Issue 22, 2011
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Soft Matter

Direct visualization of molecular conformation changes†

Mina Han,*a   Daisuke Ishikawaa  and  Takumu Hondaa  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Department of Electronic Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: han.m.ab@m.titech.ac.jp
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Abstract

We designed azobenzene alkyl disulfide to visualize molecular photoswitches in a monolayer system. Repeated changes in the surface nanostructure between a stripe-shaped structure and a smoother structure as a result of the reversible trans ↔ cisphotoisomerization of azobenzene units in phase-separated nanodomains were obviously observed using atomic force microscopy and UV-vis absorption spectroscopy.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1SM06420G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Jul 2011
Accepted
21 Sep 2011
First published
12 Oct 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 10594-10596

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Direct visualization of molecular conformation changes

M. Han, D. Ishikawa and T. Honda, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10594 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM06420G

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