ReviewJournal of materials chemistry. A2024
Multichromophoric photoswitches for solar energy storage: from azobenzene to norbornadiene, and MOST things in between.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mechanically Interlocked Indigo Photoswitches.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) as Key to Accelerate the Cycloreversion Reaction of Arylquadricyclanes.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Photoswitching behaviour of quinoline-substituted bicyclooctadienes and the role of protonation.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2026Article
- Multistate photoswitches beyond on and off.Nature communications · 2026Review
- OMNI-P2x universal neural network potential for excited-state simulations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Sensitized Disequilibration of Water-Soluble Azopolymers.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Multistate Azobenzene-Norbornadiene Photoswitches for Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Modulation of Photoluminescence and Solar Thermal Energy Storage in Norbornadiene-Quadricyclane Dimers.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Molecular Solar Thermal (MOST) Energy Storage-Definitions and Requirements Revisited.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Harnessing Both Phase Change and Isomerization: High-Energy-Density Azobenzene-Composites for Efficient Solar Energy Storage.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Unraveling the Photoisomerization Mechanism of Group-8 Fulvalene-Bridged Bimetallic Complexes for Molecular Solar-Thermal Energy Storage.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Norbornadiene Quadricyclane as Multimode Photoswitches: Synergistic Light and Protonation-Controlled Heat Release.ChemSusChem · 2025Article
- An automated photo-isomerisation and kinetics characterisation system for molecular photoswitches.Digital discovery · 2025Article
- An Azobenzene-Based Liquid Molecular Solar Thermal (MOST) Storage System-Energy Carrier and Solvent.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Probing Glass Formation in Perylene Derivatives via Atomic-Scale Simulations and Bayesian Regression.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2025Article
- Multistate Dihydroazulene-Spiropyran Dyads: Path-Dependent Switchings and Refinement of the "Meta-rule" of Photoactivity.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Simulating the Energy Capture Process in Push-Pull Norbornadiene-Quadricyclane Photoswitches.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2025Article
- Meta-Connected Oligo-Azobenzenes Outperform Their Para Counterparts.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2025Article
- Triplet-Sensitized Switching of High-Energy-Density Norbornadienes for Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage with Visible Light.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Aza-Diarylethenes Undergoing Both Photochemically and Thermally Reversible Electrocyclic Reactions.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024Article
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Abstract
The ever-increasing global demands for energy supply and storage have led to numerous research efforts into finding and developing renewable energy technologies. Molecular solar thermal energy storage (MOST) systems utilise molecular photoswitches that can be isomerized to a metastable high-energy state upon solar irradiation. These high-energy isomers can then be thermally or catalytically converted back to their original state, releasing the stored energy as heat on-demand, offering a means of emission-free energy storage from a closed system, often from only organic materials. In this context, multichromophoric systems which incorporate two or more photochromic units may offer additional functionality over monosubstituted analogues, due to their potential to access multiple states as well as having more attractive physical properties. The extended conjugation offered by these systems can lead to a red shift in the absorption profile and hence a better overlap with the solar spectrum. Additionally, the multichromophoric design may lead to increased energy storage densities due to some of the molecular weight being 'shared' across several energy storage units. This review provides an overview and analysis of multichromophoric photoswitches incorporating the norbornadiene/quadricyclane (NBD/QC) couple, azobenzene (AZB), dihydroazulene (DHA) and diarylethene (DAE) systems, in the context of energy storage applications. Mixed systems, where two or more different chromophores are linked together in one molecule, are also discussed, as well as limitations such as the loss of photochromism due to inner filter effects or self-quenching, and how these challenges may be overcome in future designs of multichromophoric systems.
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