Publications by authors named "Mamata Naik"
Article Synopsis
- Modern optoelectronics and energy technologies depend on quick transitions between different states of materials, but traditional photochromic compounds often have slow transition speeds, limiting their use.
- Researchers developed a new method using a spirooxazine derivative integrated into a solid-state matrix (like metal-organic frameworks), achieving an impressive photoisomerization rate of 126 seconds—faster than any previously reported solid-state material.
- The study also explores how the structure of the framework and the presence of solvents affect the photoresponse of the material, allowing for significant control over the isomerization speeds, which is essential for improving stimuli-responsive materials.
Photochromic materials with properties that can be dynamically tailored as a function of external stimuli are a rapidly expanding field driven by applications in areas ranging from molecular computing, nanotechnology, or photopharmacology to programable heterogeneous catalysis. Challenges arise, however, when translating the rapid, solution-like response of stimuli-responsive moieties to solid-state materials due to the intermolecular interactions imposed through close molecular packing in bulk solids. As a result, the integration of photochromic compounds into synthetically programable porous matrices, such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has come to the forefront as an emerging strategy for photochromic material development.
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