Photochromism is defined as a reversible transformation of a chemical species between two
isomers having different absorption spectra induced in one or both directions by …

Digital electronics is so widely used in everyday life that it is almost impossible to find an
electric device that does not make use of digital electronic components. On average, 85% of …

The impending breakdown in Moore s law has prompted the search for molecule-based
information-processing components such as molecular switches and logic gates.[1] Bistable …

In this review recent progress in combining metal carbonyl and bipyridyl transition metal
complexes with dithienylethene photochromic switches is discussed. A key challenge in …

Recent progress of photochromic metal complexes is summarized with emphasis on
“photochromic organometallics” with a M− C (photochromic unit) bond. Stimuli-responsive …

The work presented in this review constitutes a successful extension of our group's research
on the chemistry and physics of dinuclear copper (II) metallacyclophanes with aromatic …

Achieving stepwise photochromism in a combined molecule to access all of the possible
ring-open/closed isomers is a challenge due to facile energy transfer from ring-open …

For a molecular electronics technology to be fully serviceable, switching functions will be
indispensable. Specifically, it will be desirable to control the conductivity of a given molecule …

The frontiers of novel photoresponsive materials constructed with photochromes and
transition metal complexes are surveyed in this review. Strategies to develop new …

Four dinuclear organometallic molecular wire complexes with diethynylmetalloporphyrin
linkers 1 MM',[5, 15-bis {MCp*(dppe) ethynyl}-10, 20-diarylporphinato] M'(Cp*= η5-C5Me5; …