Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 18792-18797

  Ravi Shankar, M ^a   Smith, Matthew L ^b   Tondiglia, Vincent P ^c   Lee, Kyung Min ^c   McConney, Michael E ^c   Wang, David H ^c   Tan, Loon Seng ^c   White, Timothy J ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; POLYIMIDE;

ARTICLE; IRRADIATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MECHANICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

ELASTIC INSTABILITY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

AZO COMPOUNDS; ENGINEERING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84888124282     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313195110     Document Type: Article

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