Soft Functional Materials Induced by Fibrillar Networks of Small Molecular Photochromic Gelators

Bhattacharya, Santanu and Samanta, Suman K (2009) Soft Functional Materials Induced by Fibrillar Networks of Small Molecular Photochromic Gelators. In: Langmuir, 25 (15). pp. 8378-8381.

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Abstract

Low-molecular-mass organogelators (LMOGs) based on photochromic molecules aggregate in selected solvents to form gels through various spatio-temporal interactions. The factors that control the mode of aggregation of the chromophoric core in the LMOGs during gelation, gelation-induced changes in fluorescence, the formation of stacked superstructures of extended pi-conjugated systems, and so forth are discussed with selected examples. Possible ways of generating various light-harvesting assemblies are proposed, and some unresolved questions, future challenges, and their possible solutions on this topic are presented.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Langmuir
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	Copyrights of this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Date Deposited:	31 Dec 2009 06:54
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:40
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/22068

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