Photoinduced alignment of polymer liquid crystals containing azobenzene moieties in the side chain. 5. Effect of the azo contents on alignment behavior and enhanced response

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3951-3956

  Wu, Yiliang ^a   Zhang, Qijin ^a,b   Kanazawa, Akihiko ^a   Shiono, Takeshi ^a   Ikeda, Tomiki ^a   Nagase, Yu ^a,c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OLEFINS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE;

AZOBENZENE MOIETIES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTOINDUCED ALIGNMENT;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0032641991     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma990197j     Document Type: Article

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