Efficient "turn-off" fluorescence photoswitching in a highly fluorescent diarylethene single crystal

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 May 14;55(40):5681-5684. doi: 10.1039/c9cc02441g.

Abstract

A highly fluorescent diarylethene single crystal was successfully designed and prepared. The crystal shows efficient "turn-off" fluorescence photoswitching with full reversibility. This might have originated from the amplified fluorescence quenching due to the intermolecular energy transfer process in the densely packed and well-ordered single crystal.