{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chen K"],"funding":["National Natural Science Foundation of China","Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education"],"pagination":["20365-20370"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11577264"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["15(48)"],"pubmed_abstract":["All-visible light-activated diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches are highly attractive for applications in smart photoresponsive materials. The photocyclization of DAE <i>via</i> the low-lying excited triplet state through triplet energy transfer (TET) from a sensitizer has been proven to be an effective approach for the realization of this scheme. However, the TET process is sensitive to oxygen and typically requires more than one sensitizer per photoswitch to facilitate sensitized photocyclization. Herein, we present a bi-component system comprising carboxylic acid-functionalized DAEs and CdS quantum dots (QDs) to achieve all-visible light-activated photoswitching. Due to the large surface area-to-volume ratio of CdS QDs and surface anchored DAEs, one CdS QD can activate at least 18 DAE mole"],"journal":["Chemical science"],"pubmed_title":["An efficient all-visible light-activated photoswitch based on diarylethenes and CdS quantum dots."],"pmcid":["PMC11577264"],"funding_grant_id":["12274320","62205240","STINT IB2023-9189"],"pubmed_authors":["Hou L","Liu J","Andreasson J","Albinsson B","Chen K","Liu T"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"An efficient all-visible light-activated photoswitch based on diarylethenes and CdS quantum dots.","description":"All-visible light-activated diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches are highly attractive for applications in smart photoresponsive materials. The photocyclization of DAE <i>via</i> the low-lying excited triplet state through triplet energy transfer (TET) from a sensitizer has been proven to be an effective approach for the realization of this scheme. However, the TET process is sensitive to oxygen and typically requires more than one sensitizer per photoswitch to facilitate sensitized photocyclization. Herein, we present a bi-component system comprising carboxylic acid-functionalized DAEs and CdS quantum dots (QDs) to achieve all-visible light-activated photoswitching. Due to the large surface area-to-volume ratio of CdS QDs and surface anchored DAEs, one CdS QD can activate at least 18 DAE mole","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Dec","modification":"2025-04-19T14:35:32.899Z","creation":"2025-04-19T14:35:32.899Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11577264","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39574538"],"doi":["10.1039/d4sc06110a"]}}