Departament de Química, Unitat de Química Física Edifici Cn, Facultat de Ciències, Campus de la UAB · 08193 Bellaterra, (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Gonzalo Guirado
Departament de Química, Unitat de Química Física Edifici Cn, Facultat de Ciències, Campus de la UAB · 08193 Bellaterra, (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Spain
On-command changes in the emission color of functional materials is a sought-after property in many contexts. Of particular interest are systems using light as the external trigger to induce the color changes. Here we report on a tri-component cocktail consisting of a fluorescent donor molecule and two photochromic acceptor molecules encapsulated in polymer micelles and we show that the color of the emitted fluorescence can be continuously changed from blue-to-green and from blue-to-red upon selective light-induced isomerization of the photochromic acceptors to the fluorescent forms. Interestingly, isomerization of both acceptors to different degrees allows for the generation of all emission colors within the red-green-blue (RGB) color system. The function relies on orthogonally controlled FRET reactions between the blue emitting donor and the green and red emitting acceptors, respectively.