Force‐Induced Control of Circularly Polarized Luminescence With Rotaxane Architecture
Keigo Nonaka, Takumi Kuroda, Kota Masuda, Toshiki Nishitani, Masaki Enokido, Makoto Tsurui, Yuichi Kitagawa, Yasuchika Hasegawa, Keiichi Noguchi, Koji Nakano, Yoshimitsu Sagara · 2026
Read Force‐Induced Control of Circularly Polarized Luminescence With Rotaxane Architecture by Keigo Nonaka, Takumi Kuroda, Kota Masuda, Toshiki Nishitani, Masaki Enokido, Makoto Tsurui, Yuichi Kitagawa, Yasuchika Hasegawa, Keiichi Noguchi, Koji Nakano, Yoshimitsu Sagara (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13592300.txt.
Description
Keigo Nonaka leads a 2026 team building a molecular switch that turns twisted light emission on and off with force alone. The switch is a rotaxane, a ring threaded on an axle, set into the cross links of a double network gel. The ring carries a glowing helicene unit that emits circularly polarized light, whose wave twists as it travels. The axle carries a matching quencher that silences the glow when close.
Swelling and shrinking the gel drags the polymer chains and slides the ring, toggling the glow. Even swelling avoids false signals from specimen alignment, the team notes. Nonaka and colleagues claim the first force control of this emission at the single molecule level, plus a sound way to measure it in soft materials.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Keigo Nonaka, Takumi Kuroda, Kota Masuda, Toshiki Nishitani, Masaki Enokido, Makoto Tsurui, Yuichi Kitagawa, Yasuchika Hasegawa, Keiichi Noguchi, Koji Nakano, Yoshimitsu Sagara |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38148 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |