Photocontrolled orientation of discotic liquid crystals

Advanced Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 950-953

  Ichimura, Kunihiro ^a   Furumi, Seiichi ^a   Morino, Shin'ya ^a   Kidowaki, Masatoshi ^a   Nakagawa, Masaru ^a   Ogawa, Masataka ^b   Nishiura, Yosuke ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUJIFILM CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THIN FILMS;

DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PHOTOCONTROLLED ORIENTATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034229493     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4095(200006)12:13<950::aid-adma950>3.3.co;2-m     Document Type: Article

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