Molecular and macromolecular assemblies have good “chemistry” with light. In the research
of photochromic molecules and systems, the number of papers in the most recent 10 years …

The immense potential of light responsive polymer materials toward technological
applications in photonics, mechanics and micro-fabrication has been attracting increasing …

It is a great challenge to improve simultaneously the permittivity (ε r) and breakdown strength
of polymer dielectrics. The linear polystyrene (PS) has the advantages of low cost, easy …

The glass transition and melting temperatures of binary random copolymers are mostly
observed as nearly the average of each homopolymer with moderate deviations. However …

Abstract Azobenzene (1, 2-diphenyldiazene in IUPAC name) is a widely studied, simple,
rodlike photochromic molecule. The trans-(E) to cis-(Z) photoisomerization of this molecule …

Rodlike liquid-crystalline (LC) mesogens preferentially adopt a homeotropic orientation by
excluded volume effects at the free surface in side-chain LC (SCLC) polymer films. The …

The melt-transesterification polymerization of diethyl malonate derivatives bearing a
pendant mesogen, with α, ω-alkanediols of varying lengths generated a series of side-chain …

To date, reversible alignment controls of liquid crystalline materials have widely been
achieved by photoreactive layers on solid substrates. In contrast, this work demonstrates the …

Slight contaminations existing in a material lead to substantial defects in applied paint.
Herein, we propose a strategy to convert this nuisance to a technologically useful process by …

Liquid crystalline polymers with tunable structures on the scale of visible wavelength are
important in optical technology due to their enhanced mechanical stability, processability …