Novel photoswitches for organic (bio) - electronics

基于有机材料的光学、光电和生物电子器件发展的核心是高效合成分子和聚合物光开关的可用性。光开关的理想特性是光致变色，即开关可逆地存在于具有不同电子或光学性质的两种稳定状态。因此，光可以用来控制包含开关的材料的宏观光学或电子特性。分子光开关最重要的设计标准之一是快速响应时间。该方案将开发具有超快开关时间的新一代光开关。

Central to the development of optical, optoelectronic and bioelectronic devices based on organic materials is the availability of efficient synthetic molecular and polymeric photoswitches. Desirable features of photoswitches are photochromism, whereby the switches exist reversibly in two stable states with different electronic or optical properties. Therefore light can be used to control the macroscopic optical or electronic properties of the materials into which the switches are incorporated. One of the most important design criteria in molecular photoswitches rapid response times. This proposal will develop a new generation of photoswitches with ultra-fast switching times.