@article{75e01753371b47c08b404fa61d6ee35b,
title = "Role of cubic siloxane cages in mesostructure formation and photoisomerization of azobenzeneSiloxane hybrid",
abstract = "A mesostructured siloxane-based hybrid film is formed by the self-assembly of cubic, double-four-ring (D4R) siloxanes mono-functionalized with azobenzene. The azobenzene groups in the film exhibit reversible and a high degree of transcis isomerization upon UVvis irradiation. The bulky D4R cages play an important role in both the formation of cylindrical assemblies and the improvement of the photoisomerization behavior as compared with conventional azobenzenesiloxane hybrid materials.",
keywords = "Azobenzene, Self-assembly, Siloxane",
author = "Sufang Guo and Jun Sasaki and Shiho Tsujiuchi and Shintaro Hara and Hiroaki Wada and Kazuyuki Kuroda and Atsushi Shimojima",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are grateful to Mr. Naoto Sato (Waseda University) for the helpful discussion. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B (No. 15H03879) and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “New Polymeric Materials Based on Element-Blocks (No. 2401)” provided by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Chemical Society of Japan.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1246/cl.170468",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "1237--1239",
journal = "Chemistry Letters",
issn = "0366-7022",
publisher = "Chemical Society of Japan",
number = "8",
}