10.1021/acsami.6b10752.s001 Kizhisseri Devi Renuka Kizhisseri Devi Renuka C. Lalitha Lekshmi C. Lalitha Lekshmi Kuruvilla Joseph Kuruvilla Joseph Sankarapillai Mahesh Sankarapillai Mahesh Sustainable Electronic Materials: Reversible Phototuning of Conductance in a Noncovalent Assembly of MWCNT and Bioresource-Derived Photochromic Molecule American Chemical Society 2016 Bioresource-Derived Photochromic Molecule Tuning conductance electronic OLED MWCNT nanoscale Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube molecule Sustainable Electronic Materials noncovalent bioresource material 2016-12-06 00:00:00 Journal contribution https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Sustainable_Electronic_Materials_Reversible_Phototuning_of_Conductance_in_a_Noncovalent_Assembly_of_MWCNT_and_Bioresource-Derived_Photochromic_Molecule/4487846 Tuning the microstructure, conductance, band gap of a single molecule with an external stimuli such as light have vital importance in nanoscale molecular electronics. Azobenzene systems are inimitable light responsive molecules suitable for the development of optically modulated materials. In this work we have demonstrated the development of an optically active Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube (MWCNT)-hybrid material by the noncovalent functionalization of azo based chromophore derived from cardanol, a bioresource material. This photoresponsive noncovalent hybrid shows trans–cis photoisomerization induced switching of conductance. We report this as the first example in which the photochromic assembly developed from a bioresource material exhibited tunable conductivity. We expect that this novel photoswitchable hybrid with reversible conductance may have potential applications in nanoscale molecular electronics, solar cells, OLEDs, etc.