with a photochromic diarylethene-based ligand and
featuring a spin-crossover behaviour have been grown by sublimation in ultra-high vacuum …