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      Photoresponsive Block Copolymers Containing Azobenzenes and Other Chromophores

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          Photoresponsive block copolymers (PRBCs) containing azobenzenes and other chromophores can be easily prepared by controlled polymerization. Their photoresponsive behaviors are generally based on photoisomerization, photocrosslinking, photoalignment and photoinduced cooperative motions. When the photoactive block forms mesogenic phases upon microphase separation of PRBCs, supramolecular cooperative motion in liquid-crystalline PRBCs enables them to self-organize into hierarchical structures with photoresponsive features. This offers novel opportunities to photocontrol microphase-separated nanostructures of well-defined PRBCs and extends their diverse applications in holograms, nanotemplates, photodeformed devices and microporous films.

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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Molecules
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Molecules
                Journal ID (publisher-id): molecules
                Title: Molecules
                Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International
                ISSN (Electronic): 1420-3049
                Publication date (Electronic): 26 January 2010
                Publication date Collection: January 2010
                Volume: 15
                Issue: 1
                Pages: 570-603
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Top Runner Incubation Center for Academia-Industry Fusion, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka 940-2188, Japan
                [2 ]Department of Materials Science and Technology, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka 940-2188, Japan; E-Mail: takaomi@ 123456nagaokaut.ac.jp
                Author notes
                [* ]Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: yuhaifeng@ 123456mst.nagaokaut.ac.jp ; Tel.: +81 0258-47-9310; Fax: +81 0258-47-9300.
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                Publisher ID: molecules-15-00570
                DOI: 10.3390/molecules15010570
                PMC ID: 6256985
                PubMed ID: 20110910
                SO-VID: d21f5c62-d58c-4e69-86c1-b596f66e8934
                Copyright © © 2010 by the authors;
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                licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

                History
                Date received : 25 December 2009
                Date revision received : 11 January 2010
                Date accepted : 25 January 2010
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                Subject: Review

                Keywords: photoresponsive block copolymers,microphase separation,azobenzenes,liquid crystals,advanced materials
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                Keywords: photoresponsive block copolymers, microphase separation, azobenzenes, liquid crystals, advanced materials

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