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Nature Materials 4, 193 - 194 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1346
Photochromic materials: A molecular cushion for isomerization
Kunihiro Ichimura1
- Kunihiro Ichimura is in the Center of Advanced Photopolymers, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8510, Japan. e-mail: k-ichimura@sci.toho-u.ac.jp
Abstract
Reversible photochromism — based on a simple isomerization reaction — is heavily hindered when photochromic dyes are enclosed in polymer matrices. Tethering the dye to a flexible low-melting-point oligomer solves the problem.
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