Imidazolium-Functionalized Diacetylene Amphiphiles: Strike a Lighter and Wear Polaroid Glasses to Decipher the Secret Code.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
The development of smart inks that change color and transparency in response to external stimuli is very important for various fields, from modern art to safety and anticounterfeiting technology. A uniaxially oriented diacetylene thin film on a macroscopic area is obtained by coating, self-assembling and topochemical photopolymerizing of imidazolium-functionalized diacetylenes (M-DA and T-DA) and 4,6-decadiyne ink (70 wt%:20 wt%:10 wt%) exhibiting a lyotropic smectic A liquid-crystalline phase at room temperature. The color and transparency of letters and symbols written with the DA-based secret inks change reversibly from blue to red as well as from colorless transparent to black opaque depending on the temperature and polarization axis. A secret code written with thermoresponsive and polarization-dependent secret inks consisting of imidazolium-functionalized diacetylenes is successfully deciphered by wearing polaroid glasses and holding a burning torch.