Achieving spatiotemporal gating of signals is desirable for mimicking of biological processes, but is challenging to achieve in synthetic systems. Here, the authors report a multicomponent chemoenzyma...

Precise control over out-of-equilibrium states is key to creating smart materials. Here, we report a synthetic supramolecular polymer system that forms distinct out-of-equilibrium structures of different dimensionalities depending on light intensity. Real-time high-speed AFM imaging revealed the underlying mechanisms, including light-driven facet-selective polymorphic transformation and Ostwald ripening. This study offers a general design principle for adaptive materials whose structures and functions are finely tuned by the amount of energy input.

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