日本ゼオライト学会　刊行物 Publication of Japan Zeolite Association

Mesoporous inorganic frameworks synthesized by templating surfactant assembiles are new classes of materials attracting great attention of a number of researches in these one and half decades due to their large possibilities for creation of various functionalities. When the direction of the mesopores can be aligned by some means, addition of new functionalities will be anticipated. This article presents our new approach for photoalignment of mesoporous silica films via transfer from photo-oriented polymer films. Photo-orientain of polymer films can be attained through both the photoisomerization of azobenzene and photo-dimerization of cynnamate unit. The procedures for the photoalignment and structural characterizations and attempts for micro-patterning are described.