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Light-Driven Nanoscale Chiral Molecular Switch: Reversible Dynamic Full Range Color Phototuning, Ji Ma, Yannian Li, Timothy White, Augustine Urbas, Quan Li Mar 2010

Light-Driven Nanoscale Chiral Molecular Switch: Reversible Dynamic Full Range Color Phototuning, Ji Ma, Yannian Li, Timothy White, Augustine Urbas, Quan Li

Quan Li

A light-driven nanoscale chiral molecular switch was found to impart its chirality to an achiral liquid crystal host to form a self-organized, optically tunable helical superstructure capable of fast and reversible phototuning of the structural reflection across the entire visible region.