Smart Light-Responsive Materials: Azobenzene-Containing Polymers and Liquid Crystals by Tomiki Ikeda, Y. Zhao

Smart Light-Responsive Materials: Azobenzene-Containing Polymers and Liquid Crystals



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Smart Light-Responsive Materials: Azobenzene-Containing Polymers and Liquid Crystals Tomiki Ikeda, Y. Zhao
Language: English
Page: 535
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0470175788, 9780470175781
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

This book reviews the cutting-edge significant research in the field of smart light-responsive materials based on azobenzene polymers and liquid crystals. Emphasis is placed on the discovery of new phenomena from the past 5 years, their underlying mechanisms, new functionalities, and properties achieved through rational design. Edited by leading authorities in the field, Zhao and Ikeda, the chapters are authored by an internationally-recognized team of experts from North America, Europe, and Asia. Smart Light-Responsive Materials will serve to catalyze new research that will lead this field over the next 5-10 years.

From the Back Cover

Opens the door to promising new light-enabled

smart materials and their applications

Examining the most promising developments, this contributed work reviews smart light-responsive materials based on azobenzene polymers and liquid crystals. The book explores the underlying mechanisms of azobenzene polymers and liquid crystals, highlighting new functionalities and properties that have been realized through rational design. Moreover, the book provides insight into new and emerging light-enabled smart materials and their applications, particularly in the fields of photonics and optics.

Edited by two leading authorities in the field, this book features an internationally recognized team of expert authors. Contributions are based on the authors' firsthand experience in the lab as well as their thorough investigation of the literature. Highlights of coverage include:

Photo-induced phenomena in supramolecular azobenzene materials

Amorphous azobenzene polymers for light-induced surface patterning

Light-responsive 2-D motions and manipulations in azobenzene-containing liquid crystalline polymer materials

Photo-tuning of the helical structure of cholesteric liquid crystals

Azobenzene block copolymers in the solid state

Among the materials covered are light-bendable elastomers, light-dissociable polymer micelles, light-controllable emulsions, liquid crystal/polymer composites, and colloids.

Smart Light-Responsive Materials not only presents the state of the technology, it also serves as a catalyst for the development of new light-enabled materials and applications. In addition to benefiting researchers who work on azobenzene polymers and liquid crystals, the book is also recommended for any researcher involved in developing light-responsive materials as many of the strategies from the book can be adapted to other chromophores.

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