clay has been researched along with azobenzene* in 1 studies
1 other study(ies) available for clay and azobenzene
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An artificial muscle model unit based on inorganic nanosheet sliding by photochemical reaction.
From the viewpoint of developing photoresponsive supramolecular systems in microenvironments to exhibit more sophisticated photo-functions even at the macroscopic level, inorganic/organic hybrid compounds based on clay or niobate nanosheets as the microenvironments were prepared, characterized, and examined for their photoreactions. We show here a novel type of artificial muscle model unit having much similarity with that in natural muscle fibrils. Upon photoirradiation, the organic/inorganic hybrid nanosheets reversibly slide horizontally on a giant scale, and the interlayer spaces in the layered hybrid structure shrink and expand vertically. In particular, our layered hybrid molecular system exhibits a macroscopic morphological change on a giant scale (~1500 nm) compared with the molecular size of ~1 nm, based on a reversible sliding mechanism. Topics: Aluminum Silicates; Azo Compounds; Catalysis; Clay; Fluorides; Humans; Minerals; Models, Anatomic; Models, Biological; Muscles; Nanostructures; Photochemical Processes; Polymerization; Polymers; Stereoisomerism | 2013 |