Issue 17, 2017
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Chemical Communications

Highly branched photomechanical crystals†

Rabih O. Al-Kaysi,*a   Fei Tong,b   Maram Al-Haidar,a   Lingyan Zhub  and  Christopher J. Bardeen ORCID logo *b  

* Corresponding authors

a College of Science and Health Professions-3124, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh 11426, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
E-mail: kaysir@ksau-hs.edu.sa, rabihalkaysi@gmail.com

b Department of Chemistry, University of California, 501 Big Springs Road, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
E-mail: christopher.bardeen@ucr.edu

Abstract

When a suspension of the tert-butyl ester of 4-fluoroanthracene-9-carboxylic acid (4F9AC) was slowly hydrolyzed, highly branched photomechanical microcrystals of 4F9AC were grown. Exposure to UV light caused the branches to undergo a reversible sweeping motion that could be used to move and concentrate silica microspheres on a surface.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC08999B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Nov 2016
Accepted
06 Feb 2017
First published
06 Feb 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 2622-2625

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Highly branched photomechanical crystals

R. O. Al-Kaysi, F. Tong, M. Al-Haidar, L. Zhu and C. J. Bardeen, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 2622 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC08999B

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