no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Ruobing Bai, Eric Ocegueda, Kaushik Bhattacharya
We find that the photo-reaction rate depends sensitively on temperature: at temperatures below the crystal-melt transition temperature, photoreaction is collective, requires a critical light intensity and shows an abrupt first order phase transition manifesting nucleation and growth; at temperatures above the transition temperature, photoreaction is independent and follows first order kinetics.
Soft Condensed Matter Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2020 • Ruobing Bai, Ying Shi Teh, Kaushik Bhattacharya
There is current interest in developing photoactive materials that deform on illumination and can thus be used for photomechanical actuation.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics
