Photoisomerization in photoaligned azo dyes exhibiting photostability

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 507, Issue , 2009, Pages 41-50

  Hegde, Gurumurthy ^a,b   Kozenkov, V M ^a   Chigrinov, V G ^a   Kwok, H S ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Cis trans; Photoisomerization; Stability

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIS-TRANS; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; IN-PHASE; ORDER PARAMETER; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; PHOTO-STABILITY; PHOTOSTABLE;

AZO DYES; BIREFRINGENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; STABILITY;

ISOMERIZATION;

EID: 70349584278     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400903048263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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