Soft functional materials induced by fibrillar networks of small molecular photochromic gelators

Bhattacharya, Santanu ; Samanta, Suman K. (2009) Soft functional materials induced by fibrillar networks of small molecular photochromic gelators Langmuir, 25 (15). pp. 8378-8381. ISSN 0743-7463

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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la901017u

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Abstract

Low-molecular-mass organogelators (LMOGs) based on photochromic molecules aggregate in selected solvents to form gels through various spatio-temporal interactions. The factors that control the mode of aggregation of the chromophoric core in the LMOGs during gelation, gelation-induced changes in fluorescence, the formation of stacked superstructures of extended p-conjugated systems, and so forth are discussed with selected examples. Possible ways of generating various light-harvesting assemblies are proposed, and some unresolved questions, future challenges, and their possible solutions on this topic are presented.

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