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@ARTICLE{Kelly:860975,
author = {Kelly, Elaine A. and Houston, Judith and Evans, Rachel C.},
title = {{P}robing the dynamic self-assembly behaviour of
photoswitchable wormlike micelles in real-time},
journal = {Soft matter},
volume = {15},
number = {6},
issn = {1744-6848},
address = {London},
publisher = {Royal Soc. of Chemistry},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-01608},
pages = {1253 - 1259},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Understanding the dynamic self-assembly behaviour of
azobenzene photosurfactants (AzoPS) is crucial to advance
their use in controlled release applications such as drug
delivery and micellar catalysis. Currently, their behaviour
in the equilibrium cis- and trans-photostationary states is
more widely understood than during the photoisomerisation
process itself. Here, we investigate the time-dependent
self-assembly of the different photoisomers of a model
neutral AzoPS, tetraethylene glycol
mono(4′,4-octyloxy,octyl-azobenzene) (C8AzoOC8E4) using
small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). We show that the
incorporation of in situ UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy with
SANS allows the scattering profile, and hence micelle shape,
to be correlated with the extent of photoisomerisation in
real-time. It was observed that C8AzoOC8E4 could switch
between wormlike micelles (trans native state) and fractal
aggregates (under UV light), with changes in the
self-assembled structure arising concurrently with changes
in the absorption spectrum. Wormlike micelles could be
recovered within 60 seconds of blue light illumination. To
the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the degree
of AzoPS photoisomerisation has been tracked in situ through
combined UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy-SANS measurements.
This technique could be widely used to gain mechanistic and
kinetic insights into light-dependent processes that are
reliant on self-assembly.},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / Neutronenstreuung ; JCNS-1},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106},
pnm = {6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for
Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)KWS2-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30418450},
UT = {WOS:000459588200009},
doi = {10.1039/C8SM01948G},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/860975},
}