Issue 8, 2007
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Chemical Communications

Photochromic bisthienylethene as multi-function switches

He Tian*a  and  Sheng Wanga  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, P. R. China
E-mail: tianhe@ecust.edu.cn
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Abstract

Bisthienylethenes (BTEs) are one of the most promising families of photochromic compounds because of their fatigue resistance and thermally irreversible properties for use in optoelectronic devices such as ultrahigh-density optical data storage, molecular switches, logic gates, molecular wires, sensors, and so on. This article describes recent development of switchable photochromic bisthienylethene materials, especially multi-switchable bisthienylethene materials including multi-color photochromic materials, multi-switchable organogelators and liquid crystals. We also highlight our recent contributions in this field.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B610004J
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
13 Jul 2006
Accepted
06 Sep 2006
First published
26 Sep 2006

Chem. Commun., 2007, 781-792

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