Photoswitching properties of photonic crystals infiltrated with polymer liquid crystals having azobenzene side chain groups with different methylene spacers

Reactive and Functional Polymers

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-35

  Moritsugu, Masaki ^a   Kim, Sun Nam ^a   Kubo, Shoichi ^b   Ogata, Tomonari ^a   Nonaka, Takamasa ^a   Sato, Osamu ^c   Kurihara, Seiji ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azobenzene; Birefringence; Inverse opal; Photoinduced alignment; Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

ALKYL ACRYLATES; AZOBENZENE-CONTAINING POLYMER; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; INVERSE OPAL; INVERSE OPAL FILMS; METHOXY; METHYLENE GROUPS; METHYLENE SPACER LENGTH; METHYLENE SPACERS; PHOTO-TUNABLE; PHOTOINDUCED ALIGNMENT; PHOTORESPONSIVE; PHOTOSWITCHING; POLYMER LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFLECTION BANDS; REVERSIBLE CHANGE; SIDE CHAINS; SPHERICAL VOID;

ALIGNMENT; BIREFRINGENCE; ENERGY GAP; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHYSICAL OPTICS; POLYMERS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 78649359572     PISSN: 13815148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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