Jie Wu, Yun Xu, Dengfeng Li, Xiang Ma and He Tian
Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 4577-4580
DOI:
10.1039/C7CC01678F,
Communication
The host–guest interaction based on thiol-β-cyclodextrin and a symmetric compound containing two azobenzene units on ends has been utilized to form end-to-end assembly of gold nanorods. Both UV light irradiation and guest competition can be used to transform the GNR alignments in a disassembled manner.