Nanosecond laser photothermal effect-triggered amplification of photochromic reactions in diarylethene nanoparticles†
Abstract
Intense ns pulse laser excitation to nanoparticle colloids of a photochromic diarylethene induced an amplified cycloreversion reaction. The mechanism was explained as a ‘photosynergetic response’ coupled with nanoscale laser heating and the photochemical reaction in nanoparticles.