Self-regulating photochemical Rayleigh-Bénard convection using a highly-absorbing organic photoswitch

Serena Seshadri; Luke F. Gockowski; Jaejun Lee; Miranda Sroda; Matthew E. Helgeson; Javier Read de Alaniz; Megan T. Valentine

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16277-7

Nature Communications (May 2020)

Self-regulating photochemical Rayleigh-Bénard convection using a highly-absorbing organic photoswitch

Serena Seshadri,
Luke F. Gockowski,
Jaejun Lee,
Miranda Sroda,
Matthew E. Helgeson,
Javier Read de Alaniz,
Megan T. Valentine

Affiliations

Serena Seshadri: Department of Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara
Luke F. Gockowski: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara
Jaejun Lee: Department of Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara
Miranda Sroda: Department of Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara
Matthew E. Helgeson: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara
Javier Read de Alaniz: Department of Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara
Megan T. Valentine: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16277-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

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Autonomous control of liquid motion is vital to the development of new actuators and pumps in fluid systems but autonomous control of fluid motion is inaccessible in current systems. Here, the authors identify unique features of a photochromic molecular switch that enables its use for self-regulating light activated control of fluid flow.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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