An amphiphilic phosphodiester-linked azobenzene trimer has been exploited in the development of stimuli-responsive, water-soluble supramolecular polymers. The can reversibly undergo thermal and photoisomerization between Z- E-isomers. Its self-assembly properties aqueous medium have investigated by spectroscopic microscopic techniques, demonstrating that E- Z-azobenzene trimers form nanosheets ...

A new class of azobenzene-based photoresponsive ionic liquids was prepared and showed reversible modulation of ionic conductivity in specific solvents under alternative UV/visible light irradiation.

Ultrathin films with noncentrosymmetrically orientated azobenzene chromophores were constructed using a combination of layer-by-layer adsorption of polyelectrolytes and the surface sol-gel process.

The influence of conformational and electrical properties of azobenzene molecules on the electron transfer barrier properties of their SAMs was studied by SECM and ellipsometry.

The morphology of aggregates formed by an E-azobenzene derivative possessing terminal phenylenebiuret hydrogen-bonding groups can be manipulated by the solvent composition and UV irradiation.

The synthesis, structural analysis and photochemical studies of azobenzene-diphosphine ligands gold(i) complexes are reported.

The photoisomerization behaviour of a dicationic azobenzene derivative on the inorganic surface was examined. The isomerization reaction was controlled by the charged array of the inorganic surface due to the "pinning effect" because of the electrostatic interaction between anionic charged sites on the inorganic surface and cationic charged sites in dye molecules.

In this study we report on the electronic and vibrational (hyper)polarizabilities of donor-acceptor-substituted azobenzene. It is observed that both electronic and vibrational contributions to the electric dipole first hyperpolarizability of investigated photoactive molecule substantially depend on the conformation. The contributions to the nuclear relaxation first hyperpolarizability are found...

Multiresponsive materials that display predefined photoluminescence color changes upon exposure to different stimuli are attractive candidates for advanced sensing schemes. Herein, we report a cyano-substituted oligo(p-phenylene vinylene) (cyano-OPV) derivative that forms five different solvent-free solid-state molecular assemblies, luminescence properties of which change upon thermal and mecha...