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Shaping crystals with light: Crystal-to-crystal isomerization and photomechanical effect in fluorinated azobenzenes
Bushuyev, Oleksandr S.,Tomberg, Anna,Friscic, Tomislav,Barrett, Christopher J.
, p. 12556 - 12559 (2013)
Unusually long thermal half-lives of perhalogenated cis-azobenzenes enabled their structural characterization and the first evidence of a crystal-to-crystal cis → trans azobenzene isomerization. Irradiation with visible light transforms a perhalogenated cis-azobenzene single crystal into a polycrystalline aggregate of its trans-isomer in a photomechanical transformation that involves a significant, controllable, and thermally irreversible change of crystal shape. This is the first demonstration of permanent photomechanical modification of crystal shape in an azobenzene.