Tuning surface wettability through photocontrolled reversible molecular shuttle.
A photocontrolled molecular shuttle SAM based on an alpha-cyclodextrin (alpha-CD)/azobenzene inclusion complex on rough gold surfaces is fabricated, which can reversibly switch the surface wettability by transferring external energy (light) to molecular mechanical motion.
Wan
Pengbo
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Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China.
Jiang
Yugui
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Wang
Yapei
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Wang
Zhiqiang
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Zhang
Xi
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