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SUBMITTER: Maier J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5282491 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170131
Photochromic molecules can be reversibly converted between two bistable conformations by light, and are considered as promising building blocks in novel macromolecular structures for sensing and imaging techniques. We have studied individual molecular triads consisting of two strong fluorophores (perylene bisimide) that are covalently linked via a photochromic unit (dithienylcyclopentene) and distinguished between deliberate switching and spontaneous blinking. It was verified that the probabilit ...[more]