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University of Groningen

Photoresponsive Self-Assembled Systems Cheng, Jinling

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Publication date: 2019

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Cheng, J. (2019). Photoresponsive Self-Assembled Systems. University of Groningen.

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Photoresponsive Self-Assembled

Systems

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Photoresponsive Self-Assembled Systems Jinling Cheng PhD Thesis University of Groningen ISBN: 978-94-034-1463-8 eISBN: 978-94-034-1462-1

Print: Ipskamp Printing, Enschede, the Netherlands

The work described in this thesis was carried out at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, in compliance with the requirements of the Graduate School of Science (Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen).

This work was financially supported by the European Research Council, the

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the China Scholarship Council.

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Photoresponsive Self-Assembled

Systems

PhD thesis

to obtain the degree of PhD at the University of Groningen

on the authority of the Rector Magnificus prof. E. Sterken

and in accordance with

the decision by the College of Deans. This thesis will be defended in public on

Friday 15 February 2019 at 12.45 hours

by

Jinling Cheng

born on 27 September 1989 in Shandong, China

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Supervisors

Prof. B. L. Feringa Prof. W. R. Browne

Assessment Committee

Prof. D. Broer Prof. S. Otto Prof. J. G. Roelfes

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Tables of Contents

Chapter 1

Photochromic Self-Assembly Systems

1

Chapter 2

Bidirectional Photomodulation of Surface Tension in Langmuir Film

37

Chapter 3

Influence of Substituents on Molecular Motors in Photoresponsive

Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

57

Chapter 4

Controlling Orientation of Liquid Crystals at Aqueous-Cholesteric Liquid

Crystal Interfaces

93

Chapter 5

Photoinduced Helical Inversion of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals in Cells with

Inhomogeneous Thickness

123

Chapter 6

Dynamic Control of Chirality and Self-Assembly of Double-Stranded

Helicates with Light

129

Chapter 7

Towards a Photoswithable Mesogen

159

Summary

175

Samenvatting

179

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