Light-driven nanofiber and nanoring morphological transformations in organogels based on an azobenzene-bridged biscalix[4]arene

Pei-Mei Su; Kai-Chi Chang; Cheng-Jhang Yang; Yi-Chieh Liu; Wen-Sheng Chung

doi:10.1039/c7cc07172h

Light-driven nanofiber and nanoring morphological transformations in organogels based on an azobenzene-bridged biscalix[4]arene

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Dec 12;53(99):13241-13244. doi: 10.1039/c7cc07172h.

Authors

Pei-Mei Su¹, Kai-Chi Chang, Cheng-Jhang Yang, Yi-Chieh Liu, Wen-Sheng Chung

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30050, Republic of China. catchchang0220@gmail.com wschung@nctu.edu.tw.

PMID: 29184925
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc07172h

Abstract

The morphologies of an azobenzene-bridged biscalix[4]arene organogel in different organic solvents can be photo-reversibly switched between nanofibers and nanorings as well as between closed and open-form vesicles.