Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Light-Controlled Reconfigurable Optical Structures Using Photomechanical Organic Crystals.
Wangxiang Li, Rabih O Al-Kaysi, Christopher J Bardeen
Published: 202510.1002/anie.202516743
Abstract
In crystal form, 4-fluoro-9-anthracenecarboxylic acid (4F-9AC) undergoes a room temperature reversible intermolecular [4 + 4] photodimerization that can be harnessed for photomechanical actuation. This negative photochromic reaction enables high conv…
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