Azobenzene is a well‐known derivative of stimulus‐responsive molecular switches and has
shown superior performance as a functional material in biomedical applications. The results …

Photoresponsive ionic liquid crystals (PILCs) emerge as a captivating class of materials,
seamlessly merging the distinct properties of ionic liquids, liquid crystals, and …

Pursuing smart multifunctional materials development, novel polyimines containing various
receptor groups were synthesized and fully characterized towards halochromic …

Optical information storage requires careful control of excitation and emission wavelengths
in a reversible and orthogonal manner to enable efficient reading, writing, and erasing of …

Pursuing the research toward smart material development, novel azopolyimides containing
highly photoresponsive azo-naphthalene moieties are synthesized and fully characterized …

The effect of aromatic core bromination as well as different linking groups on the phase
behaviour of light-responsive rod-like liquid crystalline materials is reported. For this …

A new series of tetrafluorinated azobenzene-imidazolium ionic liquid crystals (ILCs) of
varying alkyl chain length (n= 10–18 in even parity) in the imidazolium cationic head group …

Five new non-fluorinated and fluorinated azo derivatives, as well as a new series containing
five azo-imidazolium conjugates of varying alkyl chain length in the imidazolium head group …

We report the photo switching behaviour of azobenzene-based rod-like polycatenar
molecules having three hexyloxy chains at one terminus and a variable chain at the other …

In this paper, we report on the photoisomerization process of three series of photosensitive
bent-core liquid crystals with a lateral chlorine atom in the central resorcinol core and …