ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024
Photomechanical Crystals as Light-Activated Organic Soft Microrobots.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Solvent-Assisted Preparation of Recyclable Multidimensional Fluorescent Actuators.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Incorporating crystalline smart materials to fabricate 4D printed photomechanical actuators with photovoltaic performance.Smart molecules : open access · 2026Article
- Unveiling Structure-Dynamic Processes in Crystals of 1D Cd(II) Coordination Polymers during the Elastic Flexible Events.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Supramolecular Polymorphism of the Hydrogen-BondedJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Elastic circular organic microcrystals prepared by photoinduced delamination.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Low-Temperature Dynamics at Nano- and Macroscales: Organic Crystal That Exhibits Low-Temperature Molecular Motion and the Thermosalient Effect.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Thiophene Sulfone Single Crystal as a Reversible Thermoelastic Linear Actuator with an Extended Stroke and Second-Harmonic Generation Switching.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
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Abstract
In the field of materials science, dynamic molecular crystals have attracted significant attention as a novel class of energy-transducing materials. However, their development into becoming fully functional actuators remains somewhat limited. This study focuses on one family of dynamic crystalline materials and delves into exploring the efficiency of conversion of light energy to mechanical work. A simple setup is designed to determine a set of performance indices of anthracene-based crystals as an exemplary class of dynamic molecular crystals. The ability of these crystals to reversibly bend due to dimerization is realistically assessed from the perspective of the envisaged soft robotics applications, where wireless photomechanical grippers manipulate and assemble microscopic objects driven and controlled by light instead of lines and motors. The approach described here not only guides the quantification of responsive molecular crystals' actuation potential but also aims to attract an interdisciplinary interest to further develop this class of materials into controllable all-organic actuating elements to be used in microrobotics for engineering or biomedicine.
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