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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sroda, Miranda M
• Lee, Jaejun
• Kwon, Younghoon
• Stricker, Friedrich
• Park, Minwook
• Valentine, Megan T
• Read de Alaniz, Javier

Titel

Role of Material Composition in Photothermal Actuation of DASA-Based Polymers

Ist Teil von

• ACS applied polymer materials, 2022-01, Vol.4 (1), p.141-149

Ort / Verlag

American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We investigate the influence of the host matrix on the photothermally driven actuation performance of negatively photochromic, donor–acceptor Stenhouse adduct (DASA)-based polymers. Using a modular Diels–Alder “click” platform, we designed polymeric materials with varying DASA incorporation and investigated the relationships between the material composition and the resulting physical, mechanical, and photoswitching properties. We demonstrate that increasing the DASA concentration in polymer conjugates has a dramatic effect on the material’s physical and mechanical properties, such as the glass transition temperature (T g) and elastic modulus, as well as the photoswitching properties, which are found to be highly dependent on T g. We establish using a simple photoresponsive bilayer that actuation performance is controlled by the bilayer stiffness rather than the photochrome incorporation of DASA. Finally, we report and compare the light-induced property changes in T g and the elastic modulus between the materials comprising the open or closed forms of DASAs. Our results demonstrate the importance of designing a material that is stiff enough to provide the mechanical strength required for actuation under load, but soft enough to reversibly switch at the operational temperature and provide key considerations for the development of application-geared photoswitchable materials.