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Fast Isomerizing Methyl Iodide Azopyridinium Salts for Molecular Switches

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posted on 2010-08-06, 00:00 authored by Jaume Garcia-Amorós, Walter A. Massad, Santi Nonell, Dolores Velasco
The usefulness of azopyridinium methyl iodide salts for designing new promising light-controlled molecular switches is presented. Large absorbance changes have been produced in the samples by irradiation with light at λ = 355 nm. The thermal recovery of the initial state took place completely within 130−450 ms, which is much faster than that reported previously for other push−pull azobenzene-doped nematic mixtures.

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