Photochromic behavior of thin films of polymethacrylate substituted with laterally attached azobenzenes displaying liquid crystal alignment photocontrol

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 280, Issue , 1996, Pages 91-96

  Akiyama, H ^a   Akita, Y ^a   Kudo, K ^a   Ichimura, K ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DERIVATIVES; HEAT TREATMENT; IRRADIATION; ISOMERIZATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOCHROMISM; REACTION KINETICS;

DICHROISM; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; PHOTOISOMERIZATION; POLYMETHACRYLOYOXY AZOBENZENE; THERMAL ISOMERIZATION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0029709359     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587259608040315     Document Type: Article

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