Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials (MOE), Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing People's Republic of China
Abstract
AbstractLiquid metals have garnered increasing attention as an emerging class of functional materials in recent years. In this work, an azo polymer coat with photo‐responsive properties is successfully applied onto the surface of liquid metal through reversible addition‐fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. The photo‐responsiveness of the resulting liquid metal/azo polymer hybrid material is thoroughly investigated. Liquid metal nanodroplets grafted with azo polymers exhibit exceptional ultraviolet and near infrared photo‐responsiveness due to photothermal effect of liquid metal and isomerization of azo polymer.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry