Journal
SMALL
Volume 16, Issue 41, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202004586
Keywords
conjugated polymers; layered structures; stimuli-responsiveness; thermography
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- Asahi Glass Foundation
- Takahashi Industrial and Economic Research Foundation
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Emergence of thermoresponsive and reversible color changes at low temperature is a challenging target. In general, it is not easy to induce sufficient dynamic motion of rigid molecules including chromophore at a lower temperature. The present work shows unusually low-temperature color-change properties originating from the dynamic motion of rigid conjugated polymer in solid state. The layered composites of polydiacetylene (PDA) and guestl-arginine (L-Arg) (PDA-(L-Arg)) exhibit temperature-responsive gradual color changes with reversibility in the range of 123-333 K in solid crystalline state. The dynamic properties are induced by gradual and reversible distortion of the pi-conjugated main chain in response to temperature. The tuned flexibility of the layered structure facilitates motion of the rigid pi-conjugated molecule at low temperature. The PDA-(L-Arg)-coated substrates are applied to visualization and quantification of 2D and 3D temperature distributions generated by cooling with liquid nitrogen. These thermographic devices afford to image lower temperature range than typical infrared thermography. The present work indicates potentials of layered architectures with tunable flexibility for emergence of dynamic properties.
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