Photoinduced Alignment of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Using Azobenzene Polymer Networks of Chiral Polyacrylates and Polymethacrylates

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 9024-9032

  Leclair, Steve ^a   Mathew, Lizamma ^a   Giguère, Martin ^b   Motallebi, Shahrokh ^b   Zhao, Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b St Jean sur Richelieu   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; IRRADIATION; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLYACRYLATES; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PHOTOALIGNMENT; POLYMER-STABILIZED LIQUID CRYSTALS (PSLC);

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0344581054     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma034886d     Document Type: Article

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