Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator. [PDF]
Oscillations are widely found in living organisms to generate propulsion-based locomotion often driven by constant ambient conditions, such as phototactic movements.
Alsaid, Yousif +6 more
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Photo-responsive polymeric structures based on spiropyran [PDF]
Spiropyrans are one of the most popular classes of photochromic compounds that change their optical and structural properties in response to external inputs such as light, protons and metal ions, making them ideal molecules for the fabrication of ...
Adelmann +82 more
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Photoresponsive nanoscale columnar transistors [PDF]
This study reports a general methodology for making stable high-performance photosensitive field effect transistors (FET) from self-assembled columns of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by using single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) as point contacts.
Xuefeng, Guo +5 more
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Perovskites showcased potential promise for innovative circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-active multichannel information encryption, owing to the exceptional luminescence brightness.
Fang Peng +5 more
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Novel Fluorescent Probe Based on Anthryl Dendron Having Oligo(ethyleneoxide) Groups at the Terminals [PDF]
Amphiphilic anthryl dendrons 5 and 6, which have carboxylate groups or oligo(ethyleneoxide) groups at the terminals, show solvatochromic properties. Reaction efficiency of photodimerization and dynamic light scattering (DLS) experiment of 5 and 6 reveal ...
Takaguchi, Yutaka, Yanagimoto, Yasushi
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Photoswitchable ratchet surface topographies based on self-protonating spiropyran-NIPAAM hydrogels [PDF]
in this work, self-protonating spiropryan based poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) polymer networks are prepared. These photoresponsive hydrogel coatings can change their surface topography upon exposure with visible light in neutral environment ...
Broer, Dirk J. +5 more
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Self-organizing propagation patterns from dynamic self-assembly in monolayers [PDF]
Propagation of localized orientational waves, as imaged by Brewster angle microscopy, is induced by low intensity linearly polarized light inside axisymmetric smectic-C confined domains in a photosensitive molecular thin film at the air/water interface ...
Claret Bonet, Josep +3 more
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Photoresponsive spiro-polymers generated in situ by C–H-activated polyspiroannulation
Photoresponsive polymers are receiving great attention due to the increasing demands on smart optical and biological materials. Here, the authors report a C–H-activated polyspiroannulation route to in situ generate photoresponsive spiro-polymers with ...
Ting Han +8 more
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Photothermal Polymer Nanocomposites of Tungsten Bronze Nanorods with Enhanced Tensile Elongation at Low Filler Contents [PDF]
We present polymer nanocomposites of tungsten bronze nanorods (TBNRs) and ethylene propylene diene monomers (EPDM). The combination of these components allows the simultaneous enhancement in the mechanical and photothermal properties of the composites at
Byoungyun Jeon +6 more
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Integrated photo-responsive metal oxide semiconductor circuit [PDF]
An infrared photoresponsive element (RD) is monolithically integrated into a source follower circuit of a metal oxide semiconductor device by depositing a layer of a lead chalcogenide as a photoresistive element forming an ohmic bridge between two ...
Dargo, David R. +2 more
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