Reversible visible-light tuning of self-organized helical superstructures enabled by unprecedented light-driven axially chiral molecular switches |
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Authors: | Wang Yan Urbas Augustine Li Quan |
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Institution: | Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA. |
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Abstract: | Two enantiomeric light-driven azo molecular switches with axial chirality and extended conjugation were found to exhibit unprecedented reversible photoisomerization in both organic-solvent and liquid-crystal media only upon visible-light irradiation. When doped in an achiral liquid crystal with a different concentration, the chiral switch was able either to immediately induce an optically tunable helical superstructure or to retain an achiral liquid-crystal phase whose helical superstructure was induced and tuned reversibly upon visible-light irradiation. Furthermore, reversible dynamic red, green, and blue reflection achieved only by using visible light was demonstrated. |
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