Orchestrating Molecular Motion with Light - From Single (macro)Molecules to Materials

A Roadmap to Success in Photopharmacology

(2015) Johannes Broichhagen et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Controlling Motion at the Nanoscale: Rise of the Molecular Machines

(2015) John M. Abendroth et al.   ACS Nano

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Visible-Light-Activated Molecular Switches

(2015) David Bléger et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Artificial Molecular Machines

(2015) Sundus Erbas-Cakmak et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Two-Photon Responsive Metal–Organic Framework

(2015) Jiancan Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-Controlled “Molecular Zippers” Based on Azobenzene Main Chain Polymers

(2015) Christopher Weber et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photoinduced reversible switching of porosity in molecular crystals based on star-shaped azobenzene tetramers

(2015) Massimo Baroncini et al.   Nature Chemistry

Macroscopic contraction of a gel induced by the integrated motion of light-driven molecular motors

(2015) Quan Li et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Watching Single Molecules Move in Response to Light

(2014) Pintu K. Kundu et al.   ACS Nano

Light-Induced Contraction and Extension of Single Macromolecules on a Modified Graphite Surface

(2014) Chien-Li Lee et al.   ACS Nano

Photoswitching in Two-Component Surface-Mounted Metal–Organic Frameworks: Optically Triggered Release from a Molecular Container

(2014) Lars Heinke et al.   ACS Nano

Photomobile Polymer Materials with Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Structures: Molecular Design, Fabrication, and Functions

(2014) Toru Ube et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Switching of Bacterial Adhesion to a Glycosylated Surface by Reversible Reorientation of the Carbohydrate Ligand

(2014) Theresa Weber et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoswitchable precision glycooligomers and their lectin binding

(2014) Daniela Ponader et al.   Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Photochromism of Diarylethene Molecules and Crystals: Memories, Switches, and Actuators

(2014) Masahiro Irie et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

MOF-based electronic and opto-electronic devices

(2014) V. Stavila et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Metal–organic frameworks for artificial photosynthesis and photocatalysis

(2014) Teng Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Synthesis and Surface-Spectroscopic Characterization of Photoisomerizable glyco-SAMs on Au(111)

(2014) Vijayanand Chandrasekaran et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

ortho-Fluoroazobenzenes: Visible Light Switches with Very Long-LivedZIsomers

(2014) Christopher Knie et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Carbohydrate-Lectin Recognition of Sequence-Defined Heteromultivalent Glycooligomers

(2014) Daniela Ponader et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photopharmacology: Beyond Proof of Principle

(2014) Willem A. Velema et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Restoring Visual Function to Blind Mice with a Photoswitch that Exploits Electrophysiological Remodeling of Retinal Ganglion Cells

(2014) Ivan Tochitsky et al.   NEURON

Highly efficient cycloreversion of photochromic dithienylethene compounds using visible light-driven photoredox catalysis

(2014) Sumin Lee et al.   Chemical Science

Photo-mechanical azobenzene cocrystals and in situ X-ray diffraction monitoring of their optically-induced crystal-to-crystal isomerisation

(2014) Oleksandr S. Bushuyev et al.   Chemical Science

Dynamic Photo-Switching in Metal-Organic Frameworks as a Route to Low-Energy Carbon Dioxide Capture and Release

(2013) Richelle Lyndon et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Microbial and Animal Rhodopsins: Structures, Functions, and Molecular Mechanisms

(2013) Oliver P. Ernst et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Reversible Photocontrol of Biological Systems by the Incorporation of Molecular Photoswitches

(2013) Wiktor Szymański et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Spiropyran-based dynamic materials

(2013) Rafal Klajn   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Electronic Communication in Linear Oligo(azobenzene) Radical Anions

(2013) Álvaro Moneo et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Shaping Crystals with Light: Crystal-to-Crystal Isomerization and Photomechanical Effect in Fluorinated Azobenzenes

(2013) Oleksandr S. Bushuyev et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photoswitching Azo Compounds in Vivo with Red Light

(2013) Subhas Samanta et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Optical control of antibacterial activity

(2013) Willem A. Velema et al.   Nature Chemistry

Photophysical pore control in an azobenzene-containing metal–organic framework

(2013) Jonathan W. Brown et al.   Chemical Science

Enhancement of Photogenerated Mechanical Force in Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimides

(2012) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bidirectional Photocontrol of Peptide Conformation with a Bridged Azobenzene Derivative

(2012) Subhas Samanta et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Multivalency as a Chemical Organization and Action Principle

(2012) Carlo Fasting et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

o-Fluoroazobenzenes as Readily Synthesized Photoswitches Offering Nearly Quantitative Two-Way Isomerization with Visible Light

(2012) David Bléger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-Orchestrated Macromolecular “Accordions”: Reversible Photoinduced Shrinking of Rigid-Rod Polymers

(2011) David Bléger et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Optochemical Genetics

(2011) Timm Fehrentz et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Toward optomechanics: Maximizing the photodeformation of individual molecules

(2011) David Bléger et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Metal–Organic Frameworks in Biomedicine

(2011) Patricia Horcajada et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Azobenzene photoswitches for biomolecules

(2011) Andrew A. Beharry et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Photoisomerization in different classes of azobenzene

(2011) H. M. Dhammika Bandara et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Electronic Decoupling Approach to Quantitative Photoswitching in Linear Multiazobenzene Architectures

(2011) David Bléger et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Reversible Alteration of CO2 Adsorption upon Photochemical or Thermal Treatment in a Metal–Organic Framework

(2011) Jinhee Park et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Azobenzene Photoswitching without Ultraviolet Light

(2011) Andrew A. Beharry et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

LiGluR Restores Visual Responses in Rodent Models of Inherited Blindness

(2011) Natalia Caporale et al.   MOLECULAR THERAPY

Applications of synthetic carbohydrates to chemical biology

(2010) Bernd Lepenies et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Polymers for Control Freaks: Sequence-Defined Poly(amidoamine)s and Their Biomedical Applications

(2010) Laura Hartmann   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Large-Area Three-Dimensional Molecular Ordering of a Polymer Brush by One-Step Processing

(2010) N. Hosono et al.   SCIENCE

Highly Efficient ReversibleZ−EPhotoisomerization of a Bridged Azobenzene with Visible Light through Resolved S1(nπ*) Absorption Bands

(2009) Ron Siewertsen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A New Zirconium Inorganic Building Brick Forming Metal Organic Frameworks with Exceptional Stability

(2008) Jasmina Hafizovic Cavka et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY