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Inside Back Cover: Control of Imine Exchange Kinetics with Photoswitches to Modulate Self‐Healing in Polysiloxane Networks by Light Illumination (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44/2016)
Author(s) -
Kathan Michael,
Kovaříček Petr,
Jurissek Christoph,
Senf Antti,
Dallmann Andre,
Thünemann Andreas F.,
Hecht Stefan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201608028
Subject(s) - diarylethene , bifunctional , imine , photochromism , polymer chemistry , materials science , kinetics , irradiation , chemistry , photochemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , physics , catalysis , quantum mechanics , nuclear physics
Knitting small amounts of a bifunctional diarylethene crosslinker (magenta yarn) into a commodity polysiloxane (gray yarn) via dynamic imine bonds leads to soft materials with photocontrollable intrinsic properties, most notably the abililty to self‐heal. In their Communication on page 13882 ff., S. Hecht and co‐workers describe various photoswitches that can be used to modulate formyl‐group reactivity upon light irradiation.