Photoresponsive Arylether Dendrimers with Azobenzene Core and Terminal Vinyl Groups

Dendrimers with photoresponsive moiety at the core or thebranch or the periphery may play an important role innanotechnology including the preparation of functionalnanomaterials such as nano-sized molecular electronicdevice, molecular photoswitch, sensor, and drug-deliverysystems because light-driven simple geometrical change ofcore molecule or concurrent geometrical changes of manyperipheral molecules may result in the large conformationalchange throughout the dendritic entity.