title: A multistimuli-responsive photochromic metal-organic gel.
abstract: A photochromic metal-organic gel with thermo-, photo-, and anion-responsive behavior is obtained. Unusually, heating of the Al-ligand solution leads to gel formation and cooling to room temperature reverses the process to reform the solution. The gel is sensitive to weakly coordinating anions. Additionally, reversible photochromic transformations take place both in the solution and gel states, accompanied by reversibly switched luminescence.
authors: MOE Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Lehn Institute of Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
authors: Shi-Chao
authors: SC
authors: Wei
authors: Mei
authors: M
authors: Pan
authors: Kang
authors: K
authors: Li
authors: Sujuan
authors: S
authors: Wang
authors: Jianyong
authors: J
authors: Zhang
authors: Cheng-Yong
authors: CY
authors: Su
keywords: aluminum; carboxylates; coordination interactions; metal-organic gels; photochromic materials