Zhang, Lei published the artcilePhotoregulative phase change biomaterials showing thermodynamic and mchanical stabilities, Quality Control of 23783-42-8, the main research area is photoregulative phase change biomaterial thermodn mchanical stability.
Azobenzenes are great photochromic mols. for switching the phys. properties of various materials via trans-cis isomerization. However, the UV light resulted cis-azobenzene is metastable and thermodynamically gets back to trans-azobenzene after ceasing UV irradiation, which causes an unwanted property change of azobenzene-containing materials. Addnl., thermal and mech. conditions would accelerate this process dramatically. In this present work, a new type of azobenzene-containing surfactant is designed for the fabrication of photoresponsive phase change biomaterials. With a “”locked”” cis-azobenzene conformation, the resulting biomaterials could maintain their disordered state after ceasing UV light, which exhibit great resistance to thermal and piezo conditions. Interestingly, the “”locked”” cis-azobenzene could be unlocked by Vis light in high efficiency, which opens a new way for the design of phase change materials only responding to light. By showing stable cis-azobenzene maintained phys. state, the newly fabricated biomaterials provide new potential for the construction of advanced materials, like self-healing materials, with less use of long time UV irradiation for maintaining their disordered states.
Nanoscale published new progress about Biological materials. 23783-42-8 belongs to class ethers-buliding-blocks, name is 2,5,8,11-Tetraoxatridecan-13-ol, and the molecular formula is C9H20O5, Quality Control of 23783-42-8.
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