title: End-to-end assembly and disassembly of gold nanorods based on photo-responsive host-guest interaction.
abstract: The host-guest interaction based on thiol-β-cyclodextrin and a symmetric compound containing two azobenzene units on ends has been utilized to form end-to-end assembly of gold nanorods. Both UV light irradiation and guest competition can be used to transform the GNR alignments in a disassembled manner.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. maxiang@ecust.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Dengfeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tian