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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 2659-2664Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00890
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP16H06505, 16H06507, JP26107002, JP15H01096, JP26288009, JP16H03827, JP15K13625, JP17H00856]
- Key Project Grant Program of Osaka Prefecture University
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Not only the energy but also the momentum of photons transfers to material via photoabsorption; this momentum transfer, known as radiation pressure, can induce motions of small particles. It can therefore be expected to induce mechanical motions of mesoscopic materials synchronized with the reversible change of their absorption coefficient by external stimuli. We demonstrated quantitative photomechanical motions in mesoscopic regions by combining optical tweezer and photochromic reactions of diarylethene (DAE). A microparticle including DAE was optically trapped with 532 nm laser and the absorption band of the DAE was photoswitched with UV laser, resulting in the modulation of the radiation force through the change in the complex dielectric constant of the particle. In this process, mesoscopic mechanical motions were successfully induced by the photochromic reaction. The present approach is potentially applicable in a wide variety of nano/micromechanical devices and also paves the way for monitoring the absorption of photons by molecules via photomechanical response.
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