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Nanooptomechanical Transduction in a Single Crystal with 100% Photoconversion.

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Velazquez-Garcia, Jose de J 

Abstract

Materials that exhibit nanooptomechanical transduction in their single-crystal form have prospective use in light-driven molecular machinery, nanotechnology, and quantum computing. Linkage photoisomerization is typically the source of such transduction in coordination complexes, although the isomers tend to undergo only partial photoconversion. We present a nanooptomechanical transducer, trans-[Ru(SO2)(NH3)4(3-bromopyridine)]tosylate2, whose S-bound η1-SO2 isomer fully converts into an O-bound η1-OSO photoisomer that is metastable while kept at 100 K. Its 100% photoconversion is confirmed structurally via photocrystallography, while single-crystal optical absorption and Raman spectroscopies reveal its metal-to-ligand charge-transfer and temperature-dependent characteristics. This perfect optical switching affords the material good prospects for nanooptomechanical transduction with single-photon control.

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3402 Inorganic Chemistry, 40 Engineering, 4009 Electronics, Sensors and Digital Hardware, 34 Chemical Sciences

Journal Title

J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces

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1932-7447
1932-7455

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125

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American Chemical Society (ACS)

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Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) (RCSRF1819\7\10)
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BASF/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair STFC The 1851 Royal Commission of the Great Exhibition U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (contract no. DE- AC02-06CH11357) The National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT) Cambridge Trust (Ph.D. scholarship 217553).