Fast photochemical switching of a liquid-crystalline polymer network containing azobenzene molecules

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 4648-4650

  Kurihara, Seiji ^a   Sakamoto, Akihisa ^a   Nonaka, Takamasa ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CROSSLINKING; ISOMERIZATION; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MONOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLYMERIZATION; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

AZOBENZENE; PHOTOCHEMICAL SWITCHING; PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0032115955     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma980074j     Document Type: Article

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