Novel photoswitches for organic (bio) - electronics

以有机材料为基础的光学、光电子学和生物电子学发展的核心是高效合成分子和聚合物光开关的可用性。光开关的理想特征是光致变色，由此开关可逆地存在于具有不同电学或光学性质的两个稳定状态。因此，可以使用光来控制结合了开关的材料的宏观光学或电学性质。分子光开关最重要的设计标准之一就是快速响应时间。这一提议将开发出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.