Honda A, Ueno N, Fujiwara K, Masuhara H, Miyamura K. Cold crystallization and photo-induced thermal behavior of alkyl-derivatized diarylethene molecules.
RSC Adv 2022;
12:21926-21931. [PMID:
36043061 PMCID:
PMC9361136 DOI:
10.1039/d2ra03898f]
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Abstract
The thermal behavior of alkylated diarylethene molecules (2,3-bis(2,4,5-trimethyl-3-thienyl)-N-alkylmaleimides; DAE-Cn) was investigated. DAE-C1 and DAE-C2 exhibited cold crystallization, which is a heat-storage phenomenon. In addition, DAE-Cn showed photoisomerization; the open-ring isomer O-DAE-Cn was formed by visible light irradiation and transformed to the closed-ring isomer C-DAE-Cn by UV light irradiation. X-ray diffraction and optical microscopy analyses revealed that O-DAE-Cn exhibited cold crystallization and C-DAE-Cn showed poor crystallinity. UV irradiation (365 nm) inhibited cold crystallization, and visible light irradiation (525 nm) triggered cold crystallization, suggesting that heat storage by the cold crystallization of DAE-Cn can be photo-controlled.
The alkylated diarylethene molecules exhibited cold crystallization, and their thermal behavior can be photo-controlled.![]()
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