In the first part of this review, in a brief historical perspective, we consider the evolution of the scientific activity of Nikolai Al’fredovich Platé, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences: from grafted polymer systems to comb-shaped and liquid-crystalline polymers. The main biographical data on Platé are related to his scientific work at Moscow State University, and his research-development strategy to create and study of LC polymers with comb-shaped structure is considered. The second part of the article is devoted to discussion of scientific directions in this area that were developed in the last five years at the Laboratory of Chemical Transformations of Polymers, where Platé started his scientific activity. Special attention is paid to the research data on photochromic liquid-crystal polymers and composites. A concept of the preparation of multifunctional comb-shaped LC polymers containing mesogenic, photochromic, and chiral groups, as well as functional (crown ether) fragments, is presented. The photo-orientational processes occurring in photochromic LC polymers, which were used to prepare “command” surfaces and photo-orientators, are considered in detail. The preparation of a new class of photochromic polyamides with azobenzene, cinnamoyl and coumarin groups, which have been proposed for the obtaining of polymer films with latent data recording, is described. The phase behaviors and photo-optical properties of synthesized photochromic triple LC block copolymers are reported. Examples of holograms based on cholesteric LC blends, which allow double recording on the same polymer film, are presented. The results of investigations of light-controlled cholesteric polymer-stabilized LC networks with crown ether fragments in the compositions of macromolecules that are able to form complexes with metal ions are presented. The methods of preparation of photocontrolled and electrically controlled polymer LC nanocomposites with nanoparticles, as well as research data on their photo-optical properties, are considered. 相似文献
The wetting characteristics of surfaces of polymers doped with photochromic spiropyran molecules can be tuned when irradiated with laser beams of properly chosen photon energy. The hydrophilicity is enhanced upon UV laser irradiation since the embedded nonpolar spiropyran molecules convert to their polar merocyanine isomers. The process is reversed upon green laser irradiation. Structuring of the photochromic polymeric surfaces with soft lithography enhances significantly the hydrophobicity of the system, indicating that the water droplets on the patterned features interact with air that is trapped in the microcavities, thus creating superhydrophobic air-water contact areas. Furthermore, the light-induced wettability variations of the structured surfaces are enhanced by a factor of 3 compared to those on the flat surfaces. This significant enhancement is attributed to the photoinduced reversible volume changes to the imprinted gratings, which additionally contribute to the wettability changes due to the light-induced photochromic interconversions. 相似文献
A photochromic naphthopyran derivative was embedded in sol-gel prepared thin ormosil films. The resulting samples show high
transparency and exhibit a strong red colouration upon irradiation with UV light. The photostability of the photochromic molecules
is strongly related to the nature of the embedding ormosil matrix. The introduction of organic functional groups into the
inner pore surface of the matrix allows tailoring the chemical environment where the dye molecules will be allocated, in terms
of the effectiveness of the interaction between the photochromic molecules and the Si-OH groups on the surface of the pores,
affecting the stability of the molecules upon prolonged exposition to UV light.
The photostability of the molecules was increased in matrices functionalized with larger organic groups, or with larger amount
of modifying groups. In this way the photodegradation of the photochromic molecules could be reduced by a factor of 5, as
compared with the photodegradation of the molecules in unfunctionalized silica matrix. 相似文献
To achieve a fast photochromic response in solid matrix, photochromic molecules/segments have been either dispersed into elastomers via physical doping or linked to glassy polymers by soft units through covalent bonding. However, the former is lack of high mechanical strength and the latter owes the drawback of time‐consumption of synthesis. Here, we propose a facile strategy of co‐solvent evaporation to prepare polymer‐dispersed photochromic organogel where both high mechanical strength of the glassy polymer matrix and solution‐like fast photochromism of the photochromic molecule within organogel can be retained concurrently. Glassy PVA matrix and dispersed organogel of 1,3:2,4‐di‐O‐benzylidene‐d ‐sorbitol/poly(propylene glycol) (DBS/PPG) provide high mechanical strength and sufficient free volume for intramolecular rotation of photochromic spiropyran (SP), respectively. Interestingly, these thin films behave a solution‐like decoloration the decay rate of which is 65–70 fold faster than that in the SP‐directly doped PVA film and only slightly slower than those in their corresponding PPG solutions.
Irradiation of p-methylbenzoylthioacetone with UV or visible light brings about spectral changes characteristic for the photochromic behavior of β-thioxoketones. The nature of the initial species and of the photochromic product can be assigned based on spectral studies of the electronic and IR spectra in rare gas matrices combined with quantum chemical calculations. Additional arguments for the vibrational assignments are provided by using polarized light to induce the phototransformation, and by subsequent measurements of linear dichroism on partially aligned samples. Comparison with the results previously obtained for three related molecules: thioacetylacetone, p-methyl(thiobenzoyl)acetone, and monothiodibenzoylmethane reveals a common pattern of the photochromic reaction. In all four molecules, the initial species corresponds to an intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded enolic molecular structure, and the main photochromic product to an “open”, nonchelated enethiolic counterpart. On the basis of a computational TD-DFT study of ground and excited electronic states, possible mechanisms of the photochromic transformation are discussed. 相似文献
The solution properties of amphiphilic statistical polymers, originating from the nanostructures of macromolecular assemblies, strongly depend on the associative behaviours of the polymers. In this paper, we report the effect of salt stimulus on the associative mode of the 2-(acrylamido)-2-methylpropanesulphonic acid–2-(acrylamido)-dodecane sulphonic acid brush-like amphiphilic statistical polymers, employing steady-state fluorescence, dynamic light scattering and transmission electron micrograph methods. It was found that the stimulus effects work more intensely for the polymers with less hydrophobic side chains. As the salt concentration increases, the salt valence state increases or the salt structure adds an organic group, the polymer molecules associate at a lower critical concentration. Meanwhile the molecules undergo an intramolecular associative mode in preference to an intermolecular associative mode, forming hundreds of times smaller unimers rather than giant multipolymer aggregates. 相似文献
