Strategies to control humidity sensitivity of azobenzene isomerisation kinetics in polymer thin films

Autor: Sami Vesamäki, Henning Meteling, Roshan Nasare, Antti Siiskonen, Jani Patrakka, Nelmary Roas-Escalona, Markus Linder, Matti Virkki, Arri Priimagi

Publikováno v: Communications Materials, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2024)

Abstract Azobenzenes are versatile photoswitches that garner interest in applications ranging from photobiology to energy storage. Despite their great potential, transforming azobenzene-based discoveries and proof-of-concept demonstrations from the l

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Photocontrol of Supramolecular Azo-Containing Block Copolymer Thin Films during Dip-Coating: Toward Nanoscale Patterned Coatings

Autor: Christian Pellerin, C. Geraldine Bazuin, Arri Priimagi, Josué Grosrenaud, Jaana Vapaavuori, Antti Siiskonen

Publikováno v: ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2:3526-3537

Dip-coating allows nanostructured block copolymer (BCP) thin film fabrication in a fast and facile one-step process. It can also be coupled with external controls, such as illumination. Herein, we expose several design principles that enable photocon

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https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b00496

Supramolecular control of liquid crystals by doping with halogen-bonding dyes

Autor: Antti Siiskonen, Jaana Vapaavuori, Alessandra Forni, Marco Saccone, Christian Pellerin, Arri Priimagi, Tullio Pilati, Valentina Dichiarante, Atsushi Shishido, Pierangelo Metrangolo

Publikováno v: RSC advances 7 (2017): 40237–40242. doi:10.1039/c7ra06397k
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Vapaavuori, Jaana; Siiskonen, Antti; Dichiarante, Valentina; Forni, Alessandra; Saccone, Marco; Pilati, Tullio; Pellerin, Christian; Shishido, Atsushi; Metrangolo, Pierangelo; Priimagi, Arri/titolo:Supramolecular control of liquid crystals by doping with halogen-bonding dyes/doi:10.1039%2Fc7ra06397k/rivista:RSC advances/anno:2017/pagina_da:40237/pagina_a:40242/intervallo_pagine:40237–40242/volume:7
Vapaavuori, J, Siiskonen, A, Dichiarante, V, Forni, A, Saccone, M, Pilati, T, Pellerin, C, Shishido, A, Metrangolo, P & Priimagi, A 2017, ' Supramolecular control of liquid crystals by doping with halogen-bonding dyes ', RSC Advances, vol. 7, no. 64, pp. 40237-40242 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ra06397k

Introducing photochromic or polymeric dopants into nematic liquid crystals is a well-established method to create stimuli-responsive photonic materials with the ability to "control light with light". Herein, we demonstrate a new material design conce

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https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ra06397k

Synthesis and biological evaluation of 2-arylbenzimidazoles targeting Leishmania donovani

Autor: Nina Sacerdoti-Sierra, Päivi Tammela, Dmitry Kopelyanskiy, Leena Keurulainen, Antti Siiskonen, Charles L. Jaffe, Jari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Paula Kiuru, Abedelmajeed Nasereddin, Teppo O. Leino

Publikováno v: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 25:1933-1937

A set of 56 2-arylbenzimidazoles was designed, synthesized and tested against Leishmania donovani amastigotes. The left- and right-hand side rings of the molecule, as well as the amide linker were modified. Structurally different derivatives were scr

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.03.027

Benchmarking DFT methods with small basis sets for the calculation of halogen-bond strengths

Autor: Antti Siiskonen, Arri Priimagi

Publikováno v: Journal of Molecular Modeling. 23

In recent years, halogen bonding has become an important design tool in crystal engineering, supramolecular chemistry and biosciences. The fundamentals of halogen bonding have been studied extensively with high-accuracy computational methods. Due to

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-017-3212-4