Photoinduced ordering transition in microdroplets of liquid crystals with azo-dendrimer

Particle and Particle Systems Characterization

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 847-852

  Lee, Guksik ^a   Araoka, Fumito ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Momoi, Yuichi ^b   Haba, Osamu ^c   Yonetake, Koichiro ^c   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b LG Display Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

azobenzene; dendrimers; microdroplets; ordering transitions; photoisomerization

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR STRUCTURE; DENDRIMER MOLECULES; DROPLET SURFACES; MICRO DROPLETS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (NLC); ORDERING TRANSITIONS; RADIAL CONFIGURATION; SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS;

AZOBENZENE; DROPS; GLYCEROL; MOLECULES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 84885870184     PISSN: 09340866     EISSN: 15214117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.201300110     Document Type: Article

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