Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 years ago

Tunable Supramolecular Assembly and Photoswitchable Conversion of Cyclodextrin/Diphenylalanine-Based 1D and 2D Nanostructures

Tunable Supramolecular Assembly and Photoswitchable Conversion of Cyclodextrin/Diphenylalanine-Based 1D and 2D Nanostructures
Yong Chen, Xu Han, He-Lue Sun, Yu Liu
A photocontrolled, interconvertible supramolecular 2D-nanosheet/1D-nanotube system was constructed through the supramolecular assembly of adamantanyl-modified diphenylalanine with azobenzene-bridged bis(β-cyclodextrin). The nanosheet exhibited a greater fluorescence enhancement effect than the nanotube. Significantly, these nanosheets and nanotubes could interconvert via the photocontrolled trans/cis isomerization of azobenzene linkers in bis(β-cyclodextrin), and this photo-switchable one-dimensional/two-dimensional morphological interconversion was reversible and recyclable. This enables convenient routes to highly ordered nanostructures with various morphologies and dimensions that can be controlled by external stimuli. Flip the switch: Nanofibers, self-assembled by adamantanyl-modified diphenylalanine, are converted into nanosheets and nanotubes upon the addition of trans- and cis-azobenzene-bridged bis(β-cyclodextrin), respectively. Significantly, these nanosheets and nanotubes can reversibly and repeatedly interconvert upon light irradiation at 365 nm or 450 nm.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201612629

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