New strategies and implications for the photoalignment of liquid crystalline polymers

Polymer Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 751-768

  Seki, Takahiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLITES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

BLOCK COPOLYMER FILMS; COOPERATIVE MOTION; IN-PLANE ALIGNMENT; LIGHT-RESPONSIVE MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANELS; MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS; PHOTO-RESPONSIVE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84910060704     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2014.68     Document Type: Review

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