文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：The Endeavor of Diarylethenes: New Structures, High Performance, and Bright Future

作者：Zhang, Junji[1,2];Tian, He[1,2]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Chem & Mol Engn, Key Lab Adv Mat, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Chem & Mol Engn, Inst Fine Chem, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2018

卷号：6

期号：6

外文期刊名：ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS

收录：;EI(收录号：20180604751723);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000428348200012)】；

基金：The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (grant no. B16017), NSFC (grant nos. 21402050 and 21420102004), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. This article is part of the Advanced Optical Materials Hall of Fame article series, which recognizes the excellent contributions of leading researchers to the field of optical materials science.

语种：英文

外文关键词：diarylethenes; organic functional materials; photochromism; photoswitching

摘要：Photochromism is a term that describes the photoreversible isomerization between two different states or isomers with distinct performances. Among all the photochromic molecule family, diarylethene is considered one of the most popular star molecules on account of its fast photoresponsibility, excellent thermal stability, fatigue resistance, high photoreaction quantum yield, and conversion ratio as well as good performances in both solution and solid phases. In the past decades, the development of diarylethene is witnessed in molecule design, solution applications, surface/interface assembly, bulky crystals and polymers, optic-electronic devices fabrication, and biotechnology. This review mainly focuses on the latest development of diarylethenes in recent five years and commences with the newly designed molecular structures with functional ethene bridges and aryl moieties. The application of diarylethenes in materials science, soft materials, molecular data processing, and biomaterials, is further discussed in prospect. A brief summary is given in the end of the review together with some perspectives.