metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)) provide an ideal platform for multifunctionality.
Rarer still is the combination of light modulated activity with two or more of these interrelated properties in a given material. Of the numerous nanoporous materials reported to date, only a handful of examples explore light as a stimulus to influence the material’s chemical, electrochemical, optical, and mechanical properties. The reversible structural transformation points towards a plethora of potential applications for coordination frameworks in photo-mechanical and photoelectrochemical devices, such as light-driven actuators and photo-valves for targeted drug delivery. Electrochemical and in situ spectroelectrochemical measurements, in combination with in situ light-irradiated Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy, revealed the variable mechanical properties of the framework that were supported using Density Functional Theory calculations.
Here we report a coordination framework based on an electroactive tetrathiafulvalene exhibiting a reversible single crystal-to-single crystal double photocyclisation, leading to profound differences in the electrochemical, optical and mechanical properties of the material upon light irradiation. Reversible structural transformations of porous coordination frameworks in response to external stimuli such as light, electrical potential, guest inclusion or pressure, amongst others, have been the subject of intense interest for applications in sensing, switching and molecular separations.
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