The generic enhancement of photochromic dye switching speeds in a rigid polymer matrix

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-253

  Evans, Richard A ^a,b   Hanley, Tracey L ^b,c   Skidmore, Melissa A ^a,b   Davis, Thomas P ^b,c   Such, Georgina K ^a,b,c   Yee, Lachlan H ^b,c   Ball, Graham E ^c   Lewis, David A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Coop Research Centre for Polymers ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); GLASS TRANSITION; HARDNESS; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERS; PHOTOCHROMISM; SOLUTIONS; SWITCHING; VISCOSITY;

MOLECULAR MOBILITY; OPHTHALMIC LENSES; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PHOTOCHROMIC DYES;

DYES;

GLASS; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICE; ISOMERISM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTACLES;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICES; EYEGLASSES; GLASS; ISOMERISM; OXAZINES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERS;

EID: 14744297092     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1326     Document Type: Article

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