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Chiba University

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Kenta Tamaki from Chiba University, Japan (a) Chemical structure of monomer 1 (1trans and 1cis), which incorporates a twistable biphenyl and an azobenzene photoswitch. (b) Energy landscape of self-assembled 1 with representative atomic force microscopy images. 

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Kenta Tamaki from Chiba University, Japan

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