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Kim DY, Li L, Jiang XL, Shivshankar V, Kumar J, Tripathy SK (1995) Polarized laser induced
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Kubytskyi V, Reshetnyak V (2006) Electrically controllable diffraction efficiency of H-PDLC film
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Appiah C, Woltersdorf G, Binder WH (2017) Synthesis of photoresponsive main-chain oligomers
with azobenzene moieties via ADMET oligomerization and their micellization properties.
Polym Chem 8(18):2752–2763
Bandara HMD, Burdette SC (2012) Photoisomerization in different classes of azobenzene. Chem
Soc Rev 41(5):1809–1825
Barth JV, Costantini G, Kern K (2005) Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at
surfaces. Nature 437:671–679
Binauld S, Hawker JC, Fleury E, Drockenmuller E (2009) A modular approach to functionalized
and expanded crown ether based macrocycles using click chemistry. Angew Chem Int Ed
48:6654–6658
Bogdanowicz KA, Tylkowski B, Giamberini M (2013) Preparation and characterization of lightsensitive microcapsules based on a liquid crystalline polyester. Langmuir 29(5):1601–1608
Castellano JA (1992) Liquid crystal display. In: Castellano JA (ed) Handbook of display technology. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 181–250
Clark NA, Lagerwall ST (1980) Submicrosecond bistable electro-optic switching in liquid crystals.
Appl Phys Lett 36(11):899–901
Darla MR, Hegde S, Varghese S (2014) Effect of BaTiO3 nanoparticle on electro-optical properties
of polymer dispersed liquid crystal displays. J Crystallization Process Technol 4:60–63
Deng W, Albouy P-A, Lacaze E, Keller P, Wang X, Li MH (2008) Azobenzene-containing liquid
crystal triblock copolymers: synthesis, characterization, and self-assembly behavior. Macromolecules 41:2459–2466
Gayathri K, Balamurugan S, Kannan P (2011) Self-assembly of azobenzene based side-chain liquid
crystalline polymer and n-alkyloxybenzoic acids. J. Chem. Sci. 123(3):255–263
Gelebart AH, Mulder DJ, Varga M, Konya A, Vantomme G, Meijer EW, Selinger RLB, Broer DJ
(2017) Making waves in a photoactive polymer film. Nature 546(7660):632–636
Glowacki E, Horovitz K, Tang CW, Marshall KL (2010) Photoswitchable gas permeation membranes based on liquid crystals. Adv Funct Mater 20(17):2778–2785
Hackel M, Kador L, Kropp D, Schmidt HW (2007) Polymer blends with azobenzene containing
block copolymers as stable rewritable volume holographic media. Adv Mater 19:227–231
Hinojosa A, Sharma SC (2010) Effects of gold nanoparticles on electro-optical properties of a
polymer-dispersed liquid crystal. Appl Phys Lett 97(8):081114
Ilnytskyi JM, Neher D, Saphiannikova M (2011) Opposite photo-induced deformations in
azobenzene-containing polymers with different molecular architecture: molecular dynamics
study. J Chem Phys 135:044901
Jiang X, Lu J, Zhou F, Zhang Z, Pan X, Zhang W, Wang Y, Zhou N, Zhu X (2016) Macrocycles
containing azobenzene main-chain oligomers molecularly-defined macrocycles containing
azobenzene main-chain oligomers: modular stepwise synthesis, chain-length and topologydependent properties. Polym Chem 7(15):2645–2651
Kim DY, Li L, Jiang XL, Shivshankar V, Kumar J, Tripathy SK (1995) Polarized laser induced
holographic surface relief gratings on polymer films. Macromolecules 28:8835–8839
Kubytskyi V, Reshetnyak V (2006) Electrically controllable diffraction efficiency of H-PDLC film
composed of ellipsoidal liquid crystal droplets. Mol Cryst Liq Cryst 453:321–332
Liu J, Wang M, Li Y, Zhong H (2011) Photo-triggered assembly/disassembly of macroscopically
ordered monodomain lamellar structure in side-chain liquid crystalline polymer containing
strong polar azobenzene mesogens. Liq Crys 38(1):105–113
Marturano V, Cerruti P, Carfagna C, Giamberini M, Tylkowski B, Ambrogi V (2015) Photoresponsive polymer nanocapsules. Polymer 70:222–230
Murali M, Samui AB (2010) Bis benzylidene cycloalkanones: a versatile molecule as polymer
building block. J Mater Chem 20:2714–2737
14 Photoactive Liquid Crystalline Polymers
415