Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline coordination polymers, assembled from
inorganic nodes connected by organic linker molecules. An enormous surface area, huge …

Light‐driven actuation of synthetic polymers is an emerging field of interest because it offers
simple remote addressing without complicated hydraulic, electric, or magnetic systems …

Real-time monitoring of strain/stress in polymers is a big challenge to date. Herein, we for
the first time report an ESIPT (excited-state intramolecular proton transfer)-based …

Photochemical reactions which occur in smallmole-cules can also be induced to occur in
macromolecules. Though, in macromolecular environments there are constraints which are …

Precise control of the spatial organization of nanoscopic building blocks, such as
nanoparticles, over multiple length scales is a bottleneck in the 'bottom-up'generation of …

The photochemical and thermal cis-to-trans isomerization of aromatic azo groups covalently
bonded within polymers and its practical consequences as well as some other recent …

A photoresponsive bis (crown ether) with an azo linkage (1) was synthesized, trans-1 was
isomerized by UV light to cis-1 and cis-1 was isomerized thermally to trans-1, the …

A series of amorphous azobenzene-containing polymers were cast as thin films and shown
to produce both reversible volume diffraction gratings and high-efficiency surface gratings by …

Poly [4'-[[2-(acryloyloxy) ethyl] ethylamino]-4-nitroazobenzene](pDRIA) is used as an
example to demonstratethe ability of amorphous high-Tg azoaromatic-containing polymers …

Ageneral technique, based on photoisomerization of photochromic and fluorescent probe
molecules having no net dipole moment, has been devised for measuring the distribution of …