This article is published as part of a themed issue of Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences on Synthetic and natural photoswitches Guest edited by Dario Bassani, Johan Hofkens and Jean Luc Pozzo Published in issue 2, 2010 Other articles in this issue include: Photochromic dithienylethenes with extended π-systems O. Tosic, K. Altenhöner and J. Mattay, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 128 Hydrophilic and photochromic switches based on the opening and closing of [1,3]oxazine rings M. Tomasulo, E. Deniz, S. Sortino and F. M. Raymo, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 136 Efficient carrier separation from a photochromic diarylethene layer T. Tsujioka, M. Yamamoto, K. Shoji and K. Tani, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 157 Multiphoton-gated cycloreversion reactions of photochromic diarylethene derivatives with low reaction yields upon one-photon visible excitation Y. Ishibashi, K. Okuno, C. Ota et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 172 Probing photochromic properties by correlation of UV-visible and infra-red absorption spectroscopy: a case study with cis-1,2-dicyano-1,2-bis(2,4,5-trimethyl-3-thienyl)ethene A. Spangenberg, J. A. Piedras Perez, A. Patra et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 188 The DC gate in Channelrhodopsin-2: crucial hydrogen bonding interaction between C128 and D156 M. Nack, I. Radu, M. Gossing et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 194 Quantitative investigations of cation complexation of photochromic 8-benzothiazole-substituted benzopyran: towards metal-ion sensors M. I. Zakharova, C. Coudret, V. Pimienta et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 199 Spiropyrans as molecular optical switches B. Seefeldt, R. Kasper, M. Beining et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 213 Photoinduced shape changes of diarylethene single crystals: correlation between shape changes and molecular packing L. Kuroki, S. Takami, K. Yoza, M. Morimoto and M. Irie, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 221 Functional interaction structures of the photochromic retinal protein rhodopsin K. Kirchberg, T.-Y. Kim, S. Haase and U. Alexiev, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 226 Facile synthesis and characterization of new photochromic trans-dithienylethenes functionalized with pyridines and fluorenes Q. Luo, Y. Liu, X. Li and H. Tian, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 234 Higher resolution in localization microscopy by slower switching of a photochromic protein H. Mizuno, P. Dedecker, R. Ando et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 239 Optical control of quantum dot luminescence via photoisomerization of a surface-coordinated, cationic dithienylethene Z. Erno, I. Yildiz, B. Gorodetsky, F. M. Raymo and N. R. Branda, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 249 Low-temperature switching by photoinduced protonation in photochromic fluorescent proteins A. R. Faro, V. Adam, P. Carpentier et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 254 Downloaded by Simon Fraser University on 23 February 2013 Published on 18 January 2010 on http://pubs.rsc.org | doi:10.1039/B9PP00115H View Article Online / Journal Homepage / Table of Contents for this issue