Sentences with word «azobenzene»

Azobenzene molecules take two structurally different forms: cis and trans.

Charging «heat batteries» in the sun Using a compound called azobenzene along with carbon nanotubes — tiny cylinders made from carbon — Grossman created a way to capture the sun's energy and store it in a single step.

The researchers modified it by inserting azobenzene, a kind of chemical switch that takes on different shapes when illuminated with visible or ultraviolet light.

A crystalline assembly of azobenzene derivative and oleate showed oscillatory bending - unbending motion under continuous 435 - nm light irradiation.

Grossman had suggested that higher energy density might be achieved if the commonly used compound, azobenzene molecules, were arranged along a rigid carbon nanotube.

The team made crystals composed of an organic compound, called azobenzene, commonly used in dye manufacturing, and oleic acid, commonly found in cooking oil.

While the modified receptors are replaced continually, since the new gene remains forever in the DNA, the chemical photoswitch — maleimide - azobenzene - glutamate, or MAG — must be resupplied by injection into the eyeball.

The scientists tested if this would influence the structure of the azobenzene - oleic acid crystal, which contained unequal amounts of cis - and trans - azobenzene.

It turns out that the processing solvent we used acts to arrange and regulate the architecture, so the azobenzene molecules attached to the polymer are arranged very neatly and compactly.

We thought that the structure of a polymer chain would let the azobenzene groups get closer to each other and interact, which is when they gain energy and become more stable.»

Something like a string of Christmas lights, where the lights are the azobenzene molecules.

To do this, the scientists covered an extremely thin gold surface with a precisely defined saccharide covering, coupled to azobenzene.