Issue 44, 2008
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Chemical Communications

Tuning surface wettability through photocontrolled reversible molecular shuttle†

Pengbo Wan,a   Yugui Jiang,a   Yapei Wang,a   Zhiqiang Wanga  and  Xi Zhang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China
E-mail: xi@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
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Abstract

A photocontrolled molecular shuttle SAM based on an α-cyclodextrin (α-CD)/azobenzene inclusion complex on rough gold surfaces is fabricated, which can reversibly switch the surface wettability by transferring external energy (light) to molecular mechanical motion.

Graphical abstract: Tuning surface wettability through photocontrolled reversible molecular shuttle

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B811729B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 Jul 2008
Accepted
28 Aug 2008
First published
30 Sep 2008

Chem. Commun., 2008, 5710-5712

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