Thermal and Photochemical Switching of Conformation of Poly(ethylene glycol)-Substituted Cyclodextrin with an Azobenzene Group at the Chain End

Isomerization and electronic relaxation of azobenzene after being excited to higher electronic states

“…According to the previous calculations on the photoisomerization reaction of azobenzene, the active space including six electrons distributed among six orbitals, referred as to CAS (6,6), can reasonably map the PES of photoisomerization on the ground state and three excited states [45]. In this study, we chose an active space of ten electrons in eight orbitals, namely CAS (10,8), in order to describe more excited states and not heavily increase the calculation workload at the same time.…”

“…Organic or inorganic materials based on the azobenzene (AB) unit have attracted significant attention because of their photoresponsive properties that arise from the reversible cis-trans photoisomerization of AB [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Accordingly, the photochemistry and photophysics of AB is again becoming a research focus in recent years [11][12][13][14][15].…”

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for stimuli-responsive controlled drug delivery: advances, challenges, and outlook

“…139,140 According to this principle, a lot of AB-liable light-responsive DDSs were designed. 41,42,[141][142][143] Ferris et al 42 developed AB-derivative-dependent DDS and MSN-based light-responsive DDS.…”

Stimuli‐Responsive Systems

“…Most of these examples deal with combinations of temperature and another stimulus: for example, temperature-and pH-responsive systems [94][95][96][97], temperature-and chemical-responsive systems [98,99], temperature-and photo-responsive systems [100][101][102][103], and temperatureand redox-responsive systems [41]. Supramolecular coordination polymer systems are responsive to multiple stimuli, for example, temperature, stress, chemical, and redox.…”