Stimulating changes in the elastic modulus of polymer materials by molecular photochromism

Single Crystals Popping Under UV Light: A Photosalient Effect Triggered by a [2+2] Cycloaddition Reaction

(2014) Raghavender Medishetty et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoresponsive porous materials: the design and synthesis of photochromic diarylethene-based linkers and a metal–organic framework

(2014) Dinesh G. (Dan) Patel et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Model for Photoinduced Bending of Slender Molecular Crystals

(2014) Naba K. Nath et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Impact of Backbone Rigidity on the Photomechanical Response of Glassy, Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimides

(2014) David H. Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Fast, Reversible, and General Photomechanical Motion in Single Crystals of Various Azo Compounds Using Visible Light

(2013) Oleksandr S. Bushuyev et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photoinduced Curling of Organic Molecular Crystal Nanowires

(2013) Taehyung Kim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dynamic Single Crystals: Kinematic Analysis of Photoinduced Crystal Jumping (The Photosalient Effect)

(2013) Panče Naumov et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photo-responsive MOFs: light-induced switching of porous single crystals containing a photochromic diarylethene

(2013) Ian M. Walton et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Torsional mechanical responses in azobenzene functionalized liquid crystalline polymer networks

(2013) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Soft Matter

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

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

Nanoindentation study of light-induced softening of supramolecular and covalently functionalized azo polymers

(2013) Jaana Vapaavuori et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Bending Materials with Light: Photoreversible Macroscopic Deformations in a Disordered Polymer

(2011) Yuhuan Jin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Driven Molecular-Crystal Actuators: Rapid and Reversible Bending of Rodlike Mixed Crystals of Diarylethene Derivatives

(2011) Fumitaka Terao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The first porous MOF with photoswitchable linker molecules

(2011) Antje Modrow et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Reversible Photoinduced Twisting of Molecular Crystal Microribbons

(2011) Lingyan Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photomechanical Response of Glassy Azobenzene Polyimide Networks

(2011) David H. Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

A Diarylethene Cocrystal that Converts Light into Mechanical Work

(2010) Masakazu Morimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Two-Color Reversible Switching in a Photochromic Ruthenium Sulfoxide Complex

(2009) Beth Anne McClure et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Rapid bending of a nonliquid crystal azobenzene polymer film and characteristics of surface relief grating

(2009) Chaohui Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE

Photomechanics of blanket and patterned liquid crystal elastomer films

(2009) Martin L. Dunn et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Nanoindentation Study of Photo-Induced Changes in Polymers Containing Azobenzene

(2008) A. Richter et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS