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Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator
Remotely controlling macroscopic movement is one of the key elements to realize intelligent materials for applications ranging from sensing to robotics. Over the last few years, a number of photomechanical materials based on diarylethene derivatives have been developed. However, a detailed picture o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8456835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34213042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202100446 |
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description | Remotely controlling macroscopic movement is one of the key elements to realize intelligent materials for applications ranging from sensing to robotics. Over the last few years, a number of photomechanical materials based on diarylethene derivatives have been developed. However, a detailed picture of the structural evolution within these soft actuators is often missing. In this work, an atomistic investigation uncovers how the photo‐induced molecular dynamics propagates to large‐scale motion and results in macroscopic deformation of the crystal. By correlating the intramolecular rearrangement within the photo‐responsive switching unit with the intermolecular packing, the molecular mechanism for the photomechanical phenomena is deciphered, which is fundamental for a rational development of photo‐responsive actuators. |
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spelling | pubmed-84568352021-09-27 Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator Amirjalayer, Saeed Chemphyschem Communications Remotely controlling macroscopic movement is one of the key elements to realize intelligent materials for applications ranging from sensing to robotics. Over the last few years, a number of photomechanical materials based on diarylethene derivatives have been developed. However, a detailed picture of the structural evolution within these soft actuators is often missing. In this work, an atomistic investigation uncovers how the photo‐induced molecular dynamics propagates to large‐scale motion and results in macroscopic deformation of the crystal. By correlating the intramolecular rearrangement within the photo‐responsive switching unit with the intermolecular packing, the molecular mechanism for the photomechanical phenomena is deciphered, which is fundamental for a rational development of photo‐responsive actuators. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-07-13 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8456835/ /pubmed/34213042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202100446 Text en © 2021 The Authors. ChemPhysChem published by Wiley-VCH GmbH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Communications Amirjalayer, Saeed Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator |
title | Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator |
title_full | Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator |
title_fullStr | Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator |
title_short | Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene‐based Photo‐Responsive Actuator |
title_sort | understanding the molecular origin of the collective movement in a diarylethene‐based photo‐responsive actuator |
topic | Communications |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8456835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34213042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202100446 |
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