title: Photo-responsive pseudorotaxanes and assemblies.
abstract: Chemists have achieved a predictable control over various non-covalent interactions and have used these weak interactions in their favour for developing a plethora of intricate functional structures. In this tutorial review we have summarized reports on such supramolecular structures that describe the rational approach in designing host and/or guest components, tagged with an appropriate fluorophore, for achieving the modified optical responses on formation of an assembly. This has relevance for designing new photo-responsive smart or adaptive stimuli responsive functional materials, self-healable materials, with interesting photo-physical property. These are also important in the area of supramolecular chemistry and biophysical chemistry in predicting the relative conformation in solution.
authors.affiliation: University of Twente, Molecular Nanofabrication, Hallenweg 15, 7522 Enschede, The Netherland.
authors.forename: Amal Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Mandal
authors.forename: Monalisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gangopadhyay
authors.forename: Amitava
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Das