The competition between Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) and other de-excitation pathways such as fluorescence and phosphorescence can be controlled within designed molecular structures. Depending on the particular design, the resulting optical output is thus a function of various inputs such as ion concentration and excitation light dose. Once digitized into binary code, these input-output patterns can be interpreted according to Boolean logic. The single-input logic types of YES and NOT cover simple sensors and the double- (or higher-) input logic types represent other gates such as AND and OR. The logic-based arithmetic processors such as half-adders and half-subtractors are also featured. Naturally, a principal application of the more complex gates is in multi-sensing contexts. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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De Silva, A. P., & Uchiyama, S. (2011). Molecular logic gates and luminescent sensors based on photoinduced electron transfer. Topics in Current Chemistry, 300, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/128_2010_96
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