Photochromic materials have broad application prospects in the fields of molecular
switching, detection, biological, and molecular machines. Crystalline hybrid photochromic …

The past decade has witnessed the rapid development of functional coordination polymers
(CPs) for various potential applications. Generally speaking, functionalization of …

Smart materials are highly desirable over the recent decade due to the growing demand of
complicated nature. Stable stimuli-responsive smart materials exhibit widespread potential …

Similarities in sizes, shapes, and physical properties between carbon dioxide (CO2) and
acetylene (C2H2) make it a great challenge to separate the major impurity CO2 from …

While viologen derivatives have long been known for electrochromism and photochromism,
here we demonstrated that a viologen-carboxylate zwitterionic molecule in the crystalline …

A viologen‐based Borromean entangled porous framework was found to be sensitive to
both CuKα and MoKα X‐ray sources, showing rapid photochromic response and recovery …

The development of selective sensing materials for amine detection has received
considerable attentions because amines have high toxicity and exist widely. In this article …

A novel viologen-based multifunctional Eu-MOF was obtained by integrating a luminescent
component Eu (NO3) 3· 6H2O and a viologen-functionalized ligand. The Eu-MOF not only …

An electron-deficient and potentially chromic ligand has been utilized to impart redox
activity, photo-and hydrochromism, and solvotomagnetism to metal–organic frameworks …

A novel viologen-functionalized chiral europium-based metal–organic framework (Eu-MOF)
that possesses multi-switchable features including photochromism, photo-modulated …