Photo-induced orientation of a film of ladderlike polysiloxane bearing dual photoreactive side groups

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作者
Gu, HW
Xie, P [1 ]
Shen, DY
Fu, PF
Zhang, JM
Shen, ZR
Tang, YX
Cui, L
Kong, B
Wei, XF
Wu, Q
Bai, FL
Zhang, RB
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Chem, Joint Lab Polymer Sci & Mat, State Key Lab Polymer Phys & Chem, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
[2] Dow Corning Corp, Midland, MI 48686 USA
[3] Nankai Univ, State Key Lab Funct Polymer Mat Adsorpt & Separat, Tianjin 300071, Peoples R China
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10.1002/adma.200305241
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
摘要
A newly designed ladder-like polysiloxane (LPS) containing dual photoreactive side groups has been synthesized for the purpose of generating high-quality photo-alignment layers with controllable pretilt angle (similar to 1-7degrees, see Figure and cover). Integrated spectroscopic methods of UV dichroism, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and FT-IR are used together for the first time to elucidate the photo-alignment mechanism and the real cause of the high pretilt angle.
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