Credit: Lucie Wohlrábová/ IOCB PragueSome molecules respond to external light pulses by changing their structure and holding particular states that can be switched from one to another. Just recently, however, researchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) have actually established a particle that takes the possibilities of photoswitches a step even more.” We are able to exactly and selectively switch particles in between 3 states as we please,” says one of the authors of the paper, Jakub Copko.Structural changes in photoswitches are usually manifested as alterations of their macroscopic properties.” There is, nevertheless, one distinction, namely that thanks to their minuscule size they can store an order of magnitude more info than silicon-based chips,” says Dr. Tomáš Slanina, pointing out that: “This all works just with photoswitches that are stable enough so as not to switch between private states spontaneously in the lack of light.” Thanks to the work of his group, the preparation of this type of photoswitches is now so easy that it can be done at any synthetic chemistry laboratory even without any previous experience with photoswitch chemistry.Reference: “Multiplicity-driven photochromism controls three-state fulgimide photoswitches” by Jakub Copko and Tomáš Slanina, 13 February 2024, Chemical Communications.DOI: 10.1039/ D3CC05975H.
Just recently, nevertheless, researchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) have actually established a particle that takes the possibilities of photoswitches an action even more.” We are able to precisely and selectively switch molecules between three states as we please,” says one of the authors of the paper, Jakub Copko.Structural modifications in photoswitches are generally manifested as modifications of their macroscopic homes.” Thanks to the work of his group, the preparation of this type of photoswitches is now so simple that it can be done at any artificial chemistry lab even without any previous experience with photoswitch chemistry.Reference: “Multiplicity-driven photochromism controls three-state fulgimide photoswitches” by Jakub Copko and Tomáš Slanina, 13 February 2024, Chemical Communications.DOI: 10.1039/ D3CC05975H.