Issue 22, 2011
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Polystyrene-encapsulated diarylethene nanocrystals by soap-free emulsion polymerization†

Norio Tagawa,*a   Akito Masuhara,*b   Tsunenobu Onodera,a   Hitoshi Kasaiac  and  Hidetoshi Oikawaa  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
E-mail: tagawa@mail.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp
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b Department of Organic Device Engineering, Yamagata University, Jonan 4-3-16, Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan
E-mail: masuhara@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp
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Tel: +81 238 26 3891

c Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan

Abstract

We have encapsulated diarylethene (DAE) nanocrystals by polystyrene (PS) using soap-free emulsion polymerization. The resulting PS-encapsulated DAE nanocrystals had spherical shape and monodispersed size, and these nanocrystals clearly exhibited photochromism. In addition, PS-encapsulated DAE nanocrystals showed size-dependence of absorption peak positions, although DAE nanocrystals were encapsulated by PS.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1JM11415H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Apr 2011
Accepted
19 Apr 2011
First published
06 May 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 7892-7894

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Polystyrene-encapsulated diarylethene nanocrystals by soap-free emulsion polymerization

N. Tagawa, A. Masuhara, T. Onodera, H. Kasai and H. Oikawa, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 7892 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM11415H

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