Inducing Planar Orientation in Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Systems via Interfacial Control

New Aspects for the Hierarchical Cooperative Motions in Photoalignment Process of Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymer Films

(2015) Masami Sano et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Dynamic photoinduced realignment processes in photoresponsive block copolymer films: effects of the chain length and block copolymer architecture

(2015) Masami Sano et al.   Soft Matter

Pathways toward Photoinduced Alignment Switching in Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymer Films

(2014) Masami Sano et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Free-surface molecular command systems for photoalignment of liquid crystalline materials

(2014) Kei Fukuhara et al.   Nature Communications

Liquid-Crystalline Polymer and Block Copolymer Domain Alignment Controlled by Free-Surface Segregation

(2013) Kei Fukuhara et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

High-Density Liquid-Crystalline Azobenzene Polymer Brush Attained by Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

(2013) Hafiz Ashraful Haque et al.   LANGMUIR

Photoinduced In-Plane Motions of Azobenzene Mesogens Affected by the Flexibility of Underlying Amorphous Chains

(2013) Hafiz Ashraful Haque et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Directed Block Copolymer Thin Film Self-Assembly: Emerging Trends in Nanopattern Fabrication

(2013) Ming Luo et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Effect of Flexible Chain Length on the Photoorientation Behavior of Surface-Grafted Liquid Crystalline Azobenzene Block Copolymer Brush

(2013) Hafiz Ashraful Haque et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Versatility of photoalignment techniques: From nematics to a wide range of functional materials

(2013) Takahiro Seki et al.   POLYMER

Synergy Effect on Morphology Switching: Real-Time Observation of Photo-Orientation of Microphase Separation in a Block Copolymer

(2012) Shusaku Nagano et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Lubricant Effect of Flexible Chain in the Photoinduced Motions of Surface-Grafted Liquid Crystalline Azobenzene Polymer Brush

(2012) Hafiz Ashraful Haque et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Graphene Functionalized with Azo Polymer Brushes: Surface-Initiated Polymerization and Photoresponsive Properties

(2011) Dongrui Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photoalignment of liquid crystals: basics and current trends

(2011) Oleg Yaroshchuk et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Light-Induced Chain Scission in Photosensitive Polymer Brushes

(2011) Nino Lomadze et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Normally Oriented Cylindrical Nanostructures in Amphiphilic PEO–LC Diblock Copolymers Films

(2011) Sadayuki Asaoka et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Synthesis of Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Brushes on Flexible Polymer Films Toward Photomobile Materials

(2011) Y. Naka et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Photocontrolled microphase separation in a nematic liquid–crystalline diblock copolymer

(2011) Haifeng Yu et al.   POLYMER

Precise Synthesis and Physicochemical Properties of High-Density Polymer Brushes designed with Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)

(2010) Hiromasa Suzuki et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Laboratory-GISAXS Measurements of Block Copolymer Films with Highly Ordered and Normally Oriented Nanocylinders

(2009) Motonori Komura et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Azo-Containing Polymer Brushes: Photoalignment and Application as Command Surfaces

(2009) P. Camorani et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Light-directed Dynamic Structure Formation and Alignment in Photoresponsive Thin Films

(2008) Takahiro Seki et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Synthesis of Double Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers Using RAFT Polymerization and the Orientational Cooperative Effect

(2008) Yi Zhao et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Highly Ordered In-Plane Photoalignment Attained by the Brush Architecture of Liquid Crystalline Azobenzene Polymer

(2008) Takayuki Uekusa et al.   MACROMOLECULES