Publications by authors named "Tongji Du"
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- Chiral hydrazones are being studied for their thermal stability and negative photochromy, making them useful for creating durable optical devices.
- Researchers developed new chiral hydrazone switches (HI-1, HI-2, HI-3) that can invert their chirality reversibly when exposed to light.
- These switches were integrated into liquid crystals, resulting in materials with tunable optical properties, thermal stability, and potential applications in erasable and rewritable displays.
Inspired by intriguing color changeable ability of natural animals, the design and fabrication of artificial mechanochromic materials capable of changing colors upon stretching or pressing have attracted intense scientific interest. Liquid crystal (LC) is a self-organized soft matter with anisotropic molecular alignment. Due to the sensitivity to various external stimulations, LC has been considered as an emerging and appealing responsive building block to construct intelligent materials and advanced devices.
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