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Possible morphological changing onto poly(methacrylamidoaryl methacrylate)’s surface before and after irradiation with polarized ultraviolet (UV) light was investigated. We examined the possibility of that the polymer alignment occurred through grooves induced on the photoactive polymer surface by the linearly polarized UV (LPUV) illumination of photoactive polymer surface. While such a mechanism may be applicable to some situations, we find unsatisfactory explanation for it in the case of poly(methacrylamidoaryl methacrylates).
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Vretik, L., Zagniy, V., Nikolaeva, O., Syromyatnikov, V., Vakuliuk, P. (2015). Poly(Methacrylamidoaryl Methacrylate)’s Surface Morphology. In: Fesenko, O., Yatsenko, L. (eds) Nanocomposites, Nanophotonics, Nanobiotechnology, and Applications. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 156. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06611-0_7
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