Photochromism into nanosystems: towards lighting up the future nanoworld

The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for developing reconfigurable and programmable nanomaterials and multifunctional devices. Light stimulus manifestly represents a preferred external physical and chemical tool for in situ remote command of the functional attributes of nanomaterials and nanosystems due to its unique advantages of high spatial and temporal resolution and digital controllability. Photochromic moieties are known to undergo reversible photochemical transformations between different states with distinct properties, which have been extensively introduced into various functional…

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  National Science Foundation
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  U.S. Department of Defense
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  U.S. Department of Energy
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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  Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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  Air Force Research Laboratory