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Frontispiece: Recent Implementations of Molecular Photoswitches into Smart Materials and Biological Systems
Author(s) -
Pianowski Zbigniew L.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201982063
Subject(s) - covalent bond , nanotechnology , dissociation (chemistry) , smart material , rigidity (electromagnetism) , materials science , chemistry , chemical physics , organic chemistry , composite material
Light interacts with matter . It can cause the formation or dissociation of covalent bonds, as well as reversible changes in geometry, polarity, or rigidity of particular molecular systems. In his Minireview on page 5128 ff., Z. Pianowski outlines the applications of photoresponsive systems, particularly azobenzenes, spiropyrans, diarylethenes, and indigoids, for smart materials and the photocontrol of biological setups with the aim to demonstrate that the 21st century has become the Age of Enlightenment—“Le siècle des Lumières”—in molecular sciences.