Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Flexible interlocked porous frameworks allow quantitative photoisomerization in a crystalline solid

  • Yongtai Zheng,
  • Hiroshi Sato,
  • Pengyan Wu,
  • Hyung Joon Jeon,
  • Ryotaro Matsuda,
  • Susumu Kitagawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00122-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Organizing photochromic molecules into 3D networks is a key strategy to access photoresponsive materials, but framework rigidity typically limits conversion efficiency. Here, the authors exploit a flexible metal-organic framework to achieve quantitative and reversible photoisomerization in a porous crystalline solid.