Bacteriorhodopsin (BR), a model system in biotechnology, is a G-protein dependent trans membrane protein which serves as a light driven proton pump in the cell membrane of Halobacterium salinarum. Due to the linkage of retinal to the protein, it seems colored and has numbers of versatile properties. As in vitro culture of the Halobacteria is very difficult, and isolation is time consuming and u...

Thin amorphous films of tungsten oxide (WO3) are well known to change their optical absorption behavior upon light exposure, usually referred to as photochromic effect. Since the formation of color centers is closely related to the optical creation of electron-hole pairs the sensitivity of the photochromic effect in WO3 is limited to energies above its band-gap energy of 3.25 eV, corresponding ...

Synapses are critical components of an artificial neural network. Bacteriorhodopsin thin film can be used to construct compact, finely graded synapses for an optoelectronic neural network, based on its photochromic properties. Measurements show that these photochromic changes are blocked at low temperature. Thermal gating will allow synapses to be written on the film optically and then read wit...

Photochromic compounds reversibly change not only the absorption spectra but also their geometrical and electronic structures. This principle can be applied for the photoswitching of the physical properties of the molecular materials. In particular, photoswitching of the flow of information through the molecule is interesting because information processing using molecular devices is attracting ...

Crystal violet lactone (CVL) is a classic halochromic dye which has been widely used as chromogenic reagent in thermochromic and piezochromic systems. In this work, a very first example of CVL-based reversible photochromic compound was developed, which showed distinct color change upon UV-visible light irradiation both in solution and in solid matrix. Moreover, metal complex of CVL salicylaldeh...

Photochromic pyrans for applications in material and life sciences were synthesized via palladium-mediated cyanation, carbonylation and Sonogashira cross-coupling starting from bromo-substituted naphthopyran 1 and benzopyrans 2a/b. A novel photoswitchable benzopyran-based omega-amino acid 6 for Fmoc-based solid-phase peptide synthesis is presented. The photochromic behaviour of the 3-cyano-subs...

Novel photochromic hybrid nanomaterials were prepared through the immobilization of the lacunary Keggin-type phosphomolybdate (TBA4H3[PMo11O39]·xH2O, denoted as PMo11) and sandwich-type lanthano phosphomolybdates (K11[Ln(III)(PMo11O39)2]·xH2O, denoted as Ln(PMo11)2, where Ln(III) = Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb and Dy) onto positively-charged functionalized silica nanoparticles. The functionalized silica nano...

The paper discussed the preparation of rare earth europium complexes ultraviolet rays (UV) photochromic ink and the influences of factors, such as europium complexes using a rare earth ternary complex of Eu ion with 3-benzoylbenzoic acid and phenathrolinephen [Eu(BA)3Phen] content upon printing ink formula. In the experiment, we utilized fluorescence spectrophotometer to make quantitative deter...

The main purposes of this study were to select a photochromic dye and to develop an active welding filter with a photochromic layer. A series of functionalized spirobenzopyranoindolins were synthesized and their photophysical and photochemical properties were investigated in a solution using absorption and emission spectroscopy. Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy measurements were used to ...