Spirooxazine molecular switches with nonlinear optical responses as selective cation sensors

Jin-Ting Ye, Li Wang, Hong-Qiang Wang, Zhenzhen Chen, Yong‐Qing Qiu, Haiming Xie

RSC Advances · 2017 · 44 citations · 50 references

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Spirooxazine, a photochromic material, can transform into metallic open-form merocyanine by molecular switching, giving rise to large contrasts in its second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties.

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